# Vending, good business idea or no? **URL:** \ **Category:** Shift518 Off Topic\ **Created:** [December 1, 2010, 9:21pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/vending-good-business-idea-or-no/255838 "2010-12-01T21:21:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 138
**Author:** ![love4boost](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/love4boost/32/6658_2.png) [@love4boost](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/love4boost)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2011, 6:35pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/vending-good-business-idea-or-no/255838/138 "2011-06-28T18:35:06Z")
> [@Taking off Plastic Security Tags from Clothes?](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/taking-off-plastic-security-tags-from-clothes/43428/10): > > I know people that do it, I just dont know why more dont. A mechanic shold be able to diagnose on the spot whats wrong so what do you mean minor problems turn into major ones? I’ve seen cars I could sell for 8000-9000 for like 3000 needing a head gasket… Yeah, a head gasket is crazy work but its AALLL labor which means its AALL profit when done… And these cars dirt cheap becuase they need bodywork? Rust repair is detailed yes but dents and shit is no big deal… I just dont get it. > > Look on the for sale section on here and check ot the third gen eclipse im selling… That car was for sale for monnthhss before I bought it… I cant believe a mechanic/body guy didnt pick that car up need nothing but bodywork… Guy was asking $1,500, I got em down to $1,000, ripped the amps and subs out and sold them for $300 making me only $700 into this car. $500 in bodywork and you could sell that car for $4,500 Sorry not to sound like a dick, but you really have no idea what your talking about. It’s completely impossible to just look at a used car and know everything that it’s going to need. I work for a dealer and see how bad they get screwed on used vehicles all the time even newer ones. Until you put something on a lift and spend a minimum of an hour looking at it your really just guessing. Thats why you don’t see more people doind stuff like that. On the other side of the coin a guy I work with has bought a few cars that needed a lot of work from customers and fixed them himself and made a few grand. However he had already evaluated the vehicles on the clock and knew what they needed. Problem is you run into issues like nonfunctioning electronic issues on a lot of vehicles and it cost major $$ to fix.[/quote] You dont sound like a dick, YOU sound like you have no idea what your talking about… Heres a solution to the second thing you said, check this out… DONT BUY THE FANCY CARS THAT HAVE ALOT OF ELECTRICAL PROBLEMS! Forrrr instance, I tend to look for the civics, integras, hyundais ext as they are simple and not Audis and Rangerovers that have a million problems (tho I did buy a rangerover cuase i got it cheap as fuck). I am not the most mechanicly inclined guy in the world but I make real good money on the cars I buy and sell. My most recent cars 95 civic, paid $1,000, sold $2,200 (sold in 3 days) 99 eclipse, paid $600, new bumper for $100 +$150 paint, sold for $3,000 (sold in a week) 91 civic hatch turbo, paid $700, sold for $1,800 (sold in a day and a half) 97 cbr 900rr, bought $2,000, sold $3,000 (planned on keeping it so I waited a while) 06 Ranger, bought $2,500 sold for $6500 with less then a g into it (the engine work took a while to do so maybe 2 months, plus i was gonna keep it for the vending business) 2001 Hyundai Elantra, paid $750, sold for $1500 (sold in 4 hours of buying it) Also, any good mechanic can tell for the most part by looking at a car what need sto be done to it… I bought an 07 civic about a yr or two ago when i first joined this site… It was in a front end collision and needed a bunch of shit… I paid my mechanic to check it out with me and give me a quote on the spot before I bought it… No lift, no diagnostic tools no nothing… He gave me a 100% price with just a cell phone that told him how much parts were… I bought that car with 27k on it or some shit for $3500, put $1,500 into it and sold it for $8500. NOW, the moral of this story is that I SUCK at working on cars and even III can buy and sell them without loosing money… I’ve never lost money on a car in my LIFE exept for my 540 which I thought id keep forever so went balls out. --- _[View the full topic](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/vending-good-business-idea-or-no/255838)._