| Author | Message | ||
| Anthony Rian (Riansface)
Registered Member Username: Riansface Post Number: 6 Registered: 1-2002 Posted From: 74.60.29.39 Rating: N/A |
Has bus prices gone so south that someone offered me $2500 for my 1989 eagle model 20 strriped ready for conversion? Lets just say the bus is still at my place. | ||
| Dave (Virtual)
Registered Member Username: Virtual Post Number: 9 Registered: 5-2009 Posted From: 67.186.253.131 Rating: N/A |
Most places I've been watching, yes. It is pretty easy to find already converted coaches for $5-7K. Kind of makes one want to cry- unless you are buying. | ||
| Peter River (Whitebus)
Registered Member Username: Whitebus Post Number: 92 Registered: 4-2009 Posted From: 208.54.14.60  Rating: N/A |
yeah, prices are pretty low. I am tempted daily to pick up bus shells. Of course people are looking for deals where people gave up conversion. | ||
| Paul Lawry (Dreamscape)
Registered Member Username: Dreamscape Post Number: 508 Registered: 5-2007 Posted From: 64.40.215.214  Rating: N/A |
You might try posting it on Eagles International website. You can join then post it for sale in the Eagle Mall. http://www.eaglesinternational.net/forum/viewforum.php?f=6 | ||
| James Robinson (Jjrbus)
Registered Member Username: Jjrbus Post Number: 187 Registered: 12-2000 Posted From: 99.207.37.39 Rating: N/A |
There are two ways to price something. One is price it to sell. The second is price it to keep!!! Anything is only worth what someone will pay for it. I just sold my bus, the man that bought it got one heck of a deal. Jim | ||
| John MC9 (John_mc9)
Registered Member Username: John_mc9 Post Number: 911 Registered: 7-2006 Posted From: 74.162.92.186  Rating: N/A |
Anthony - With GM, Chrysler, and scores of major industries going belly-up.... House values at 1/2 the assessment a couple years ago.....Unemployment at an all-time high; food, fuel and insurance costs exceeding budgets... And we're wondering why an old used bus won't command a decent buck? Relax! Make it into apartments, and rent it out to a few dozen families until the economy gets better. (Hey... How about a rolling crack house?) | ||
| David Evans (Dmd)
Registered Member Username: Dmd Post Number: 321 Registered: 10-2004 Posted From: 173.77.218.41  Rating: N/A |
John please, you are showing your age! Much better used as rolling meth lab. Please get with the times. Thanks. | ||
| R.C.Bishop (Chuckllb)
Registered Member Username: Chuckllb Post Number: 774 Registered: 7-2006 Posted From: 75.209.200.238 Rating: N/A |
Marketing, salesmanship, advertising are fine arts...why does one think that just because a coach is for sale that it will bring the dollar they want? Read how the RV folks do it, how the pros do it, how the auto dealers do it. Might learn something and just hit an Ace. Seems to me the "problem" is what value is placed on something. Compare a converted unit to any ( well, OK, many...  ) SS RV's that are out there for, sometimes, many times the $$$$ of what a coach might bring..... and there is,usually, no comparison. Especially in Crowns and well built units. Reason I purchased a Crown (ask RJ Long) Beauty, as it is, is in the eye of the beholder....go after the beholder that is after "beauty"...SELL it...not just sell it. (or for that matter "just buy it") Look into it, ask questions, why is this unit priced so low...or so high. Frankly, when I purchased my Crown Supercoach in 2001, it was because a salesman, unknown to me to this day, also, why he did it, at a Bus Sales outfit called me and said "this is the one you want!...I have seen it; it would be a great conversion and I hope you can get it". Thereafter, no contact with that salesman, no charge. He was right. (His name was Jason, Arizona Bus Sales in Phoenix, as I recall). I could have gotten it for much less, I suppose, but when the Service Manager at the place where I purchased it said "I would not hesitate to drive it anywhere in the United States"...enuf for me... I bought it, complete with MSO and about 6 inches +- of service records. If you want a coach, it is a buyer's market...but buyer beware....if you are selling a coach....show me why it is right for me (I'm from Missouri.. ) Good shopping (selling)... RCB | ||
| Douglas Wotring (Tekebird)
Registered Member Username: Tekebird Post Number: 396 Registered: 10-2004 Posted From: 71.59.75.212 Rating: N/A |
The large majority of people don;t know what things cost.......they figure old bus should be worth what an old schoolie is. You would be supprised the reaction people give me when I tell them what a seated bus costs.....or even one of those built on a med duty truck chassis Or even what a 4104 cost in the mid 50's When people balk at prices I have had, I ask them what they think a bus tire costs.......most often they think aroun 150.00 for a new tire..... LOL | ||
| marvin pack (Gomer)
Registered Member Username: Gomer Post Number: 494 Registered: 3-2007 Posted From: 71.55.197.237  Rating: N/A |
THE 1978 mci-8 I have sold, I was asking 10500 OBO. In order to move it rather than give a fuel top off and other stuff that went with it,I dropped the price and they filled it up and were very happy they got it for 8,500. Now you no the rest of the story!!! gomer | ||
| R.C.Bishop (Chuckllb)
Registered Member Username: Chuckllb Post Number: 777 Registered: 7-2006 Posted From: 75.208.33.174 Rating: N/A |
Hey, hey, Gomer....good for you....IF you were happy that is the important thing! RCB | ||
| marvin pack (Gomer)
Registered Member Username: Gomer Post Number: 499 Registered: 3-2007 Posted From: 71.55.197.237 Rating: N/A |
YEA YEA I BE A HAPPY CAMPER JUST AS THEY ARE. I CAN GO GET ME A BIIIIGGGGG MAC AND FRIES WITH A LARGE DRINK NOW LOL. I HATED TO SELL THAT CHEAP BUT WHEN YOU HAVE 3 in the yard the misses kinda frowns from time to time. I am looking at old cars now. I have a 37 ford flat back restoring it and it has absolutly no rust at all and we stripped the paint and are ironing out the little dings and new engine,flat head of course. and I couldn't believe this car, it was beautiful gomer | ||
| RJ Long (Rjlong)
Registered Member Username: Rjlong Post Number: 1566 Registered: 12-2000 Posted From: 98.192.173.82  Rating: N/A |
Doug - Hey, long time no see! Check your email, got a question for you. . . Come back and join the fun more often! RJ | ||
| FAST FRED (Fast_fred)
Registered Member Username: Fast_fred Post Number: 816 Registered: 10-2006 Posted From: 76.216.69.160 Rating: N/A |
Being a BUS NUT is a hobby , and most hobbies do not PAY the hobbyest. If you get a reasonable value for the coach shell , plus a reasonable value for all what is now USED gear (no matter if it was new on conversion)you are doing just fine. Sure I know most folks would like to make a couple of bucks for the thousands of hours dreaming, building and maintaining their beauty , but IT AINT GONA HAPPEN! Remember most everyone has their version of MY WAY , and your coach probably doesn't measure up to 99% of purchasers Desirements. This is a HOBBY , and great fun, not a paying business. Sometimes one can get lucky , and find an owner with the same vision as you , then the coach sells quicker , not for more. FF | ||
| john w. roan (Chessie4905)
Registered Member Username: Chessie4905 Post Number: 1499 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 71.58.110.9  Rating: N/A |
Figures, now that the economy, at least for interest for coaches, picks up, the price of fuel is trying to kill it. |