1999 Magna, 5 Speed Manual, 3.5l V6, Qld

[mad082]

i've had an offer of $5500 so i would take that before i took your offer of $3500

[jezzerrr]

Private Price Guide $3,800 - $5,200

Trade In Price Guide $1,800 - $3,200

Average Km 140,000 - 230,000

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I missed out on an auto one the same as yours for $3k in nambour.

$3500 this weekend, I'll drive up to Gympie to pick up.

Just for general knowledge, quoting the private sale price from redbook isn't really accurate, since the price is calculated off the stamp duty paid for the vehicle on sale.

As far as I'm aware, pretty much everyone who buys a a car privately writes the dutiable value down to lowest barely belivable price to save on stamp duty... but it's a good tool to use if the person selling the vehicle doesn't know that.

So you've done pretty well. Or the auto is on the way out, lol.

[metalfly]

you sure? I thought the way Redbook calculates it is look at how much they retail for brand new and then calculate it based on the year and km. Cos some of the Redbook values are more accurate than others. That's what I thought anyway, I usually put on stamp duty a price that's way lower than the lower Redbook price and most of my friends do the same.

[mad082]

either way, and redbook price or anything of those types of guides are usually much lower than what the actual market is selling the cars for, or what insurance companies will value the car at. the missus' 2000 SSS pulsar was just valued by an insurance company at $17,000. that's what i paid for the car back in 2003. i think the redbook value is about $12k. but then it may also have something to do with the fact that it is an 8 year old car with only 47,000 genuine kms.

basically the only use for redbook is when you are trying to sell the car to a dealer they will use it to give you next to nothing for it, then sell it above the highest private seller price.

[mad082]

sold!!!