Bye Bye POS

About a year and a half ago we bought John a very inexpensive crappy car to use to drive to the train station. Since he would be taking the train when we bought a house we decided to eliminate a car payment while we could. So we bought an 85 Chevy blazer. It was the ugliest color possible but it did the job and John doesn't car what his car looks like. Over the past year and a half he maybe put 3K miles on it. Come April of this year we needed to renew the registration and get it smoged. We thought, not biggy, it passed smog when we bought it so it should be fine. WRONG!!! It did NOT pass smog and we did not want to pay to fix it so it would pass. So we thought he could drive it until we get a new car in the fall and hope and pray he doesn't get pulled over. Well little did we know that the lovely Riverside Police department checks the cars in the Metrolink parking lot for expired tags. So we get a ticket in the mail for expired tags. Now we are to decide what to do.
1. Fix the car and get it registered
2. Sell the car
3. donate the car to charity (its not worth much)
4. drive it over a cliff (I've always wanted to do this, like on XXX)
After calling some mechanics to find out pricing for diagnosing the problem we decided it was definitely NOT worth fixing. (We are planning on buying me a new car in the fall, but want to wait until he gets is annual raise.)
So we decide to just sell it and look for a car for me more in our current budget instead of waiting for the raise.
Saturday morning John asked me to post it on cragslist. We just wanted to get rid of it and figured anyone that bought it would have to pay several hundred dollars to fix it. So we posted it at 10AM for $200, we only paid $800 a year and a half ago. Within minutes we had several phones calls. The phone did not stop ringing for about 20 minutes. And when John was on the phone messages were coming in. It was crazy. We had people willing to pay more for it. I finally took it off craigslist at about 10:40 just to stop the calls. By then we had 3 people interested, two of them were on their way and they all were willing to pay more. And there were several people we told to call back in an hour to see if it was still available. The car was sold and gone by 11:30 for $400. It was so crazy!!! But so nice to have it finally gone. Now we just need to find a new car for me. We LOVE craigslist!!!!