The joy of selling

[Bren]

My A6 goes in for it's MOT on Monday.

 

Hopefully after that I am sell.

 

Hopefully.

 

Car is immaculate, 60 k with history and petrol V6. I have spent over £400 on the brakes and a new coolant temp sensor. The car now runs faultlessly.

 

After three years I fancy a change.

 

However looking at cars being offered for sale nothing seems to be shifting for much. WBAC offered a generous £1585 which would be reduced because I have no spare key.

 

I will put it on ebay as a classified ad - no auction because I would rather keep it than let it go for £1800. Which I will do.

 

Wish me luck....

[sierraman]

That'll be on it's way to Romania before you can say EPB. To be fair that's no bad thing, the eastern European buyers tend to turn up with cash in their hand and take it away. If it were something like a 2003 Focus or an Astra I'd start taking the prozac now.

[Cavcraft]

AutoTrader.

[sierraman]

As above its more of a chance of someone normal piping up. Gumtree as I see it you've a good 75% chance the buyer will be on spice.

[rantingYoof]

Mine has been on Gumtree, Preloved and Autotrader for a week and an advert is also going on Motors.co.uk (which is free) but it is awaiting authorisation.

 

The Autotrader advert is a super-duper premium listing costing a whopping £58 for six weeks, but apparently it gets more photographs and is prioritised for mobile users etc etc. It's had 217 views now, and three calls as a result (all from the same person, alas, who decided not to come view it). I've been dubious of eBay classified ads but I'm never certain what percentage or cut eBay takes if you sell...

 

I've also been offered via text a new-shape 2005 320d with 145k on the clock as a direct swap.

 

But I've not even had anyone offering me '400 cash 2 morrow' or any kind of games console.

 

I've been checking Autotrader daily for the best part of two weeks now and it looks like a lot of stuff is just hanging about. Whether people are not cancelling adverts after selling or whether the market has really ground to a halt I'm not sure, but I wish you much better luck than I'm having!

[Bren]

People are asking £3k + for clapped out shite with various faults.

Every time it goes in for MOT or other work everybody comments how clean it is - it drives like a new car - which is why I will keep it if I get low ball offers from the great unwashed.

[Tamworthbay]

I don’t suppose the weather is helping sales, too hot to be messing around poking about cars for most people. I fucking hate selling cars and bikes, as said above hopefully some decent east Europeans will snap it up. Last two of my wife’s moderns have gone to Poles, who turned up when they said they would, took a sensible look around, paid and disappeared. Perfect buyers.

[rantingYoof]

A good point.

 

Advertising a car with black leather and non-functioning air-con during a heat-wave certainly singles me out as a hopeless optimist.

[Cavcraft]

 low ball offers from the great unwashed.

 

250 cash m8

[sierraman]

Only worf 250 m8, my m8 is a mecanic at is cousins garage n e says your injecters are fooked. Can u keep it 4 me as my money dunt cum in till wensday. My gfs american pitbul died last WK so wer props skint but I cn pay u in August wen we r bak frm skeggy.

[sierraman]

I'm always wary of swaps. Its usually someone swapping something like that clapped out BMW in the hope yours is better.

[cort16]

I'd put it on autotrader and raise your price to cover the advert costs. Autotrader is the place normal people tend to go to buy normal cars.

 

worst to best experiences

 

facebook

gumtree

ebay classifieds

autotrader

card in the post office window

[Alanism]

I've swapped a couple of vehicles.  One I think was a good deal.  One wasn't so good - I got well and truly stitched up on a motorcycle I did a swap for.  My own stupid fault.  I think I'm more careful when buying with cash for some reason.  After the motorcycle, I won't swap anymore.  I'd rather sell low.  I still prefer cash when selling.

 

I really don't like selling though.  Historically I was selling an old Peugeot 307cc and got so fed up with it I gave it away to a family member whos (Rover) had OMGHGF.  When selling a cheap car you can attract some truly awful buyers.  

