Has the bubble burst???

[gorr2000]

Hi all

Very much a newbie here as only recently taken delivery of a '68 Crew Cab. (Tried to attach pic but kept getting "Sorry, the board attachment quota has been reached" ? ) I have, however, had a VW for 14+ years. So, further to the above discussion, where do you folk think the best place to advertise a van for sale is? My 'old' van, a 1974 Devon camper, now has to go as I cannot keep 2, and I have had it advertised since the end of Jan with no luck. Currently advertised on J Kampers and also TheSamba. Perhaps the lack of potential buyers is explained in the various reasons above, but if you need to sell where do you go?

(Also tried Sandown Park in March and a very wet Stoner Park last weekend, but very little interest.)

Thanks

you could try on "the late bay"

get some pics up of your pick up (it looks nice on your avatar is that it?) and another 68! why are there so many??

 

[strongy]

i sold mine on piston heads,its a good place for reaching people out of the scene

£10 puts it to the top of the list

 

[morecambeandwize]

We're pretty damn busy tbh


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[mattd]

... if you need to sell where do you go?

Volksworld (VZi) and every few days give it a bump with a witty comment. Patience and your buyer will arrive after you have dealt with the rafts of tyre kickers and 'I wanted something with a little less work...'

I sold my Fasty but it took about 6 weeks, it was mechanically and bodywork superb condition, RHD, slammed and cost me close to 8k to get that way over 2 years. New owners got an absolute bargain and I get one less set of valve clearances and oil changes to perform (and cycle to work in the rain) ;-)

I was on TheSamba and not a sniff...

 

[chippi]

Has the bubble burst???



No, the prices just fluctuate dependent on weather and season, right now its shite weather and doom and gloom news.
When the sun eventualy shines people get out more, feel positive and spend more.
The right buyer is always out there somewhere.

 

[scott wilson]

Has the bubble burst???



No, the prices just fluctuate dependent on weather and season, right now its shite weather and doom and gloom news.
When the sun eventualy shines people get out more, feel positive and spend more.
The right buyer is always out there somewhere.

There yougo...chippi just summed up the whole euro mess and vw scene to boot...congrats pard

 

[Trikky2]

Has the bubble burst???


Judging by what I was offered for mine last Monday...

No

 

[damo]

Thanks for your replies on where to advertise. It was suggested to me to try Autotrader, but I thought that a VW Camper was too specialised a meerkat (market) for that. However, as you suggest Delilahtoo, the VW specific sites will only attract existing owners instead of new ones! (In fact 14 years ago when I bought my camper, it was from Autotrader.)

So, that's my job for this weekend then, Autotrader / VZI / Ebay (maybe).

gorr2000, my avatar is my new '68 Crew Cab, but the van I'm selling is a '74 Devon camper.

 

[vwvanman0]

Think they meant get some pics of ya crewcab in the gallery section,it looks a cracker from your avatar pic 8)

 

[Hadders]

I think I fit somewhere in the middle - my only dalliance with air cooled was a 68 bug when I was 18 (bought and sold for £70 and responsible for one of the most entertaining drives across Derby ever).

I bought the bus in Feb and, for what I wanted, the choice was limited - early as possible and standard so that I wasn't caught out by the glittery turds, but had to be practical (within reason of course :lol so we could use as a family.

I got most of what I wanted, there is, without a doubt, no glitter, so it just looks like a turd. From what I'm reading on here, I must have paid over the odds, certainly given what I think I'll need to do to it, but it felt like a decent deal at the time.

I don't care really though, I've bought it to use it and with any luck, I'll be keeping it for a good while yet

 

[matt-me]

I don't care really though, I've bought it to use it and with any luck, I'll be keeping it for a good while yet

here, here...

 

[lcfmonkey]

I had a random ring on the doorbell yesterday, when I answered it the fella almost begged me to sell my camper to him. I told him that it was our family holidays for the next 16 years!
I felt really chuffed when I closed the door (and then scared that he was going to come back and steal it in the night! So I took the battery out and moved the Golf in front of it!) :msn4:

 

[speedbuggyseb]

Even though we are in a deep recession, we have recently sold our completely original rust free never welded, 69 deluxe microbus for very close to the asking price! I am certain that quality will always sell, especially if the price is fair too.

Only thing is, we don't have any bays in our vw family now.

