^You can definitely take advantage of poor seller practices if you've got the patience. A lot of those are going to end up being disappointments but there's the occasional diamond in the rough, for sure. Friend of mine went to look at an older model Porsche on a whim a couple of years ago. The ad had one blurry, badly lit picture and some fairly denigrating description ("needs some work", etc) and when he got there the thing was basically pristine other than one fender with a dent and some paint scraped off, and more importantly it had the entire chain of regular dealership maintenance records going all the way back to the date of purchase. He bought it for about 2/3 of its value.
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