Tacoma prices on Bring a Trailer
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Vehicle purchases are used to launder money more often than you think.
Ha! 38K for that is a joke. I think car/truck prices have gone down quite a bit in the last year however they are not cheap by any means and this affects previously owned vehicles accordingly.
How would you launder money on BAT? Do the sellers take cash?
Inquiring minds want to know.
Funny, I bet there are many online here that don’t understand or “get” the line, “Inquiring minds want to know.”
As a Suzuki Samurai owner I enjoy watching Bring a Trailer auctions from time to time...
The seller can take cash if he/she wants. The buyer pays BAT online for their cut but can settle the rest with the seller using cash. Then the seller might have his house "remodeled" and write a check back to the buyer to coconspire. Like if you made a bunch of cash with an illegal pot grow you don't want to show up and deposit 75K in the bank or even deposit smaller but still large sums of cash over a course of time.
Well yes I understand how Al Capone claimed to make $8M selling used furniture. But if am just a guy selling a $38K car on BAT I am not taking cash.
Also the issue isn't $75K, its $75M.
I thought money launders, like Al Capone's furniture business, wanted things you claim to have bought and sold in volume without any way to prove / disprove the transactions? Al Capone didn't really transact $8M in furniture. I guess I don't really understand money laundering, which is fine I suppose.
I shopped decent first gen tacomas in 2014 and passed at that time mostly due to price. Manual, extended cab, TRD, etc. I got a GMT800 for less.
Silly me.
Silly me.
I don’t think it’s money laundering per se, but rather paying off someone and hiding it in plain sight. Sort of like some people’s “art” gets bought up for exorbitant amounts of money.
I found this link: https://www.cars.com/research/toyota-tacoma-2001/
Starting at $11,845, which inflates to $22k today.
Loaded goes up to $22k which inflates to... $40k today.
So, yes? this could have cost that much back then. If not more, since this pricing I think is MSRP, additional options could drive up the price, as could dealer gouging.
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That's ridiculous. People are stupid.
I paid 21k in 01 for my TRD V6 2wd Extended Cab w/locking rear axle, which works great at the boat ramp. I got lucky with the frame rust, it still looks like new underneath (and everywhere else). Heck, the rear brakes still look new inside and they get wet in the brackish San Jac river water. I've had great ownership experiences with all our Toyotas-going back to my 1st one, a '71 Celica. I hate that the quality seems to be slipping on the new ones, for whatever reasons. And the complexity.
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I had an identical one to this that's for sale locally. Notice the Corvair truck thing beside it. The guy is proud of his stuff.
I would love to have either or both of those oddball vehicles - but not at those prices.
Those Corvair trucks and vans are amazing. I think the van was called a Greenbriar. (May have been a trim level.)
Mine is a similar blue tin top… but it’s being used as intended in the woods…
When sxs’s are 30k a16k Samurai almost makes sense… haha
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