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Re: 1940 Taylorcraft BC12-D For Sale
What I dislike about buying a faraway airplane is not just the logistics. It is being under pressure to buy- you get there, you're ready to buy an airplane, and the cashier's check is burning a hole in your pocket. Lo and behold- the airplane's just not up to snuff. The owner didn't really misrepresent it, you just had a picture in your head that the airplane doesn't quite live up to. It just isn't really the airplane you want.But, I flew all the way here, only had a one-way ticket,yadda yadda yadda.....
Now what? Buy an airline ticket for big bucks & head home? Or try to dicker the price down to compensate? Or just bite the bullet and buy it? I know more than one person who bought an airplane under this kind of time/pressure crunch, and regretted it later.
I for one like to go to look at an airplane (or car, or whatever), check it out, then go home and think it over before deciding to buy or not, and for how much. This only works well if the airplane is pretty close to home, like within a day's drive or hopefully less. I'm therefore not too interested in airplanes for sale on the far side of the country. It sure narrows down the market for me, but that's just how it goes. Remember the expression "buy in haste, repent in leisure"? Been there, done that.
Eric
What I dislike about buying a faraway airplane is not just the logistics. It is being under pressure to buy- you get there, you're ready to buy an airplane, and the cashier's check is burning a hole in your pocket. Lo and behold- the airplane's just not up to snuff. The owner didn't really misrepresent it, you just had a picture in your head that the airplane doesn't quite live up to. It just isn't really the airplane you want.But, I flew all the way here, only had a one-way ticket,yadda yadda yadda.....
Now what? Buy an airline ticket for big bucks & head home? Or try to dicker the price down to compensate? Or just bite the bullet and buy it? I know more than one person who bought an airplane under this kind of time/pressure crunch, and regretted it later.
I for one like to go to look at an airplane (or car, or whatever), check it out, then go home and think it over before deciding to buy or not, and for how much. This only works well if the airplane is pretty close to home, like within a day's drive or hopefully less. I'm therefore not too interested in airplanes for sale on the far side of the country. It sure narrows down the market for me, but that's just how it goes. Remember the expression "buy in haste, repent in leisure"? Been there, done that.
Eric
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