Used Prius worth more than new

Used Silver Prius 2008 $40k PM if interested! jk......unless your really that desperate in which case you may need to go home and rethink your life .......

 

Used 2006 Silver for $60k. Comes with HOV stickers, rack mounts, full LEDs, splash guards, heated seats, shaded windshield, trailer hitch... gosh I can't list it all. I think $70 since that's what my EV is worth anyway.

 

Used 2005 30,000 miles, some scratches. HOV stickers. A bargain at $35,000. So. Cal. Will include BT plate, hood guard and mudgards. Front windows guards.

Co-pilot not included.

 

...again?

 

Adelaide Australia
2004 silver
Toyota Prius
Just 93,000km
2 owners
always serviced, always garaged
no dents and may extras
Side mouldings, mudflaps, shark fin antenna, rear bumper protector sheepskin seatcovers floor mats.
All the usual fantastic accessories.
Once only offer, get it while you can.
$39,999 not negotiable
PM me now, you know you want to.



New price is $37,400 plus costs.
I can buy a car similar to mine for under $20,000 so I have a funny feeling mine wont sell.

 

The thing is... some of these yay hoos will get offers. The only way the demand and the immediacy for these things will go down is with a ready supply of new ones and a much lower pump price per gallon. That is not happenning.

 

If I really wanted to sell mine i would just park it next to a gas station with its current MPG 48.7 and its still breaking it......


Of course mine has started to grow on me, the stereo is pretty good even though its the base system, and the take off from a light is pretty darn good if you feather the pedal

 

05 prius, black
OWNED AND MAINTAINED BY HYBRID TECHNICIAN
full window tint, interior protection incl. seat covers and all weather mats, michelin energy mxv4+ tires, lots of other great accessories
52k miles, over 50% highway
$32,000

that's what it would take for me to let it go.

 

I don't think I'd be able to let mine go even for $30k. What would I drive? At the moment there's nothing else I want to drive.

 

The Kelly blue book has shown used Priuses appreciating in retail value the past several years. They have the trade-in value, however, depreciating. I doubt the latter are accurate right now, in view of the demand. You should be able to get at least what you paid for the car in trade--if you paid in the low to mid 20s.

 

As long as there are desperate fools willing to pay more for a used vehicle than a new one, there will be people willing to take advantage of them.

Keith

 

I'm not sure what I would do if I was actually able to get around $30K for my 2008 pkg #2. Probably sell and buy a supercheap gas hog to hold me until the 2010's come out.

 

What impressed me is that I've always been told to buy used because of the value dropped right after you drive off the lot....well two weeks after I bought mine, Toyota raised prices 1.8% and demand went through the roof. I think this is my best financial investment...I think I have more available equity in my car than my house (damn housing market)

 

Another good one...

2008 CHARCOAL GREY PRIUS WITH THULE RACK 6,700 MILES

 

True stories:

A large Toyota store on the E Coast has NO Prius' at all to sell or demo. The word goes out to buy one or two at one of the many large auctions on the EC.

Purchased: One 2008 Enterprise turn-in with ~10000 mi on it, Package 1 !!! This vehicle if retailed would originally have had an MSRP of ~$22000.

Professional buyers bid this puppy up to nearly $25000 !!!! USED. It sold for $28900... HUH? 'Buy two more of these gold mines.'


I'm thinking of sending my 2005 Package #2 with 81000 mi and two accidents to let these dopes bid it up to stupid levels.

 

For what it's worth, I have been shopping for a Prius for the past several weeks, on-line and with 5 different dealers in No. Calfornia. Only 1 of the 5 had a new 2008 on the lot. All of them tried to sell me used (2006 or 2007) ones, usually prior rentals, with prices ranging from 29-34K. All had at least 10K miles. I had already priced out what I wanted and it was much less new (base pkg 2), and I kept asking them why would I want to buy someone else's dings and scratches for more than I could get a brand new one for? The answer: it would be anywhere from 1 to 6 months wait. I told them I had an approved loan, a car that ran (my dear old camry!), and I would wait. Then today I got a call from one of the dealerships saying they had found what I wanted in transit to another dealer and I drove down and bought it off the truck...for less than any of the used ones that had been pushed at me. In the end it took me 3 weeks from first contacting dealers to delivery. It's a strange world!

 

OK, so you bought an 08 new one. How much was the purchase price?
At MSRP or you had to pay over Manufacturer's sticker? If you paid just the MSRP without buying any dealer's add on, you did terrificly best!

 

Similar story for me up here in the Pacific NW. Used 2007 priced at more than a theoretical new 2008 MSRP at a certain dealer when I checked a couple of weeks ago. Been working with a sales guy at a different Toyota dealership tracking incoming 2008's and/or 2009's (I'm in no rush, need a new car for the wife but we don't have to be stupid about what we do). Yesterday, got "the call" and went in to put the $1000 deposit down on the exact color/model I'm interested in (although I would have been quite flexible). It is supposedly is arriving in a couple of weeks (fingers crossed ).

The thing that bugged me yesterday is that I was handed off to a floor salesman (by the guy I had been working with over the internet/phone) and I got the distinct impression that this new guy did NOT want to sell me one of the incoming Prius':
a) He didn't tell me about all of the models that I already knew from the first guy were due in a couple of weeks. I had to extract the rest of the list from him.
b) He said something like, "Not sure which of those will be available, guys around here have been already putting deposits on these." (as if the salesmen themselves were snapping up inventory).
c) They forced a $599 fee on me for undercoating, paintsealing, and interior guard that I normally wouldn't take.
d) Most irritatingly, he said to me when forcing the $599 down my throat, "We could auction these at the port for $2000 profit." My immediate thought then was that is if someone from Microsoft or Best Buy didn't let you by an XBox (when they were scarce) because, "we could sell these for more on EBay". Disgusting. I think it is borderline sales behavior.

In the end, I knew too much information about what was incoming and he could not not sell it to me. MSRP + $599 + tax/license.

Ralph