Sold!!

[Esmi2]

I would guess that newer, well-appointed, SMBs (like this) depreciate about $1000/month. If so, then this price drop only reflects the lower value based on the ticking clock, not a real closing of the gap between value and cost.

Disclaimers:
1) I am not a real economist, nor do I play one on TV.
2) I am not dissing this van, nor the owner's pricing strategy.
3) I am simply making an observation. Perhaps my observation is juvenile/misinformed/wrong, and if so, I hope the fallacies will be pointed out to me.

[jage]

Originally Posted by Esmi2

I would guess that newer, well-appointed, SMBs (like this) depreciate about $1000/month. If so, then this price drop only reflects the lower value based on the ticking clock, not a real closing of the gap between value and cost.

Making up numbers in Excel, I get about $500 a month for a $100,000+ new 4x4 50, as high as $800. But it's not linear by any means, I don't think, and saying "SMBs" is like saying "All fruits and vegetables"- there is a very, very wide range and they don't hold their value the same way.

Here is what I did (*approximately, I already closed Excel):
New (.5 years) $100,000
3 years old $80,000
5 years old $50,000
8 years old $35,000
12 years old $26,000

Obviously this is a Champagne Gold RB with cloth seats.

[Zeta]

Originally Posted by Esmi2

At first blush, the internet indicates the the 6.0 is the albatross around the neck of 02-07 Fords.

But when they work, oy.

Z

[Esmi2]

I concur with your numbers, and I disagree with mine.

My fuzzball math started with a $120K van in 2005, and a $50K van in 2012. $10K/year = $800/month, and as you pointed out, the most expensive months were the early ones.

Ergo, in this example, this van is depreciating ±$300/month. And the price cut (from first posting here) amounts to about $1000/month. So price and value are in fact coming closer.

EDIT TO ADD: Very very nice van by the way. I look at this ad nearly every day

Originally Posted by jage

Making up numbers in Excel, I get about $500 a month for a $100,000+ new 4x4 50, as high as $800. But it's not linear by any means, I don't think, and saying "SMBs" is like saying "All fruits and vegetables"- there is a very, very wide range and they don't hold their value the same way.

Here is what I did (*approximately, I already closed Excel):
New (.5 years) $100,000
3 years old $80,000
5 years old $50,000
8 years old $35,000
12 years old $26,000

Obviously this is a Champagne Gold RB with cloth seats.

[jage]

Originally Posted by Esmi2

EDIT TO ADD: Very very nice van by the way. I look at this ad nearly every day

When you lose sleep it's time to buy. I also don't think the 6.0L is a reason to pass on a van, unless you simply want a gasser. Then again I don't buy into dropping thousands into an engine because it might fail, because someone else's failed, nor even because a lot of pickups with it failed. *shrug*

[amoswhiting]

So just to clarify. The heater/ furnace/ ac only works if it is plugged in to 110 source? Any more photos

[Jong]

Originally Posted by amoswhiting

So just to clarify. The heater/ furnace/ ac only works if it is plugged in to 110 source? Any more photos

Yes the heater/ac only works if it is plugged in to a 110 source.

[Manitou]

Originally Posted by jage

The PH bed is the plain gray surface tilted in the last picture, the PH beds clip with cable loops to the top and raise out of the way- in the pic only the front two cables are on.

And it doesn't have the arms in the X of the PH that would indicate an electric, but there are other ways to lift one if manual is not an option.

What are the other ways to lift a top? I don't suppose ccv will do some kind of conversion?

[jage]

ratcheting truck bed cargo bar
electric lift from aluminess
have SMB retrofit a e-PH

um... all I can think of at the moment

[Jong]

Still for sale. EDIT: SOLD!