I've found a buyer!

The last 2 weeks have been a mad dash to get the car up and ready for sale. I won't bother you with all the little details but thanks to NTT's Brain, I put up an Encyclopedia of an Ad on blogspot at stage3s4.blogspot.com. He took some great pics.

I could have completely blanketed the web with Ad postings on Audizine, Craigslists, Autotrader, and even Ebay. But I want my car sold to someone who knew all about the Love/Hate relationship and constant tweaking involved in owning a Stage III car. I chose just Audiworld and in just a couple of days I was inundated with nearly 20 different emails form folks all over the Country! One thing to note re. my price...it is ludicrously low. Eight months ago, before our Country's economic downturn, Stage III cars were regularly selling for 16-18 and up. Lately, they've been selling for a pittance and the Stage III community is up in arms. After posting my Ad and the asking price on Audiworld, a board that I've been a member of for several years, I was greeted with some angry remarks about how I'm ruining the market on Stage III's with my price-point. One guy even called me "High" and another one an "Idiot". Several folks came to my defense saying that the price was fantastic but its also what the market will bear at this time. If I priced it at 14, I'd wait months to find the right buyer...oh well.

So, back to the potential buyers. Several of them shot out emails stating "What's it do on the Dyno bro!?"...needless to say, I told them that they probably weren't the kind of buyer I'm looking for. Several others mentioned that this would be their daily driver, another bad sign.

But one guy blew me away with his email. He said all the right things; owned a B5S4 in the past, current owner of two other Audi's including a bad-ass B7 S5 (checked out his profile on Audiworld), and he's an Audiworld senior member. Says he absolutely loves my car and wants to buy it as a project car, a car he can drive on the weekends, and eventually build up to a true MONSTER. Says he is acutely aware of all the problems they can provide but has fallen in love with the Pictures...apparently he wants EXACTLY my car: a black on black 01.5 Stage III with Reiger RS4 bumper and totally immaculately clean...that's my car. A buddy of his came by to look at the car last night, and he had a brand new BMW 335 Twin-turbo! His friend told me that the buyer is soo excited about my car that he's having trouble sleeping!...and his girlfriend is complaining! I just got the deposit to take it off the market and he's arranging for a covered trailer to trailer it back to his home in Michigan! He'll be sending me the balance when he schedules the pick-up. We've been chatting on the phone and going back and forth via email and this guy reminds me of myself in the way I get out-of-control excited about car-shit.

I could not have found a better home for my car, I tell ya.