Well the Saab didn't sell.

Aw shucks just keep it!

can't mate. It is either sell it, spring for the repairs or scrap it come MOT time=20 and buy something cheap. It needs about =A3300-500 proper body shop paint and welding (the small=20 area of the A pillars (been given guestimates by body shops). It isn't=20 just like wapping a plate on the sill until next year, it has to look=20 right being right in your eye line. The rest of the main tub is so solid=20 it hurts that I will have to scrap it, but it would be cheaper to take=20 the scrap mans's pittance, then spend =A3400 on a felicia and reduce my=20 insurance and tax bill by half each year, and a big chunk off my fuel=20 bill, than paying out to get it fixed.

A "specialist" fitted roof is between =A3300 + 2 days accomadation in=20 Wales + petrol and =A3850 and 1 weeks car hire from a place down south. If= =20 I get Saab to replace the roof it is =A34000 parts and labour.

Then there will be some minor MOT work no doubt, plus the wear to the=20 drivers leather.

Even though I paid roughly the right price for it, I'm really begining=20 to hate that car. It just feels terrible to drive now, when before it=20 felt confortable and safe. Nothing is wrong, and before winter set in I=20 got one of those free "Brakes and suspension" checks done. Much to their=20 disapointment they couldn't find a fault. That doesn't happen often.

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FFS sell it for £1800.

Well, you already know scrapping it would be a particularly dim choice given you've had bids of 1800 quid for it.

If you really want shot, take the 1800 - it's more than people here said it was worth.

cheers, clive

If it was a geniune bid not a piss take. I've offered it him. Waiting for a reply.

The scrapping option would only happen if it got to MOT time without selling.

The reserve was =A3100 more. If they are happy I would let it go for that. I wouldn't be happy, but need shot of it.

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I realised that, you set the reserve too high.

So take £100 less and get rid of it.

In news: snipped-for-privacy@news.individual.net, NeedforSwede2 revealed pearls of wisdom hitherto unknown to the human race, they were somerthing like this;

Can you offer second chances at the reserve? I thought you only got the option to second chance at your actual bid?

I bought a Range Rover Vogue last week off ebay for £700 when the reserve was nearer a grand, my bid was £700, and that's what it was bought for.

When I sold the Alfa, I was looking for an option to offer it for my reserve, but there wasn't one that I could see so I relisted it.

But the car will still run all summer, the leaky roof won't be an issue as much over the summer, and the cost of spending out on the next banger will be about 1/3rd of what the Saab would cost to put right, and still cheaper than just having the MOT work I know of done.

yeah, discovered that after.

So I sent him a message offering him at the reserve. He may come back and pay cash off ebay. Or if not, I'll send him a second chance at his bid. Will cost fees but can't be helped.

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IIWY I'd relist it, lower your reserve to something more sensible and see what happens. Mention "re-listed with lower reserve" as a subtitle.

If it doesn't sell then at least you don't have to pay to re-list.

If it does, then you've got closer to the money you want, and shut of the Saab.

I won't bid on things with silly reserves. If something looks interesting and the reserve has been met, yet the car is still cheap, then I'll bid.

an £1800 reserve on a Saab with a leaky roof and welding required wouldn't be something I'd bid on.

Sometimes you have to cut your losses. I had to with the 155, lost money on that, but did 8000 miles in it. Expensive motoring, but throwing more money at it would have been an exercise in futility.

If you can't afford to fix the Saab, and can't afford to run it then it's never going to get any better. Sell it for whatever people will give you. Haggling over £100 really isn't worth it. Sell the thing, go to the auctions, buy something that works, has a decent MOT and is cheap enough to not cause a major financial moment if it blows up. An old Sierra or something for £40. Buying something specific for

It's not often I agree with Mr Firth but this has to make an exception.

Which is more than I get as "pocket money" a month.

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OK you really need to read a book called "Rich Dad Poor Dad" by Robert Kiyosaki Garnish it with a pinch of salt (ie season it to your own situation/taste), acknowledge that to get super rich you need to be quite right-wing (so don't try to get super rich, it's not necessary). I remember when I was lamenting a couple of years ago about my financial situation, a friend lent me the book and I'm now comfortably off because I shifted my priorities a bit, altered my approach to my finances and got the motivation to supplement my income outside my day job (increased my income by far more than 10% whilst only dedicating around 10%, or less, more time).

Amazon:

Or even cheaper, local library: Can't find it in Warrington but for a few pence they'll transfer a copy to your local library - search results as follows:

Congleton Library

On Shelf

Knutsford Library

On Loan

Macclesfield Library

On Loan

Poynton Library

On Loan Sandbach Library On Loan Wilmslow Library On Loan HTH

I shall look it up.

And less than I paid in bank charges last month, partly for not quite going £1 over my limit.

(That reluctance to pay a £10 item, creating a £1 overlimit, and charging me £39 for it, is about to cost my bank £2,500 ;) ).

Richard