150HP Grumman Super Yankee FS Price Reduced!

(Bill Berle) wrote in message om...

I am still in need of selling my Super Yankee, and although I have had
more than 50 inquiries nobody has actually laid down the money to buy
it.

I'm sorry to hear that. Out of curiousity, do you belong to the AYA
or the Grumman Gang? Have you listed or advertised your plane there?
Since those of us who are 'Grumman Afficionados" often send prospective
buyers to these groups, they might be a good source of people who are
serious and ready to buy. Also, Gary Vogt ("Gold Country Aviation")
used to list Grummans on his website, might be worth checking out.

Because of the extremely large percentage of tire-kickers and
non-serious inquiries thus far, I MUST screen out the wheat from the
chaff ..... Interested parties must COUNT on taking the
time to see the airplane BEFORE asking me to send logbook copies,
fingerprints, hair samples, oil samples, lists of equipment, serial
numbers, tire inflation pressure, and any detailed info or paperwork
requests. Chain of title paperwork inquiries, title searches, logbook
inspections, pre-buy inspection deals, verification of electrolyte
level in the battery, and every other conceivable detail will only be
discussed here in my hangar face to face after we've agreed that we
pretty much will have a sale.

Frankly, Bill, and meaning no offense: I entered into an agreement
to buy a Grumman Tiger in Sacramento, complete with cash deposit
and written contract, sight unseen. I flew out commercial, did
the prepurchase, and flew the plane home.

There is no way I'd have done it faced with your restrictions.

Looking at it from the other side of the fence, for every tire-kicker
there is a seller who is seriously misrepresenting his airplane, either
blindly or deliberately, and who makes it not worth the buyer's time
and money to travel.

If I couldn't get a complete equipment list with serial numbers, a set
of photos, and some kind of maintenance history including photocopies
of the engine overhaul, ADs, and recent maintenance, AND make some
reasonable agreement for a prepurchase inspection, it certainly
wasn't worth my time and money to buy a plane ticket and travel to see
the plane. In fact, I had complete photocopies of all the logs for
our plane before I made my offer.

I can understand you not wanting to waste your time, but there would
seem to be no reason you couldn't put a lot of the basic information
on a web page and just refer prospective purchasers there. There
are a number of services offering web space for free, so it doesn't
cost you anything but 1 time setup.

There still seems to be a reasonable market for a good, well-equipped,
well-maintained Grumman, in the right circles.

Good luck,
Sydney