Blue book rates

[tbi]

Anybody of any online rental blue book rates that don't cost an arm and a leg?

[jcbgm]

what are you looking for?

[tbi]

Monthly Blue book rates for a Bobcat 435 excavator.

[ksss]

They are expensive, there are online places but they are also expensive. I usually have my dealer run values for me. The rate at which excavator values have dropped I am not sure how accurate they are right now anyway but it would get in the area. You could also check RB online you can see what they have brought on the auction market.

[RockSet N' Grade]

Blue Book rates at this point in time are obsolete, useless, and are not worth the paper they are printed on as far as purchase prices are concerned. May be a good starting point in which to negotiate 30% lower, but cash is king right now and equipment pricing is whatever the buyer will pay. Example: I just bought a truck that 1 year ago was valued at $90,000, or more, and I purchased it for just the price to pay off the note AND I made the seller fix some items on the truck which now total about $3,000.......so he technically is in the red on the transaction, yet pleased to be out from the burden. The blue book on that truck is about $20k higher than what I paid.

[tbi]

This is for billing rates on a force account.

[RockSet N' Grade]

tbi.....rodger that on the force account........my bad.

[stuvecorp]

Blue Book rates at this point in time are obsolete, useless, and are not worth the paper they are printed on as far as purchase prices are concerned. May be a good starting point in which to negotiate 30% lower, but cash is king right now and equipment pricing is whatever the buyer will pay. Example: I just bought a truck that 1 year ago was valued at $90,000, or more, and I purchased it for just the price to pay off the note AND I made the seller fix some items on the truck which now total about $3,000.......so he technically is in the red on the transaction, yet pleased to be out from the burden. The blue book on that truck is about $20k higher than what I paid.

OOH, OOH, sounds awesome. When do we get to see it?

[RockSet N' Grade]

Ya get to see it when it is out of the shop.......getting new windows, main seal gasket replaced, new clutch while they are there, pintle hitch for max. duty pulling