Sale price database?

William Fissell · Apr 14, 2013

Trying to negotiate on a very tired 4400 wiht 3700 hours, welded loader arms, worn out 3-pt, and PTO shaft with excessive play.

Tractorhouse lists ASKING prices 4500-7500+ for this model.

Is there any place I can look up actual sale prices? I want to be fair. and prefer objective data (here's what others have fetched) to positional bargaining (here's my price and I am sticking to it, cause I said so).

thanks

W_B · Apr 16, 2013

(reply to post at 16:12:14 04/14/13)
Trying to negotiate on a very tired 4400 wiht 3700 hours, welded loader arms, worn out 3-pt, and PTO shaft with excessive play. ASKING prices 4500-7500+ for this model.

Is there any place I can look up actual sale prices? I want to be fair. and prefer objective data (here's what others have fetched) to positional bargaining (here's my price and I am sticking to it, cause I said so).

I'd like to find such a guide myself. I do try to look at prices realized from auctions when available as one clue. I'm told you can expect somewhere from 5-15% off of asking price as a guide to what actual selling price might have been (or will be), of course, depending on how much of a bargain it was in the beginning. I think if you run into the "this is my price, I'm sticking to it" attitude and the item is a worn out piece of crud and not worth near the asking price to you, I'd walk away. You'll have to have some idea what it will cost you to get it to the condition you need it to be + the buying price to know it it's worth your effort to get it. It'll either sell to someone else or sit there. The seller might have a change of heart, depending on how bad they want to get rid of it. In extreme cases, remember that you can't bargain with or fix stupid. If nothing else, you might be able to buy it out of the fence row from the widow some day!

Sale price database?

William Fissell

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