Re: [SilverStreak] Re: Silver Streak Digest V1 #540

["Eddie" <Eddie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Sherylyn,
There are people on this list reading what you wrote, who may be interested 
in buying it from you. You need to tell us about it, rear or side bath, rear 
bedroom?, beds there?, kitchen there or incomplete and what?, pallor gutted 
or there?, body conditions exterior, interior, soft spots on floor or bad 
floor, leaks, broken out windows, stuff like that. We all know these 
trailers, the windows that may not quite work, door hinge problems, etc. Do 
you have the title? Stuff like that.

Sherylyn, you will just have to set a price. There is no way to "figure what 
it is worth?" as there are so many, many, variables. One man's 
trash...another's treasure and so forth. It is worth what someone is willing 
to pay. So set a price you can live with or hope for, put it out there, and 
if the timing is wrong, economy, trailer is just too pricey for condition, 
location makes unduly cost for the buyer, then it won't sell, and you will 
just either keep it, or lower the price until that buyer comes along.

So the information above is absolute and required and many of us may be your 
buyer. Get with Tom Patterson and he might help you list it on his site with 
pictures. He is a kind and generous man. Contact him by his email: 
pattersontj@sbcglobal.net. He will have already read your note to the list, 
my note, and the others who will reply on this forum.

You alone will have to set a price and that price needs to be based upon the 
condition, style, and location. The price usually cannot be based upon what 
you paid for the trailer and the costs you have invested in the project. 
That only works if you completed some sort of restoration, and that 
restoration needs to have been typical, and not something odd, for instance 
a conversion into a vendor or novelty trailer.

-Eddie-
Houston, TX

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Sherylyn" <dstkncpark@mstar.net>
To: <sslist@tompatterson.com>; <sslist-digest@tompatterson.com>
Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2008 4:44 PM
Subject: [SilverStreak] Re: Silver Streak Digest V1 #540


> Here's a question.
>
> We have a 72 SS Continental Atlas 26 foot that we started to restore, but 
> are unable to finish.  What suggestions do any of you have? Does anyone 
> know how to figure what it is worth?  We have put $1000 in so far, and 
> still needs work inside.  Where is the best  place to sell a Silver 
> Streak?  Is there place to list it?
>
> Thanks
> D Parkinson