Edmunds Members - Cars and Conversations (Archived)

henryn

With the powers that be switching the software back and forth, I am getting some very weird error messages out of Chrome.

A word to the wise, based on my 45 years experience in IT: Do not experiment with your production system. Set up a test system, and try out any proposed changes there first. Your users will be much happier if they are not used as guinea pigs.

jmonroe1

@explorer4, I didn't buy it, Son #2 did. I think he got it at Food Lion while doing some grocery shopping. I can't remember the name but it's that Mexican XX beer in 12 ounce green bottles, pretty good though.

jmonroe

kyfdx

henryn said:

With the powers that be switching the software back and forth, I am getting some very weird error messages out of Chrome.

A word to the wise, based on my 45 years experience in IT: Do not experiment with your production system. Set up a test system, and try out any proposed changes there first. Your users will be much happier if they are not used as guinea pigs.

Most of us have a lot of old stuff in our cache.

If you clean it out, then @henryn looks like this.... rather than jmonroe's post just above.

imidazol97

jmonroe1 said:

I can do that between beers but Grandma watches me watching them. It was warm today but very windy.

Edmunds is strange. I can't do the quote thingy here but on another Edmunds forum, I can. What's with that?

jmonroe

You have a higher priority level on the other forum.

PF_Flyer

To get technical, it was just a changed setting, not an overhaul of the software. Your cache has the rich editor in any discussion you were in (might be pages you were on too, but I haven’t run into that) Clearing your cache or refreshing the page gets the oldhtml editor back in place

explorerx4

@jmonroe1,
We have been stopping at a Food Lion on 12 on our way to our rental.
Not sure if it is the same one. There is True Value or Ace hardware store in the same plaza.
My kids stop at a Brew Thru every year to buy the latest tee shirt, not sure if they buy any beer.
Personally, I have never been to a Brew Thru.
They seem to be ewpurposed old gas stations where the service bays are now drive through's and the office converted into a big cooler.
Pull in, order your beer, don't even have to get out of your vehicle, and drive out.

Michaell

explorerx4 said:

@jmonroe1,
We have been stopping at a Food Lion on 12 on our way to our rental.
Not sure if it is the same one. There is True Value or Ace hardware store in the same plaza.
My kids stop at a Brew Thru every year to buy the latest tee shirt, not sure if they buy any beer.
Personally, I have never been to a Brew Thru.
They seem to be ewpurposed old gas stations where the service bays are now drive through's and the office converted into a big cooler.
Pull in, order your beer, don't even have to get out of your vehicle, and drive out.

My late father-in-law used to tend bar that was attached to a drive through liquor store in Cheyenne.

explorerx4

@Michaell,
Did people do laps around the parking lot?

andres3

How about putting this forum thread on a mid-90's style FTP forum.

berri

All these software and technical changes for the sake of change. Did Edmunds get bought out by Microsoft 😏

driver100

imidazol97 said:

jmonroe1 said:

I can do that between beers but Grandma watches me watching them. It was warm today but very windy.

Edmunds is strange. I can't do the quote thingy here but on another Edmunds forum, I can. What's with that?

jmonroe

You have a higher priority level on the other forum.

Yeh, he only has 846 posts around here.

You mean he writes even more than he posts here?

ab348

Just discovered that image posting is broken now on Safari using the iPad. You cannot post a picture stored in your photo library, which is a new bug.

Michaell

explorerx4 said:

@Michaell,
Did people do laps around the parking lot?

Not that i was aware of. It was an odd setup, for sure.

oldfarmer50

Saw a Fisker Karma yesterday. Odd as I thought the company went bust. Are they still in business?

explorerx4

Fisker? Oh, autocorrect.

oldfarmer50

Fisker? Oh, autocorrect

I manually corrected. Thanks.

BTW, the quote button produced some techno gibberish which I assume meant the system is screwed up. Since I don’t understand any of this I’ll just copy and paste until it gets straightened out.

imidazol97

driver100 said:

Finally, the car parked in my friends neighbors driveway showed up.

