Anonymous wrote:AFFECTED!
Stop saying impacted.

im·pact
verb
gerund or present participle: impacting
/im?pakt/Submit
1.
come into forcible contact with another object.
"the shell impacted twenty yards away"
synonyms: crash into, smash into, collide with, be in collision with, hit, strike, ram, smack into, slam into, bang into, cannon into, plow into, meet head-on, dash against
"a comet impacted the earth sixty million years ago"
NORTH AMERICAN
come into forcible contact with.
"an asteroid impacted the earth some 60 million years ago"
press firmly.
"the animals' feet do not impact and damage the soil as cows' hooves do"
2.
have a strong effect on someone or something.
"high interest rates have impacted on retail spending"
synonyms: affect, influence, have an effect, have an influence, exert influence, make an impression, act, work; strike, hit, touch, change, alter, modify, transform, shape, control, govern, determine, decide, sway, bias
"high interest rates have impacted on retail spending"

Only 1/2 of one percent of folks effected by shutdown. 99.5 percent of folks are uneffected

AFFECTED!
Stop saying impacted.

The uber guy is impacted by the shutdown, the hair dresser is impacted by the shutdown, the servers in the food industry are impacted by the shut down. That is on top pf the hundreds of thousands of federal workers that are impacted. I would not sell now if you have a choice. Between there being more people selling their belongings and fewer buyers, seems like a poor plan.

Lots of people are impacted by the shutdown. The car repair place I’ve been going for years is a ghost town. They told me their business is way off this month. My ex just scored an insane deal on a new car from a dealer. They told him nothing was selling. It’s not just the furloughed feds who are impacted by this.

Anonymous wrote:You do know that the furloughed workers aren't all here in DMV, don't you?

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Yes, I know that. But a lot of people are impacted. Restaurants, dog walkers, nannies, contractors, WMATA employees are being furloughed.

You do know that the furloughed workers aren't all here in DMV, don't you?

Anonymous wrote:It’s one paycheck. The masses are not running to dump their car because they’ve missed one paycheck.

+1

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Anonymous wrote:Maybe it’s the one thing not affected by shutdown? I mean.....

Why? people are selling their possessions to pay the rent. my spouse is a furloughed fed, and we're planning on selling our baby stuff (which we would normally donate).

If you need to sell baby gear to pay the rent, then you need to consider your overall spending/savings in less you are a low income fed, which most aren't. We always sold our gear except a few things we gave to friends. I'd rather have the money to buy new things.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Most people are not affected by the shutdown.

How can you be so sure that "most" are not affected by the shutdown? Did you take a poll?

I would hazard a guess and say that most are affected. Either directly or indirectly. Feds, contractors, and business owners specifically.

It is one third of one percent of the population.

That's just the percent who are furloughed federal workers. There are many more people than that who are affected, though--contractors, small businesses, etc. Our state, and many others, will stop food stamps at the end of January if there's no new funding, and that will affect million of families.

Now, whether any of those people were planning to buy OP's car, or sell another like it when they wouldn't otherwise, is another question. Probably not, and I wouldn't worry about it unless OP is in an area of the DMV with a higher concentration of feds than most.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Most people are not affected by the shutdown.

How can you be so sure that "most" are not affected by the shutdown? Did you take a poll?

I would hazard a guess and say that most are affected. Either directly or indirectly. Feds, contractors, and business owners specifically.

there are numbers on this. Most people are not impacted.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Most people are not affected by the shutdown.

How can you be so sure that "most" are not affected by the shutdown? Did you take a poll?

I would hazard a guess and say that most are affected. Either directly or indirectly. Feds, contractors, and business owners specifically.

It is one third of one percent of the population.

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Anonymous wrote:It’s one paycheck. The masses are not running to dump their car because they’ve missed one paycheck.

But they might delay buying a new one right now, which I believe is OP's worry.

OP, if you're in the DMV, then yes, I'd wait if you can. If not, it probably won't make much difference. You can always try listing it and see what you get.

No OP said they thought a lot of people would be selling them, maybe flooding the market. It’s right there, 7 posts up.