1999 360 Sales Advice Please

Everything you can do to make your 'perfect', makes it more attractive as well as gives a buyer less things to beat you up on price. Do all the usual places... auto trader, cars.com, ebay, FChat, etc., and be patient.

 

It's fall, it's a nice color.. I'd give it some time. I don't think the exotic market in general is on fire. I say be patient, enjoy it while you're waiting for it to sell and belts wouldn't hurt. Keep it in good condition.

 

Ummm I might not jump in and do belts and/or other services if your really going to sell. I've tried to sell my car for almost 2 years now. I think it has a bad rap due to some of my posts, I'm just not good at selling anything, and its very difficult for me (emotionally speaking) to sell this car. I got sick of getting offers in the 50s and 60s so I went all in and spent 14K getting it as perfect as I could so I wouldn't have to apologize for no belt service and other items thinking I could join the mid 70K crowd. I got rewarded with offers in the 50s and 60s and a few high 40s. I got one serious offer for 70K finally. If you do my math so to speak it looks like this to me. I would have (or should have) taken 60K that I was actually offered twice prior to getting all the services done and spending 14K. I spent 14K getting everything done short of key fobs. If I would have taken the 70K offer in my mind its like actually getting 56K for the car. In other words the 360 market is so soft that spending money on services hoping to get a better price is pointless. BTW all my offers came from my eBay auction and none from Autotrader.

 

I'm certainly not an expert but I "think" you should easily get $60k for this car if you have all the service records going back at least 10 years, a clean "Carfax", the belts are within one year old, you can prove by the numbers the clutch has plenty of service left, you have all the tools and manuals in their leather cases, two keys, three fobs. All those things matter for a 30k miles car. They show the car has been taken care of and that's what a prospective buyer is looking for.

I think it's unlikely you will sell the car for any reasonable price if it's been three years between belt service. Few will buy a car like this knowing they're going to have to put a lot of money into it up front. The market isn't on fire for these cars. There are a lot of them around but they continue to be magnificent automobiles.

 

I wound up using a buy it now with a slightly high but within market price with the best offer option. Didn't mess with a reserve. Still haven't sold it yet but the 70K offer wants a first chance call if I change my mind. Ran it for 3 weeks. 46K, 47K, two 60K, 65K and the 70K are the offers I got. My buy it now was 79K and for the 3rd week I dropped it to 75K. YMMV. My autotrader ad is still up just to see but as I said no offers or even interest have come from there.

 

You never said what the maintenance history was. Do you have all the things I mentioned in evidence?

 

Fob is the immobilizer. Sounds like you are pretty complete except for the belt service. If you wait long enough you'll get $70k I think, but you'll have to negotiate some off to get the belts done I suspect.

 

Be patient. Most of these car take months or longer to sell. Sometimes years. It's a small market. I'd keep it in the mid-high 60's, with some expected negotiation room for a serious buyer. Possibly even use the belt service as a negotiating point for a new buyer. Everyone likes to haggle.
Unfortunately, winter is coming, so interest may be lower for a few months.

In the mean time, I would do a quickie cleanup of the sticky interior (search posts). You'll never get your money back from a pro job, but a diy cleanup only takes a few hours, about $20, and will at least get rid of one objection from a buyer who isn't aware of the commonality of this problem. They can always get it redone professionally later on their own dime.

Use this time to do whatever other cheap fixes need to be done.

 

Do you have the original stereo and wheels? If so, you might have better luck putting those back on.

 

Informative thread. I'm selling my Spider now too, so it's interesting to see what works.

 

Have thought about a trade on the Tesla? Would the dealer be open to that? What you save in the sales tax on the Tesla by the trade may help offset the lower price he may offer.

 

No saving on tax in CA.

 

From a quick review of the photos - the car looks nice. It's a bit sad to see it not selling for your ask which I think is very reasonable. IMO, while I love HRE wheels, most Ferrari guys are purists and probably want the OEM wheels (do you have them? Maybe I missed it).

Regarding the stickies - be careful with the self removal options - we just got a 360 set of parts in and the hazard button / parking button and trim are ruined as someone used much too aggressive solvent and it melted the plastic. If you want to clean them up a bit - use rubbing alcohol but don't get it on the leather. We do have a set of pre-finished paddles in house and we could take yours as a core exchange - not very expensive - send me an email (not PM) if interested.

I think others mentioned - if you want to move the car quick, perhaps a dealer would be the best option.