Selling a car on Gumtree

Iceweasel

Thanks for the replies.

I'm a complete newbie to Gumtree.

When I check the average price of all BMWs on Gumtree I get a figure around £5K to £6K so you're right it seems to be mainly older/cheaper cars - especially BMWs

There are over 1500 320ds for sale - starting at £60 :rotfl:

There are quite a few in the price range £8500 to £13000 though.

I'm hoping to get around £11500 for mine.

It seems that almost everyone who has advertised a car on Gumtree gets lots of timewasters and daft low offers.

I haven't decided yet whether to give it a go or not.

I have nothing to lose as far as I can see - the ad is free - except my time answering the responses I get.

jimjames

I found eBay worked best for me selling a car of that value, fixed price fee and 30 days ad. Way cheaper than Autotrader and about 1/3 of price

force_ten

in a search within 50 miles of here the majority of bmw,s are 12 to 15 years old 100K miles and up starting at £500 to around 2K

one 2005 with near 200K on the clock, and one nice 61 plate low miles full service history that seems out of place amongst all the bargain basement motors

as you said it is free advert and all the waste of time texts only take seconds to read and delete and if you are prepared to field a few call you may make a sale

have you looked at a new car yet?

Iceweasel

force_ten wrote: »

have you looked at a new car yet?

Oh yes - it's not too difficult to get over 20% 'dealer contribution' off a brand new model - but the trade-in price is not so clever.

Marktheshark

Cash on collection, no insurance certificate showing cover to drive other cars = no test drive, no excuses or you can get six points .
Driving licence number of new owner on the v5 "put it or dont buy it !"
and where you sign the v5 put the time above the date in 24 hr format.
Make sure the V5 is filled in and you post it, do not let anyone offer to do it and post it later.

Last but not least, inform interested parties the car is cash only sale and anyone viewing will need their cash with them as proof of funds,

facade

roddydogs wrote: »

What rule?

When I placed mine as a free ad, I read the T&Cs in an attempt to find out if they could try and get some sort of fee out of me.

To get your ad at the top you have to cancel it and repost it so it counts as a new advert. There was some limit on how many times you could do this in a week without constituting an abuse of the system.

Unless there is another way to get it at the top, like editing an extra punctuation mark every few hours.

I just posted mine and let all the time-waster emails trickle in.

I was going to get it collected for scrap when the MOT ran out, but amazingly it sold without a test drive as it was SORN'd due to the insurance expiring.

ali-t

How do you plan to take payment? I couldnt find a way that i was comfortable with so took my car into a dealership and asked if they wanted to buy it. It was only a couple of years old and they offered me more than webuyanycar. I walked lut the same day with a cheque that i was sure wouldnt bounce and saw it a couple of hours later on the forecourt with another £2k added onto the price.

Iceweasel wrote: »

Thanks for the replies.

I'm a complete newbie to Gumtree.

When I check the average price of all BMWs on Gumtree I get a figure around £5K to £6K so you're right it seems to be mainly older/cheaper cars - especially BMWs

There are over 1500 320ds for sale - starting at £60 :rotfl:

There are quite a few in the price range £8500 to £13000 though.

I'm hoping to get around £11500 for mine.

It seems that almost everyone who has advertised a car on Gumtree gets lots of timewasters and daft low offers.

I haven't decided yet whether to give it a go or not.

I have nothing to lose as far as I can see - the ad is free - except my time answering the responses I get.

[Deleted User]

Last time I sold a car on Gumtree, which was last year, you could only list a car twice in a year for free. If you deleted an advert and reposted it, it still classed as one of your 2 car ads a year limit.

What I did was just open up another Gumtree account every day I re-posted the advert which I then deleted once the car was sold.

Gmail email labels comes in handy for this as anything after the '+' in the email address fools Gumtree into thinking it is a different email address e.g. myname+car@gmail.com goes to same inbox as myname@gmail.com

gilbert_and_sullivan

Idiots chancers scammers and those you need google translate to make head or tail of infest everywhere and every selling site (apparent buyers and sellers), the only good thing about gumtree is you arn't paying for the privelidge of having to deal with these types.

boundy

18 months ago I put on a 2006 VW transporter with a blow turbo, put it up for just under £4000, as it had over 200k on the clock and was pretty battered. I got a call within 30 minutes and bloke turned up with a trailer 3 hours later. Just wished I tried my luck £5000. Some of the scraper sites must of picked up the ad before I took it down, as I had phone all for weeks after offering me more money