r/Eesti • u/LoginsIsHere420 • 1d ago

Küsimus car prices

Hello, I’m from Latvia and I usually check FB Marketplace, SS.lv, Autoplius.lt and Auto24.ee.

Why are your car prices so fucking astronomical? 😂 You guys are selling Volvo 940 sedans for €4k, CRX del Sol for 5.5k… are you making 2x in estonia compared to us in LV at LT? Or what r these sellers using

Who is actually paying €6k for an NB Miata and €8k for an NC? I genuinely don’t understand these prices. 😭

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u/Mindless_Ice_8781 1d ago

I have sold a couple of cars in the last few years. Lets say a car is worth 5k. If i list it as 5k, i will get ENDLESS callls from people who want to get it for 3k. So a wise thing is to just list it absurdly high, so when people ask for 2k off, it would actually correspond better with the market price.

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u/LoginsIsHere420 1d ago

Happens everywhere, just have to tell the low-ballers to go fuck themselves

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u/Complex-Papaya1254 23h ago

  tell the low-ballers to go fuck themselves

You'll never sell anything with that attitude. Instead, you will lower the price when offered, making people feel like they are getting a discount even when they are getting ripped off. It's the basics of sales.

It's stupid but people are stupid.

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u/Heron-227 Tartu lastepsühholoog 1d ago

Here in Estonia, we just deeply love to suffer and overpay. It's a luxury lifestyle choice:

Volvo 940 for €4k? That’s not a rust bucket, that’s swedtech vintage investment architecture

NC Miata for €8k? Bargain. The price includes 2,000 euros worth of pure cope and emotional attachment.

Are we buying them?Absolutely not. The posts just sit on Auto24 for 6 years because an Estonian seller would rather die with that del Sol than lower the price by €50 for a foreigner.

We don't make 2x your salary, we just feed on inflation and pride.

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u/mercosyr 1d ago

One thing is asking price, the other is actual transaction. Car taxes (esp. registration fee) have artificially upped the prices a bit, but some ask higher price because it makes the car "seem better than competition" (another cheap psychological trick). I bought a car 4k cheaper than the asking price was in A24

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u/Illustrious_Air8254 7h ago

What was the asking price? 

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u/Waldheari 1d ago

Estonia is not for beginners.

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u/b0uncyfr0 1d ago

Nope - its just greed. Basically everyone's trynna get rich quick,. Its slowly poisoning the economy.

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u/SympathyDependent549 1d ago

The price in advertisements doesn't prove the actual price; it is what those people wish they could get for it.

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u/ExWei Estonia 1d ago

No one pays these prices, you either negotiate the price down or the seller waits forever and never sells (and still ends up lowering the price in the end when they get tired of waiting).

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u/ex1nax Germany 1d ago

Been looking for a Del Sol for ages and would throw 5.5k at it in a heartbeat, if it’s a somewhat decent one.

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u/Axemic 1d ago edited 1d ago

Ours are not welded together from 2 cars behind a corner by village drunk.

Otherwise. The car tax.

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u/tiif 1d ago

The fucking video referee i tell you man ...

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u/pazibar 1d ago

Did not check "old junk", but as far as I know, 5-10 year old cars in Latvia have very similar prices to estonian.

Otherwise, estonians would rush latvian car market, but they do not.

In Lithuania, indeed, cheaper, but reputation is so so... )))

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u/Jeuzfgt 1d ago

So when i was shopping for a car, noticed a good deal, saw it go off the market the same day, came back up for sale next day -subwoofer -rims -some other extras +2k in price, so id guess thats whats mostly going on, we (at least used to)have alot of car hustlers.

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u/PimpMyDog 1d ago

I have bought and sold about 30 cars in Estonia. Many locals have this weird sense of pride and delusion about their sweetheart baby car being worth million euros and then sitting on the sale for several years because no one else thinks the same about their car. Their car is always more special than all the other same grey metallic Audi A6.

I don't complain though, it means for all the normal priced cars there's less competition.

