I bought a 2007 Smart Fortwo Passion 84bhp back in June 2015 from a dealer for £ 5000. In February 2019 I bought a new Smart car costing £ 15000. The dealer offered me a part exchange price of £ 600 for the old car but I decided to sell it to my niece for £ 1000. This was back in February 2019.
I did consider just giving it away for free but decided to ask something for it and I thought £ 1000 was fair. It had only done 19383 miles from new. In a recent email exchange with my brother I revealed that I was offered £ 600 part exchange for the old car therefore was happy with the £ 1000 I got for it.
The fact that I was happy ****** him off and he suggested I could have let her have it for £ 600 rather then sell to the dealer for that price. This ****** me off and made me feel like he didn’t appreciate that the £ 1000 was a fair price.
If you look on eBay now at the sold listings the cheapest went for £ 1181 and this had 72719 miles. See here https://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/Smart
His argument is that cars are cheaper in Jersey because of the lower VAT rate therefore you can’t compare UK prices to Jersey ones. Which is partly true I guess.
At the time my niece had just started work so £ 1000 was a lot to her. She managed to give me £ 400 to begin with and my brother gave me a further £ 200 with the final payment of £ 400 to follow when she had the money.
I let her have a few months to pay it off but when I finally did ask for the money she tried to make out that I was only interested in the money and that the brakes were knackered which wasn’t true as no faults were found when they serviced it.
It seems to me that they were the ones who were only interested in the money otherwise I could have asked at least £ 2000 for it from someone else. I just feel ****** off with it, they never appreciated they got a good deal or said thanks or anything.
On the contrary I could have sold it for £ 600 making out £ 1000 wasn’t fair.
I did consider just giving it away for free but decided to ask something for it and I thought £ 1000 was fair. It had only done 19383 miles from new. In a recent email exchange with my brother I revealed that I was offered £ 600 part exchange for the old car therefore was happy with the £ 1000 I got for it.
The fact that I was happy ****** him off and he suggested I could have let her have it for £ 600 rather then sell to the dealer for that price. This ****** me off and made me feel like he didn’t appreciate that the £ 1000 was a fair price.
If you look on eBay now at the sold listings the cheapest went for £ 1181 and this had 72719 miles. See here https://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/Smart
His argument is that cars are cheaper in Jersey because of the lower VAT rate therefore you can’t compare UK prices to Jersey ones. Which is partly true I guess.
At the time my niece had just started work so £ 1000 was a lot to her. She managed to give me £ 400 to begin with and my brother gave me a further £ 200 with the final payment of £ 400 to follow when she had the money.
I let her have a few months to pay it off but when I finally did ask for the money she tried to make out that I was only interested in the money and that the brakes were knackered which wasn’t true as no faults were found when they serviced it.
It seems to me that they were the ones who were only interested in the money otherwise I could have asked at least £ 2000 for it from someone else. I just feel ****** off with it, they never appreciated they got a good deal or said thanks or anything.
On the contrary I could have sold it for £ 600 making out £ 1000 wasn’t fair.
