need to sell car urgently

rkrishna

I need to sell my car urgently, because I am moving abroad early next month. I checked the valuation of the car in "whatcar.com" and called up some dealers, but their quote is much less than the price shown on the website. their quote is £1500 less than the price shown on the site. I advertised the car on Gumtree and AutoTrader as well. the car is in very good condition. it is 2008 Vauxhall Vectra 5dr hatchback and the mileage is 24K and I am selling it for £5500. is there anyway I can get a better price somewhere else? Thanks in advance

Lum

Dealers will always quote you less as they need to sell it for a profit. The likes of WeBuyAnyCar.con will give you a nice looking quote, then when you turn up with the car will find a whole bunch of excuses to knock the price down.

Only way to get chose to the book valuation is a private sale and deal with all the hassle of tyre kickers, test pilots, teenagers who can't get insured on it and other assorted idiocy.

blacksta

Two options

webuyanycar or private ( which might be faster or longer ) , But you could shorten the time by making sure the car inside and outside and clean , all paper work present, and reasonably priced.

atrixblue.-MFR-.

auction house, they will assist on a valueation and fixed reserve and busy nights, ofcourse commision etc to come of for sale of it.

cannyscot_2

You could just put it on ebay with a start price of £5000 ie not top price and see how it goes if you are really desperate put it on to end at the weekend. Ive been buying a car this week and there were plenty decent cars being sold that way.

Or with a lower start or price higher reserve or try it out this weekend and then adjust for next weekend.

Could a friend not do it for you?

pitkin2020

book price maybe £5500 but a dealer won't pay anywhere near that as they need a mark up, Webuyanycar need a mark up and an auction house will probably go for less too as dealers there will want a mark up.

You won't get top price unless you sell it privately. As others have suggested start it on ebay under 5k and see how it goes or list at £5500 with best offer. If you want a quick sale you'll need to shave atleast 1k of book price and accepted 1.5k less than book price.

Notmyrealname

Auctions if you want shut quick. The only thing with having to sell a car quickly is you have to accept you're going to get kicked in the nuts with the price it fetches.

forgotmyname

Traders on ebay have them listed for under £5000 so getting £5500 from a dealer is not on the cards.

Several under £4000. So it depends what model you have and its condition.

atrixblue.-MFR-.

if you want shot your going to have to get to three places ebay, auction or sell to dealer, either case book price is £5500 highend your not going to get anywhere near unless private sale through ebay pistoneheads etc. thinking about auction last time i went was summer last year and the 03-05 yr vectra's were genrally selling at around £2900 £4200 with 60k or there abouts.

granted yours have lower than average mileage this maybe a concern to some people as to why its so low, sunday car? in the garage more than on the road kind of train of thought it does with me.

marlot

http://www.sure-sell.info/default.aspx

Hintza

marlot wrote: »

http://www.sure-sell.info/default.aspx

Honest John harps on about sure-sell so worth a shot.

If it is not selling then it is too expensive and from what you say time is your enemy.

Either try sure-sell or knock a £1k off to start.

Your decision is time or money.