Best place to sell your shite?

[EssDeeWon]

Hi shiters - A point I want to get off chest, why do people resort to Ebay when they cannot shift a car on here??

 

I have always thought of Ebay as being a last last resort, infact I probably still wouldnt use it even then! It seems very expensive to me and for what? To deal with mongs and acheive a half decent price if your lucky? If your happy to deal with total twits you might as well use Gumtree, after all its FREE!!

 

If your a little more serious about trying to get a little more for the car and are happy to entertain viewings why not try Autotrader for shite under a grand is £9.99! I have always had great sucess selling cars on there, sometimes for the full asking price.

 

Maybe some people think Autotrader being a well established car buying/selling site that its going to cost ££££ to use? Just thought I would mention this as it appears some on here might not be aware of how cheap Autotrader can be for selling sub grand shite.

 

I just wondered why Ebay is most peoples first resort when IMHO it should be the last.

 

Moan/rant/winge over ( btw I dont work for Autotrader   )

[dave21478]

Granted, its been years, but whenever I used Autotrader I always got zero calls from buyers and dozens of calls from folk trying to get me to pay for adverts in their non-existant trade magazines or asking for an upfront fee to put me in touch with a guaranteed* buyer.

[nacho man]

I flogged my stag on eBay for a nice profit, it was like 15 quid or whatever for a classified ad. Put it up on sat night and by Sunday it had sold.

 

Maybe I am lucky but I have got rid of loads of cars on eBay and never had a problem.

 

It is fully of plonkers but the audience amount that gets to see your car is unbeatable really.

[Stixy]

All i ever got from Auttotrader was canvassers  ,

 

ebay has the coverage and a lot of people use it  and ive had lots of free entertainment off mongs  , trick is use a classified add that way nobody can end a sale or auction by bidding ,  costs £15 for a car for 30 days refundable if you know what to do   .

 

Ive advertised a few cars on here but never sold anything through any forum yet 

[Junkman]

This forum isn't...etc..etc...

[KruJoe]

Autoshite right here has been doing fairly well recently. Even though we each have (more than) enough motors, it will sell if the price is right.

[Stixy]

Location has a lot to do with things too 

 

People are generally scared to come to Lincolnshire 

[cort16]

Ebay - time wasters

Gumtree - fuck wit bargain hunters

Forums  - Specialist (i.e can you give me the exact history with time and dates of when you last greased the nipple under the flange plate on this £100 wreck your selling)

Autotrader - The place normal people buy cars

 

I've had pretty good results with gumtree and autotrader to fair. Recently I've had nothing but massive failurz with ebay.

[messerschmitt owner]

These are my last few car sales from 2011 onwards

 

XM 2.0 sold on Forum - AS

XM 2.1 sold on forum - XM forum

Fiat Punto sold on Gumtree

Citroen BX - sold on forum - BX forum

Sherpa - sold on car and classic

Honda Z600 - sold on forum - retrorides

Honda Z600 - sold on forum - retrorides

Motorhome - sold on driveway to irishman with £15500 in cash in his pocket

 

Purchases from 2010

Xm 2.1 - carandclassic

XM 2.1 -  local rag

XM 2.0 - word of mouth

Sherpa - ebay (private deal via AS)

Fiat 126 - Ebay BIN

Citroen BX - Ebay

XM 2.1 estate - carandclassic but knew of via XM forum

[EssDeeWon]

Never had any problems with cold callers on Autotrader, do those places still exist?

 

My only time on Ebay was selling a car for £900 some years ago and receiving an invoice the following month for £40+

 

As Dave21478 says, you are almost guarenteed a buyer on ebay but maybe less than via a classified? I tend to think people won't pay as much for a car they haven't seen, other than a few pictures.

[Station]

Sold a bit on ebay - unfortunately 50% of the time I've had mongs winning and then claiming they have some excuse as to why they are bell ends, or even worse - haggling on the final price or claiming the auction description can be taken two ways (ie "the car does no have any tax, contact me if you want the car taxed before sale" can easily be translated to "car has no tax, but message me after you've won the car if you want me to pay for road tax for you").

 

Worst one was Subaru Justy on Retro Rides. About ten people had the cash waiting ready to buy.

Subaru Impreza was also the same on ebay. Why do people bid on cars when they don't want it?

[KruJoe]

try Autotrader for [advertising] shite under a grand is £9.99

I didn't know this. Could be very useful for run-of-the-mill stuff.

[Junkman]

I had reasonably good success on Ebay, although it is expensive.

No idea why Autotrader still exists. I've tried it twice, with absolutely zero success, and I'm now pestered for the rest of my life with their stupid surveys.

Gumtree is the lowest of the low. I once sold a bicycle, and also tried to sell a car there. If you think Ebay is full of mongs, you are correct to an extend,

but Ebay also harbours the odd sound folk, whereas Dumbtree really is a total asylum.

[Negative Creep]

Sadly I've never had any luck through here, RR or PH classifieds - ebay and Autotrader have proven the most fruitful so far

[Junkman]

I'm increasingly reluctant to use Ebay as a seller in future, though. Two reasons:

 

- It became a legal minefield.

- I can't leave negative feedback as a seller.

 

I'd say Ebay is for buying, not for selling.

[Lacquer Peel]

 

<£1000, <30 miles away = my problem with Auto Trader.

[EssDeeWon]

Blimey where do you live and blimey that Subaru looks cheap??

