On Wed, 17 Sep 2003 15:52:35 -0500, Dan Luke wrote:

driven him crazy, of course, but the "serious" buyers have been worse. Some
insist on their mechanics doing an annual at some out of town shop (no
way!), another got my friend to fly out of town for a pre-buy, then didn't

That's plain silly. When I buy a plane there is no way I'm letting the
mechanic who knows the owner and has done the previous annuals do my
pre-buy. If an owner won't let a third party examine it then I'd be
suspicious about what he's covering up.

If you're serious about selling a plane you'll deal with tire kickers, but
hopefully you'll weed them out beforehand by questioning them.