These "people" are the reason affordable used cars don't exist anymore btw
nothing is stopping you from buying broken cars and fixing them to drive for yourself. you can wrench, right, OP?
>>29104071I think he's talking about the people who cynically scour the earth for $3k beater runners to immediately sell. It's pretty fucking wack, "oh you tried not being utterly greedy with matters of money, fixed that for you"
>>29104090What system would you prefer? Communism?
>>29104096How is the weather in Tel Aviv?
>>29104096Like a high trust Christian society with strict usury regulations
>>29104090My friends are like this, they go through cars like socks. Pissed me off when they got a CRX with enkei wheels I really wanted and I offered to buy them and trade my old wheels when they were inevitable done with the car and about to sell it and they just sold it two weeks later without warning me. At some point you have to realize you're chasing a dragon and the 240sx you lowballed yesterday is a piece of shit that's nowhere near as nice as the 240sx you bought 15 years ago and you should've just sat with that one.
>>29104096>would you like the current extreme or another extreme?Why not just something normal? Autistic black and white thinking is a hell of a drug
Gas all scalpers
>>29104090I watech a little of it. It had a bad electrical draw, both front struts were junk, the alignment was fucked, the wheels needed refinished, and it required rust repair to pass Canadian inspection.
>>29104024How's this any different than someone just taking care of their car during ownership and selling it for 13k
>>29104024It's just a sign of the economy desu.
who's worse? car flippers and scalpers or the dumb nigger fomo consumers who will pay any price if they can buy thing?
>>29104096yes, unironically
>>29104955so you prefer not having a car at all, getting vaccinated and eating grain with seed oils?the people who made cars expensive are the ones who bought cheap cars and didn't maintain them
>>29104968why would I not have a car? i already get vaccinated and eat grains with seed oils, i'm not a conspiratorial schizo. the people who made cars expensive are the people who sell cars for a profit.
>>29104631they're both two sides of the same ugly ass coin
>>29105056>why would I not have a car?Redistributed for equality. You aren't a nazi that disagrees, are you?
>>29104315Regular car ownership means keeping that one car for an extended period of time. Car flippers buy up cars one after another in rapid succession. Think of it like most kids taking one piece of halloween candy from your bowl, and then this one fatass kid just hogs up the entire thing.
>>29104024Something is only worth what someone is willing to pay for it, so you can blame the buyers, not the sellers; the internet has also made good deals quick and easy to find, which means they disappear just as fast.The real enemies here are the faggots who buy pieces of shit for cheap, bodge and hide all the faults, then resell for good car money and disappear.
>>29105140>he let the fat kid get to the candy before himsounds like a you problem.
my friend wants to start flipping cars for profit and wants me to help what should i do?there are no laws about title jumping where i live so you can pretty much sell as many cars as you like without a dealer license
>>29105139>t. someone who has no clue what socialism is
>>29105147Tell him to fuck off and get a real job.If he wants to sell cars while ripping people off he can work at a dealership.
>>29105147Call him a queer jew prick
>>29105142this, gen z doesn't want to work on cars so the flilpper have a market for this stuffzoom zoom!
>>29104090>shit that has existed since the dawn of time but I didn't know about it because I didn't watch YouTube videos on itthe reason "affordable" used cars don't exist anymore is because your concept of what an 'affordable' amount of money is stuck in the late 90s. inflation exists; $100 in 1966 is the same as $1500 in 2026. $900 in 1996 is close to $3500 in 2026. the problem isn't "flippers", it's congress making your savings worthless. aim at the right target.
>>29105153>>29105269he already has a real job but he wants to make extra moneyalso he has no idea what he's doing and every car he's ever worked on has had severe mechanical problems afterwards
>>29105292Inflation may have new cars "cost less" than their counterparts from the 90s, but our incomes don't scale, so inflation is still fucking us
How come you can trip over the 900 quid Ford Kas in the UK but you can't find shit for under 5k in the USA? Swiss prices for Chinese quality. The fuck.
