Looking to set price for selling my 2003 Marauder

TrilogyMarauder said:
:eek: Yikes!





Used 2004 Mercury Marauder

https://www.autotrader.com/cars-for...chRadius=0&makeCode1=MERC&modelCode1=MARAUDER


  • $52,750

4,617 miles

Black
Perfect and Pristine;One-of-a-Kind&; 2004 Mercury Marauder with only 4,617 miles on the odometer! ...
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Invective said:
That exact same car was being sold as an '03 for $37,500 - smell a turd.....
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$52,750 FIRM.....uhmmmm yeah.

Maybe in another 25 years!

At that price I guess that I should relist my Marauder for $35,750....FIRM.

To dohc324ci: If you don't need to sell your car immediately for financial reasons, List your car for what you think is fair.
If it doesn't sell, no harm.
I'm not going to lower my Marauder's selling price anymore.
If it doesn't sell, I'm going to put it in my garage for another 5 years, then at 20 years of age, I can register it as 'Historic'.
At that point, I can drop in a Jon Kaase BOSS 521, tell the MD. MVA to shove it!... and make it run like it should.
 
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Joe Walsh said:
$52,750 FIRM.....uhmmmm yeah.

Maybe in another 25 years!

At that price I guess that I should relist my Marauder for $35,750....FIRM.

To dohc324ci: If you don't need to sell your car immediately for financial reasons, List your car for what you think is fair.
If it doesn't sell, no harm.
I'm not going to lower my Marauder's selling price anymore.
If it doesn't sell, I'm going to put it in my garage for another 5 years, then at 20 years of age, I can register it as 'Historic'.
At that point, I can drop in a Jon Kaase BOSS 521, tell the MD. MVA to shove it!... and make it run like it should.
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The Kaase Boss 9 is an insane ford engine for sure
 
This made me lol. Ok bud....8k? Yeah not gonna happen. How did you based that comment/opinion on?
CoreyM75 said:
The truth isn’t too popular, these cars are hard to sell. Even more so with higher mileage. 8500-11,000 is a reasonable asking price based on lots of Marauders for sale in the last year. 15k is dreaming.

And there’s only one lowendex out there with more money to burn.
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Yup full coverage got some coin into this.
Invective said:
If you keep the Marauder please keep collision/comp. A neighbor's mid 2000s Chevrolet SS pickup caught fire today - he rarely drove it but kept it in immaculate condition. He dropped collision/comp because he rarely drove it and it had been trouble free.

He pulled into the subdivision with his instrument panel smoking heavily; he pulled into his driveway and took a water hose to it (he had no dry chemical extinguisher). Up to four neighbors (including me) came over with dry chemical extinguishers and had the fire put out before the FD arrived.

Seats, console and steering wheel appear to be ok but the instrument panel/dash is clearly toast. Would hate to see this truck go to salvage but this guy's income is complete crap at the moment. I have maintained 0-$50 deductible on comp/collision for many years - not expensive IMO.
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I hear you Joe not gonna give away the car for sure. I've put some serious coin into this build so just checking to see what the collective think.
Joe Walsh said:
$52,750 FIRM.....uhmmmm yeah.

Maybe in another 25 years!

At that price I guess that I should relist my Marauder for $35,750....FIRM.

To dohc324ci: If you don't need to sell your car immediately for financial reasons, List your car for what you think is fair.
If it doesn't sell, no harm.
I'm not going to lower my Marauder's selling price anymore.
If it doesn't sell, I'm going to put it in my garage for another 5 years, then at 20 years of age, I can register it as 'Historic'.
At that point, I can drop in a Jon Kaase BOSS 521, tell the MD. MVA to shove it!... and make it run like it should.
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146k with a used go fast engine and some exhaust... what makes it worth so much?

I bought a 69k vortech car, mint body and paint, exhaust, loads of mods, brakes, colex trinkets, built trans and rear for $8000.00 2 years ago.

14-15k? 😳

That's built motor big brake blower car money.
 
dohc324ci said:
This made me lol. Ok bud....8k? Yeah not gonna happen. How did you based that comment/opinion on?

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I’m not trying to upset anyone, just being honest. The market for selling a car now includes Facebook, used car websites, mm.net, and every other form of social media. The days of overpricing a car and getting the money are gone. There’s a reason why your car has been for sale for five years, it’s worth more to you than the potential car buyers. It’s very nice and has some great mods but it’s a black 03 Marauder with aftermarket rims.

High mileage hurts the price even if you have done a lot to the car. 15k is under 40k miles with a power added territory for these cars, or at least it is if you want to sell the car.
 
Extremely higher price for an older Panther no matter which improvements has been done and other thing that matters at the time to sell a car is the mileage


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Lol it hasn't been for sale for 5 years. It's been in my garage queen. Love hate every now and again I get the itch. Ok let me put it this way give me some real world like for like builds that this that go for 8k? Have you done a build like this? I take your input with grain of salt. It's an opinion nothing more nothing you have posted comes with facts. Again overgeneralization with no facts is just an opinion bud. Show me some examples of an $8k build like this then I'd consider this being the the market. Not upset just stating facts show me data like you said we live in the world of easy to obtain information you should have no problems giving your input with links to examples right cheif?
CoreyM75 said:
I’m not trying to upset anyone, just being honest. The market for selling a car now includes Facebook, used car websites, mm.net, and every other form of social media. The days of overpricing a car and getting the money are gone. There’s a reason why your car has been for sale for five years, it’s worth more to you than the potential car buyers. It’s very nice and has some great mods but it’s a black 03 Marauder with aftermarket rims.

High mileage hurts the price even if you have done a lot to the car. 15k is under 40k miles with a power added territory for these cars, or at least it is if you want to sell the car.
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Turbo Good for you got a deal you must have jumped on it. It's worth more than $8k just because you got one for that price what makes you think that's the standard accross the board? BTW that post was 5 years ago right after the build and look further it has a built transmission and a whole slew of other mods read it again....lol so dissmissive wtf you guys are killing me.

I'd say $8k too low in the San Francisco bay area I'd say $10-12k if not more is realistic in this market. Lots of fox bodies here go for that around here.

91k miles for $14k

95k miles with salvaged title for $6500


https://sfbay.craigslist.org/search/cta?query=Marauder

https://m.autotrader.com/cars-for-s...]&modelCodeList=MARAUDER&startYear=1981&Log=0

Turbov6Bryan said:
146k with a used go fast engine and some exhaust... what makes it worth so much?

I bought a 69k vortech car, mint body and paint, exhaust, loads of mods, brakes, colex trinkets, built trans and rear for $8000.00 2 years ago.

14-15k? [emoji15]

That's built motor big brake blower car money.
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You asked for help pricing your car and when I responded I didn’t think I was out of line by offering my opinion. Reading comprehension isn’t your strong suit as I said between 8500-11,500 not 8,000. I didn’t know that I had to build a car like yours to be able to post in your thread. I won’t make that mistake again.

Here’s some facts, your car has high mileage, aftermarket rims that won’t appeal to everyone, is black the most common Marauder color with very well known paint issues from the factory, and every car guy knows that modifications aren’t an investment in a car with not a lot of return.

Best of luck with selling your car. I hope you get what you want out of it.

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Cali car if it was stock and 146k miles, $8000 ish, Built motor and stuff, I could see added $ of $3-5k. $11-13k seems like the range. Prices of these cars change every year. one year they are cold and deals, next year prices go up, then they fall in between. I got a deal on my car for a 45k mile Trilogy with headers, metcos, dynotech shaft, 4.10's, widenend wheels, etc. compared to what they go today for. There is no rhyme or reason.
 
Thanks for your input just questioning rational for the $8k that's all. Gross over generalization caught my attention. As far my built comment if you knew you might understand that comment your entitled to your opinion. Just wondering if you had a point of reference from personal experience that's all. This hobby takes a lot of coin to make go fast NA modular power. Not wanting gouge anyone it's fair to say $10-13k, 8k I need some explanation which I ask and you come back with insults about my reading comprehension silly.

Thanks that last input is helpful. I can understand rims and milage and I know I'll get low balled with 8k offers.

CoreyM75 said:
You asked for help pricing your car and when I responded I didn’t think I was out of line by offering my opinion. Reading comprehension isn’t your strong suit as I said between 8500-11,500 not 8,000. I didn’t know that I had to build a car like yours to be able to post in your thread. I won’t make that mistake again.

Here’s some facts, your car has high mileage, aftermarket rims that won’t appeal to everyone, is black the most common Marauder color with very well known paint issues from the factory, and every car guy knows that modifications aren’t an investment in a car with not a lot of return.

Best of luck with selling your car. I hope you get what you want out of it.

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Thanks bud this makes sense retail $7-8k with like mileage $3-5k based on work done. Asking price IMO should be higher then have room for negotiation. If list at bottom line pricing I have no room. But again just looking at market and pricing. Thanks all this excersize was helpful. Cheers!
RubberCtyRauder said:
Cali car if it was stock and 146k miles, $8000 ish, Built motor and stuff, I could see added $ of $3-5k. $11-13k seems like the range. Prices of these cars change every year. one year they are cold and deals, next year prices go up, then they fall in between. I got a deal on my car for a 45k mile Trilogy with headers, metcos, dynotech shaft, 4.10's, widenend wheels, etc. compared to what they go today for. There is no rhyme or reason.
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I lusted after Randy O'Dell's car (page 11 - Marauders for Sale) but knew I could not come up with anything close to what he's looking for as he has serious money in his apparently immaculate, low mileage car. I bought an immaculate '04 (completely stock) with 39.4k miles in Michigan from the second owner for $12k. I paid to have a Signature moonroof installed for under $1.2k after driving it home. Car has every option except the spoiler.
 
Turbov6Bryan said:
146k with a used go fast engine and some exhaust... what makes it worth so much?

I bought a 69k vortech car, mint body and paint, exhaust, loads of mods, brakes, colex trinkets, built trans and rear for $8000.00 2 years ago.

14-15k? 😳 just because you found a super excellent cheap deal doesn't mean that sets the base value for every other Marauder for sale with loads of mods that just isn't the way it works. you got lucky. That doesn't mean everybody's going to sell the car dirt cheap. At the end of the day the Marauders a super rare car and having one is like havin gold. and they're going to become more rare and worth more value as time goes on I'm not digging the hole everybody trying to lowball so they can get them Dirt Cheap.
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This is why when I go to sell mine I’m probably staying far away from here.. I imagine just a quick ebay sale or something local and be done.

I wish you high dollars! [emoji1303]


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Sup Bob! Lol yeah smart! I'll buy yours for 9k bud;) J/K it's SC so at least 10k[emoji16]
justbob said:
This is why when I go to sell mine I’m probably staying far away from here.. I imagine just a quick ebay sale or something local and be done.

I wish you high dollars! [emoji1303]


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