Private sellers asking a fortune for their Edition 30

[Misschief]

Being from Scotland most of the Edition 30's or Pirelli editions come up down south but every so often a 30 comes up for sale up here. At the moment there are two, http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/201610028359221 and http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/201608046490507 and they both want £10.5k. Now the second one has pretty low mileage for the year and that ties in with the MOT history but he admitted to me he's planning on trading it in tomorrow. I suspect he will get offered something like £9k if the dealer is feeling generous. Even then, both sellers are asking dealer money for a private sale.

I know that everyone wants as much as they can get and they're free to price as they see fit, but surely the idea is to actually SELL the car? those two are asking too much IMO and they'll be very lucky to get the money they're asking. Even if I did like the second one, I wouldn't offer more than £9.5k, maybe even £9k. A dealer would have that up at £10k every day.

That and I'd like a five door. And parents are always having a go at me too. What do you need a two litre engine for? Buy from a dealer, if it goes wrong they'll fix it etc etc!

[r5gtt]

I wouldn't pay 10 k for a golf knowing they're not exactly worth that and can be picked up for 6-7k mate. I paid 6850 in Jan 2015 for a gti dsg 200ps 67500k miles with a few loose ends and at that time there were none around with low mileage bu should have listened to the boys on r32oc who told me to wait till march when prices will rocket down and guess what they did so that's my down fall on that.
There's nothing special about that one in the link either.  Mateyguv sold a beast of an ed30 last week and that was worth the asking price as it has lots done to it by a proper enthusiast 

[r5gtt]

I wouldn't pay 10 k for a golf knowing they're not exactly worth that and can be picked up for 6-7k mate. I paid 6850 in Jan 2015 for a gti dsg 200ps 67500k miles with a few loose ends and at that time there were none around with low mileage bu should have listened to the boys on r32oc who told me to wait till march when prices will rocket down and guess what they did so that's my down fall on that.
There's nothing special about that one in the link either.  Mateyguv sold a beast of an ed30 last week and that was worth the asking price as it has lots done to it by a proper enthusiast 

Mateyguv offered me the car via PM for £16K and I laughed. Yes it had a good spec and various interior upgrades but £16 was way too overpriced for any ED30!

£10K for an ED30 is not unreasonable providing it is a good example, It is a Limited Edition car and will always command higher prices over the GTI model.

i recall the price being 11k ish    16k is mk7 R prices TBH and I'd rather pay that kind of £££££ on a 7 for defo.

[GTIEagles]

As much as I would love an ED30 I can't justify the increased price over a GTI. I actually planned to get an ED30 in the next year or so but when I look at my GTI which has done 90K and is near enough immaculate I can't justify spending double that to get an ED30 with similar spec and condition.

Don't get me wrong if money was no object I would have an ED30 in a heartbeat but to me double the value doesn't equal double the car.

If you plan on going big power though I would definitely steer towards an ED30.

[Shoduchi]

The sellers can ask whatever they like. If you don't like the price you can either make a more reasonable offer in your opinion or steer away from that car.

An Ed. 30 will always be more expensive than a normal GTI. If you factor what you'd have to buy to make a GTI like an Ed. 30 it's not that cheap to do.

[r5gtt]

I don't really want to be slating anyone on the forum unless they've done me wrong TBH. as I said I wouldn't pay that kind of money for a car unless it was nearly new or mk7 R 

[r5gtt]

The sellers can ask whatever they like. If you don't like the price you can either make a more reasonable offer in your opinion or steer away from that car.

An Ed. 30 will always be more expensive than a normal GTI. If you factor what you'd have to buy to make a GTI like an Ed. 30 it's not that cheap to do.

an ed shouldn't be 7k more than a gti maybe 2-3k but anymore then it's gets ridiculous imho that's any ed30 unless specs are 350-400 bhp + and still shouldn't be as high as a newish car.

[AIR_CHILLED]

The sellers can ask whatever they like. If you don't like the price you can either make a more reasonable offer in your opinion or steer away from that car.

An Ed. 30 will always be more expensive than a normal GTI. If you factor what you'd have to buy to make a GTI like an Ed. 30 it's not that cheap to do.

I agree, especially from a modifying perspective if this is your goal. It would cost a lot of money and time to modifying a normal Gti of equivalent good condition to the same level as a Edition 30 stage 2+ hence why I bought an Ed 30 in the first place.

The people asking too much for Edition 30's I find are traders selling standard average condition cars that are non-enthusiast owned and are trying there luck!

You pay more for a Edition 30 but it holds it's residual value better.

[Shoduchi]

Just liked to state that I wouldn't look twice at ads with unreasonable prices. I paid more for mine than what the traders would have paid for it because I valued what the previous owner did to the car, but all has its limits.

[Llew]

 can you tell me where there are mk7 r for 16k as i would like to buy one

[Paradox1]

can you tell me where there are mk7 r for 16k as i would like to buy one

Yeah if they were 16K i think we'd all have one.

I think he meant 16K+ for a mk6

MK7 R is 20+

I think people fail to realise that what you paid for an ed30 2 years ago doesnt mean it will sell for the same price just because its a special edition...
remember there is now the edition 35, mk6 gti, Mk6 R, MK7 GTI & R available now so the ED30 isnt as special as it used to be.

End of the day, an ed30 is only worth 10K if someone is willing to pay that.

[r5gtt]

can you tell me where there are mk7 r for 16k as i would like to buy one

fb may have been a mk6  but still rather buy that than an old mk5 for that kind of money 

[r5gtt]

can you tell me where there are mk7 r for 16k as i would like to buy one

Yeah if they were 16K i think we'd all have one.

I think he meant 16K+ for a mk6

MK7 R is 20+

I think people fail to realise that what you paid for an ed30 2 years ago doesnt mean it will sell for the same price just because its a special edition...
remember there is now the edition 35, mk6 gti, Mk6 R, MK7 GTI & R available now so the ED30 isnt as special as it used to be.

End of the day, an ed30 is only worth 10K if someone is willing to pay that.

you might be right with the mk6 but I'm sure it had the new version lights and can't find the bloody add now