Seriously?

[Laird Scooby]

Originally Posted by Jackman

Question, what does VWW mean in this chat? Can't work out all the acronyms.

It's "Van With Windows" better known as the estate version.

[Seventyeight]

Originally Posted by Laird Scooby

He's been drinking that funny water too!

You do realise the owners of the cars you slag off are also on this forum? Have you seen the car in person? I don't think so.

This forum is supposed to be for enthusiasts to help each other not constantly knock other people's cars.

If a car is rare then it's going to cost more than a more common 240 estate. This car is the only one of this model available in the country. Unless of course you know better.

[Seventyeight]

Originally Posted by Steve 940

Quite a rare beast, but a few ‘scabs’ sounds ominous 😀

https://www.carandclassic.com/l/C1727198

Cheers
Steve

Oh really?

[Laird Scooby]

Originally Posted by Seventyeight

You do realise the owners of the cars you slag off are also on this forum? Have you seen the car in person? I don't think so.

This forum is supposed to be for enthusiasts to help each other not constantly knock other people's cars.

If a car is rare then it's going to cost more than a more common 240 estate. This car is the only one of this model available in the country. Unless of course you know better.

........... says the person with a grand total of 9 posts since joining in July 2021?

I'm not going to enter into an argument or even a discussion with you but with a post rate of ~3 a year, you don't sound very enthusiastic to me.
Also, which car are you specifically referring to? Actually regardless of which car it was (as it doesn't really matter), i would have been referring to an over-optimistic price expectation from whichever seller that would have been.
That is wildly different to denegrating a car, generally i don't denegrate vehicles, just point out, as objectively as i can, faults which may be apparent.

Even rare cars can fall into the pit of being valueless, often because they have only been heard of by a few people and therefore are not on offer to a wide section of the buying public. Then there are things like Reliant three-wheelers which have a limited appeal and so will never realise values of similar era cars with four wheels (unless they're a Morgan) so everything is subject to market forces.

***EDIT*** Nearly forgot, the definition of "forum" is a place for open discussion. Worth remembering before entering into personal attacks!

[loki_the_glt]

Originally Posted by Seventyeight

You do realise the owners of the cars you slag off are also on this forum? Have you seen the car in person? I don't think so.

This forum is supposed to be for enthusiasts to help each other not constantly knock other people's cars.

If a car is rare then it's going to cost more than a more common 240 estate. This car is the only one of this model available in the country. Unless of course you know better.

Sometimes the help provided is advice to avoid following a certain course of action; whether you would construe this as a negative depends on whether or not you have skin in that particular game. Most forum members do not "constantly knock other people's cars" as you put it.

Many of the vehicles remarked upon in this thread, and no doubt others, are being sold by commercial operations rather than enthusiasts - which means that they may have over-ambitious price-tags - or by individuals who think that their car is special. Proffering advice often acts as a wake-up call for at least some of them, as the price descends to more realistic levels.