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First off, thank you to everyone who took the time to respond to this thread starter. As noted in my original post, it was only an idea - a place to start everyone thinking and coming up with good ideas on pricing your aircraft for the market. When I put my 9A on the market, there were only seven other 9A’s listed on two separate sites. This same RV model had a price range between $85K and $200K. Some of those same 9A’s were selling for less than the price spread! If you were looking for a used pick-up, you’d probably look at Kelly Blue Book to see what it sells for in your area. If you were looking to buy a house in a certain neighborhood, you’d look at the real estate sites for comparables. Why does the experimental aircraft market need to be such a **** shoot? My table actually had several more ratings columns than the table you saw her. But, I wanted to see ideas from others that could make this a viable concept. At last count, after only a couple of days, there were over 2400 views to the question I posed. There must be a real need for this kind of ithread with that kind of metric. To the few nay-sayers who said “it won’t work”, “you didn’t include this”, or “it’s just to difficult”, I hope you will post a comment here and explain to our RV community just how your negative comments helped them.
A couple of months back, I decided to sell my 9A. Not knowing how to price it out, I looked at a couple of "For Sale" sites and gave it my best guess. I wasn't even close in my pricing estimate and the lack of responses was the telling tale. So, I decided to come up with a list of items common to RV's and give them a numerical rating based on age, hours, appearance, documentation, and type. When I had finished producing the ratings table, it showed me my selling price was too high.
This ratings table is ONLY a guide. It is a place to start. It is just my idea of how to fairly come up with a price for your RV. There could be as many alternate ideas as there are builders. Overhauled 2000 hr. engine w/ new zero hours vs a brand new zero time engine. Ten-year old, three-color paint job vs three-year old, one color paint job. Interested to see how you would make changes and rate your aircraft.
See Pricing Table
First off, thank you to everyone who took the time to respond to this thread starter. As noted in my original post, it was only an idea - a place to start everyone thinking and coming up with good ideas on pricing your aircraft for the market. When I put my 9A on the market, there were only seven other 9A’s listed on two separate sites. This same RV model had a price range between $85K and $200K. Some of those same 9A’s were selling for less than the price spread! If you were looking for a used pick-up, you’d probably look at Kelly Blue Book to see what it sells for in your area. If you were looking to buy a house in a certain neighborhood, you’d look at the real estate sites for comparables. Why does the experimental aircraft market need to be such a **** shoot? My table actually had several more ratings columns than the table you saw her. But, I wanted to see ideas from others that could make this a viable concept. At last count, after only a couple of days, there were over 2400 views to the question I posed. There must be a real need for this kind of ithread with that kind of metric. To the few nay-sayers who said “it won’t work”, “you didn’t include this”, or “it’s just to difficult”, I hope you will post a comment here and explain to our RV community just how your negative comments helped them.
A couple of months back, I decided to sell my 9A. Not knowing how to price it out, I looked at a couple of "For Sale" sites and gave it my best guess. I wasn't even close in my pricing estimate and the lack of responses was the telling tale. So, I decided to come up with a list of items common to RV's and give them a numerical rating based on age, hours, appearance, documentation, and type. When I had finished producing the ratings table, it showed me my selling price was too high.
This ratings table is ONLY a guide. It is a place to start. It is just my idea of how to fairly come up with a price for your RV. There could be as many alternate ideas as there are builders. Overhauled 2000 hr. engine w/ new zero hours vs a brand new zero time engine. Ten-year old, three-color paint job vs three-year old, one color paint job. Interested to see how you would make changes and rate your aircraft.
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