(Yet another) Review of Car Sales

[Dangermouse]

I have been amazed at the number of cars on Chris’ DeLoreansForSale page so I decided to track them for the first quarter of 2013. Were there really that many of these “rare” cars being offered for sale? Here is what I found:


There were 61 cars listed for sale in US and Canada in 1Q13 (from Chris’s site as well as other sources), 27 on ebay, 22 on craigslist and 4 others. This does not include those cars currently in inventory at the various DMC franchises (at least a further 20 cars). These were cars that were freshly advertised and may not include cars that were listed in 2012 but did not sell. To the best of my ability I looked at the craigslist cars and removed any that had a corresponding ebay ad, so I am fairly confident that these are 61 different cars.


There were 7 cars in January, 25 in Feb and 29 in March


Average miles, for those cars that listed a mileage, was 29411

Average Asking Price (when stated) was $24,000 and Average Sales Price, where known, was $20,470


So that’s quite a collection of cars for a prospective buyer to choose from, maybe 20 or 30 from private buyers available at any one time.


In addition, there were a few cars ( available internationally (UK, Europe, Australia). Interestingly, while their advertised mileage was broadly similar, at 30465, their Average Asking Price is considerably higher at $38,875 (converted from local currency). The only one that I could find sales info on, had sold for the equivalent of $39,700.

No, I won’t be repeating this exercise as it was way too much work. I’ll leave that up to Ozzie and that other recently posted website

[Ozzie]

.....No, I won’t be repeating this exercise as it was way too much work. I’ll leave that up to Ozzie and that other recently posted website

lol.
I was surprised how many cars sold in Q1 as well. I am way tardy on my blog's sales updates, but I'll probably stop after one more update, as there are at least two other sites that track this same data.

[LordFly]

As I wasn't in the market for very long, basically only the time you complied stats for, I don't know if this is high or low. One of the (serious) questions people ask me most as a new owner is "where did you find one?!". I've been telling them (perhaps wrongly) that if you're REALLY in the market for one, they aren't hard to find. Maybe instead I should be telling them, I just happen to be in the market at the right time?