>>29104090>I think he's talking about the people who cynically scour the earth for $3k beater runners to immediately sell. It's pretty fucking wack, "oh you tried not being utterly greedy with matters of money, fixed that for you"What do you think carmax does? They make $2k on the buy and $2k on the sale and literally do nothing to the vehicle.At least, this guy did work on it. State dealership laws protecting dealers and carmax from competition are the real problem.
>>29104024the price and reliability of new cars is the cause, anon making some money wrenching on shitboxes in his spare time is a symptom
>>29105831I mean, think about it. For a car to sell there has to be a buyer, it has to go somewhere. There's no real land border for them to cross (I know Ireland exists but just like the UK government we're going to ignore them), and neighboring countries drive on the opposite side so they wouldn't be desirable. There's no real pipeline or customer demand for importing them to America like there is for Japanese cars. And it's a small relatively densely populated island - the average person doesn't have space for two cars.America is the opposite - we have two land borders used cars can and do cross, people export American market cars to other countries (whether because it's cheaper or because it's something they didn't get there), and because we're pretty sparsely populated and very car-centric unless you're in the densest urban metros the average person could have a second vehicle if so inclined. Most people i know have at least one extra vehicle.
>>29104024>fixing cars and expecting a return on your work is...bad!
>>29107788Ignorant niggers missing the point as usual
>>29107788>work
>>29107817did the car magically work on itself?
>>29107838>xhe thinks a $100 spray job and $200 of cockauto suspension is worth $10,000how's the weather in tel aviv
>>29107843If you say entirely false statements like that it does make something sound ridiculous, yes
>>29107846Go and buy it then if it's such a great deal
>>29105056You wouldn't have a car because you weren't assigned a car because you are assigned to live in a commieblock apartment near your workplace and you are not related to anyone important so you have to walk to work. If you don't go to work you are beaten and raped by the police, and further infractions get you sent to the gulag. Also you don't get to choose your roommates, and the roommates you do have decide who cleans the toilet by using violence. Furthermore the guy who cleans the toilet is also the one everyone buttfucks, because he is the least violent and they think it is funny.Communism is a race to the bottom, perhaps your bottom specifically.
>>29107855My finger is about to slip into your bottom
>>29104024>broken>affordable used carpeople buying broken, fixing and selling isnt the reason bro
>>29104071Everything is fine and dandy until you decide to inspect under the chassis and find catastrophic widespread rust ready to split the car into two.
>>29104024That repaint costs $2000 - 5000 with 2k being the actual floor.Also that gen goes for 10k max unless it's literally mint, which I doubt it was on the inside / in the engine bay. There is generally rust in the wheel wells / in the rear, all the rubber trim is dry-rotted, etc.
>>29105056Because Communism retard.
>>29108055The most successful communist country manufactures most new cars btw. Why isn't America capable of matching them if we're so great?
>>29108061>china >communistand im sure the US is capitalist right?
>>29104024Those people exist because they printed trillions of dollars out of thin air in 2020. On top of that they added tens of millions of brown people to the population and gave them all free drivers licenses
>>29104024>salvage a fucked up car that would have rotted in the junkyard and increased the pool of available cars
>>29108146>needs new paint>"salvage car"
>>29108155Yeah. New paint added nearly $10,000 to that car's value.
>>29104024>buy a car people don’t have cash for>try and sell it for $10k markup after removing foid clutter and washing itHard to compete with a dealer if you can’t finance and repo.
>I want all the benefit without doing any of the worktale as old as time
>>29105292Did you miss the part where the guy bought a car for $3k and sold it for $13k? Did he buy the car in 1966 and sell it this year?
Can people please think for a moment about what OP is talking about before they press their fat fucking fingers against their keyboard?
>>29108732no
>>29108070>and im sure 2+2=4 right?
>>29108109not they didn't retard
