he just emailed me this:
I'm definitely willing to negotiate but this is not a 1200 truck regardless of what kelly blue book says.
The truck is clean and runs strong. When I priced my truck I looked around at some other comparisons and I can tell you at 1200 they all look like crap, both cars and trucks. Either the cars\trucks at that price have been ragged out and destroyed by the young generation or the owners simply just drove them in to ground. Very few are clean and haven't been modified and beat up... If you are seriously interested and have cash 1,500.00 today you can take it away. That's my bottom line.
and i replied with this:
I understand, thanks for your time, but I'm not paying more than kelly blue book or edmunds. They don't rate them as "modified" etc...
Blue book shows 1,565 in excellent condition, and that means NOTHING is wrong with it.
I understand its a nice truck, but its 14 years old with 191k miles.
I've got 1200 cash today. If you can't go that low, I understand, but that's my offer.