HARD TO SELL?

Ive been watching several MG ads and most seem to have been long running, some reason for that, or are they just hard to sell in general?

Dan, might be several reasons: Condition, age - newer might not be as desirable as older for some, or older might not be for others - and price. Also location of the vehicle and cost of shipping.

MGs are sort of a niche market. Kinda like a VW bug, not everyone wants one. Most will say the economy is bad but I'm not so sure you can blame it all on that. As seen at BJ every year, there are still those with money to burn. But run of the mill MGs are not at the top of the list there.

You also have to consider that, for the most part, these are toys. The average person only has so much disposable income for such things. So what do they buy? The possiblities are endless. Other Antique Cars, A Boat, A Vette, A Harley, Motorhome, Jet Skis, Quads, Sand Buggy, Snowmobiles ??? The list is pretty long and dilutes the market. There's just too much stuff out there for sale to choose from for any one thing to be in great demand.

Over here, it is awash with RBs and they fetch next to nothing. The originals are the ones that MG sports enthusiasts are after with CBs.

Time of year, maybe? I expect the market will heat up as it gets warmer.

Everything is hard to sell these days. I put my Jaguar XJ12C for sale for $5500. Nice car, chevy conversion. I got 800 views and more then 80 watchers but not one bid!

Market is very tough - on ebay recently, I had ~186 watchers on a really nice V8 MG conversion, and it sold for thousands less than thought. Not a huge number of bids, either - I think folks are holding onto what cash they have, and perhaps we are shifting from a "want" society to a "need" society. Such is an equation for survival, even in its simplest and initial form.

I sell attic junk too, and sales are very tough and one practically has to give it away to make a sale. Selling on Craigslist is tough, too, folks just not spending. Imagine that, guess all they have in their pockets is "change".

Much is about consumer confidence, or lack thereof, perhaps, and a situation where we as a country have spent what we don't have. I can't run my home budget this way, why would it work at a government level? The answer is that it doesn't, no matter how hard we want to believe that 2+2=5.

I've been watching boat sales, as I've wanted to buy one for some time - either a Boston Whaler or Fountain - two typically and historically high dollar items. A Fountain years ago that might've brought $75,000 is now on the blocks for $25,000 and there are no bids in most cases. Whalers are percentage-wise similar. Good if you're a buyer, but for every person that gets a killer deal, there's someone who lost their butt. Pretty scary when you consider this same scenario exists in home sales, aka, the housing crisis.

I for one am not at all confident these days and have for the most part put my boat buying on hold - I am really watching my budget and saving all I can in case of increased focus on all of this downturn...I am wondering if there will be a future inflation where gas hits $5.00 a gallon, and a loaf of bread is 6 bucks. Such events are quite possible, and could really kick us to the curb.

I believe we haven't yet hit the bottom of this fallen(ing) consumer confidence curve, and if so, it will take a long time to recover...One man's opinion.

Funnily enough - the place doing my engine has had a couple of people asking if it was for sale.

My 2$ worth:



It is too easy to find fault with any MG in the 4-10k range: Even when a person says they are looking for a driver and not a show car, they post the picture of the prospective car on this board, and by the time this crew gets done with it, it seems fit for nothing but the crusher or spare parts. So they don't bid.

The really good cars go for 15 to 20k. However, nobody on this board would EVER pay that much for such a car cause y'all bought one from the guy down the road for $3.27 and it only needed a dusting to win a concours d' elegance. So they keep shopping and don't bid.

Then they quietly schlep off to the garage and build some rust bucket into a 5k car after spending 25k on the project. Then they try to sell it on e-bay and find out no-one is buying!:S

x3...nobody pays retail twice......

I have only ever read constructive critisism here....most of that has to do with people like me asking a question that has already been asked many times before (my phone doesnt allow me a search function) besides most here have bought rust buckets and have either fixed them up or are in the daunting process of doing so....but its the old saying of "People never remember good things said....but they sure never forget the few bad things"

Most people don't know what the hell a MG is :P