I Wanted to Sell my Maserati Coupé in Favour of a Sports Car
My original decision to buy my Maserati Coupé was based on the idea of driving to a holiday home in Italy on a regular basis. It has plenty of space in the back - enough for another couple to sit in comfort - and I thought I'd get the use out of it if we were taking friends with us. As I was a first-time Maserati buyer it was a choice between the Coupé and the Spyder for me; performance is supposed to be the same, and although the convertible sounded like more fun (and what I really wanted, all things being equal), I knew the Coupé was better suited to long journeys.
When work took a turn for the busier, I realised I'd made the wrong choice and decided to sell my Maserati. We were still managing to get out to Italy pretty often, but in the interests of speed we were flying out for short breaks rather than long weekends. I've always enjoyed driving - and the Maserati did make long distances fun - but it just wasn't happening often enough to justify it. As I didn't see things changing any time in the near future, I thought I'd find someone to buy my Maserati Coupé and get the car I'd really wanted in the first place. If things quietened down at work, or on the occasions when I did get to take longer holidays and had the opportunity to drive out there, I'd just have to put up with the Spyder. It was a sacrifice I was willing to make.
To sell my Maserati I picked the best photo of it I could find - one of my partner standing by the passenger door in her sunglasses, on the one of the few occasions we had driven out to Italy - and printed out a dozen A3 posters with 'for sale' across the top and my details on the bottom. It was kind of tongue-in-cheek but I figured the guys at work might go for it. If it didn't work I'd go down a more traditional route and find someone to buy my Maserati via the official club or the right website. The car was in good condition as I hadn't driven it nearly as much as I'd first intended, so I hoped to get a good price for it. The Spyder costs slightly more so I was keen to sell my Maserati at the highest price I could to minimise the difference.
My strategy for selling my Maserati was vindicated. After a couple of days of false starts - wind-ups from my workmates who'd seen the funny side of my posters but decided to have a laugh at my expense - I got some interest from someone who was serious. My would-be Maserati buyer tried to haggle me down but I told him I would be able to do much better elsewhere, and eventually he relented. Ironically he was looking to get rid of his sports car in favour of a little more room, but I wasn't interested in the model so passed up the offer.
I managed to sell my Maserati at almost the asking price and picked up the roadster a couple of weeks later. Definitely worth it, and when I finally got to drive it across the continent in the summer I realised I should have gone with it in the first place.
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