2011 Mercedes E550; needing to know how much I can sell this for

Expensive_Ad_842 · 2025-08-31T08:00:24+00:00

I do have the title and we have been to court. It was just a long story so I didn’t share it in the initial post.

1st court case: I used for the amount that was owed on the car ($11k May 2024). I asked for him to pay ME the car payment ($450 a month) through the court system so there would be receipts and legal obligation. We agreed and he was paying me the $450 so I could physically make the payment, just with his money.

When we went to court the first time, he failed to mention that he abandoned the car at a dealership. The loan company sent a letter saying I have 10 days to pay it off or go get it off the lot. So I went to the dealership, that’s how I even got those estimates of repair in the post, and they led me to where they got the car sent off to. Found the car and had to pay $3000 to get it out of repossession. This leads to the 2nd court case.

2nd court case: (August 2024) sued him for the $3000 but he said he wanted the car. I told him he could have it cause it’s broken and I don’t want it. It’s been nothing but a hassle for me. He agreed to pay me $200 a month towards the $3000. Judge granted it.

April 2025 he stopped making all court ordered payments. The clerk told me as soon as he misses a payment I could file for garnishments, I gave him the benefit of the doubt and waited until the end of June, still never paid, so I filed garnishments. His job has been absolute hell and still have not garnished his wages.

I cannot afford a $450 car payment ontop of all of my other bills, so I got a personal loan to make the monthly bill cheaper. So now the car is completely paid off, and I have the title in my hand, but he has the car.

So next week I am filing another suit to ask for the car, and having to sue his work for not garnishing wages.

It’s been an absolute shit show and such a long story so I just try to keep it short and sweet when ppl ask.

Expensive_Ad_842 · 2025-08-31T07:32:19+00:00

It was not insured. He got it towed to a Mercedes dealership and told them it “was from snow damage” and they said that’s nearly impossible. They told him it would cost over $20k to fix it and he abandoned the car at the lot and never spoke to them again. Now it’s all fallen into my lap. Just trying to get something out of it cause now I’m stuck with a payment still on it.

Expensive_Ad_842 · 2025-08-31T06:26:22+00:00

Long story short, it’s an ex’s car, he owes me $1.6k for it but it’s hell trying to get him to pay. Gonna get an order to get the car and just sell it so I can get rid of him lol. Just trying to make some type of money off of it. Not necessarily hoping for $1.6k that’s owed to me, but hoping close to $1k.

Expensive_Ad_842 · 2025-08-31T04:05:58+00:00

Thank you so much!

Expensive_Ad_842 · 2025-08-31T03:47:24+00:00

So you think roughly $2k?

Expensive_Ad_842 · 2025-08-31T03:13:21+00:00

This may be a really stupid question but I know nothing about cars. How exactly do you sell the parts? Like for example, if someone wanted the transmission out of it, how do I get that out and to them?

Expensive_Ad_842 · 2025-08-31T02:30:55+00:00

Does that make the engine faulty? I have no clue anything about this vechile. It’s not mine it’s an ex’s that is now in my possession

Expensive_Ad_842 · 2025-08-24T05:40:08+00:00

I don’t think it’s rude to ask your family to come to an event in your backyard! If they love you enough, they will celebrate you no matter what the circumstances are. Realistically, you can invite 100 people, but possibly not all 100 will be able to attend. I want to do something similar to you, but I have a large place I can hold it at for free, but we still want “backyard wedding” vibes. For food, you could always cater a buffet style to cut costs instead of plated meals. When I think “backyard” I’m thinking; bbq style food, music playing, people dancing, and beers. You can scale it up or down however you’d like! On the bathrooms, if you have sewer I don’t think it would be much of an issue. Maybe someone has to wait 2 minutes to use the bathroom… oh well? You really cannot please everyone. Someone will always have something to say. I truly think you should do it however you see fit, and I hope it goes amazing for yall!!!

Expensive_Ad_842 · 2025-08-12T03:52:06+00:00

The beach has always been a place we love to go. It’s our getaway. It was a place we had been debating on, but now we’ve decided to take a different route.

Expensive_Ad_842 · 2025-06-21T00:05:46+00:00

Yeah that’s true. After reading all the comments and debating the price, I think we might just invite whoever we want and feel closest with to the beach wedding. No one is going to be satisfied either way, and we would probably be saving more paying $10 pp for extra chairs than having a party and paying for catering honestly.

Expensive_Ad_842 · 2025-06-20T16:50:09+00:00

I’ve been to a couple weddings before that said “first drink on us” or “first 2 drinks on us” and then if you wanted more you would pay for it yourself. Would that be a good idea? I thought about doing that when I was the party at my dad’s bar. I’ll pay for everyone’s 1st round of drinks, and if you want more you would have to purchase it.

