True, true. Sorry, you weren't able to get closer to the usual price. Best wishes on the move and new location!
Although I think that 75K is what it is worth, I doubt it's "the usual price." It was listed for a year and never got a better offer. Remember that it's a non-Sport and has minimal options. Just the leather interior, the Alpine "infotainment" system, and the color. It's the best color by far. Red and Yellow don't even come close, and forget about white or black. But the color doesn't seem to do much for the market value. There's only 0.2 seconds between the 0-60 of the Sport and the non-Sport, but that seems to affect market value more than I'd expect. And of course, a P100D Model S will leave even a Sport Roadster in the dust. The crazy thing is that even a P3D is quicker than a Sport Roadster. (Part of me wants to trade up my RWD3 for a P3D, but that seems just wrong for Maui.)
As roadsters go this one was a premium vehicle. If I could have converted it I would have run over that deer in an orange roadster rather than a yellow one. I really with I had got to see it in the flesh. I may be your cars no.1 fan. in a few years who knows??? it's the one that got away
FWIW, the buyer was Current Automotive in Illinois. I'm sure he won't mind my posting that fact, because he will, I assume, be offering the car for sale. Presumably having it on a car lot where people can test drive it will help. He told me he expects to get 59K for it, a reasonable mark-up considering that he's paying to ship it there from here. I also think he won't mind my posting the fact, because anybody reading this will know that is this car if they see his ad. So, the car has not really "gotten away" yet. It will just be for sale in a different location, from a dealer who might (???) sell it with some sort of warranty.
If he does sell it for 59K it will justify my decision to sell it to him for 50K, since sell-to-dealer price is always less than buy-from-dealer price. I will feel cheated if he gets 75K for it. But from talking to him, he sounded like a straight-up kind of guy. And anyway it's all water under the bridge at this point. For me, anyway. For someone else, the opportunity remains to get this really amazing car. In the grand scheme of this whole process (moving to Maui, buying a house there and putting solar on it, selling my house here, selling one car and shipping another, shipping other stuff) selling the Roadster could have been a large PITA for a small return above what I actually got. I'm happy with how it went. Still have a mountain of work to get this house ready to sell.
Anybody reading this, if you come to Maui (after I get back there) I'll take you out paddling an outrigger canoe as my guest. Just PM me when you get there. I go out paddling most mornings. We don't go out if it's too windy or too rough, but that doesn't happen often. Check-in is at 6:45 a.m., canoes are on the water by 7:30, and usually stay out for an hour. From January to some time in March there's a pretty good chance of seeing whales.