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Bruce In Philly (2000 S Boxster, now '09 C2S) - Thursday, 14 February, 2013, at 8:51:01 pm

Finally, I am in a new-for-me '09 C2S with 26K miles. I will post pics when I take them.
Good luck Grant with my, your, 2000S....... It still is a great chassis (but you know that).

OK, quiz time: When and where is the best time and place to buy a sports car? Try the dead of winter on January 31st in St Paul Minnesota from a non-Porsche dealer! I looked for 3 or so months and found one through Autotrader.com. Some items:

1 - Thanx to Pedro for providing a great community!
2 - Thanx to a Pedro boarder who provided me with Mannheim sales information. I had the sales for this model for the last 30 days across the USA. Surprisingly, not many sales and the prices were quite varied and I wasn't sure how to understand the condition code but.... I could eyeball what I thought was a "price floor". I figured this price is the lowest they would go before they dumped the car at auction.
3 - Know what you want. I made a list of what I wanted and kept it simple: 2009, C2, Midnight Blue, Aqua Blue, Ruby Red, Racing Green, light interior, manual, sub 30K miles. As it turned out, I got a C2 S for what I thought I would pay for a C2.
4 -I had contacted a local "car broker" who said he would find me one at auction for a flat fee of $1,500. We chatted and then he didn't return my calls or emails. He has a good reputation around Philly; I don't understand why he went silent on me. I drove to VA to InterSport and had a great experience with them, drove one, and they noted they would find me what I wanted and be completely open with the numbers. I figured I was going to buy from these guys but I found this one in MN before it happened.
5 - CarFax came up with an big OH OH! 1 owner, 1 accident...... said "Hit a wild animal" Hmmm.... could be bad.... but animals aren't brick walls either... hmmmm..... scared.
6 - Buy sight unseen from 1200 miles away and 1 wild animal accident? Sure!! I contacted the local Porsche club and spoke to a great guy who was a Porsche nut, gear head, and a 12 year instructor (kinda Pedro-like). He went and test drove the car (for free! I sent him a case of oranges) and recommended I take the car to a local Porsche speed shop. They charged $110 to put the car on the rack, dump the computer etc. I spoke to them and they said the car was clean and said "if this car was in an accident, we see no evidence of it" They even thought the front bumper was original. (really? hmm...). The car was red-lined 18 times, and all 0 for over rev ranges. (18 times? Shoot this was looking to be a poser car). OK, so what would you do at this point? My car-guy friend said "run!" but he has owned a '07 997 and put, to date, 2 thousand miles on it. Not my value system.
7 - They came down around 4K under their asking price - I was shocked actually as this was below what I almost paid for a totally stripped down C2 1.5 months ago. At this point, I didn't know the option list. The dealer's website was all wrong and listed it as having PDK, something I absolutely did not want. The pictures showed a manual. The dealer noted that they pay a service to populate the options and even handle their inventory management and web presence. I could see the interior had some eye candy like dark wood trim and a multifunction steering wheel..... but that was all I could see. The dealer was no help with the options. I offered about 2K less and they said no way..... negotiated and I think I paid about $300 for shipping (open carrier, independent driver).
8 - The guys up in MN are an interesting lot.... they couldn't confirm my wire transfers due to some accounting department issue (it definitely was in there), so they called me and put it on the truck anyway. They said if I wasn't legit, they would have the driver just drop the car at Mannheim (outside of Philly). I laughed.... this told me they really were not planning on making much on this car. He also told me at this time, car was on the move, that the sales value for this car would rise by $4k in April/May. True? I dunno.
9 - Option codes: I called Porsche North America for the option codes... they said I had to be the owner of record before they could release that information. So I PDF'd the bill of sale (Fedex'd to me), and in an hour they called me back.... they read them off to me, I then looked them up on the '09 buyers guide (out there on the 'net) and built a spreadsheet with pricing. I was shocked!!!! This guy loaded it up with eye candy and gadgets... crap I never would have purchased... and I got them for free.

Peace
Bruce

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