Some of you may remember, I posted this vehicle up from Ebay a couple days ago to ask your opinions on the car and price. The seller is a company "Huntington Motors" that is selling the vehicle on consignment. The owner has agreed to the $28,300 price that I said, since I noticed that the car on Ebay did not fetch more than $27,500. Regardless, its a low mileage E39, with 15k...Caramel Interior, carbon black. What do you guys think? Decent price?
If I decide I'm serious I'll send a refundable $1,000 deposit, fly up to NY, get it inspected from either a BMW facility (If anyone has any recommendations on places to get it inspected, please let me know), and then hand over the check.
Did you get a carfax? It looks like it has more than 15,000 miles. Either that or that owner didn't take car of it. The paint looks beat. It was driven in snow for sure. Just be very cautious. Consignment sales depending on state can be quite risky.
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i dont know, with these deposits on ebay i would be really sketchy especially a second chance offer. ive heard of so many people getting scammed like this.
It looks okay from the pix to me, but I'd do some inquiring with eBay to make sure you have the same protections as a "second chance" buyer.
I'd like to see more of a history (completed sales) from the seller, but that's not a deal breaker. Call them up. Are they a real car dealership?
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It is a car dealership that deals with high end cars from Ferrari's, to Porsche's, etc. I've spoken to the manager of the car dealership contracted to sell the vehicle. I estimated when I said 15k miles to the one poster--I meant just at or around there. Since it is a NY driven vehicle, is the snow going to be an issue? What should I do to protect myself?
Some people are clueless on paint care. My 996TT with 18k miles when I bought it was maintained by a guy who waxed it constantly, but it was microscratched to hell. He had no idea on how to get rid of them, just kept waxing. Never dressed rubber or plastic either. A day with a porter cable and it was virtually mirror perfect.
Forget the 'dealership'... they are simply in the way. Do not be impressed by "high end, Ferraris and Porsches"... they are a used car lot. Sounds like you are buying it from the seller, they are just marketing it, right? Be sure you understand the information you are getting and the veracity you can attach to it. Anything they say is probably not true. Act that way and you won't be burned. Only deal with written documents- in the event something goes wrong only the written documents will matter.
before you fly you want a purchase agremenet that defines price, down paymnet, refund, etc. You do not want to get to NY and find these scumbags have sold it to someone else who saw this thread and outbid you. Yes, dirtbags here too.
A PPI should include a dump of the DME for all errors and codes as well as over-revs, a full CPO checklist inspection (not getting a CPO, but all the things a CPO would inspect) and a body inspection for any paint and repairs.
15k miles is not enough for salt/snow to be a major issue in my book.
Is the current owner the original owner? great- in any event I would ask for a complete BMW service history- if he doesn't have it, jsut have him call his SA at BMW and authoirze them to print it out for you. BMW usually says they can't run this for 'privacy reasons' but if the current owner asks they will.
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