Tim
Forum Replies Created
-
Tonight, Friday, was all you can eat fried sea scallops. I went for seconds and got an equally large portion! And all that for $240 … !
Here is part of the menu.
-
Here is a pic of one of my fixtures. No screws. It appears that I need to somehow remove the silver ring in order to get to the bulb. It doesn’t screw off, I’ve tried several. Any suggestions? -
Like how Tom’s email is “opened up”?
Not trying to start anything … just sayin’ …
-
He’s the man. Like Sturgil Simpson too. I am assuming you mean Tampa on 1/30. We will still be in Atlanta. Hope to make it past the gnat line in February. Dede mentioned JazzFest last night as well.
-
If only the computations were so easy.
Trading means the dealer is paying you wholesale for your coach. He may show a huge trade in value on the paperwork, but he is also going to show a selling price for the coach you are buying high enough to be able highly value your trade.
Here are some numbers that are approximately correct on a recent coach purchase I am aware of.
The buyer had an older coach he could trade. If he did trade it would be shown as worth $170,000 against a $700,000 purchase price of the coach being purchased. For a clean deal, no trade he could buy the newer coach for $600,000. If he traded he would pay tax based on a $530,000 difference. If the tax was 10% he was paying $53,000 in tax. so he had a total of $583,000 invested in the new coach.
But he opted to sell the older coach outright and he netted $150,000, paid the $600,000 so his difference was $450,000 new money out of pocket. His tax was 10% on the full $600,000 or $60,000 so he had $510,000 out of pocket to get the newer coach. He was unable to sell his older coach for several months so he carried insrance and some storage costs, but still came out money ahead paying the tax on the full purchase price.
The only numbers that are not accurate are the taxes paid. I picked 10% to make calculations easier. The other numbers are quite accurate. The selling dealer did not want the older coach and would wholesale it so the actual allowance was small so when resold there would not be a loss. A newer coach or one the dealer wanted would have shifted the figures, but not by much. The older coach was well maintained and had good records so the seller was able to command a better price than the $70,000 the dealer was offering, but he assumed some risk.
When I buy a coach I expect to pay the most for one from the converter that built it, but I also expect to get a coach of higher value because the converter will make it right before selling it, and will strand behind it after the sale. I expect to pay a little less from a dealer or one who sells consignments because generally that seller will go over the coach and take care of things that need repair, but that dealer is likely not going to take care of things after the sale so to me that coach should sell for a little less than the converter would sell for.
I will pay the least for a coach from a private seller.Almost always what you see is what you get and to assume any risk a buyer expects to pay less.
And as far as sales taxes converters and dealers provide the documentation used for tax calculations. Private sales the amount of the purchase price that is reported is just that, private and how the buyer reports the price to the DMV is up to them. Buyers also have the option of registering the coach in a no tax state so sales taxes almost never influence a sale.
-
Let’s try this again from my Air Mac instead of my IPhone … It worked, but there were “pauses” as it attempted to upload.
-
The picture that is now attached to Tim’s photo from 1-14 is the picture Walt attached to his electric question last night.
Something is wrong guys.
Later
bv
-
Becky made our reservations last week. Said the only question was “have you stayed here before?” Yep last year and it was done. -
030 = Studley young driver much quicker than Bernie.
-
-
Buddy beat me again…………I also carry a 24 volt charger. Since we put in new chassis batteries it’s just been taking up space, but it’s one of those things you don’t leave home without.
-
Nice job Tom. I may borrow your idea as I’ve already done the same for the flat screen.
-
I do carry a 24 volt charger that has the 75 amp start switch on it. Normal charge is 10 or 15 amp.
-
Ditto what Jon said, here’s what your Profile form looks like and where you create your signature:
-
Gerald:
If you have the switch in the “off” position, turn the turn the driver’s temp knob all the way clockwise (highest high), turn the driver’s knob up … you get NO heat from the driver’s vents. Please confirm. Thanks!