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Powder Performance
12-26-2004, 05:16 PM
what do your dealers give you when you trade in for a brand new sled? book value or much less?

puree
12-27-2004, 09:25 AM
they offered me 220 on my 03 370 last year,,,, and they were selling at the auction for almost 3 at that point,,, so I would say much less,,,

BCDan
12-27-2004, 11:47 AM
The dealers around me are not much interested in taking trades, the market for used sleds is very low. Some dealers will take trades at the start of the season, but then stop soon after, because they can't sell the "new" two year old sleds they have, why would they want used ones? It's definitely a "buyers" market for used stuff.

ZR Sled Head
12-27-2004, 12:41 PM
Agreed, most need to all but steal your sled to be able to take it on trade, for some reason the used sled market started off flat this fall then continued to spiral downward..........strange market this year.
Great for buyers / horrible for anyone selling.

Rick

phazerhater
12-27-2004, 01:08 PM
When I bought mine new in '03 I was thinking of trading in. They offered about half of blue book. Needless to say I laughed and just waited to sell my sled outright. I ended up letting it go for about $500 less than book, and that was with a couple grand in new mods done to it as well. Still better than what they wanted on trade though. Looking back I would have been better off just selling it in stock trim and selling the mods separately, but oh well....hindsight.
So ya, it is, and has been a buyers market for used sleds. There are allot of good deals to be had if you look around.