Selling Cars

PhilCCFC

Just wondering the best, and cheapest, places to advertise our car. Any ideas

BenL

The cheapest is a sign in your car parked on the main road. You may get lucky.

Sign up at workplace.

Free ads

Local Paper

Auto Trader £30 i think for 1 week in the magazine and 2 weeks on the website. Autotrader costs the most but gets alot of website hits and its where people look when they want a car.

Don't fall for companies ringing you saying they have buyers in the area looking for cars like yours as they are scams. My opinion. Heard lots of bad things as well.

Ben

ReductionQueen

Try Loot https://www.loot.com , it's free to advertise and comes out once in the paper edition, plus online for weeks (I can't tell exactly how long, some ads hang around for weeks, where as others are only days, maybe if the owner cancels after a sale). In some areas Loot's equivalent is called FreeAds, try a search to see if they are online.

Be wary of just putting a sign in your car and parking it on a main road, some councils (often after being overrun with sellers) get a bit shirty and might take action againts you as an unlicenced seller.

sassy_one

Depending on how new and the value of the car you are selling, Gumtree is free and is pretty good.

You could also try eBay, but this will cost.

One other one to try would be AutoTrader

bigjl

Gumtree and Loot, nothing but hassle in my experience, I have tried them all, including Ebay, I now stick with the good old Autotrader, especially since they changed the system and you can now download photos, so you don't have to wait for the agent to come round to take your photos like they used to do before.

sassy_one

I have sold a number of cars on Gumtree, completely hassle free.

Depending on the value and age of the car, you often will get good replies/offers.

I have to admit, a newer car that I tried to sale on Gumtree, did not get any calls, so think goes to show if you have a 10+ year old car to sale, Gumtree is a good place to do just that, free of any charges!

bigjl

Gumtree and Loot, and possibly Ebay tend to attract the kind of buyer, that always wants to know your last price, them turns up with four family members and tries to bully you into taking a lower price than your last price.

An old boss, we are talking about the mid ninties used to love Loot, but only because it was free, and he was selling old nackers anyway, to help with the payroll, with everything in life you get what you pay for, if a seler doesn't want to pay anything for an advert then I don't want to buy anything they are selling, at least not as valuable as a car, maybe an old couch, this may be a generalisation, but I spent many years arriving at my generalisation, and it works for me.