Best way to sell an old second hand car?

colino

Please do not even think about using Gumtree for selling anything that is half decent. It is populated by driveway dealers selling off dangerous scrap and buyers who think a £1000 car can be obtained by swapping for £50 and a dodgy iPhone.

loskie

Not at all. I sold a good Polo Tdi sport for £4k.
Have sold white goods on gumtree, bought and sold cycles and given away my fish pond fish! I find it very useful.
Price your car realistically as I said before and it will sell.
Price it at £995 (under that £1k psychological barrier) and be willing to haggle down to 900 but aim at 950.
dealer has probably priced your car to scrap for £150 so remember to add the extra £350 discount to any purchase from him with no trade in.
http://www.honestjohn.co.uk/buy_sell/selling/

fred246

colino wrote: »

Please do not even think about using Gumtree for selling anything that is half decent. It is populated by driveway dealers selling off dangerous scrap and buyers who think a £1000 car can be obtained by swapping for £50 and a dodgy iPhone.

All the websites mentioned just get buyers and sellers together. They don't get involved in any transaction. There will always be dealers trying to buy things cheaply for re-sale. My buyer saw the advert on Gumtree which had cost me nothing. I had exactly the same advert on Autotrader which cost me £7.95. Ebay seemed to be much more expensive and they normally make you accept Paypal. In any dispute Paypal tends to favour the buyer so you could get a chargeback and end up with nothing.

skivenov

Park it on the side of the road with a price in the window.

arcon5

fred246 wrote: »

I photographed mine and put it on Gumtree for free and Autotrader for £7.95. I avoided ebay because the fees were too high and I didn't want to be paid by paypal with all the problems that can cause. It went very quickly.

Fortunately paypal offer no buyer protection for cars so that takes some of the worry away.

Or eBay classified listing and cash on collection

fred246

So if the buyer uses a fraudulent credit card Paypal end up picking up the cost?

ado

I recently tried to sell our two family cars which we'd replaced and was really surprised by the lack of interest in them on any site. I put my 2003 Mondeo on Gumtree and had one interested party after 4 weeks whilst my wife's car was in the local paper, shops, Gumtree and Ebay and had no interest at all. The most cost effective way of advertising her car was by parking it on the street with a for sale sign in the window however I eventually sold it using a free ad at work.

redpete

YORKSHIRELASS wrote: »

Thanks, we could part-ex it because we will be buying from a garage but is this the best thing to do?

Easiest thing to do but best...?

We've sold two old cars in the last couple of years, both over 10 yrs old, one with reasonably high mileage. Garage offered auction price for trade-in. We cleaned them up and advertised on Gumtree and got £800 and £500 respectively fairly quickly, a few hundred profit over what the trade-in offered.

arcon5

fred246 wrote: »

So if the buyer uses a fraudulent credit card Paypal end up picking up the cost?

I don't know what happens where it's paid for fraudulently but I know they offer no buyer protection if the buyer wants to play silly !!!!!!s

cajef

Five posts by newbie all spamming the same site, :spam: