Holy Effen He**! Hardtop for $500

[RotorNutFD3S]

http://atlanta.craigslist.org/pts/989794117.html

I have already emailed just in case, so if anyone is interested, let me know.

[Jack-MX5ATLanta.com]

I am interested. I'll pm you when I get from class.

[RotorNutFD3S]

Gotcha. I included my phone number in the email, so I'll await the email or call hopefully. It was just posted at 11:48 and I emailed at 11:59. Doesn't mean I was first.

[JennB]

Grrrr... why red? I would absolutely buy it if it was black.

[RotorNutFD3S]

Grrrr... why red? I would absolutely buy it if it was black.

That's what paint is for! :D And hardtops are especially easy.

[JennB]

I guess. I was just hoping to avoid painting one. If it's in good shape, I'd buy it right now. But looks like I'm too late. Next time, let me know! lol

[RotorNutFD3S]

Sold already anyway. Just got the email reply. :(

[JennB]

How do people get to them so fast?

[amaff]

That's what paint is for! :D And hardtops are especially easy.

Want to paint mine?

[RotorNutFD3S]

Either random luck or they sit at their computer all day refreshing the page. :lol:

[RotorNutFD3S]

Want to paint mine?

:lol: I wasn't offering services, just pointing out that they're not hard to do.

[Sawyer]

Aww I would have bought that too.. :(

[Jack-MX5ATLanta.com]

Bugger! Maybe it was just someone playing a sick trick. Well at least it means I'm not living of ramen/ragu for the next month.

[RotorNutFD3S]

IDK, I see deals like that pop up every so often. When I was searching for my hardtop, I was pretty desperate and did not have a great job at the time, so I was searching the whole southeast. Snagged mine for $250 in Mississippi.

[jester911]

That was actually the going rate not too long ago before spec racing got so big.

[mustangtomiata]

I would really have liked to buy it, I would've had the christmas car.

[Atlanta93LE]

I woulda bought it.

[simontibbett]

I'll make my own.

[matredd]

Mine's red. bummer.

[metalman]

That was actually the going rate not too long ago before spec racing got so big.

Used hardtops have been a consistent $900-1200 pretty much forever.
Although spec racing does help keep the supply/demand factor constant it really didnt change the values.

How do people get to them so fast?

Scoring deals from CL is much like standing line at a quarter slot machine with your friends and a bunch of strangers, all taking turns pulling the lever. Eventually someone will get a bucket of quarters. Its all timing and luck....combined with a proper response...AND a seller thats not a retard or unscrupulous.


Bugger! Maybe it was just someone playing a sick trick.

No its for real. I bought it. Its already at my house. :D
Fact is I was already talking to the seller by the time Eric posted it.
It was my day to get the bucket of quarters from the slot machine we call CL.

[RotorNutFD3S]

I'm voting for a ban. :butt:

[metalman]

I'm voting for a ban. :butt:

LMAO :lol:

[RotorNutFD3S]

So should we expect to see a FS thread on here soon for a red NB hardtop for $900? :lol:

[metalman]

So should we expect to see a FS thread on here soon for a red NB hardtop for $900? :lol:

:lol: Not necessarily...I have a waiting list.

[RotorNutFD3S]

Ah. Well better luck for me next time then.

Oh, and to better answer Jenn's question now:

"Either random luck or they sit at their computer all day refreshing the page, like Kurt does. :lol: "

[Jack-MX5ATLanta.com]

Jammy bastard!

[MoD_Scotty]

<Bill&Ted> BOGUS!

[metalman]

Ah. Well better luck for me next time then.

"

Dont you already have a red hardtop??? :lol:

[simontibbett]

Local salvage yard sold one for $250 a while back.

[MoD_Scotty]

I was stoked about getting mine with side striker plates for $550. I've been tempted to try to flip it just to find one with a defroster that matched my body color.

[simontibbett]

I was stoked about getting mine with side striker plates for $550. I've been tempted to try to flip it just to find one with a defroster that matched my body color.

That's a good price. I didn't have a Miata when the one I mentioned was sold :( I need to run across a $500-600 hardtop.

[metalman]

I was stoked about getting mine with side striker plates for $550. I've been tempted to try to flip it just to find one with a defroster that matched my body color.

Good price. Truth is, $700 or less is always a good price.
I bought a nice red one with defrost, pigtail, and headliner awhile back for $100

The thing is, even if you pay $900 for a nice top its money in the bank.
It sometimes cracks me up how people will fret over spending a couple hundred bucks more
for a hardtop that will actually KEEP its value...but will dump hundreds, even thousands into other crap for their car that loses its value immediately.

[RotorNutFD3S]

Dont you already have a red hardtop??? :lol:

Black hardtop. But who says I'm looking for me? :D

[metalman]

Black hardtop. But who says I'm looking for me? :D

Well hell, I thought you had a red one.
You a personal shopper? New career?? hehe :D

[RotorNutFD3S]

Nope, it's black. Look at my sig. :)
Don't you know, I find deals for people looking for particular things. I just don't sell them for a profit. Hmmm... maybe I need to change my work ethics. :lol:
Seriously though, I've been helped out by so many people in the past with good deals that when I know someone is looking for something, I just keep my eye out and let them know when something comes up. My way of giving back to my friends and fellow forum members.

[metalman]

Don't you know, I find deals for people looking for particular things. I just don't sell them for a profit. Hmmm... maybe I need to change my work ethics. :lol:


Why hell yeah...thats just plain dumb!! :lol:
I aint runnin' no Miata charity for brokeass po folks! :D except Jesse maybe. hahahaha

j/k...of course.

In truth providing parts at reasonable prices has made me
MANY friends in the Miata world. Its been alot of fun and rewarding personally
beyond any $$ aspect. Plus, doing so is in my blood, I have parted cars, and bought
& sold them from the very beginning. I would do some of it just for fun if nothing else.

Of course there are always a handful of naysayers that think anyone profiting
from their talents/labors are "screwing" them somehow.
Not implying this toward you at all, just saying.

[RotorNutFD3S]

And that's the big difference, you do it for a living, I expect you to want to make a profit off your work. :)
Whereas I do something else for a living and am happy to search the internet every so often to see what I can find and don't need to make anything off the deal whatsoever.

[metalman]

I do something else for a living and am happy to search the internet every so often to see what I can find and don't need to make anything off the deal whatsoever.

I have done the same many many times so that is not foreign to me either. :)

[RotorNutFD3S]

Oh, I know that. My point simply was that you mainly make a living off it, you need that profit. No offense implied to your generosity. You've helped me out plenty in the past.

[metalman]

No offense implied

And absolutely none taken either! :D

[jester911]

A good friend of mine is building a spec Miata and is trying to find a hard top. Good deals are hard to find.

Kurt if you don't already have it sold let me know.

[metalman]

A good friend of mine is building a spec Miata and is trying to find a hard top. Good deals are hard to find.

Kurt if you don't already have it sold let me know.

It might be a mutual friend? I know at least two that need tops for race builds.
Its not sold yet but as a couple of good friends/"customers" have already asked within the last month I thought it would be the courteous thing to run it by them first as I agreed to do when they asked. They may have already found what they need or traded for a top by now, who knows!

[amaff]

:lol: I wasn't offering services, just pointing out that they're not hard to do.

WEAAAAAAAAAK! :p