[EssDeeWon]

I'm increasingly reluctant to use Ebay as a seller in future, though. Two reasons:

 

- It became a legal minefield.

- I can't leave negative feedback as a seller.

 

I'd say Ebay is for buying, not for selling.

 

THIS!!

 

I found this out when selling an old antique corner chair, it sold for peanuts but I wanted it gone, anyway no comms/replies to emails or payment from the seller so eventually I chucked the thing out, then randomly the buyer contacts me saying he will try and pick it up soon. Errrr Sorry Pal im not a furniture storage business and ive not heard from you so I had to sling it out. I get bad feedback but cannot leave feedback for them!? Ebay account was closed there and then and will never sell on Ebay again.

[Mr Lobster]

Sold a few cars on ebay with no problems at all. I don't really consider around £15 that expensive given the coverage it gets.anything more specialist is probably better done through marque forums.

 

Tried Autotrader which was a complete waste of my money as it generated nothing other than calls trying to sell me more advertising. Given what I've seen of Gumtree, I'd probably just weigh something cheap in rather than try that.

[Craig the Princess]

Beige1100 (who is still lurking on here) sold his £400 Rover 420 on autotrader, ad placed Thursday last week, car gone on Sunday afternoon. It had been on Car and Classic for about 4 months. It seems to be better for more normal everyday cars.

[SambaS]

The thing with eBay is it was excellent

I would not sell on it now. But I do still religiously search it for Talbot stuff. The last thing sold on my account was my mates Xbox One, £300 it got after a failed attempt prior. Cost £45 in fees, that seemed steeper than steep to me, or maybeI just want to find fault with it now. Go Dave Bay !

[SambaS]

And in answer to this thread try your local Facebook buy sell swap group. My Corsa went the following day after placing the ad, after 7 days of being on the bay and failing to sell. And they are free.

[Junkman]

THIS!!

 

I found this out when selling an old antique corner chair, it sold for peanuts but I wanted it gone, anyway no comms/replies to emails or payment from the seller so eventually I chucked the thing out, then randomly the buyer contacts me saying he will try and pick it up soon. Errrr Sorry Pal im not a furniture storage business and ive not heard from you so I had to sling it out. I get bad feedback but cannot leave feedback for them!?

The other variation that pisses me off, is when I listed old, rare, and desirable model kits.

Those can be over half a century old, and whoever wins the auction, must have been looking for it for quite some time, and probably lost out on a few previous auctions.

Yet, if it then doesn't arrive at his doorstep 23.6 hours after he clicked on the checkout button, all hell breaks lose.

If it took years to find and win something, that hasn't been available in decades, a few days won't matter much, I'd think?

Yet they gave me negative feedback just for that.

[derskine]

I had my polo saloon on ebay, someone bid and won and then decided they didn't want it.

From now on I'll advertise cars on here/blue/appropriate car club forums and if no one wants them I'll break them and sell the bits.

[forddeliveryboy]

I see a lot of sellers on ebay who reduce any neg feedback to a fraction of a % by buying loads of very cheap stuff, which is needed anyway and as cheap including p&p as anywhere else. But yes, place of last resort for selling a cheap car.

[beko1987]

Not sold many cars but have always stayed away from ebay, but then I put the XM on after it not selling here and other forums for weeks and it sold on here 2 days after! I'd like ot think it was a good use of a tenner to kick the process off!

 

Puma - scrapped, but sold alot of spares through the project puma forum

ZX 1.4 - Sold via a sign in the window, bought from AT

XM - Bought through here!

XM - Sold through here

ZX 1.9td - via a chance PM on pissed-on-heads

ZX 1.9TD - Who knows where it will be sold, if it's still sellable by the time I want rid. Will offer it up here for peanuts though first as is the AS way!

[NorfolkNWeigh]

I've just MOT'd Mrs N's Gaylander and am about to advertise it. I was going to put it on Autotrader and maybe Pistbnheads, but I'm now thinking an ebay classified ad maybe the way to go .

Its an 07 HSE with 97k and an incomplete history( ie since I've had it ,it ain't been near a dealer) prices range from £12,000 at Indy garages to £7500 for cat c's with a million miles . I was going to stick it up for £8,500- I paid £9,000 for it 18 months ago so can afford to take a bit of a chip off that,if I have to. Trouble is there's millions of them for sale ,although most aren't as high spec. Only really selling it to justify having a half decent Classic Range Rover and a nasty little tdi Audi/BMW/Merc for her work.

Any thoughts on the best place to advertise it? Would swap for Maestro Van.

[Sigmund Fraud]

I always use Car&Classic to sell my old shitters. It's free and seems to be used by a posher, more mature audience than ebay/gumtree, which is always a good thing.

 

It's no good if you need to sell fast, weeks may pass without a single phonecall. But, if you persist, some eccentric nutcase will invariably turn up and buy your knackered shiteheap for a fair price.

[Micrashed]

Got the Maverick advertised on Autotrader (£9.99) and eBay classified (£14.99) - not a sniff on either of them.

 

Dropped the advertised price to £850, I actually want betwixt £700 and £750 for it (im still making a loss) which for a 4x4 with 12 months MOT and 4 months tax I dont think is bad myself.

 

Not a sniff.

 

Couple of half arsed "suchand suchabody look at this" on the Facebook group and same on the 4x4 forum. But I suppose its the wrong time of year to try selling one. Perhaps I should mothball it to October time?

[Jim Bell]

This thread is exactly why I don't sell and buy loads of cars or use the internet.