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Okay, I am going to pretend that I know what I am talking about. But, I really don't, because I do NOT have a hard top for my 03 RED Bird. That is by choice, since I do not feel the need for a hard top in Florida.
That said, and I will try to be brief, I will tell you about my experience today. I was out shopping for additional door prizes for my T Bird cruise scheduled for November 7th. In the parking lot, a woman approached me in her car admiring my Bird (yes, it happens all the time). She said that she was reminiscing because she used to have an 02 Red Bird like mine, but it was destroyed some time ago by fire at 8,ooo miles, and the insurance company totalled it and settled with her. The hard top was NOT on the car at the time. The RED hardtop has remained stored in the garage, covered. all this time - - it was on the car only once for a very short period when she first acquired the car, and never put back on again. She thinks that it is on a stand ( but not really sure). I told that I did not have a hard top. She asked if I wanted to purchase it. I declined, (I have no place to store it, and no one to help me remove it and put it back on). She asked if I knew any way that she could find a buyer.
I told her about E-Bay, Craigs List and TBN. She asked if I would pass on the information via TBN & I agreed to do it. She has no idea what to ask for it & asked if I would give her a ball park figure. I know NOTHING about hard tops and & I told her that . She again asked me for a tentative price, and I threw out $1500, which she said sounded reasonable. I urged her to try to find out its value through the other sources so that she would know how much to ask.
Okay, the rest is up to you guys who know about hard tops & their re-sale value. She claims that it is "perfect" and
there are NO marks anywhere on it, headliner in excellent condition, portholes fine, like new. It is in her garage at her second home near Vidalia, Georgia. She lives most of the time in Orlando, FL pretty close to me. She wants very much to "get rid of it" . Meeting me suddenly reminded her that she still had the top stored away.
I have her name and tel. number, but I hesitate to divulge that here publically - just does not seem appropriate to spread her identity around. I spent a great deal of time talking with her. I feel that she is vulnerable and that somebody without scrupples could swoop down and steal this from her. I am not saying that someone should not get a really good killer bargain on this hard top, since she has absolutely no use for it. It only came up because she was complimenting me on my car, and she remembered that the top was stored away in her other house where she rarely ever goes.
Okay, pounce on me. Have at it. I can take it, if you wish to criticize me. Perhaps you would have approached all this differently - -that is fine. Tell me what you think should be the next step. I liked her a lot & want to help her out, but she really is a stranger to me. It was a happy coincidence that we were in the same place at the same time and that I, too, have a RED T Bird and she connected with me. I even told her how TBN members transfer tops in relays from one State to another when the buyer is far moved from the seller. She was very impressed with that ingenuity.
I want this story to have a happy ending - - -both for the seller and the buyer. Who can help me make that happen?
Tom
That said, and I will try to be brief, I will tell you about my experience today. I was out shopping for additional door prizes for my T Bird cruise scheduled for November 7th. In the parking lot, a woman approached me in her car admiring my Bird (yes, it happens all the time). She said that she was reminiscing because she used to have an 02 Red Bird like mine, but it was destroyed some time ago by fire at 8,ooo miles, and the insurance company totalled it and settled with her. The hard top was NOT on the car at the time. The RED hardtop has remained stored in the garage, covered. all this time - - it was on the car only once for a very short period when she first acquired the car, and never put back on again. She thinks that it is on a stand ( but not really sure). I told that I did not have a hard top. She asked if I wanted to purchase it. I declined, (I have no place to store it, and no one to help me remove it and put it back on). She asked if I knew any way that she could find a buyer.
I told her about E-Bay, Craigs List and TBN. She asked if I would pass on the information via TBN & I agreed to do it. She has no idea what to ask for it & asked if I would give her a ball park figure. I know NOTHING about hard tops and & I told her that . She again asked me for a tentative price, and I threw out $1500, which she said sounded reasonable. I urged her to try to find out its value through the other sources so that she would know how much to ask.
Okay, the rest is up to you guys who know about hard tops & their re-sale value. She claims that it is "perfect" and
there are NO marks anywhere on it, headliner in excellent condition, portholes fine, like new. It is in her garage at her second home near Vidalia, Georgia. She lives most of the time in Orlando, FL pretty close to me. She wants very much to "get rid of it" . Meeting me suddenly reminded her that she still had the top stored away.
I have her name and tel. number, but I hesitate to divulge that here publically - just does not seem appropriate to spread her identity around. I spent a great deal of time talking with her. I feel that she is vulnerable and that somebody without scrupples could swoop down and steal this from her. I am not saying that someone should not get a really good killer bargain on this hard top, since she has absolutely no use for it. It only came up because she was complimenting me on my car, and she remembered that the top was stored away in her other house where she rarely ever goes.
Okay, pounce on me. Have at it. I can take it, if you wish to criticize me. Perhaps you would have approached all this differently - -that is fine. Tell me what you think should be the next step. I liked her a lot & want to help her out, but she really is a stranger to me. It was a happy coincidence that we were in the same place at the same time and that I, too, have a RED T Bird and she connected with me. I even told her how TBN members transfer tops in relays from one State to another when the buyer is far moved from the seller. She was very impressed with that ingenuity.
I want this story to have a happy ending - - -both for the seller and the buyer. Who can help me make that happen?
Tom
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