I Need Your Help Please!

Muppet81

This is possibly not the right place to post this but it is a genuine money saving query.

In two weeks I will be out of work, my firm are relocating. After much thought and planning, my OH and I decided that if we sold the 2nd car, I could afford not to work. Selling the car and carrying on working is a non-starter as we live in a remote spot. Not working but having the time to use the OS moneysaving tips to the full will mean a good standard of living for us.

The problem is... cars are not selling.

We owe £9800 on it and have been trying to sell it for months now but with no success.

We intend to accept anything over £5,000 for a quick sale and use our savings to pay off the difference. I hate to do this but need to know that it has sold and that there is not the possibility of an expensive repair cropping up.

Here is where I could do with some help please

Do any of you have any tips/ideas on making the advert a bit different ... more likely to appeal?

Have any of you used unusual methods to sell yours?

I have printed out some posters to leave in the windows when it is parked in the village or at work.

OH has put it on his works notice board.

It has been advertised in the local papers and will be again this week, at the reduced price.

Any help would be appreciated.

wogglemaker

Have you heard of Preloved?? Have a google for the site, their ads are free.

Good luck

Pink.

Hi Muppet81,

The experts on the Motoring Board should be able to point you in the right direction and give you some tips on selling so I'll move your thread over there.

I've seen this website mentioned on there before: www.webuyanycar.com

I hope you manage to sell it soon.

Pink

System

if you stil owe finance on it you cant sell it as its not actuslly yours ! could you not hand it back to the dealer ?

Muppet81

I love that idea but sadly the car is not on Finance.

The £9800 is just a normal loan.

Thanks though.

ArsenalFC

What exactly is the car? Perhaps you are over pricing the car in the current market. List details of the car and we can see whether is price correctly or overprice. Also big engine cars tend to suffer badly now.

MX5huggy

You need to go national with your advertising. People will travel for the right car.

Autotrader, eBay classifides, or even auction always made book price on eBay auctions and it cuts out all that haggling.

harveybobbles

What car is it?

Give us the full details of it as the reason it's not selling might be down to an OTT price...

Or you might be trying to sell some 5 litre V12 or something...

Muppet81

Thanks for the support all of you ..... I didn't put details as i thought it could look like I was advertising.

It is a 2003 (03 plate) TOYOTA RAV 4 2.0 Diesel 5 door VX model. Top of range with leather seats. In lovely condition. Lowish mileage at 58,000 I think? Taxed, tested MOT till April 09 and cam belt changed. 60,000 mile service done to sell. FSH.

We were asking £6995 and brought it down to £6500.

In hindsight we were falling into the trap most people do in thinking it was worth more than it was.

Any thoughts on what is a realistic level would be much appreciated.

Then to £6000. We got a couple of calls, people who were going to come and see it but never turned up. I hate that, waiting all day and getting your hopes up.

In desperation we will now go down to £5,000 if we were offered that. Surely it can't be a bad buy at that

PS It has been in Autotrader ... for 3 seperate occasions in fact. I admit though that the price was not realistic at that stage. may have to try it again at a more realistic level.

hewhoisnotintheknow

too much im afraid

gravitytolls

Search for your car on ebay, adtrader etc. to see how much they're being advertised for. Try searching finished listings on ebay to see what folk are actually paying.