Best place to sell your shite?

[EssDeeWon]

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.

 

Not on facebook, I'm not that interested in what im doing most of the time let alone what other people are doing. *Shock.

[EssDeeWon]

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.

 

I totally forgot about Car&Classic but its annoying when people stick there 2005 Mondeos on there. Too many modernz to scroll through now but I used to enjoy browsing cars on there after it first got going.

 

As said above, ebay is fine for buying except on those dodgy shill bidding auctions where a car gets 50 odd bids to make £700, I leave those well alone and hope the sellers mate/brother/colleague ends up the highest bidder!!

[anonymous user]

I've now reached the point where my old shonky cars get scrapped, as I hate having to deal with people who have unrealistic expectations. (Actually amend that, I hate having to deal with what passes for the human race at all.) My modern gets traded in at the main dealer every three years, yes I could probably get more privately, but that means dealing with people. It's either that or keep everything, which is why I have four cars, but only drive one.

[spike60]

I've sold about a dozen cars on Ebay and while I have had moronic questions everyone has turned up and paid up.

I advertised a Corvette last year on Car and Classic and one of classic mags and got nowt. A classified on Ebay attracted a lot of attention, some dumb, but also had a call from Stuttgart the 1st night which got me a £250 deposit  and the balance in cash a week later when the car was collected. At £16 the listing was value.

[lisbon_road]

I think a lot depends on what you are selling.  I had a VW Touran to sell, 171K miles, dreadful body - dents, flat paint and even rust.  Went OK but various tyre wear issues.  Trouble is, at the price you'd just be better off spending £500 more and getting a lower miles car, so it attracted all the people who wanted a bargain but had second thoughts.  I even had one great succession of text messages ending 'I am just leaving'.  Well, he might have left, but he didn't show.

 

That was on autotrader.  I like it if I have plenty of time and then gumtree is free so what the hell. 

[PiperCub]

Maybe I've just been lucky but have had alot of success with ebay both buying and selling as a rule. Sure, when buying you have to be able to filter out the bullshitters and chancers but this has always been the case even when we relied on the classifieds.

 

The same with selling, you always get the chancers who send everyone emails that start 'I'm in your area tomorrow and can give you cash' - about a third of what you want out if it - in the hope someone is desperate and bites. The other universal idiot is the bargain hunter who again wants you to give them the car for almost nothing. Oh, and even worse, the above bargain hunter who expects you to take their pile of minging old tut p/x'er off their hands too (at a top price of course 'cos it's so good...). I used to wind up this clowns but CBA any more so they get deleted.

Anyone who sounds stupid/a timewaster, I put them off looking to save me time and hassle - has worked so far.

 

Specific forums can be a mixed blessing as other have said, yes, you are preaching to the converted but sometimes forum-ites expect to get a bargain and always seriously low-ball you. Had this bother selling my Suzuki Bandit 12 last year, sold on ebay for way more than offered on the forum with no hassle. Same went for my Alfa 156 last summer.

 

Never tried Gumtree or Car&Classic, never thought to try A/T with low priced stuff as thought it was too trade orientated for that.

 

Will be selling the Eunos soon so may try here first to see how it goes before resorting to ebay.

[brickwall]

Ebay ain't too bad around these parts, probably due to lower population and thus less idiots. The people willing to come out here are usually genuine.

 

I tried selling an ipad on Dumtree when I lived in Glasgow and got tonnes of idiots, some of whom I could not understand. Some also asked If I'd hold it until pay-day or would I hang onto it until they scraped the shekels together. It is good for buying though.

[TagoraSX]

Autotrader is only useful for new stuff imo.

 

 An ebay classified listing should get you good coverage and keep most of the mongs at arms length.

 

Car&Classic is excellent also.

[Stixy]

The good thing about ebay is somebody on here will spot it and post it ebay tat or bargains

 

 then everybody takes the piss out it   Which allways gives me a really good laugh  . 

