Bad time to sell cars?

Princey · 19 Jul 2010 at 09:15

The reason I ask is that I am really struggling to sell my car now. I doubt it's the advert thats the issue as I have good pictures with a detailed description. I'm asking for £9700 and I've not had an offer over £8000 yet. It's been on Auto Trader, Piston Heads and eBay for around a month now, I think I've had about 3 enquiries.

Fr0dders · 19 Jul 2010 at 09:18

are you selling it modified

this could be putting people off. Have you considered breaking your mods off and selling on VXRonline ? and selling it as standard.

Princey · 19 Jul 2010 at 09:20

Yeah I was selling it with the mods. I don't have the original exhaust though. I see they go for peanuts on ebay though so could be worth getting back to standard. I'll monitor some standard VXR auctions and see what they go for.

Fr0dders · 19 Jul 2010 at 09:22

do a swap with somebody on VXRonline

You can have my exhaust, i have yours + some cash.

job done

thats what i did with mine. Just agree to meet at thorney or whatever and get them to do the swap.

MikeHiow · 19 Jul 2010 at 09:27

Maybe any potential buyer has managed to find your car here/vxronline etc. and knows the issues?

Relentless81 · 19 Jul 2010 at 09:27

Its all very slow, I know of numerous people selling at the moment and as i'm looking at changing cars i've spoken to numerous traders who all tell me the same thing. If you're selling a 1.2 Punto or other generic economical boring car you're laughing, my mate sold one in a couple of days but performance cars and rarer less heard of cars like my Civic Coupe will take longer to sell due to the limited amount of people that will be looking for such a car, i've advertised mine 3 times now and had two viewings, it was getting to the point where I nearly traded it in, took a deposit yesterday though, possibililty of him backing out but hopefully he wont, it will just take a lot longer than usual to sell so patience is a must, unfortunately Auto Trader isnt cheap!

Sone · 19 Jul 2010 at 09:27

i thought this was already sold

Matt82 · 19 Jul 2010 at 09:43

Relentless81 said:
Its all very slow, I know of numerous people selling at the moment and as i'm looking at changing cars i've spoken to numerous traders who all tell me the same thing. If you're selling a 1.2 Punto or other generic economical boring car you're laughing, my mate sold one in a couple of days but performance cars and rarer less heard of cars like my Civic Coupe will take longer to sell due to the limited amount of people that will be looking for such a car, i've advertised mine 3 times now and had two viewings, it was getting to the point where I nearly traded it in, took a deposit yesterday though, possibililty of him backing out but hopefully he wont, it will just take a lot longer than usual to sell so patience is a must, unfortunately Auto Trader isnt cheap!

i think its the other way round. my S4 sold in weeks, GF's fiesta is taking forever

Relentless81 · 19 Jul 2010 at 09:46

Interesting, guess its all relative and everyone has their own experiances

Princey · 19 Jul 2010 at 10:03

MikeHiow said:
Maybe any potential buyer has managed to find your car here/vxronline etc. and knows the issues?

There are no issues anymore, valve stem seals replaced.

bledd · 19 Jul 2010 at 10:22

out of interest, what are you looking to replace it with?

Princey · 19 Jul 2010 at 10:30

Monaro VXR or a Corvette C5.

bledd · 19 Jul 2010 at 10:47

Sexy

Maccapacca · 19 Jul 2010 at 11:29

It's too expensive, anything will sell at the right price, I don't know your car but I've sold enough to know that after a while you just have to admit it's too expensive, it doesn't matter what others are for sale for on A/T P/H etc.

And yes if it's modified you've cut your audience down by quite a lot, most people want a standard car to modify so they know the base condition is good

I usually sell cars I buy and sell for the lower end then they don't hang around to long and cost money to keep advertising / washing / fuel etc.

Princey · 19 Jul 2010 at 11:39

It stays with me then, I'm not letting it go for peanuts. I'm in no rush at all to sell as I'm not buying until September as I need to know what's happening with my company car.

Deleted member 66701 · 19 Jul 2010 at 11:42

Vauxhalls are always hard to sell. Might as well give it way tbh*

*had to say that as I'm a Ford owner and it's in our DNA

Fr0dders · 19 Jul 2010 at 11:48

get it valued as a Part-X ?

Maccapacca · 19 Jul 2010 at 12:19

Princey said:
I'm in no rush at all to sell as I'm not buying until September

The longer you keep it the less it will be worth, it's worth having a look at a couple of glass's guides from one issue to the next to see how much the drop is from issue to issue, September is new reg time as well which will mean greater drops for s/h cars as they effectivley drop a level.

Princey · 19 Jul 2010 at 12:22

MrLOL said:
get it valued as a Part-X ?

£7800 from VX against a £17000 Monaro VXR.

apatia77 · 19 Jul 2010 at 12:24

I suppose it's much harder to sell an expensive car, when I was selling my VW Passat for 7k few years ago it took me quite a while, not many enquirers but I managed to sell it after dropping the price slightly.

However last time I was selling my VW Polo (8 years old) I sold it within 2 hours of it being advertised on Autotrader. Good price, average condition, most of papers helped my quick sell.

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