If everyone was honest and priced stuff according to what it was worth tire kicking wouldn't be necessary, but it's not always that way.
Bought a truck nearly 800 miles away, plenty of photos, guy told me everything he could about the truck, he knocked $500 off to help with my travel cost. When I got there IMO the truck was better than described so I paid his price, did the paper work and drove it home.
Same deal on a round baler 300 miles away, when I got there it was just as described and priced accordingly, paid the man and brought it home.
Bought a tractor on auction 400 miles away, there where a few photos and described as needing transmission work, got it at a price I could make repairs and be ok with, had to wire the money at end of auction.
When I got there to pick it up $2000 worth of pto parts where missing from the back of the tractor, no photos from the back. I mentioned the missing parts and they say I bought it as is and they had my money, I could take the tractor or they'd sell it again but I wasn't getting my money back.
Parted the tractor out over 5 years just to break even.
8 years ago I was looking at a couple skid loaders, one low hour machine 80 miles away that needed tracks due to being used on a demolition site, another 500 miles away also needing tracks they said where worn out on hard surfaces cleaning horse barns. Hooked the goose neck up and drove 500 miles, overnight stay just to find a worn out machine with a wrist sized chunk a wood stuck through the front belly pan, pins and bushings shot from never being greased.
Guy started dropping his price and finally said to just make a offer, told him it would just make him mad, got it the truck and drove off. Guess he thought since I'd driven 500 miles I wouldn't leave without it, I did.
On the way back we drove by the one 80 miles from home, told the guy what it would cost me to replace the tracks and that made his price a couple thousand to high, he dropped his price, I payed him and brought it home. But I was ticked for day about driving a thousand mills (round trip) to look at junk.
I've worked in the logging field, no way I'd buy sight unseen. The owner and I have traveled hundreds of miles looking at logging and sawmill equipment. Some times it's what they say it is, other times it was painted over junk.
Some times you just have to go kick the tires, just to make sure they don't fall off.
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