High(er) Mileage ZL1 Pricing Observation

[Bad@ssCamaro]

^^^^ Everything checks out on the Autocheck report. It looks good. It's a great deal, just I'm not in a position to move on it yet, I need another 6 months.

[el ess A]

If you buy used, your pricing is usually based on car condition, local economics, and how willing the seller is to actually SELL the car vs. simply advertise and hope for some sucker to pay some unreasonably high price. Age of a car is simply a number. If priced right, a car can sell in a skinny minute. Time is money. From where do you think interest rates are based?

Some people just want a cheap price period. And some want VALUE for their money. Those are sometimes mutually exclusive. Rarely you get both. At some point the prices of ZL1s will floor out, and pretty much flatten out. When will that be? It all depends. Could be this year, could be next. Who knows?

With that said, I've been doing my own market research. And eBay ISN'T the best place to determine what's a good price and what's a bad price unless it's a run of the mill car. Numbers don't lie. Out of all the ZL1 convertibles, there's like 3 or 4 on ebay. WAY too small of a sample to consider it any sort of a price compass. There are "pickers" out there that look at every avenue, spend hundreds of hours researching to save $10. How much is their time worth to them? Sure, there's deals out there if you turn over rocks. But it comes with a price. While you've spent the last year or so scanning prices, someone else has been attending Camaro events with their new LS/LT/SS/ZL1.

If cheap prices were the goal, then you have your work cut out for you. If you want to go in to the dealership and order a NEW car, then the sky's the limit. You pay for that convenience, but you usually get what you want instead of left with picking the bones of other's leftovers or buying someone else's problems. I won't try and change anyone's mindset one way or another, but I offer the other perspective of the economics of car ownership.