[sierraman]

I like those buyers that come round and want a bit of money off cause its not the diesel. It'll cost them another £5 a week in fuel so for that reason they'll expect you to drop it by several hundred.

 

The sad thing is at the amount you are putting it up for, you'll get a load of two Bob millionaires round whose budget probably stretches to an Astra, expecting to run it on pennies. They'll make an offer roughly 40% of the asking price, then in a voice that sounds like he is talking with a mouth full of bread rolls, justify how its worth about £4.56. In six months it'll have a red streak on a dent down its 1/4 panel and be sat on one space saver outside a pub with a flat roof on the outskirts of Runcorn. The ashtrays will be full and there will be a man who can't eat anything other than Subways because he has no teeth, trying to diagnose why it won't run properly with the aid of a £4.99 eBay FCR. The service history will have been lost or drawn on by one of the several awful kids they'll have. Eventually it'll surface on Gumtree and get swapped for a Dell laptop and a petrol Stihl strimmer. It will most likely end its days driving 4 crack heads round said Runcorn from burglary to crack house until the Police take it off them.

[theshadow]

gumtree you always get the fookers,but i always seem to get just right buyer,s,people seem to have money at end of month,earlier,you wait abit,sold about 69       on there,ebay shite,autotrader was good years ago,..

[rantingYoof]

I like those buyers that come round and want a bit of money off cause its not the diesel. It'll cost them another £5 a week in fuel so for that reason they'll expect you to drop it by several hundred.

 

The sad thing is at the amount you are putting it up for, you'll get a load of two Bob millionaires round whose budget probably stretches to an Astra, expecting to run it on pennies. In six months it'll have a red streak on a dent down its 1/4 panel and be sat on one space saver outside a pub with a flat roof on the outskirts of Runcorn. The ashtrays will be full and there will be a man who can't eat anything other than Subways because he has no teeth, trying to diagnose why it won't run properly with the aid of a £4.99 eBay FCR. The service history will have been lost or drawn on by one of the several awful kids they'll have. Eventually it'll surface on Gumtree and get swapped for a Dell laptop and a petrol Stihl strimmer. It will most likely end its days driving 4 crack heads round said Runcorn from burglary to crack house until the Police take it off them.

 

Liked purely for the gradual increase in specificity of the example .

[sierraman]

Autotrader used to be great when it came out on a thurs, the inky fingers from thumbing through the bargains section.

[Bren]

The car sailed its MOT with no advisories.

 

Bring on the mouthbreathers.

[New POD]

I like those buyers that come round and want a bit of money off cause its not the diesel. It'll cost them another £5 a week in fuel so for that reason they'll expect you to drop it by several hundred.

 

The sad thing is at the amount you are putting it up for, you'll get a load of two Bob millionaires round whose budget probably stretches to an Astra, expecting to run it on pennies. They'll make an offer roughly 40% of the asking price, then in a voice that sounds like he is talking with a mouth full of bread rolls, justify how its worth about £4.56. In six months it'll have a red streak on a dent down its 1/4 panel and be sat on one space saver outside a pub with a flat roof on the outskirts of Runcorn. The ashtrays will be full and there will be a man who can't eat anything other than Subways because he has no teeth, trying to diagnose why it won't run properly with the aid of a £4.99 eBay FCR. The service history will have been lost or drawn on by one of the several awful kids they'll have. Eventually it'll surface on Gumtree and get swapped for a Dell laptop and a petrol Stihl strimmer. It will most likely end its days driving 4 crack heads round said Runcorn from burglary to crack house until the Police take it off them.

 

 

Having worked in Runcorn, I fear you paint Runcorn is a far more positive light than it deserves. It's crowning glory, The Parkgate Estate (or legoland) is long gone but the scallies who were more their in the 1960's from Liverpool Slums, are now third generation incomers and getting worse and quite frankly it's not as great as you suggest.*

 

I don't even read the daily mail. 

[mercrocker]