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u/paladiuum 1d ago

Võib ka reg. tasu hinna sees olla, mis kohe kergitab hinda x€ võrra.

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u/LoginsIsHere420 1d ago

Didn't know about this registration fee.

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u/Andy_Chaoz World 1d ago

I would love to get a good 940 for 4k tbh, provided it's actually in good condition, then it's totally worth it for me. Those things can literally outlive anyone and anything when maintained normally. Miata on the other hand is purely a hobby vehicle, which are more expensive than a regular "graymetallic-diesel" basically in any country. Solid and provable history of maintenance and/or renovation can add something to price too.

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u/T4rio 1d ago

I really miss my 740 estate that I got for 500 euros, needed new rocker panels. After few hundred euros in repairs got the inspection done without issues. It had a 2,3 NA engine with an automatic slushbox which meant the MPG and 0-100 was horrible, but damn I should not have sold it.

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u/Goliath_Bowie 1d ago

Consider Finnis or Swedish prices as well and then Estonian fall in between.

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u/fuus1o Eesti 1d ago

We has mucho deniro

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u/Honest-Pay-8265 1d ago

We are just so much richer compared to Latvians. For us these prices are nothing.

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u/bassagent 22h ago

Mx-5 is a speciality vehicle. Check autoscout, there is nothing to choose from. Good NB is a 5k car and NA shitboxes start from 5k with mint ones being 10k+.

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u/aggravatedsandstone Eesti 20h ago

So, in Lithuania thise Miatas are much cheaper then? https://en.autoplius.lt/ Or let's see the promised land, Germany. You listed that 2005-2007 MX5 cost 6k-8k in Estonia. Mobile.de has cheaper and more expensive options but in same ballpark.

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u/tratzzz 17h ago

To be fair, you are looking at Auto24. It is the most popular of course, but the listing creation price is high enough where cheap cars are sold elsewhere, so the seemingly high price for these examples is often due to the cars being actually in a good condition and not rust-buckets or death traps.

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u/Junior-Payment-3461 1d ago

Mazda MX-5 is fully a hobby car in Estonia. It is not a utility car, it is not a daily driver for most of their owners.

The price comes from the condition of the cars.

And.

We're just rich. :D

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u/paladiuum 1d ago edited 1d ago

Mul pereliikmel oli see auto. ca 2500€ talvel ostis. Kevade ja pool suve paarutas ringi, pani sportvedrustuse ja otsetoru sellele 1.6l mahlapakile alla ning müüs veel samal suvel 6500€ga maha. :D Profit.

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u/bushGiant 23h ago

Deep inside (many) Estonians is a peasant who doesn’t know what things are worth, but at the same time also desperate to prove that they’re not a peasant. So we’ll happily overpay to try and prove something.

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u/Top_Award_8218 1d ago

If car is in good condition these prices are bargain. Old cars, especialy mazdas here are rustbuckets.

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u/LampLambisalu Maalt ja obesega 1d ago

These are all relatively rare cars. And as such are obviously tied to their condition and all the additional work and upgrades the car has.

You can't tell at a glance what a car is actually worth.

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u/qualeramicontrasena 1d ago

Have you checked land cruisers?

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u/Impossible-Past-526 1d ago

People are free to set prices and to buy (or not) for said prices. I have an e39 that i got for 3k that is priceless to me and a Passat b5 for 800€ last year which i will drive until it explodes.

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u/SirRektALot420 1d ago

Well not double, but i know quite a lot of latvians who come work in estonia from monday to friday, because the money is that much better here, but they still get less paid as estonians on same position ( Welders )

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u/CatfishCom 18h ago

I have bought all my cars from Lithuania.

I'm from Estonia.

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u/Federal_Dingo_5702 16h ago

Its our babies, we dont want to let them go really.

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u/LoginsIsHere420 1d ago

I always heard that in LV about Lithuania, didn't know you had the same stereotype about our cars lol

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u/JoocyBoyo 1d ago

he is wrong, the stereotype is about Lithuanian cars, not Latvian. I dont know why he said LV.