I think this is a little outrageous! - No Longer Available

This was covered in this thread:

Cost of Selling Cars on TMC?

TMC does not make anything off of sales of expensive items (like a Model S) according to Doug.

Pretty sure that is if you use Paypal. I paid a $5.00 fee so I am not sure where you are getting this from.

I think this is a little outrageous!

Mods, please move this post to the "Confused Complaints" sub forum. ;-)

Or, I'll buy the car for the $1.17 you posted. But I refuse to pay 85% of the purchase price for shipping! That's outrageous!

Mnlevin said:

I hope and believe you are correct, but when I started completing the form, I was looking to list at around $55k and it showed "you will receive $50k" at the bottom of the calculation. I think there could be a fee, but the 5% threw me for a loop. I will check out the thread and the site again.

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try it again and remove the "pay with paypal" option.

Mnlevin said:

So I read the thread referred. But the Panjo website still indicates that TMC will charge 5%. I indicated not using Paypal and it showed my price minus 5%.

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that is so weird, it didn't do that when I listed my car. I would just run a cars.com ad, it's not like cars sell from the is site anyway and most listings just get rude pointless comments anyway.

PlanB said:

... I would just run a cars.com ad, it's not like cars sell from the is site anyway and most listings just get rude pointless comments anyway.

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I've seen a lot of cars sell on here. In fact, it seems to be one of the best places to buy or sell a used Tesla given that it's a unique market when it comes to a high end electric vehicle. I also have not seen "most listings get rude pointless comments". Some do, but definitely not most, at least from the many that I have read.

Mnlevin said:

Truthfully it was a half hearted attempt to sell the car. I probably don't want to. I just purchased a used P85 locally and now I have 2. My wife and I were sharing the car, but now there is one for each of us. The value of the car to me is probably way more than it is to anyone else, but I was going to test the interest. This has probably stopped me from doing something stupid.

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Oh come on, list it and price it really high.

PlanB said:

that is so weird, it didn't do that when I listed my car. I would just run a cars.com ad, it's not like cars sell from the is site anyway and most listings just get rude pointless comments anyway.

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I agree with using cars.com to list the car. In my searches thats the first place I've always gone as opposed to looking up forums dedicated to specific brands. Typically on those pages you'll find people who overvalue their cars due to an enthusiasm and devotion to whichever brand they happen to be selling. Thats said the reason many of the for-sale posts on this forum get comments are for this very same reason. Many have some distorted perception of value and cannot accept that their car is just like any other model-s who's value was recently decimated by the rollout of autopilot and dual motors. Rude? Sometime disagreeing can be perceived as rude by those who are overly sensitive but in most cases I've found the criticism to be fairly accurate.

TMC does not receive anything when you sell your car. If you are a new TMC member, it's my understanding that there is a $5 listing fee (cuts down on spam), but that's it.

This topic has been beat to death. Please. If we were making that kind of money, I'd be demanding to get paid for the time spent on this forum. So would the other moderators.

Mnlevin said:

The value of the car to me is probably way more than it is to anyone else...

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That's really true, especially for cars without AWD and sensors.

PlanB said:

Oh come on, list it and price it really high.

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Now that is a recipe for "rude pointless comments". Please don't - if you want to sell the car, list it at a fair and reasonable price. Or put it on cars.com or something instead.

I'll pay $5.00 for the car :smile:

OK. so why doesn't my car for sale show up on the For Sale thread? only in the Classifieds section.

bonnie said:

TMC does not receive anything when you sell your car. If you are a new TMC member, it's my understanding that there is a $5 listing fee (cuts down on spam), but that's it.

This topic has been beat to death. Please. If we were making that kind of money, I'd be demanding to get paid for the time spent on this forum. So would the other moderators.

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It may have been beaten to death but unless the listing form is fixed, it will keep coming up again. The form clearly deducts 5% and it is not clear that this is only with PayPal. It's was never made clear to me why this would be the case if you did use PayPal so I assume that is an error too.

I've asked a forum administrator (doug) to comment here. Perhaps he can address concerns appropriately.

Scroll down and click the button to submit your FS post without using Paypal.