I like those. Reminds me of my misspent youth. My buddy and I borrowed his uncle's Thunderbird to cruise the drive in restaurants one evening. Two high school kids in a blue Thunderbird.

fintail

The car has been reborn as the "Karma Revero". I actually saw one on the road today.

Still better looking than a Model S, IMNSHO.

oldfarmer50 said:

Saw a Fisker Karma yesterday. Odd as I thought the company went bust. Are they still in business?

driver100

oldfarmer50 said:

Saw a Fisker Karma yesterday. Odd as I thought the company went bust. Are they still in business?

I remember these, but forgot about them so looked it up....interesting, another EV bites the dust.

The first deliveries took place in the U.S. in late July 2011,[9][10][11] and deliveries to retail customers began in November 2011.[7] Pricing in the U.S. started at US$102,000 for the base model (EcoStandard), Around 1,800 units were delivered in North America and Europe through December 2012.[13] The U.S. was the leading market, with about 1,600 units sold

Production was suspended in November 2012 when the sole battery supplier to Fisker Automotive, A123 Systems, filed for bankruptcy following two battery recalls. Fisker Automotive was unable to carry on production of the Fisker Karma in the absence of its sole battery supplier,[15] with about 2,450 Karmas built since 2011.[13] After furloughing its US workers in late March 2013,[16] Fisker Automotive filed for bankruptcy in November 2013, after the United States Department of Energy auctioned its debt and sold it to Hybrid Technology LLC for US$25 million.[17]

Following the sale of some of the assets of the company, the designs, rights to a plug-hybrid powertrain and a manufacturing facility in Delaware to the Chinese company Wanxiang, the new owners re-commenced production in September 2016 under the brand name Karma Automotive.[18] After several announcements by the Wanxiang Group to reintroduce an upgraded version of the Fisker Karma, the car was renamed the Karma Revero and Karma Automotive started taking orders in September 201

qbrozen

abacomike said:

Interesting text from my daughter up in the Chicago area. They listed her townhouse Friday for $167,000 and her realtor has already received 3 offers at listing price - one of them is all cash with a 14 day close. Her realtor sent the offers back to the 3 bidders and asked them for a final offer. The realtor said the townhouse should sell for over listing price.

Miraculous news!😁😀

Then I would say the realtor has provided bad advice and underpriced the townhouse.

ab348

I never knew @jmonroe1 used to have a Stutz.

Since I cant post pictures any more, this is the best I can do: http://www.madle.org/edean.htm

driver100

qbrozen said:

abacomike said:

Interesting text from my daughter up in the Chicago area. They listed her townhouse Friday for $167,000 and her realtor has already received 3 offers at listing price - one of them is all cash with a 14 day close. Her realtor sent the offers back to the 3 bidders and asked them for a final offer. The realtor said the townhouse should sell for over listing price.

Miraculous news!😁😀

Then I would say the realtor has provided bad advice and underpriced the townhouse.

I wonder if that is a strategy......I think it happens in Toronto where people pay way over asking price? Price it low to get people interested, if you get 2 or more interested they will bid up the price. Kind of like when they advertise a car for a cheap price just so they can get you in the door, knowing you aren't going to buy the stripper model, but can be talked into something more expensive....a version of bait and switch.

oldfarmer50

I never knew @jmonroe1 used to have a Stutz.

Since I cant post pictures any more, this is the best I can do: http://www.madle.org/edean.htm

As a kid I had a plastic model of that car. I thought it was just a concept. I didn’t know they actually built any. Looks like a Buick Riviera from the back.

I hope they fix the system soon.

stickguy

Driver, that is somewhat common. At least they talk about it all the time on the Property Brothers! Price low to get a bidding war going.

snakeweasel

abacomike said:

Interesting text from my daughter up in the Chicago area. They listed her townhouse Friday for $167,000 and her realtor has already received 3 offers at listing price - one of them is all cash with a 14 day close. Her realtor sent the offers back to the 3 bidders and asked them for final offer. The realtor said the townhouse should sell for over listing price.

Miraculous news!😁😀

I have to ask what area does she live? Also what size is it? in most areas around here $167K is a steal.

snakeweasel

PF_Flyer said:

https://forums.edmunds.com/discussion/comment/5726264#Comment_5726264

MISINFORMATION. That NOT work.

