When I said "That's not happening" he did some refiguring which dropped the price to $8,000 (47% of my purchase price)and he was very surprised when I said No I would not bring it here at that price either and left. I don't recall him looking at a "Blue Book" only a bunch of pieces of paper from various piles on his desk. 30% of a brand new Jeep vehicle would have been less - probally around $6,000.
Liz
--- In travel-to-honduras.....com, "La Gringa" wrote: > > As crazy as it sounds, I think that it has to do with the fact that they use > old Blue Books and completely disregard the year of the Blue Book. I saw it > personally bringing two cars in. I pointed out that it was an old book and > that obviously a 2000 vehicle (bought in 1999) wasn't worth as much in Oct. > 2001. He just shrugged and said "That's what we use." > > So in your case, if they were using a 2005 Blue Book and calculated 30% of > the new price, would that have come out to around $10,000? Or maybe we are > just getting the gringo price. > > La Gringa > La Ceiba, Honduras > > La Gringa's Blogicito > > > > > On 6/10/07, Liz wrote: > > > > I know that last year I went to check how much to bring in my 2005 > > Jeep here on Roatan and was told it would be $10,000 which was 70% of > > what I had paid for it. And that did not include shipping or registration > > or tags. So your price is not unusual, having > > experienced it first hand personally....My Jeep is still in storage in > > the US. > > > > Liz > > > > > > > > > >
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