buses for sale, really?

[windtrader]

it is great to have a resource like BCM to list their buses for sale to a wider audience. It's hard to believe I've been a busnut for seven or so years and the classified today has buses on the market for extended durations, at least one since I joined years ago.
What's the point beyond getting some bankable, ongoing ad revenue? The seller knows the price exceeds the market value. Is there more value in having more ads vs quality motivated sellers and buyers? It is the seller's perogative to keep an ad up but what's the point when it hasn't moved after a few years?

[luvrbus]

Some sellers won't budge on prices so they stay there for years,people think now they can ask for higher pricers because of inflation, not happening I see a Prevost for sale the party has owned for 10 + years and paid $75,000.00 for the bus and are asking $100,000.00 for it,you never know they may find a buyer       

[windtrader]

Clifford,You're probably right as that is how so many buses just stay parked until the owner dies and the widow is left with the hassle of getting rid of it. Sometimes the owner really doesn't want it gone and seems to just not find any buyer out there so has to hold onto it, fake excuse or appeasing grouchy wife who wants the thing gone. "Honey, I trying to sell it - nobody wants to buy it, what more can I do?" LOWER the price. lol

[Busted Knuckle]

Don that's exactly why! Perfect example of it while not a bus but property. There was an old man here in our area that had a little over 100 acres most of it farm land and a little area up by their "modular home" that sat out in the middle of mostly gravel with NO shade and a big shop 80X120 and a bunch of heavy & farm equipment around it.
But several of the younger Amish guys asked him what he wanted for it and it started out @ $5000 an acre. Which for here and what it was, is HIGH. And so it sat there for sale. After about 2 yrs I took another young Amish guy by there and he told him $10,000 an acre. He said "WHAT, I heard you told so an so $5000 /acre.
He told him "Yes, that's right, but he didn't buy it, and yer the 4th Amish guy to want it and Levi Yoder up the road wants it and I'll GET $10,000 AN ACRE FOR IT IF LEVI WANTS IT!"
Well that young Amish guy happened to WORK for Levi, and when Levi had asked about it, he was asking for him!
When the old man passed it sold for $395,000! Not the million dollars the old man had convinced his wife it was worth! (also at the auction after the land sold, the house shop and equipment all went for dirt cheap too because not to many showed up for the auction)

It's not the asking price, that sets the value of something, it's what someone is willing to pay for it!
  BK