Forums Feedback and Suggestions for forums tech issues/discussion please, thanks!

I worked for me, notice the lack of the word "will" in the quote.

driver100

snakeweasel said:

abacomike said:

Interesting text from my daughter up in the Chicago area. They listed her townhouse Friday for $167,000 and her realtor has already received 3 offers at listing price - one of them is all cash with a 14 day close. Her realtor sent the offers back to the 3 bidders and asked them for final offer. The realtor said the townhouse should sell for over listing price.

Miraculous news!😁😀

I have to ask what area does she live? Also what size is it? in most areas around here $167K is a steal.

$167000 near any major city is a steal, unless it is this house;

snakeweasel

driver100 said:

snakeweasel said:

abacomike said:

Interesting text from my daughter up in the Chicago area. They listed her townhouse Friday for $167,000 and her realtor has already received 3 offers at listing price - one of them is all cash with a 14 day close. Her realtor sent the offers back to the 3 bidders and asked them for final offer. The realtor said the townhouse should sell for over listing price.

Miraculous news!😁😀

I have to ask what area does she live? Also what size is it? in most areas around here $167K is a steal.

$167000 near any major city is a steal, unless it is this house;

I would say it depends on the neighborhood. The house I grew up in (in a town that has gone down the proverbial toilet since I lived there in the 60's) is a single family home with 3 bedrooms that would be way over priced at hal of 176K. However put that house in Oak Park and it will go for well over 299K. Both towns boarder Chicago.

It's all location.

PF_Flyer

snakeweasel said:

PF_Flyer said:

https://forums.edmunds.com/discussion/comment/5726264#Comment_5726264

MISINFORMATION. That NOT work.

Forums Feedback and Suggestions for forums tech issues/discussion please, thanks!

I worked for me, notice the lack of the word "will" in the quote.

Heh... I am a typo EXPERT

PF_Flyer

oldfarmer50 said:

Fisker? Oh, autocorrect

I manually corrected. Thanks.

BTW, the quote button produced some techno gibberish which I assume meant the system is screwed up. Since I don’t understand any of this I’ll just copy and paste until it gets straightened out.

The "techno gibberish" you saw in the comment box is what you see when you quote a post that had a quote in it that was made with that rich editor. It created a lot of html to make the box the quote was put in and almost displayed as an image. If you just type below it and post, it all works out!

ab348

snakeweasel said:

I worked for me, notice the lack of the word "will" in the quote.

That's because we're now back on the old version again. Doesn't work that way in the new version.

PF_Flyer

Forums Feedback and Suggestions discussion for tech issue talk please. Let's leave the rest of the discussions for their titled purposes please

jmonroe1

ab348 said:

I never knew @jmonroe1 used to have a Stutz.

Since I cant post pictures any more, this is the best I can do: http://www.madle.org/edean.htm

That's a sore subject.

I loaned those cars to Dean because he liked them when he saw them one time when he was in the Burgh doing a show. The understanding was he could keep them for a while until I wanted them back. Then he up and died on me but his estate was not aware of our agreement. When I brought that to their attention the only one they were willing to return to me was the one he wrecked. :@ :@

jmonroe

ab348

jmonroe1 said:

I loaned those cars to Dean because he liked them when he saw them one time when he was in the Burgh doing a show. The understanding was he could keep them for a while until I wanted them back. Then he up and died on me but his estate was not aware of our agreement. When I brought that to their attention the only one they were willing to return to me was the one he wrecked. :@ :@

I saw a picture of that one. It had a California vanity plate on it saying "DRUNKY". Too appropriate.

Of course I can't post the picture so you will have to trust me on that.

henryn

I'm thinking of taking a vacation from this place. Maybe check back in a week or two, see if they have gotten any of this screwy mess straightened out.

abacomike

qbrozen said:

abacomike said:

Interesting text from my daughter up in the Chicago area. They listed her townhouse Friday for $167,000 and her realtor has already received 3 offers at listing price - one of them is all cash with a 14 day close. Her realtor sent the offers back to the 3 bidders and asked them for a final offer. The realtor said the townhouse should sell for over listing price.

