does this sound right?
 

1998 SE. Black, tan cloth, body is a little dinged up, but not near as bad as mine, paint is in awesome shape. Interior is mint. It was the owner's personal car until about a week ago. Looks like a pretty much base model car. It's at one of those buy here-pay here dealers. He said I could drive it off the lot for $4999. Does this sound like a decent price? Taxes are coming back soon and my car is getting kinda tired.

Miles

EDIT: In my area code, retail is $4915, with 84,000 miles in excellent shape.

unless it has less than 40,000 miles I'd say its a ripoff.

There are several 96-99 SSEis with higher miles in that price range. There is a 97 SE for 2000 locally in UTAH, with 190,000....and another 98se with 105,000 for 3500 so I'd say its overpriced

We are talking private party..I am.

Dealer that is about normal.

That's really high. Go to http://cars.com and compare based on what you know about the car. Search in your area, then take print outs when you go to talk to him.

at least double of what i would pay

my parents picked up there 97 ssei 3 years ago for that price

Remember GUYS he said buy here pay here places if thats a monthly pay price then tac on interest but it its a cash price keep looking

That's a very high price. I figure I could sell my 99 SE for about $1,700 around here.

Mine pretty much matches the description you posted.

I agree it's more than I would pay for an SE. It must have low miles if they are charging that much. I'd keep looking.

It has 113K on it. I figured I'd ask you guys about what they go for b/c KBB said $3100 for that car in my area, but it also said mine is worth $1500, and I'm never getting that out of it, lol.

that right there should tell ya something ;)