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What Are Sellers Thinking?

Assuming that most well-informed collectors, who do their research, would conclude that the Andretti Autavias are changing hands in the $10,000 to $15,000 range, the question becomes why are we seeing them listed (for example, on Chrono24 and eBay), in the range between $10,000 and $30,000 [with a couple of outliers, on each end]? Possible answers as follows:

  • seller truly believes that prices remain about where they were at the peak of the market . . . has not done his homework
  • seller knows the real fair market value, but is hoping to get lucky, with the buyer who has no idea about values, but has lots of money to spend
  • seller merely lists his highest possible asking price, and will negotiate from there.
It is impossible to generalize or understand the behavior of some sellers. But those are a couple of quick explanations.

Jeff

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: This post is great timing because a 3646 is in my near future as well. Thanks!

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