Miraculous news!😁😀

Then I would say the realtor has provided bad advice and underpriced the townhouse.

qbrozen said:

abacomike said:

Interesting text from my daughter up in the Chicago area. They listed her townhouse Friday for $167,000 and her realtor has already received 3 offers at listing price - one of them is all cash with a 14 day close. Her realtor sent the offers back to the 3 bidders and asked them for a final offer. The realtor said the townhouse should sell for over listing price.

Miraculous news!😁😀

Then I would say the realtor has provided bad advice and underpriced the townhouse.

She needed to sell the townhouse quickly. The average price of existing units like her’s is $169,000. So by going $2000 lower, they felt it would sell quickly. Hopefully, one of the 3 bidders will offer a final of $170,000. So the townhouse was not listed way too low - just enough to get it sold fast. She moves here in 2 weeks.

ruking1

...”

abacomike said:

qbrozen said:

abacomike said:

Interesting text from my daughter up in the Chicago area. They listed her townhouse Friday for $167,000 and her realtor has already received 3 offers at listing price - one of them is all cash with a 14 day close. Her realtor sent the offers back to the 3 bidders and asked them for a final offer. The realtor said the townhouse should sell for over listing price.

Miraculous news!😁😀

Then I would say the realtor has provided bad advice and underpriced the townhouse.

qbrozen said:

abacomike said:

Interesting text from my daughter up in the Chicago area. They listed her townhouse Friday for $167,000 and her realtor has already received 3 offers at listing price - one of them is all cash with a 14 day close. Her realtor sent the offers back to the 3 bidders and asked them for a final offer. The realtor said the townhouse should sell for over listing price.

Miraculous news!😁😀

Then I would say the realtor has provided bad advice and underpriced the townhouse.

She needed to sell the townhouse quickly. The average price of existing units like her’s is $169,000. So by going $2000 lower, they felt it would sell quickly. Hopefully, one of the 3 bidders will offer a final of $170,000. So the townhouse was not listed way too low - just enough to get it sold fast. She moves here in 2 weeks.

Given what she has to do, a quick full priced (I’ve no reality on this, but taking the posters word) sale, with fast closing is a good way to go!

She could have course gotten a range of worse to much better offers.

jmonroe1

snakeweasel said:

driver100 said:

snakeweasel said:

abacomike said:

Interesting text from my daughter up in the Chicago area. They listed her townhouse Friday for $167,000 and her realtor has already received 3 offers at listing price - one of them is all cash with a 14 day close. Her realtor sent the offers back to the 3 bidders and asked them for final offer. The realtor said the townhouse should sell for over listing price.

Miraculous news!😁😀

I have to ask what area does she live? Also what size is it? in most areas around here $167K is a steal.

$167000 near any major city is a steal, unless it is this house;

I would say it depends on the neighborhood. The house I grew up in (in a town that has gone down the proverbial toilet since I lived there in the 60's) is a single family home with 3 bedrooms that would be way over priced at hal of 176K. However put that house in Oak Park and it will go for well over 299K. Both towns boarder Chicago.

It's all location.

Slight correction: The way I heard it is..."location, LOCATION, LOCATION".

jmonroe

snakeweasel

jmonroe1 said:

snakeweasel said:

driver100 said:

snakeweasel said:

abacomike said:

Interesting text from my daughter up in the Chicago area. They listed her townhouse Friday for $167,000 and her realtor has already received 3 offers at listing price - one of them is all cash with a 14 day close. Her realtor sent the offers back to the 3 bidders and asked them for final offer. The realtor said the townhouse should sell for over listing price.

Miraculous news!😁😀

I have to ask what area does she live? Also what size is it? in most areas around here $167K is a steal.

$167000 near any major city is a steal, unless it is this house;

I would say it depends on the neighborhood. The house I grew up in (in a town that has gone down the proverbial toilet since I lived there in the 60's) is a single family home with 3 bedrooms that would be way over priced at hal of 176K. However put that house in Oak Park and it will go for well over 299K. Both towns boarder Chicago.

It's all location.

