Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2017 20:51:15 -0800
Reply-To: bernie <1234bjs@GMAIL.COM>
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From: bernie <1234bjs@GMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: Regarding raised bar
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Roger
I love my Vanagon but I have never considered him an investment.
He is many things to me but an investment is not one of them.
I do not keep track of what I speed on him for a reason.........I really
don't want to know.
I have never been under the delusion that I will get back all that I have
spent.
He has provided me with a passport to adventure and travel beyond what
dollars can measure.
If were to sell him tomorrow I would hope to get fair market value.
Is 120,000 dollars fair market value for the vehicle that is the subject of
this discussion?
I would suggest to you that the market will decide that.
Bernie
On Wed, Feb 1, 2017 at 8:12 PM, Roger Whittaker <rogerwhitt1@gmail.com>
wrote:
> Dear Bar Raisers
>
> I am hoping you do well with your ask -
>
> I find it wholly remarkable that a community that holds helping one another
> as the hallmark of their credibility as a group would turn on trashing one
> of their own because the ask for their vanagon is outside what they might
> have the confidence to ask -
>
> Remember all the emails every time one of these beloved machines is in a
> wreck - the owner describes in excruciatingly minute detail every washer
> they changed out since taking ownership and always end with the same remark
> - doesn't the adjuster know the amount of care and love I put into this
> vehicle -doesn't the adjuster know how much gowesty sells for - Mine is
> worth at least that much !!!
>
> Remarks best left on Facebook or twitter - or better yet - unsaid - do
> little to increase the "helpful community flag any higher up the pole"
>
> If any of our members has the confidence to ask huge dollars for these
> never to be repeated collectors vehicles we should wish them well - hope
> they get as close to the ask as possible - - in down so every one of us
> will benifit as our collective value for investment increases with them ---
>
> I have a friend who has two Packard touring cars and he speaks about them
> the same as any vanagon owner does about their vehicle -- the only
> difference is there are no more packards coming off the assembly line --
>
> Oh wait no more vanagons either -
>
> Regards
>
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