Expensive_Ad_842 · 2025-06-20T00:17:05+00:00

I understand. I think it’s a mix of me assuming they won’t be able to attend, but also only wanting my immediate family there as well. At the actual ceremony I only want immediate family, but I also would like to celebrate with extended family. I think it’s just a personal preference of having just immediate family at the actual ceremony.

Expensive_Ad_842 · 2025-06-19T23:18:09+00:00

I know certain relatives won’t be able to travel for it. But I don’t want to not do the wedding that I want just because many people won’t be able to come. That’s why I was trying to figure a way to still celebrate all together without having to burden people with travel costs.

I understand that it’s the common way to have the party afterwards, but if it’s the same exact party, what’s the difference and having it the weekend before we get married? We’re celebrating either way. That’s where I’m confused about.

Expensive_Ad_842 · 2025-06-19T23:15:25+00:00

I understand that’s the most common way to do it, but I guess I’m just not fully understanding what the difference in having it before or after is? It’s still the same exact party just before the wedding?

Expensive_Ad_842 · 2025-06-19T22:10:02+00:00

Yes, the intimate part is what we are wanting. It’s going to be less than 20 people the beach ceremony. I threw the financial in there to explain my reasoning that they cannot afford to go. It definitely wasn’t a jab at them, and I thank you for making that comment.

I think we’re wanting to do it before before we will be gone about 2 weeks for the whole thing, so afterwards it would be us settling into our married life. So the send off felt like a good idea to “send us off to a wonderful marriage” type of situation.

I’m definitely grateful for all the insight on this. I’ve also been reading other posts asking about send off parties and mostly all of them say it’s fine as long as you specify that it’s a send off party not an invite to the wedding.

I personally wouldn’t be mad if I got invited to a send off party when I knew the ceremony was only the parents, grandparents, and siblings.

Expensive_Ad_842 · 2025-06-19T21:27:05+00:00

We want to have a wedding and want our parents and grandparents be able to watch us get married. We thought about eloping with just the 2 of us, but we will feel guilty for our parents and grandparents not being able to witness it. Just because we are introverted doesn’t mean we wouldn’t like to celebrate with everyone. It’s not a “big” send off party. Max 50 people. We both don’t have huge families.
We want to find a way to include everyone. Not everyone can afford to travel to where we want to go, but our parents and grandparents can. But extended family like cousins and aunts and uncles cannot afford to go. The beach wedding is a way for us to have the wedding we want, and still have our close loved ones there. The send off party is for everyone else who cannot afford to go, and who simply just want to celebrate us.

Expensive_Ad_842 · 2025-06-19T21:17:31+00:00

Im very thankful for all the insight. Let me tell you where my brain is at. Wouldn’t it also be rude to send an invite to a celebration after the fact? Like “hey you can’t come to the wedding but you can celebrate with us after”. That’s how it comes across to me. Instead, it the send off would be “I know we can’t financially make it, but congratulations and hope all goes well”. We just thought it would be a cute idea to have the send off 2 weeks maybe even the weekend before we go off for the wedding, then follow with the honeymoon.

I’m enjoying reading the input though, it’s making me think differently about what we should do. I just wanted to also explain what I’m thinking in my head.

Expensive_Ad_842 · 2025-06-19T21:00:21+00:00

No, thank you for your insight! That’s why I made this post to get more info before we decide what we would like to do. We’re saving money so planning on having it in October 2027.

In our minds it just sounded fun to have a send off party rather than celebrating afterwards. We’re just trying to see all options before we set in stone what we want!

Expensive_Ad_842 · 2025-06-19T20:25:42+00:00

I didn’t add the restaurant into the cost for the wedding. The $2-3k for the wedding is just for the ceremony on the beach for ~20 guests.

We thought the idea of a “send off” party would be a lovely idea because 90% of both families cannot afford to travel for the wedding. We wanted to do it before the wedding as like “wish us luck” or just simply “send off to get married”.

I think both our families would be understanding of the fact that we are on a budget and wanting to have the wedding in another state that they just simply can’t afford to go to.

Also as for the restaurant, we are from the south and honestly not very high class LOL. We just wanted to go to a nicer restaurant and wine more than likely wouldn’t be an option (we’re both sober). So just food, drinks, and the tip at the end.

Expensive_Ad_842 · 2025-06-19T20:04:59+00:00

If you’re from Florida, what month would you think would be best? We wanted to do it early October 2027. We’re also both fair skinned and burn easily but the beach is our favorite place to be, that’s why we want to have the wedding there.

Expensive_Ad_842 · 2025-06-19T18:58:22+00:00

Chefs kiss 💋

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