Well this might be one occasion where a newbie who knows bugger all, tells you you're talking rubbish and you're actually gonna like it Mick. A year I spent studying prices, completed listings in auctions, mark ups on part exchanges, sold garage prices in Lancs, etc. If you ever want to sell your mint, nut and bolt, newer than mine defender for (ermmm, let's see. Should I rip Mick off? yeah alright then) 7.5k, just let me know, cos I can sell it up here for 12k without a sense of having ripped the buyer off. Stick it on the forecourt of a garage not far from me (windmill near blackburn) and it'd be on at 15k and be gone within the week. I might explore the psychology of buyers and sellers at a later time when I'm settled down with the new purchase (expectation/reality, buyer emotions and the discovery of positive features and problems, ...). I've used the forum (LZ) reactively and spontaneously, so mapping that buyers ball in the pinball machine should be quite easy. I mentioned it in an early post, but generally lost in all my buyer panic is the fact that I did get all of the seller's spreadsheet invoices and mechanic narratives in stages as his restoration developed, and he had spent 13.5k on it with an Adrian Flux valuation of 13-17k. I bet you're glad if not surprised at your thoughts on values (unless you live in a pocket of the country where they aren't valued). You might not be attributing a monetary value to the hours and hours of time you've put into doing yours up? We often don't because we're doing something we love. It can even come down to a persons internal self-esteem and confidence, and the price tag they put on themselves, though in the case of landies, it's supply/demand to quality/rarity of good examples (bit like the state of the NHS). I'm wrong nearly all of the time, so yer doing well
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