by Mike - Below are the options that I can think of for selling a classic car when the time comes: Auctions like RM, Gooding, Coys, Bonhams, Mecum etc... This is a very expensive sales approach. The big auction companies take 15% to 20% of … [Read more...]
My Wife Was The High Bidder On A Bring A Trailer Auction – But Still No Car
June 22, 2015 By 21 Comments
by Mike - As I mentioned in the post yesterday about the BMW Isetta eBay auction the eBay “auction” process is really not an auction at all when the seller can cancel all bids and remove the car. The reader comments on this post are interesting … [Read more...]
Did This BMW Isetta Sell On Ebay Or Not?
June 20, 2015 By 9 Comments
by Mike - Maybe you saw the advertisement for the ebay auction of this red BMW Isetta recently. Below is an image of the end of the eBay auction (click on the image for a better view). I followed the eBay auction and was surprised when … [Read more...]
I Thought The Dirt As Patina Sales Fad Was History, Then I Saw This
May 26, 2015 By 8 Comments
by Mike - I thought I had observed a trend away from the "dirt is patina" sales strategy for collector cars since last year in Monterey when Bonhams sold a very dirty Jaguar at a loss for the seller. I wrote in September 2014, Selling … [Read more...]
The Gooding: Scottsdale 2015
January 23, 2015 By 4 Comments
by Wallace Wyss Gooding, like RM, seems to be stretching the definition of what a classic car is. Like I wouldn’t have thought a 1963 Karmann Ghia is a collector car. Or how about a 1958 Bantam? Yet they both were there. I think the … [Read more...]
The Arizona Auctions Kick Off The 2015 Collector Car Market Year
January 21, 2015 By Leave a Comment
by Mike - The beginning of the 2015 classic car auction season was this past weekend in Arizona with the major auction companies recording record numbers totaling $270 million USD in sales. This does not include results from Silver and Russo and … [Read more...]
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