Selling BMW vs. trading

"RML" wrote

Autotrader.com, cars.com.

Some buyers like the warranty on CPO cars. Sophisticated buyers like the lower price of private sales.

FloydR

Wowzers. I guess I must be a sophisticate then... I thought I was just a cheap bastid. ;-)

"RML" wrote

It depends upon your market. I was really pointing out that, as you were asking about the "market", that they are good points of reference. If I were looking for a car, I *might* look in the Seattle Times/PI. However, when I was looking for a used Boxster, I used autotrader/cars.com to look for them in the Bay Area as only a few are available up here.

Autotrader.com and Cars.com mine local papers for their ads, so you'll end up there anyway.

FloydR

When I bought a 4 year old 540 sport, that was fully loaded with sat nav, sunroof, etc, I really wanted to buy it from a main dealer. The main reason that with all of the options, I really wanted to have a dealer warrenty along with the car. I figured that some was going to go wrong eventually, and electricals are expensive to fix.

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As Floyd said, its the warranty rather than the service history that makes people buy from a main dealer. I bought a 4 year old 540 sport from a main dealer, and it had all the options like sat nav, sunroof etc. The warranty came in handy, as the car was high mileage, so there was more chance for faults to occur, and they did!

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