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Looking for feedback on pricing. What's the best way to access the value and sale price of your 150?
Thanks in advance

I have always looked at Barnstormers and Trade A Plane to see what others with close to the same equipment, times and conditions are selling for. Of course each plane is different but looking at those two sites will give you some idea.

Also there are several sites such as the AOPA where you can input the information on your plane and they will give you a ballpark value, sort of like a kelly blue book for cars.

The prices on Vref always seem to be lower than what reality is.

The prices on Trade-A-Plane are a bit higher. So, the truth lies somewhere in between.

Kendel McCarley & Barney Kemter seem to have a unique way of pricing things.

Perhaps a PM?


DMc : )

My PhD advisor of twenty years ago was from India, a country where there are no fixed prices and everything is negotiated. He was of the opinion that the most optimum deals happened when the price reached "the point of indifference". That is, when neither the buyer nor the seller cared if the deal when through at that price or not.

It's not unique. If a person has a real interest or need they will PM the seller and negotiate a mutually beneficial transaction. Past experience with posting a price has invited numerous comments such as, There's one cheaper on eBay!, or check the listings on Barnstormers.

Club members tend to help out other club members to keep the fleet flying.

Unless it's someone "difficult". There have been those club members who think I should jump when they say frog, as if I'm Amazon or Costco instead of a real person who has family, career, and (when I have time) my airplane hobby. You should see the PM I got not too long ago from some insistent ass who thought I should drop everything (my mom going through chemo and recovering from a stroke, my daughter moving off to college across the country, and a major work deadline that was wrapping up a year's worth of effort I was leading) to sell him a rudder for next to nothing. I will help out the long time members as much as I can with stuff from my stash, but newbies with attitudes can go pound sand.

Well... I got a rudder pedal last year for a $100 or there abouts from one of the suppliers. I dislike selling things because so many people want it for nuthing. My standard guidance for people selling is.... "give the item to them and throw in $500, maybe they will buy it." Sad but true. It's embarrassing. I gave stuff away to club members and in one instance was promised a couple cheap items in return... I neither got the items nor a thank you. Such is the world. I help my friends and those that seem to be good people.

I have at least three pairs of rudder pedals sitting around. The ones on the co-pilots side are always in good shape when I scrap out a 150, so I save them.

I agree completely. I paid $15k for my 150M, and even given the repairs I've had to make, I still believe I got a heck of a deal. Sure I could have paid $3k-$4k more for a 150 in better condition. There were a few in that price range, but I would have had to go 2-3 states away, they were older with more TT, and each one likely would have had its own issues that surfaced after purchase. At the very least I'm going to make it a safe, more reliable plane than it has been, and get it ADS-B compliant, and build hours in it. Down the road if I eventually decide to sell it, the next buyer is going to get a heck of a deal as well.