Struggling to Sell Car Privately

lodgertotenant

I'm trying to sell my Vauxhall Corsa, 2013 reg it's a really good little car economic (80mg) with low emissions so no road tax to pay, 5doors, 35,250 miles on the clock, red in colour. Full service history MOT until next Jan ...

I have it advertised everywhere I can possibly think of; Autotrader, Gumtree (constantly refreshing ad to get it to the top of listings), Friday Ad (online), Preloved (online), eBay classified and motors.co.uk. There's plenty of pictures of the car from different angles, one of the boot, one of the engine, inside the car etc. and I've written a full description detailing everything about the car.

Someone was supposed to come and see it today (1st bit of interest after 6 weeks of advertisement) but changed their mind as they found something else instead. I don't know what else to do. I don't want to sell it to a dealer as they're offering such a low price.

I can't afford to keep it up on Autotrader when it next expires and that's the biggest site for car selling so I just don't know what to do. I'm selling the car to clear off about 2/3 of my debt and because I don't actually use/need a car anymore so there's no point me keeping it.

Have I priced it wrong? It's up for £5025 and I can't go any lower it's I think it's worth a few hundred more than what I'm asking.

I'm really struggling, can anyone offer any advice?

Thanks,

Stevie_Palimo

Selling mid range cars can be a slow process and I always check online with others of similar age and miles on the clock to gauge what I would ask for, I did offer a car back in March for around £5500.00 and the advert was up for around 4 weeks or so before anyone really bid near to what I wanted, All I do is refresh an advert weekly and then go through Gumtree, Autotrader and maybe my local paper but I do normally pay to be the front page advert to get more views.

Nobbie1967

As above really, most cars of this type are sold by dealers and many will not be looking for private sales. I searched on AT and found your car easily as it's one of only 5 cars, compared to 16 pages of trader cars. For what it's worth, seems like a decent price for a decent car. May just take time.

foxy-stoat

Not surprised you have had very little interest, found your car on page 14 if I put in £5000 - £5500 search without selecting private sales, so many Corsas.

I'd say stick with it, maybe drop the price to £4999. Your advert is a little waffley for me, but has a good amount of information on and good photos.

s_b

lots of people dont like red cars as they think they fade like old vauxhalls did
i had a customer ask me to source her a car only yesterday and one stipulation was that it wasnt red

BeenThroughItAll

s_b wrote: »

lots of people dont like red cars as they think they fade like old vauxhalls did
i had a customer ask me to source her a car only yesterday and one stipulation was that it wasnt red

Perhaps it's nothing to do with fading, and they just don't like red.

[Deleted User]

Don't know about other peoples views, but anything over a few K and I like to buy from a trader. I'm fine with buying a £500 scrapper privately, but I'd like the protection from buying from a trader if I'm spending a lot.

parking_question_chap

Red is pretty much the least popular colour for cars right now (how many do you see out and about?). Unless its priced under similar age/milage I dont think it will be an easy sale.

butterfly72

What about a for sale ad in the car window. I sold my car within a day of putting one in the back window. A colleague saw it and bought the car for her daughter.

bobbymotors

It's the money.

It's always the money.

To sell it in that colour it needs to be the cheapest one around that age and mileage.

interstellaflyer

parking_question_chap wrote: »

Red is pretty much the least popular colour for cars right now (how many do you see out and about?). Unless its priced under similar age/milage I dont think it will be an easy sale.

I sold a 13 plate Red Qashqai to a trader back in February with similar mileage for more than double what the OP is asking for his Corsa.