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Old 10-03-2019, 10:43 AM   #33
Dick Steinkamp
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Default Re: Model A prices...going which way?

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Originally Posted by ronn View Post
no disrespect Bob,


but asking and selling prices have no coherence in the mkt. Mafca prices always seem high. Nice to dream..........
I think for the purposes of this thread (are prices of Model As going up, down, or staying the same), Bob's data is helpful.

If in 2000 the average ASKING price was $12,862, adjusting for inflation it would be $18,756 in 2018 dollars. About the same as what Bob shows as the average ASKING price in 2018. This at least shows that using Bob's data, the ASKING PRICE has not changed over the last 8 years. I would guess that ASKING prices in 2000 were just as inflated as ASKING prices in 2018 so the relationship between asking and selling likely holds.

The other thing that Bob's data shows is that ASKING prices increased in inflation adjusted dollars though 2013, then decreased in inflation adjusted dollars (and real dollars) through 2018. Perhaps adding a column for Inflation Adjusted Average would be helpful.

It might also be helpful to throw out the outliers (those asking prices that were very low or very high) and run a 2000 vs 2018 comparison again. The $500 entries and the $75,000 entries could be affecting the average by quite a bit due to the relatively low number of total entries.
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