[Spiny Norman]

For selling I tend to use either Gumtree for boring stuff, and operate a firm zero tolerance for fuckwits policy, which results in more than half the emails not even being answered, or Carandclassic.co.uk if it's vaguely interesting.
Most of the cars I've bought recently have either been off Ebay or car forums. I don't think I've ever bought a car off Gumtree.

[cort16]

I've never sold anything on carandclassics . My highest success rate had been gumtree and but it's a fud magnet . Facebook is the future but it's Mongtastic to the point I can barely read the for sale groups never mind post on them.

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

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 is a good thing!

 

In the olden days you effectively couldn't leave a bad seller negative feedback because they would often sabotage your feedback with a retaliatory negative. You got cheated AND your reputation was damaged. The eBay forums used to be full of this, and advice was to wait exactly 90 days before leaving negative feedback to minimise the chance of the revenge neg. Except after 90 days countless more people have been scammed. 

 

Sellers get screwed over sometimes but that happens whether they're a chain store, car boot stall or classified ad seller. 

[dollywobbler]

I think Retro-Rides is probably my most productive place when it comes to sales. Have sold a few there. Gumtree can work but as said, is mong-heavy. Ebay is still where I do most of my hunting though, even if I don't tend to sell there now.

 

Actually, I lied. I think I've sold more cars via Autoshite than RR! Two this year. 

[Negative Creep]

This is a good thing!

 

In the olden days you effectively couldn't leave a bad seller negative feedback because they would often sabotage your feedback with a retaliatory negative. You got cheated AND your reputation was damaged. The eBay forums used to be full of this, and advice was to wait exactly 90 days before leaving negative feedback to minimise the chance of the revenge neg. Except after 90 days countless more people have been scammed. 

 

Sellers get screwed over sometimes but that happens whether they're a chain store, car boot stall or classified ad seller. 

 

 

This is true, I remember leaving a negative for something that wasn't remotely as described and he responded by stating I paid using a stolen credit card. Problem with the feedback system is that it relies on honesty

[PiperCub]

Pardon my ignorance but I've never used them - are Retro-rides and Car&Classic free to sell on? If so I thought I might give them a go before resorting to ebay as I'm in no hurry to sell my old Eunos and like to try alternative sources. I don't do Faceburk or social-diseasing so not interested in that.

 

Never used Gumtree either but the vibe on here is that it's full of morons - is that the general concensus? Reason I ask is I won't go there if this is the case as I've an extremely low tolerance level to mongs, timewasters & fucktards (& getting lower as I get older too).

[EssDeeWon]

Nothing to lose by trying CarandClassic, but as the others have said Gumtree is a low place to be buying or selling stuff especially cars.

[scooters]

I prefer to sell my chod here at chodtastic prices.

[scooters]

Carandclassic for the proper classics. Or if in no hurry.

[Sigmund Fraud]

An added advantage of C&C is that they put sellers' phonecalls through to you via an anonymising, premium-rate service. I was a bit apprehensive about this initially, but it magically filters out most timewasters. Genuine buyers still call, because if you're about to pay Ã‚£500 for a decrepit old shitter you can afford a 50p phonecall. Timewasters, on the other hand, prefer to email, so you are very rarely disturbed by feckless teenagers wanting to know if your 'cool looking' Allegro has a 'full service history'

[Junkman]

This is a good thing!

 

In the olden days you effectively couldn't leave a bad seller negative feedback because they would often sabotage your feedback with a retaliatory negative. You got cheated AND your reputation was damaged. The eBay forums used to be full of this, and advice was to wait exactly 90 days before leaving negative feedback to minimise the chance of the revenge neg. Except after 90 days countless more people have been scammed. 

 

Sellers get screwed over sometimes but that happens whether they're a chain store, car boot stall or classified ad seller. 

 

No, it is not a good thing.

Not with the amount of nobs on Ebay today.

Either nobody can leave negative feedback, or both sides can, but not one and one not.

 

Well, I guess it doesn't matter to me anyway, I'm not selling anything on Ebay, unless they introduce fairer conditions for sellers.