selling car - how and where's best??

marbella

Try www.pistonheads.co.uk , I have bought a car through them and it seems ok. I think it is free to advertise.

LandyAndy

eschaton wrote: »

I can recommend Auto Trader. I used them for a 3 week magazine and web advert and paid £40 (think you can get £10 or so back on cashback sites but I didn't bother).

So can I.

I have sold all manner of cars through AutoTrader, including classics. I've always sold the car.

This was when I lived in the North West where there are lots of buyers close at hand. can't comment on how good they are in rural areas.

Kilty_2

kaya wrote: »

lol, we will buy any car.con reckon my £12,000 mercedes is only worth £8,800, thats a good deal(not), webuyanycar.con offered the same sort of figure, these companies are good for desperate people and idiots only, steer well clear is my advice or risk a 30% loss on whatever you could get privately, mercedes would probably pay me more than that, they also offered the same percentage loss on my £11000 shogun, parasites that live off of other peoples ignorance would be my description of the two companies

How much would you get for your "£12000" Merc trading it into a dealer?

That's essentially what you're doing except you're not buying another car from them - hence they offer just under trade price for everything.

WBAC quote my car at £5025 - Glass's Guide reckons £5450 trade-in price and I paid £5750 for it .

aqueoushumour01

on ebay, set with a reserve

movilogo

we will buy any car.con reckon my £12,000 mercedes is only worth £8,800, thats a good deal(not), webuyanycar.con offered the same sort of figure, these companies are good for desperate people and idiots only, steer well clear is my advice or risk a 30% loss on whatever you could get privately,

Most people won't buy a car privately which costs over £10k!

At least I won't - at that price I'll buy from somewhere where I can comeback if something goes wrong immediately (most dealers give 1-yr warranty on used cars)

Clare_king

Just thought I'd let you know, webuyanycar.com say my car is worth £640 - I bought it 2 years ago for £1,500. I wasn't expectiong much, but I think I probably could get £1000 so it fits in with what kaya was saying about giving you 30% less.

davidjwest

I've heard that the "We Buy Any Car" type of dealers will offer you a price and then haggle you down when you take the car to them. They'll look the vehicle over and say, "Oh, I have to knock £200 off for that tiny little scratch" etc etc.

I recently sold a 58 plate C Max that was worth £7-8.5k depending on what site I had it valued on, "We Buy Any Car" offered me £6.5k for it.

I didn't have any interest on Autotrader or Piston Heads and decided to put it on Ebay with a starting price (no reserve as you pay extra to list with a reserve) of £6.5k and got £6.7k for it. My thinking was if I couldn't sell it on Ebay then I would go to "We Buy Any Car" and see what they offered.

I was wanting to sell the car fairly quickly so only listed it for 5 days which was probably a mistake - I could have got a bit more I reckon if I'd listed it for longer.

If you set the starting price as the reserve then it works out cheaper on Ebay fees.