Slight correction: The way I heard it is..."location, LOCATION, LOCATION".

jmonroe

You can repeat it three times it's still one thing.

andres3

If you underprice something, you'll start a bidding war, and this works for cars or houses. VERY hard to undersell something unless you take the first offer that comes along without consideration for other offers.

jmonroe1

snakeweasel said:

jmonroe1 said:

snakeweasel said:

driver100 said:

snakeweasel said:

abacomike said:

Interesting text from my daughter up in the Chicago area. They listed her townhouse Friday for $167,000 and her realtor has already received 3 offers at listing price - one of them is all cash with a 14 day close. Her realtor sent the offers back to the 3 bidders and asked them for final offer. The realtor said the townhouse should sell for over listing price.

Miraculous news!😁😀

I have to ask what area does she live? Also what size is it? in most areas around here $167K is a steal.

$167000 near any major city is a steal, unless it is this house;

I would say it depends on the neighborhood. The house I grew up in (in a town that has gone down the proverbial toilet since I lived there in the 60's) is a single family home with 3 bedrooms that would be way over priced at hal of 176K. However put that house in Oak Park and it will go for well over 299K. Both towns boarder Chicago.

It's all location.

Slight correction: The way I heard it is..."location, LOCATION, LOCATION".

jmonroe

You can repeat it three times it's still one thing.

That's what I was saying, but, in real estate lingo.

jmonroe

ruking1

driver100 said:

snakeweasel said:

abacomike said:

Interesting text from my daughter up in the Chicago area. They listed her townhouse Friday for $167,000 and her realtor has already received 3 offers at listing price - one of them is all cash with a 14 day close. Her realtor sent the offers back to the 3 bidders and asked them for final offer. The realtor said the townhouse should sell for over listing price.

Miraculous news!😁😀

I have to ask what area does she live? Also what size is it? in most areas around here $167K is a steal.

$167000 near any major city is a steal, unless it is this house;

This would be a good “tear down” in Detroit, MI. for the parcels delinquent taxes.

I read that at the Detroit’s peak it had 144 square miles of productive tax parcels. At the LOW Detroit is trying to recover 44 mi.² of lost productive tax parcels. No matter how rehabilitation of the lost areas goes, cars will continue to play an integral part.

jmonroe1

henryn said:

I'm thinking of taking a vacation from this place. Maybe check back in a week or two, see if they have gotten any of this screwy mess straightened out.

I'm beginning to think that there has been some management changes at Edmunds and doing typical management things they can't leave well enough alone. So, they have to make their mark on something. Not being sure what to do, they pick on our forums. I could be wrong but if I am it ain't by much.

jmonroe

oldfarmer50

“The "techno gibberish" you saw in the comment box is what you see when you quote a post that had a quote in it that was made with that rich editor. It created a lot of html to make the box the quote was put in and almost displayed as an image. If you just type below it and post, it all works out! “

That response, to me, is techno gibberish.

Like I said, I’ll just copy and paste because I don’t know what any of it means.

ab348

I seem to recall several other tech-debacles with past forum changes, going back well over a decade. Seems we just have to expect it. This one was different though. A problem suddenly crops up for users of a certain platform after things were working fine for a number of years. Nobody seemed to understand why (or if they did, they wouldn't say). A move to a new and improved editor is sold as the solution, only it creates a whole new set of issues. Rinse and repeat.

While there is undoubtedly much blame to go around, at this point there is little point to finding a scapegoat. We'd just like it fixed so it works.

kyfdx

As noted, we have a discussion for tech-related issues. You can either get back to whatever the theme of this discussion might be, or we can just take a break.

Thanks!

snakeweasel

ok trying to get back on topic. Any suggestions for light to medium duty pick up trucks?

stickguy

A Colorado if you need a “real” truck, and a ridge line if you need an SUV with an open bed and moderate towing capability.

If you want to step up to a barge, the usual suspects.

I think the ranger looks nice but unfavorable reports on ride and handling.

andres3

Audi won the 24 hours again - Audi Victorious at Nürburgring 24 HR

This translates into cars that LOVE IT when you drive them like you stole them.

PF_Flyer

Interesting take. Love it!