Originally Posted by PropellerHead

Maybe if you put $12k cash in the front seat you could sell it for that money. Else, no way in hell on ~125k miles. My 4.8is was a bit more than that 6 YEARS ago with 11k miles.

A 4.8is example recently posted here with less than 60k miles wouldn't move on Ebay for $14k. That's a fine target price of a really clean example that wants to wait awhile before it's sold.

These are not classics. They are not relics, either. They're just old cars. They're old BMW's with a poor reputation for major service issues over 100k miles. We may like them, but a pretty big part of that is already having one. For the next many years, the older the E53's get, the less expensive they get. Plain and simple.

OP: Set your price and wait. If someone wants it, they'll buy it. Then again, like any of us, if we don't really want to sell it, whether we realize it or not, we might just price it so that we won't sell it. And that's ok except for the wasted effort.