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Old 01-16-2017, 02:40 PM
79ford 79ford is offline
 
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Default do people make a living kijiji remarketing? cars etc

Ive been looking in kijiji over the past year or so for another wagon to cruise around in and i have noticed a trend of a vehicle selling and often times at a higher price than normal then you see the vehicle pop up again in a diffent part of alberta for double the price? Some times they are even using the pictures from the previous ad.

Do people out there make a living doing this or something?
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Old 01-16-2017, 02:45 PM
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Ive been looking in kijiji over the past year or so for another wagon to cruise around in and i have noticed a trend of a vehicle selling and often times at a higher price than normal then you see the vehicle pop up again in a diffent part of alberta for double the price? Some times they are even using the pictures from the previous ad.

Do people out there make a living doing this or something?
I know a couple people that make some side money doing it. Don't know anybody personally that makes a living off it.
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Old 01-16-2017, 03:04 PM
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i know a guy who was flipping cars. he got in with amvic to do it legally.

eventually he started a dealership and he's doing well

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Old 01-16-2017, 03:13 PM
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I've been kinda looking for a 1 ton for a while, i see the same thing that you mention.

Every now and then i see one that catches my interest on a lot. Then it's gone for a while, shows up as a private sale, disappears for a while. Shows up at another lot. I am guessing some of these lot owners are one in the same and just move them along between a private sale and their lots. Price & description always changes but not by much. Higher $$$ mostly.
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Old 01-16-2017, 03:23 PM
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Be real hard to do it and make an even somewhat decent living. I imagine there's a few guys out there that do it, but most usually buy from auctions and flip on Kijiji. Most people who you see relisting vehicles for thousands more are just weekend curbers.
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Old 01-16-2017, 03:36 PM
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Maybe you're hot on the heals of an "organized" crime ring flipping hot vehicles.
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Old 01-16-2017, 03:44 PM
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Quite a few guys are making decent coin flipping local cars, trucks and RV's to the U.S. That's why you see the higher pricing at this end on many of the later higher end models. It's the low CanBuck that's making this profitable.
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Old 01-16-2017, 04:36 PM
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i've done it a couple of times on smaller items where the original owner wants to sell things as a package. I once got a sled, hand auger, new mr heater and 2 eskimo chairs for $80 bucks. the original owner wouldnt split and wanted to sell as package so i bought them. then i sold the heater for 80 bucks, the chairs for 30 and the hand auger for 30 and kept the sled.
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Old 01-16-2017, 05:39 PM
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Quite a few guys are making decent coin flipping local cars, trucks and RV's to the U.S. That's why you see the higher pricing at this end on many of the later higher end models. It's the low CanBuck that's making this profitable.
Yup. Met a truck broker off Kijiji by accident when purchasing a slip tank. Offered to buy my Duramax for pretty good coin. I also met a trucker (again, by accident on Kijiji) who hauled cars down to the States to be sold to take advantage of the low dollar. Said the people he was contracted by were shipping 40+ vehicles a week. Hence why it's so hard to buy a fairly priced used diesel in Alberta. All of 'em are going down south.
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