I sold my 99 Corvette recently. I advertised it for $11k late last year. Then the used car market spiked due to the new car chip shortage (or whatever the current excuse is).
The KBB estimate went up about $2000, I left the price at $11k.
You should have seen the hagglers and used car dealers/go between/etc.
"But you can't expect to get your full asking price!"
"Nope, I expect to do better now that the KBB estimate went up $2000."
A guy from Scottsdale came up and bought it three months ago because he had two defective 2021 C8 Corvettes in a row, took them back, left a deposit for #3. Then he came up to my new place and handed me a cashier's check.
I asked him why he wasn't "haggling"?
He told me he'd seen my ad for months, knew I'd done all the fixes to the C5 and he just needed to feel his butt in a Corvette seat again before he went mad. He thought my price was low.
Kind of hard to argue when the guy has a full price offer, so off it went.
But it was $11k, no fractional dollar crap. I hate that, too.
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