Is 13,000.00 a good asking price?

[Mrtoad25]

Hello everyone I have since bought a second bus and no longer need my first bus that is about 80% completed. I don’t have the room to store two buses on my property so I’m going to sell my short bus. I was thinking of asking $13,000..

What is in the bus.
It is a 2009 Chevy express 3500 short bus with a 6.0 Vortech gasoline motor and has 150,000 miles on it. The bus runs amazing and gets about 12 miles per gallon.
It has a Vevor 5 kw diesel heater and three 220 W solar panels along with two 280 amp power, chins lithium ion batteries wired in 24 V along with a 24 V to 120 V 3500 W power inverter. It has a 30 gallon freshwater tank and an 18 gallon gray water tank.. the handicap weanp works as well. I was thinking of listing it and asking $13,000 on Facebook marketplace. Let me know what you all think. I have put a lot of time and money into this Bus and will never make that back.

 

[Rucker]

Others may chime in, but it will be tough to market and sell an unfinished rig. You need the exact right buyer, usually local.

If the installation and conversion quality is high you'll have a better shot; anything short of 'really good work' will detract.

Is it worth considering stripping the bus of it's worthy conversion stuff, using that in the new bus, and selling the old bus as a blank slate?

 

[Mrtoad25]

For me to swap the stuff out from one bus to another really isn’t an option since I don’t have the space to park two buses on my property. This bus is currently on my friends property that she’s letting me store it at. The other bus was a pretty good price so I couldn’t pass it up and that’s why I bought it.. I’m definitely willing to negotiate on the price. I’ve posted it on Facebook marketplace asking 13,000. I was just curious if people thought 13,000 was a reasonable asking price for the Bus.

 

[Booyah45828]

Too much for something that's unfinished imo. Basic conversions that are finished usually go for less then that. Depending on where you're at, or how good of a seller you are, you might get someone to bite. But the market has seemed to have gotten soft, again imo.

List it at 13k, if you'd like, as a seller it's easier to go down then up. But don't be surprised if you get little interest from it. The problem is that it doesn't sound like you can wait months on end for this to sell.

 

[Rucker]

Gotcha.

Since you're asking, my opinion: market price is likely to be about what the rig would sell for alone/bare (un-converted), plus the resell value of the key components you itemized, plus or minus cool factor, and plus or minus other rigs on the market at the same time.

From your description I would guess the bus could be found on FBM for 5-10 grand, 10 grand for a more stellar model; and the componentry another two or three grand (probably tops). I can't evaluate the coolness factor from the pictures.

So 7-13K. Higher value to someone close by who can see it in person.

 

[BamaBus]

Too much to ask? No. You have learned how to deal with different issues when building out a bus which has some value that you will not recover in selling. The
cost of the education will be recovered in your new bus, especially after paying less than 3 grand for a high top short bus. I like the new bus and I hope to see the conversion documented here.

Probably would have washed it before listing.

 

[sportyrick]

Considering what the bare bus alone would cost as shorties are popular and with all that work and improvements I don't think that price is out of line. The market will dictate what it's worth so go for it and see what interest you generate. There are people not as handy as you that would be happy to buy one that has a lot of the ground work already done. Sounds like you have put some miles on it and can testify about it's plusses minuses and quirks which is much more positive to the purchaser than just grabbing one off the internet cold turkey. They will have a thousand questions that you can answer or point them in the right direction which is certainly re-assuring.