Best method of advertising car?

FunkyT

FunkyT

FunkyT

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I'm looking to sell a 2000 Golf which is currently sat idle in the garage. Should I be considering a local paper, Ad Trader or even the famous auction site?

Thanks in advance.
 
Autotrader is generally the best place for run of the mill cars, although I've had good success with ebay. Sold 2 cars that way, in both cases people came to see the car before bidding and we just did a deal then and I closed the auction.
 
at that pricepoint i would reccomend ebay aswell, I had an advert on pistonheads for the last car I sold and recieved very little response in nearly a month, but within 48hrs of putting it on ebay, I had cash in my hand from the sale:)
 
Sold my last one on ebay - got what I paid for it - it was a cheap car and no viewers - when they came to collect they were happily suprised - lol


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I'd never use ebay again, it'll differ for each car I suppose, but I had 9 people let me down (didn't show) in as many days!
 
eBay is quite a sound method, quality of your auction is proportional to the quality of your bidders though (hence why I've never had any issues :p).

Don't forget that it'll usually cost you about 15-30 quid to sell it via eBay though - you could just stick it up on Gumtree and Pistonheads anyway as it's free....Or put a sign in it :p

Local newspaper doesn't hurt either.
 
Topless bird holding a banner with the price of the car stood by a busy road, guaranteed views (perhaps not of the car!) :D
 
cdcopyman said:
autotrader , its a proven way.
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Have you used their site lately without wanting to blind yourself? Autotrader is dying a slow death at the moment.

Pistionheads is okay, but I don't think many people who are looking for a 2000 Golf are going to be looking on a site primary for car enthusiasts.

I do have to say eBay is the king of cars now. Yes, you'll get the occasional messer but you can limit the likelyhood by writing a detailed ad (no matter how bad/uninteresting the car you are selling is), taking clearly in the ad when you want the car collected by and that you want a token deposit. It is fairly obvious when you run into a timewaster, give then a few days to get sorted if they don't hit them with an unpaid item strike and relist, no matter how many sob stories they give you.

The best bit about eBay is that you usually get good money too. Best example was an E30 316i that nobody wanted on the owners club for £100, so I bought it, gave it a wash and fresh MOT and got £475 for it a few weeks later. For some reason most people think that if it is on eBay it must be a bargain :confused:.
 
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