Parts Trend - What's with the asinine Pricing?

[ds1]

I am younger and hope that is what will happen to this market so
I can once again enjoy my hobby. My father has seen that with his Tootsie Toy collection. He does not care what they are worth but we know as that generation passes on THE DEMAND has also become less

[marxjunk]

capitalism..

funny...when it works for ya..its awesome..when it works against ya...yer being taken advantage of....

ive been swap meeting since 78...and its a diff thing now..you can buy all the S10 and 5.0 mustang stuff ya want..the cool stuff is just not available...ebay did that..it brought used parts into your living room...and ate up the surplus..and what it did was take it all away from the swap meets

i say 3 out of 10 meets i score...the others 7..i loose money...it harder and harder every day to even look at cool stuff..let alone buy it

[Craig_Maiorana]

I'm right there with Ds1 .. I've managed to make this business my life and I do try and encourage these younger guys to dig in and get involved. This hobby just like any hobby of "collecting" things becomes just that... It becomes a collection of stuff that when it all boils down is usually worth more to you than it is to anyone else.

[camarojoe]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: 69SSZL1</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Just wait 10 years for all of us to age to the point of no longer being able to enjoy these cars. There will be 1000s of musclecars and parts for cheap because no one will want them. The younger folks have no interest at all. </div></div>

Don't count on it. I always think back to when I was a kid (I'm 41 now) and going to swap meets and car shows with my dad in the mid 80's. Back then everyone was looking for 69 Camaros, 57 Chevy's, and just about any year Chevelle SS or GTO. Sure the prices were lower, but that's what everyone wanted. That was 30-35 years ago. Dad used to tell me that someday when I was his age i'd be restoring cars like his new (at the time) Iroc-Z Camaro... but today (for the most part) people aren't looking for 80's cars to restore at all. They're looking for the same 69 Camaros, tri-5 chevy's and Chevelles/GTO's they were looking for 35 years ago... except there are far fewer projects to be found, far less NOS parts still around, and far more ill fitting reproduction parts available. I believe the popular cars will still be popular 10 years from now, and even harder to find NOS and original parts for.

If you're sitting around thinking all this stuff that's expensive now is going to get cheaper in a decade I think you're in for a disappointment. I'd love if everything people are into now became affordable and you could buy 70 Chevelles and 69 Z's for half price, and NOS GM parts for pennies on the dollar... but I don't think it's gonna happen.

[68l30]

Just think, in ten years these could be the &quot;Good ol' Days&quot; ....Bet I'm right? I was co-owner of a parts company for 20+ years. The customers with the &quot;short arms&quot; drove me nutz. &quot;I've been looking for this ( name any rare GM part) for 10 years&quot; .. I could have priced it at $20 and often did (just because I knew) and they would drop it and walk away. Drove me insane. Game is played from both sides gentleman. I've smashed parts right in front of an A-hole just to make a point. My time, my parts ....they were priced cheap, but I won't give them away!

BIG

[the427king]

If I saw a guy buying ferraris online and then asking twice the price immediately after that and getting it,I wouldnt complain to everyone about what a jerk the guy is , Id start buying ferraris.

[Mr70]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: the427king</div><div class="ubbcode-body">If I saw a guy buying ferraris online and then asking twice the price immediately after that and getting it,I wouldnt complain to everyone about what a jerk the guy is , Id start buying ferraris. </div></div>

How do we know he's really getting it?
Never has so little words said so much about a person.
...and under what alias is that person buying them under?

[John Brown]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Mr70</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: the427king</div><div class="ubbcode-body">If I saw a guy buying ferraris online and then asking twice the price immediately after that and getting it,I wouldnt complain to everyone about what a jerk the guy is , Id start buying ferraris. </div></div>

How do we know he's really getting it?
Never has so little words said so much about a person.
...and under what alias is that person buying them under? </div></div>

Alias?

What does it matter what name a person uses when they buy something? Cash money is cash money. Price shouldn't be subject to who the buyer is. My buying name sure isn't the same as my ebay selling name. Why do I have to have to have &quot;stupid&quot; stamped on my forehead when I'm looking to buy. My feedback on my buyer name is even private so sellers can't look to see what I have bought in the past. When I had public feedback I got lots of questions from sellers on why I was bidding on their item and if I was gonna resell it, that, and I'm sure I was jacked up on prices a few times too.

Stupid is as stupid does.....

[the427king]

Speaking of using aliases Didnt a guy from VA put the wrong name on his name tag at an event a few years back so he could confront another guy that was talking about him online about his Ls6 . After the VA guy made the other talk about him in person, he told him who he really was. Made the guy turn 2 shades of 1970 chevelle red. Youd think the guy learned his lesson.

[Bill Pritchard]

Where's the 'beating-a-dead-horse' emoji when we need it....Isn't this essentially the same discussion that occurs every year right after the Scottsdale collector car auctions?