Best way to sell caravan - advice needed

snooky

We're lucky enough to have a lovely touring caravan but unlucky because our working patterns have changed so we can hardly use it any more

Since it costs us money to store and insure, we've very reluctantly decided to sell it and all the associated kit.

This is the only caravan I've ever owned, I bought it 2nd hand from a dealer so I've never sold one at all, or bought one from any other source. I'd be interested to know if anyone has any good tips of places to advertise it or how best to sell it.

I've advertised on autotrader.co.uk and also a couple of camping/caravanning sites which offer free classifieds, ukcampsite.co.uk & caravantalk.org.uk (sorry if I'm not allowed to post website addresses, I'll remove if necessary)

Are there any other useful sites - free or otherwise, I don't mind paying if I get a sale - or any other ways of selling that people could recommend?

Thanks for any tips.

leveller2911

I tried selling through Friday-ad etc and on the classified ads online but sold my mortorhome for £32k on e-bay...I didn't do it via an auction just on there as a classified ad so it would have ran for months ,luckily it sold within 2 weeks to the 2nd person that looked at it..As a classified on e-bay it cost under £20-00.

I had put an advery in Friday-ad to run for 2 editions and online and it cost £20-00 for 2 weeks.....

I asked for a deposit of £500-00, the rest was transferred into my account within 5 days and they came round on the following Sat and picked it up.Don't let them take it without the funds having cleared in your bank first......

poppet

Gumtree might be worth a try

snooky

Look like I've managed to sell the caravan for close to my asking price within 3 days of putting a classified ad on eBay.

If it will help anyone in future, here's what I tried and the results:

Autotrader = £48 for 2 weeks + 1 week in the magazine
- waste of money for me, got no calls except from CarData (grrr)

ukcampsite.co.uk - free
- Got no response as yet

CaravanTalk.org.uk - free
- Got 3 people so far contacting me about the accessories but not the caravan (pretty good for a small website & free ad in such a short time)

eBay classified - £14 for 28 days (incl adding a Best Offer feature)
- Got 5 offers for the caravan in the first 3 days, rejected all but then got repeat offers which matched the price I wanted so the caravan is now sold - assuming the people actually turn up with the money.

Many thanks to leveller2911 for the advice about the ebay classified, which really worked for me :beer: