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| Hi,
Looking at selling my car, what sites would people reccommemd? Thinking Gumtree and Auto Trader unless people can suggest anything better?
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| Get a couple of page 3 models posing for a picture with the car. Then sell the car to a naïve lad who’s just passed their test at 17 by telling them that this car attracts fit birds..
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| If you want a reasonable appreciation of your car's value, just put the details into webuyanycar.com
If you then double their valuation, you won't be far from the correct figure
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| Ignore grumpy pants up there.
Autotrader, gumtree etc are great, though autotrader isn't cheap if you don't sell quickly. But despite my reservations, I found webuyanycar to be excellent.
Depends on your motor and circumstances. I got an ok estimate online and booked to see them. They took a good look, noted any imperfections and/or required work and made me a final offer, I was extremely pleased. It was very quick and easy and the cash was in my bank within a day. For me, far better than faffing around getting work done, taking pictures, messing about online and dealing with tyre-kickers or agencies. And the sale was guaranteed and safe.
You might not quite end up with as much as if you sold privately but factor in costs and there's probably not much difference.
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| Just put mine in for a lol and £415.01 wow amazing dint think a car that does 600 miles every week could be so worth so much ha ha #ripoff
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| webuyanycar.com managed to come up with value of £3,160 for a '56 plate Passat Sport 2.0 TDi 4motion estate. Just slightly over 50% of book.
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| Quote: cod'ead "webuyanycar.com managed to come up with value of £3,160 for a '56 plate Passat Sport 2.0 TDi 4motion estate. Just slightly over 50% of book.'"
As I said, depends on the individual car. Mine was worth £4,500 if in perfect condition sold privately, but needed a fair bit of body work, 2 tyres, alloys were pretty chewed, tax and MOT, plus it had a horribly loud steel exhaust I'd got on the cheap. I got £3,800, which is much better then buggering around getting all that sorted, and then messing around advertising - not the mention the costs involved.
Fact is, they were based at Carcraft and while I'd never use Carcraft to buy, they've got the facilities to sort out all those minor niggles in no time and for minimal cost and hence make me what was a very fair offer.
Also, they don't hold to the online quote, they do a full assessment on site; my online quote was lower then my final amount.
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| I have priced it on webuyanycar and they would offer £3300, it says on parkers that i should be asking for around £4700 and seen as though it has zero damage on the car, i want to avoid getting £3300 if possible!
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| Webuyanycar is a joke. I have a 59 plate 1.2 clio dynamique (pretty nice spec think Fiesta Zetec or Polo SE) with 11k on the clock and they just showed me 3900!! what?! haha
Also a good bet is eBay classifieds. They work like Auto trader but are cheaper (not a bid btw though you could try that. just make sure theres a disclaimer that you can pull the auction anytime due to it being advertised elsewhere)
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| If you use a company called CarArena.co.uk, you should get a much better valuation than from webuyandycar etc.
I think they advertise your car's details to a network of possible buyers, so you are not just stuck with one offer.
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Try these people, I know 2 people who have sold cars to them and both got very fair prices (in fact one of them got £200 more than he was going to advertise it privately for). They're based in Hull I think....
www.bestcarbuyer.co.uk/
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Try these people, I know 2 people who have sold cars to them and both got very fair prices (in fact one of them got £200 more than he was going to advertise it privately for). They're based in Hull I think....
www.bestcarbuyer.co.uk/
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| I've always thought that if you're trying to sell a car for less than £1k, put it in a local paper, otherwise stick it on Pistonheads or Autotrader.
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| Quote: hula89 "Webuyanycar is a joke. ...'"
On what basis is the country's biggest buyer of cars a "joke"? You may hate them, but as they are the sellers' choice, and their website says they've valued nearly 30m cars, your comment just makes you sound foolish. Personally we sold the wife's old Vectra diesel through them and got within £750 of book. Add in the value ofmay[/i be able to extract more money if you are able and willing to go through the aggro and delays of a personal sale. But if this lot (or any of their competitors) don't offer you a price you think is fair -then don't accept it, simple as!
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