>>I'd welcome any thoughts on how much to calculate for these things, negotiation tactics, my reading of condition above, etc. Again, thank you all for your input, and don't hesitate to tell me if you think I'm off base.


Well it certainly sounds alot better than when you first described.. I just wanted err and the pesimistic side of things.

I have bought a car off ebay but I was able to check it out in person.. I know that a few people from here I think have had other shopforum users inspect cars for them if it was in their area.

I'd say that the biggest concern for you and this car will be getting that AC running good again and that alone could cost a couple thousand but it may be impossible or really expensive to buy one where it works well. If you can talk them down to 6-8 it sounds alot more reasonable.

I owul duse the projected cost of fixing any of these problems as deductions to the asking price and explain that the interior cosmetic condition grades it as being a 3 etc...

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