Tuesday, November 24, 2009

GOING, GOING, ---


Just thought you all might like to know the rest of the story.
I posted my ad on KSL Friday.  No calls.  Saturday:  No calls.  Sunday: No calls. Monday: No calls.
Tuesday:  One call, from a man in Pocatello, Idaho.  His son lives in Sugar House and works in Park City. So the son came by tonight, took a look at the tires and made me an offer that was so close to what I was asking (and, to be frank, more than I would have settled for) and loaded them into his BMW (Yeah, even drivers of Beamers want to haggle) and we parted company on good terms.  He was a likeable young man, met his wife at BYU, married in the San Diego Temple.....hey, I should probably have just given them to him.
He had a very discerning eye; he spotted one of the tires which had more tread than the other three and wondered why.  When I explained that I had a badly punctured flat and had to replace one of the original four, he seemed satisfied.

Many years ago, a friend of mine who owned and operated the 76 Station in La Grande said "If both the seller and the buyer are happy, it's a good deal."

I'll go for that.

4 Comments:

At November 25, 2009 at 6:22 AM , Blogger Ang said...

Good going, Grandpa! He blogs, he sells stuff on KSL.com--hippest Grandpa I know.

 
At November 26, 2009 at 6:01 AM , Blogger andrea said...

Thanks for sharing the rest of the story. Way to go, Grandpa!

 
At November 29, 2009 at 11:29 AM , Anonymous dave said...

Good job :)

 
At December 3, 2009 at 9:25 AM , Anonymous Julie said...

Success!!! Beamer owners haggle probably because that's one of the ways they came to own Beamers.

And yes, I'd love to have a revival of "The Music Man." So, there, ya sold me!

 

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