Car selling - Websites any good

simonfr

Anyone got an opinion on car selling websites like Autotrader?
Anyone got any experience with them and effectiveness?

Wanna buy a second hand motor??

blue_haddock

Autotrader is the biggest and probably the best one out there.

There are agencies that promise to have lots of customers waiting for cars like yours but are pretty much a con that take your money and do very little to sell your car.

Only other thing that may work is loot or free-ads where it costs you nothing to advertise.

zacspeed_2

Autotrader website is superb (IMHO).
If you spend a little time tweaking the search criteria - you'll be amazed what you can find.
I tend to use eBay (completed items) to get a rough idea what specific vehicles are selling for, Then use Autotrader to find the right one. I'd wouldn't buy a car on eBay though, without going to look at it first.
If you advertise on Autotrader - prepare to be spammed to high heaven!

Helen_from_yorkshire

We used Autotrader in October last year to sell 9 year old second hand car. Garage only offered us £500 in part-exchange, managed to get £1,300 on Autotrader. Placed ad (cost around £15) at 4.00 pm (make sure you put a photo on there too) and phone never stopped ringing for about 5 days. Sold it to the first person who rang. Excellent, would definitely use it again.

Mr_Skint_2

Autotrader all the way if your in the Bristol area Trade-it is the dogs also.

simonfr

Ive tried the free ads papers round my way, but no bites... but never tried autotrader (or any other website) to sell a car. Used to buy or pricecheck cars only.

Cheers