If the blue book they are using is two years old, how the heck do they figure it on a new one??? Seems to me that buying in Honduras would be cheaper...is it not???
Larry
Liz wrote:
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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