Re: [FWDLK] Car Values Online

["Roger Howard" <rhoward@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Regarding car values online:
GO back to the site and click on Data. There they explain where their
pricing comes from. Auction sales, advisory panel, and the like. No direct
mention of registration checks or whatever.  Roger
-----Original Message-----
From: MARK J HASH <mjh@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: L-FORWARDLOOK@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <L-FORWARDLOOK@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wednesday, January 13, 1999 6:36 PM
Subject: Re: [FWDLK] Car Values Online


>Doesn't seem to make much sense to get car values that way either.  Some
>states couldn't care less what the sales price of the car was.  Here in
>Oregon, there's {NO} sales tax, and car registration fees have nothing to
do
>with the value of the car, so the sales price isn't even asked. . .
>
>I'm sure this isn't the only state that does this, so would the price
guides
>only be getting the value of cars from California (or whichever states ask
>for sales price)?
>Mark  mjh
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: smike <smike@xxxxxxxxx>
>To: L-FORWARDLOOK@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <L-FORWARDLOOK@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Date: Wednesday, January 13, 1999 2:51 PM
>Subject: Re: [FWDLK] Car Values Online
>
>
>>On Wed, 13 Jan 1999, Dave Stragand wrote:
>>
>>> Also, a lot of the magazines get their information from state title
>transfer
>>> tax forms stating the "price paid" by the purchaser.  I'm sure I'm not
>alone
>>> when I tell y'all that my "price paid" on the tax form -may- have been
>>> substantially different than the "price paid" to the seller...
>>
>>Why, I've never heard of this practice before... ;-)
>>
>>That's an interesting point, BTW.  I've always wondered where they get
>>these prices.
>>
>>David Bell
>>smike@xxxxxxxxx
>>
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