I just can't sell my Car, any help or advice would be appreciated!

MX5huggy

What does What Car and Glasses say the car is worth, Parkers famously over price. Go into a dealer and ask for the parkers price for your car in Px and he will say OK if you pay the parkers price for the new (second hand) car!

Its a tough market at the moment the infation figures yesterday said used car prices were down by 4%. And there is no summer so the CC won't be a popular option! Every one wants small and economical.

Do you really need to sell?

AdrianHi

Parkers a bit optimistic. Somewhere half way between "private good" and "trade in" price has been successful in the current climate for some people I know of, eventually selling for not much more than the trade in price.
There's a lot of going sensible with car buying habits going on plus if yours is a 2.0VVT which I guessing it is from the price / age and checking parkers for a late 56, the VED band is a bit on the high side with a £270 charge not too far off which many people get over sensitive about.
A £10K car means a loan for most people and loans have got a lot more expensive lately.

bclark

I am selling for pretty spot on Parkers guide price but would go lower.

Does the Ebay classified ads get good results? Anyone got any success stories?

anewman

bclark wrote: »

Does the Ebay classified ads get good results? Anyone got any success stories?

Use the completed listings search feature to see how well cars similar to your own have done in the past.

Scuttsy

For a guaranteed sale a dealer will normally take it off your hands, but they will probably offer a lot less than you would like.
I guess it depends how much you want to sell it and what you want to take.

hewhoisnotintheknow

eslick wrote: »

cars arent selling very well at the moment, in laws have a Citroen C5 55 plate low mileage and were offered only £750 for trade in at 3 or 4 garages.

You could try ebay

where are they based, pm me i will make an offer

hewhoisnotintheknow

drop it by 200 a week until it sells

meester

List it on ebay starting at £1000 and it will sell for the correct price

raggamuffin

i put mine on gumtree ,its free to list and sold in 2 days

i got more intrest from there then ebay,window signs etc
as it dont cost to list you have nothing to lose

clairebear76

I had my RX-8 advertised on Autotrader at £7995 for a month with no luck at all. Then I put it on ebay as a classified advert which I think lasted for about a month too with nothing but stupid questions and a couple of offers for 5000!!! - its on an (05) plate with 23k miles!!!!

Someone suggested ebay auction so we did that and put a reserve of £7250 and it made £6300!!! - finally someone at work had sold their TT through a site called dealerbid.co.uk so I went on there and sold it for £7300 to a dealer who collected it within a couple of days! - My point is that at £7995 it was a cheap car in comparison to dealer prices so why on earth couldnt I sell the car to the public for £7300 if a dealer is happy to pay that ? - He said they would put it up for £8995! - Think I must be missing something or people just prefer to buy from dealers. If id know before about that site id have gone that route because didnt cost me anything and no silly questions or messing around either.

Claire
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