 

[thejinx]

i have purchased a rhd dormy 2 years ago and am in the final stages of resto. i am going to be honest i paid 3,000 for it and it was a rust bucket but i couldnt afford anymore so if i wanted to fulfill a teenage dream this was my only chance, (i am 43). Did i pay over the odds? you bet. That said i am bringing a veh back to life. I dont think the bubble has burst i just think prices are becoming realistic and inline with earnings. Also if you keep flooding the market with imports, supply will exceed demand and prices will drop. I will have spent in total £9000 by the time i have finished (i keep all receipts). Will i get that back? i would like to think so but you never know also i dont really intend to sell. They do say every man has his price so never say never. i think quality will always sell but i also think the days of passing tat as quality or OG part very rare hence extorshionate price are going. Sure there is always the drunken 3am purchase or the must have piece of kit at any cost but the more i learn the more cautious i become.

 

[damo]

Think they meant get some pics of ya crewcab in the gallery section,it looks a cracker from your avatar pic 8)

Doh, just call me Trigger! Done.

 

[Analog]

I hope the bubble hasn't burst now I've bitten the bullet and bought one :lol:

Here's my bus prices story...

12 years ago I had a '72 tin-top (Danbury I think) in fairly good order, not perfect but presentable and useable. When I split with my ex, she was tasked with selling it and it went for £600 I'd paid £500 for it a year or so before so I wasn't massively upset at the price, although really if I'd known she was going to sell it for that little, I'd have kept it. At the same time, I scrapped a '73 late bay bodyshell, a '79 first year polo and an '81 polo... all for £20 each as I didn't have the space for them :?

...and then, prices went mental. I could no longer afford to buy another bay. I still had my other VWs and got on with those, 'slumming it' in a tent at shows and grumbling about the 'ridiculous price of buses' :lol:

...things move on and 12 years later I'm getting too old for tents so I started looking at early bays again, thinking of selling the bug to buy one (which I didn't really want to do). I wasn't seriously looking, just keeping an eye on what's out there

I spotted our new '72 a few weeks before I bought it... advertised on VZi for £4,500 I'd discounted it as over-priced for the work it needed but I kept coming back to it... waiting to see if it sold. A few weeks passed, a few folks went to see it... but still it was there, tempting me :lol:

...Until, over night, the owner dropped the price from £4.5K to £3k ono. They were paying crippling storage charges since the MOT ran out and they clearly just wanted rid. Unfortunately it was in Brighton, a 320 mile round trip for us, so I did something I wouldn't normally do... I bought it over the phone, based on photos alone :roll: for £2,800

It's more rotten than I'd hoped in some areas but better in others. I still think I over-paid for it but sod it, it's all I could afford in today's market. It'll take a bit of work to get it useable, and then a loooooong rolling resto of the bodywork

did you buy that from John?

also welcome to any 'new folk' even if you have "no history" of 'the scene' or prefer shiny water cooled bays, it's all good. 8)

 

[negawskloV]

did you buy that from John?

no, we bought from a couple in Brighton who'd had it since 2005/2006

 

[two benders steve]

Hi , my RHD 1969 2.1 ltr 16 sec 1/4 mile bus only made £6200 on ebay ? I did expect a little more, Steve

 

[68_early_bay]

Hi , my RHD 1969 2.1 ltr 16 sec 1/4 mile bus only made £6200 on ebay ? I did expect a little more, Steve

:shock: you didn't let it go for that did you ??? Did you set a reserve?

 

[bus72]

some very interesting views have been submitted here, all iam going to say on the subject and i hope not to
offend but i can remember a time when you could find a bus in a field offer the farmer £50 and he thought you were
doing him a favour. in recent years a new breed of van owner has emerged onto the scene, one that seems to be led
by some sort of magazine culture with just a handful of celebs thrown in for good measure, a tv cook springs to mind.
the end result has been a rise in bus prices that to me seems all out of proportion, dont get me wrong as a bay owner
i would stand to gain by this due to the fact that i purchased my van back in 99 at just £300 of course i have spent some time and money doing her up but i would have never in a million years thought that i would have a bus in 2012 worth
about 8 to 10k, of course its not just the van prices that have risen parts have also gone way up, ive just been looking through some of my early volksworld mags from the 90s, eg you could buy a pair of lowering beam adjusters for £25 now its
£100, CHRIST!. well iam nearly at the end of my rant i will finish by saying that when all the in it for a minute people with more money than sense have got bored and moved onto another hobby i will still be owning, driving, fixing vw's just like
i have been doing for the past 25 years. if the bubble bursts it might bring parts prices down which would enable me to keep
my pride and joy alive for many more years to come, i have no intention to sell my bus unless the shit really hits the fan
like job loss etc.