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Date:         Mon, 31 Mar 2008 14:33:35 -0400
Reply-To:     Allan Streib <streib@CS.INDIANA.EDU>
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From:         Allan Streib <streib@CS.INDIANA.EDU>
Subject:      Re: This GoWesty is really starting to annoy me....
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"David Marshall" <mailinglist@FASTFORWARD.CA> said: > If I sell my TDI Syncro hi top Westfalia it won't be for a penny below > 60.000 'cause it cost me more than that to build it up to where it is... > besides 60.000 is nothing for a vehicle like that... my 2006 Touareg > TDI I bought a few months ago cost more than that and I can find about > three of these on eBay at any given moment and no TDI Syncro > Westfalias...

As someone has already said, the market value of a vehicle is whatever a buyer will pay, regardless of what you have invested in it. Was watching the Barrett-Jackson auction the other day and saw many cars selling for perhaps 1/4 of what their restorations had cost the owner.

Allan -- 1991 Vanagon GL


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