I don't think you'll find too many people here that will object to someone making a little profit. Nor do I believe that the antagonistic sentiment around flippers is for people who buy a car and do substantive improvements/repairs and then sell it. The issue seems to be that there's a whole slew of "flippers" who are essentially do-nothing middlemen. They may or may not be car enthusiasts, but for whatever reason they seem to have a line on finding cars at cheaper than market prices. They then do little or nothing to prepare the car for resale, and list it at a higher price. There's a sense, rightly or wrongly, that these middlemen end up inflating the market values of cars, essentially making it more difficult for the hobbyists to participate: if only the hobbyist could have purchased the car for the original lower price, the original seller would be in the same place, the hobbyist would have spent less, and the non-enthusiast middleman would have to find a different line of work, which would sadden virtually no one in the hobby. I think there's also antagonism directly at flippers who purport to be anything but dealers. When you work with a dealer, you know what sort of experience you're getting (and in states that require it, a licensed and bonded business). How are we to tell the curbstone "dealer" from the average Joe enthusiast?
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