After negotiating on a friends behalf for over a year, and having many "Aerosexual" fantasy buyers contact me, the bird with an on condition engine finally sold to a LAME (Licensed Aircraft Mechanical Engineer) who can continue to sign it off every 100hrs if he recordes the oil upload and gets the filter residue analysed.
For this LAME purchase of the bird was a no brainer, he could fly it as long as HE thought it was safe with minimum cost, then overhaul the engine and MAKE $10-$20K on his ownership becaus ehe bought it right, yet he STILL took almost 24 months to make the purchase because he was trying to get the best priced bird in the country...
Strangely, he had ANOTHER LAME do a PPI on the bird???
I wonder how much fun and enjoyment he missed out on in those two years trying to haggle the price with other owners?
"You cannot drive a price!" I used to state to hagglers in the automotive retail industry.
This also applies to aircraft, you cannot fly a price. (unless it's a G6, baby)
A Manager of Used Vehicles back in my automotive days said to me: "There's always a reason why a car is cheap" and ther ALWAYS was...
I saw a couple of legendary hagglers get stung, bad.