Selling used car to dealer - tactics to get best price?

Rolandtheroadie

Ok, back to we buy any car (who are just dealers behind a fancy ad) and a dealer. The threads complaining about them are because they're a national company and a lot of people have been upset by them.
An independent dealer will be the same way with you.
You just want rid, go to them. They will give you what a dealer will. Because they're dealers too.

And Parkers mention a trade-in price ( dealers ignore parkers anyway) thats the price that you would look at.

britbat

Just thought I'd give you all an update on this.


Cleaned the car up, took it to the auction a week or so ago. Set the reserve at just over the average of the three trade-in prices given on the CAP valuation.


It went for exactly the reserve, after commission it will get me almost the exact average of the CAP trade-in prices.


So, local auction worked nicely for me and while I could maybe have got a bit more privately, that was by no means guaranteed - and would definitely have been more work than a trip to the carwash, interior vacuuming, and a quick drive round to the auction. And the difference was only about £150 anyway.

emmell

Well done, but I wouldn't normally tell a private seller to go to auction because the costs eat up any profit, the trade get discounts (depending on how many cars they put through a week. Most of the trade don't pay entry fees and there will not be a limit on how many times the vehicle is entered (unless the reserve is set at an unrealistic price).
The only time I would tell a private seller to use auction is if the car has unseen problems that is going to cost a fortune to put right.
But I don't suppose that applied to you, did it?
ML.