Car selling - ebay?

Diesel? Petrol?

MOT yes, tax - I wouldn't bother.

That really shouldn't be an issue!

Local paper? Supermarket/newsagent?

Something like that should sell easily.

As long as you are sure it will pass, MOT it, then advertise it locally for a couple of weeks. If no interest, you still have the eBay option.

If you are really in a rush to get rid of it, MOT it, advertise it locally and put it on eBay at the same time with the stated condition that you reserve the right to withdraw it if sold elsewhere.

Chris

On Sunday 26 January 2014 07:19 A.Lee wrote in uk.rec.cars.maintenance:

Autotrader. It's still the first place a lot of people look for a car.

I would also use that as a price guide - a quick look suggests theer are

not for much more.

Add "ono" if you're prepared to haggle.

There's also Parkers for price estimating, but

IME the best way to get a quick sale is price realistically, clean and hoover it, wax with some Colour Magic (corny old trick, but it works!) and take some *decent* pictures inside and out in good light.

If your dash is faded, quick wipe with a bit of Armorall.

I did that with a not particularly special Daewoo Lanos and had it sold in a few days - about 8-10 phone calls IIRC, sold to one of the first 3.

A guy on a main road used to sell many cars, he put a price in the screen, if it did not go in a couple of days the price went down a little, and went down day by day till it found a buyer, nothing stayed for more than about a week. I nearly bought an AMC Pacer from him, I was waiting for it to go down just another few quid, but someone else got it, probably good for me in the long term !!

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Absolutely! Not sure why you were even considering it, unless the only other option was a Gremlin, or maybe a Ford Pinto.

A new MOT (or lots remaining) is always a good selling point. One where the MOT is about to run out or has suggests it's being sold because it won't pass another economically. And will easily recover the cost of one in the selling price. Tax doesn't much matter as everyone knows what that costs.

I just like quirky cars, and that was! If I had the facilities I would be building a Dymaxion.

On Sunday 26 January 2014 10:59 Mrcheerful wrote in uk.rec.cars.maintenance:

That reminds me - never underestimate the value of a couple of signs in the car saying For Sale and a price and mobile number. I sold a complete rustbucket Maxi (at a rustbucket price) like that once.

Strong understatement.

In message , Tim Watts writes

Austin Maxi and mobile phone????

Are you sure it wasn't a DeLorean ;)

Well, he did say the Maxi was a rustbucket - the mobile phone must have been a brick!

Chris

Not 'estimating', as such, but pissing a random figure into the wind.

Only a fool goes near ebay

There does seem to be something strange about buying/selling a car on Ebay that simply doesn't apply to most other things.

I did well with the Lexus I bought on ebay, pretty near perfect, no existing problems when delivered and has been excellent for the last 9 years.

On Sunday 26 January 2014 13:13 Paul Giverin wrote in uk.rec.cars.maintenance:

Then and now ;-)

Back then (1990) it was of course not a mobile number. But it possibly would be now...

Yes - there was a reason Dr. Emmett Brown did not use a Maxi. The hydrospastic suspendion would have gone flat at an inconvenient moment.

At least mine had the rod gear change!

On Sunday 26 January 2014 14:10 SteveH wrote in uk.rec.cars.maintenance:

And they seem to charge now - last time I thought the web lookups were free.

On Sunday 26 January 2014 15:39 Dave Plowman (News) wrote in uk.rec.cars.maintenance:

The main reason I would start with Autotrader as a buyer is

a) it's the defacto place to look in many people's minds;

b) selling nothing but vehicles and the search options are excellent. Unlike ebay. In fact the complete opposite to ebay. Autotrader is not going to try to sell you a Haynes Manual, an air filter or a model Octavia ;->

we were using mobile phones in the later 80s, many of my friends had them, I got my first one in 1991.