Decisions, decisions

[Cuppa]

We only get one life. If you need to sell your ute to finance a dream - I say do it........... but make the dream a higher priority than getting your asking price. If you can realise your dream a small compromise on selling price will soon be forgotten. I reckon your price suggestion is a good opening gambit but for the reasons ET has mentioned .... be prepared to be flexible. Too many dreams get lost because folk base them on criteria over which they have no control! (Been there done that & learned the lesson - thankfully many years ago).

We agonised over selling our bus a couple of years ago, we'd had it a long time & it was set up as we wanted it, but we needed to sell it in order to 'move on'. Once the decision to sell was made it was like a load off our shoulders, reaching the decision was way harder than following through on that decision. Once we'd decided to sell we priced the bus at what we thought a fair & reasonable price. In hindsight we could have got more, but despite that feel we did the best thing. Waiting & waiting for a sale to happen once you have reached the decision to sell would not have been a nice space to be in. We got what we needed & the buyer got a good buy - win win. Others I knew who were selling a similar vehicle around the same time asked $5k more than us, & after placing all their plans 'on hold' for just over 6 months, dropped their price by $5k & got a sale within 2 weeks.

Good luck with whichever way you go.