Woody or any moderator. If this is in the wrong section please let me know and move it to the appropriate or delete. I got this from the guidelines section and I beleive I am posting in the right one. Just didn't want to step on any toes.
7> New Products and Businesses....the general Personals Classifieds is not intended for items that you made or purchased for resale...the Merchandise Storefront portion of the Classifieds is specifically setup for the 'small sales' type businesses and is FREE to all businesses - please post your products there.
Ok I have had about a half a dozen people contact me in the last year wanting to know how to import or find a FJ43. I tried my best to help them out but nobody was willing to put any money down to a guy over seas when they had never driven the vehicle and or met that person. I don't blame them. I would never send thousands of dollars to some random person either. But I did once and it worked out for me. Others I have heard it has not.
I'm contemplating bringing them into the country for resale. I wanted to know what the REAL interest was if I went ahead and did it. Do people want pristine 100% restored cruisers, those that need some work that you can customize, or one that has already been "Colombian Customized
". There are a few different ways to go about it but to make it the simplist I'm planning on just buying them out-right for resale. I don't want to become a dealer (I have a more than full time job as a Black Hawk Pilot in the Military) but I wanted to find a more efficient way to actually get some more of these in the country as obviously the "do what I did and hope it works out for you too" model was not working.
What is the general price range you are willing to pay? Obviously some out there were willing to pay over $40K for the other one that came over with mine and it was probably worth it...it was a very nice vehicle. But I understand most people won't, can't, or don't want to pay that much for one. From what I've seen they range from 5+K to 30K down there. Shipping is the cheap part...Paper work, Brokers (on both sides), Uncle Sam, the EPA, and the fight against the almost non existent drug war down there accounts for the rest.
Anyways let me know and if you have specific questions I will do my best to answer them. Most if not all are gasoline models, but may end up working on bringing other Diesel models from Europe is this goes well. I have been wanting to do this for awhile but as the economy dove I decided it was a bad time. But after all of the interest and sadly not seeing any luck for others trying I thought this would be a good way to contribute to the community. Some of the early 70 series are starting to come into the 25 year window but there is really nothing special about them other than they are not rusted to hell like all the ones we get from Canada. Sadly they are all base models and all gasoline though.
Thanks,
Jason
7> New Products and Businesses....the general Personals Classifieds is not intended for items that you made or purchased for resale...the Merchandise Storefront portion of the Classifieds is specifically setup for the 'small sales' type businesses and is FREE to all businesses - please post your products there.
Ok I have had about a half a dozen people contact me in the last year wanting to know how to import or find a FJ43. I tried my best to help them out but nobody was willing to put any money down to a guy over seas when they had never driven the vehicle and or met that person. I don't blame them. I would never send thousands of dollars to some random person either. But I did once and it worked out for me. Others I have heard it has not.
I'm contemplating bringing them into the country for resale. I wanted to know what the REAL interest was if I went ahead and did it. Do people want pristine 100% restored cruisers, those that need some work that you can customize, or one that has already been "Colombian Customized
". There are a few different ways to go about it but to make it the simplist I'm planning on just buying them out-right for resale. I don't want to become a dealer (I have a more than full time job as a Black Hawk Pilot in the Military) but I wanted to find a more efficient way to actually get some more of these in the country as obviously the "do what I did and hope it works out for you too" model was not working. What is the general price range you are willing to pay? Obviously some out there were willing to pay over $40K for the other one that came over with mine and it was probably worth it...it was a very nice vehicle. But I understand most people won't, can't, or don't want to pay that much for one. From what I've seen they range from 5+K to 30K down there. Shipping is the cheap part...Paper work, Brokers (on both sides), Uncle Sam, the EPA, and the fight against the almost non existent drug war down there accounts for the rest.
Anyways let me know and if you have specific questions I will do my best to answer them. Most if not all are gasoline models, but may end up working on bringing other Diesel models from Europe is this goes well. I have been wanting to do this for awhile but as the economy dove I decided it was a bad time. But after all of the interest and sadly not seeing any luck for others trying I thought this would be a good way to contribute to the community. Some of the early 70 series are starting to come into the 25 year window but there is really nothing special about them other than they are not rusted to hell like all the ones we get from Canada. Sadly they are all base models and all gasoline though.
Thanks,
Jason
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