Thread: How to sell a car?

How are people selling vehicle these days?
Been trying to sell my mums car since before Christmas, has been "sold" twice at auction now to people who get in contact initially then stop replying, first genius said he didn't know he'd won it and asked what he had paid for it. Both $1 reserves so maybe that's the problem.
Tried Facebook market place and had even worse people, arrange to view but no show up, ask if you'll take $Xxx and not reply after you say yes.
Now back on Trademe with an asking price and getting lots of stupid law ball pick up today offers.

Not sure if it's because it's a cheap car (only worth $1500-$2500) or if this is what it's always like as have never sold a car before only bought one.

It could be we are asking too much for it, but haven't had any genuine enquires so hard to say.
Could just be that no one genuine is interested in it so only meat heads left.

Have sold lots of other stuff throught TradeMe and never had an issue.
What's been everyone elses experience selling a vehicle?

wife is looking for a run about. what kind of car and how much. To most people Im not a meat head

What is the car you’re trying to sell? And for how much. Both places can be a pain but trademe generally is the best hassle free. Facbook is just not worth it sometimes

It's the same with pretty much any online sales avenue nowadays. List an item and brace your self for the stupid questions. But you can guarantee that the person who actually buys won't have asked a stupid question, if any at all.

pay the up front 100 approx and list tel no and only answer questions by phone , no txs if they cant afford call they be losers email only for photos and address only by you tx within 2hrs of viewing ya got to be brutal as you will get fucked around . By paying up front you can relist up to a year , just keep renewing and be patient .

Try a description here - someone might know someone

But I do txt

I'm going through the same with the wife's car. First I get public comments on TM about how these cars had faulty engines and a recall notice, THEN surprise surprise, the next day I get a stupid lowball offer from somebody that hasn't even seen the car. It's quite standard and frustrating to deal with but hopefully I'll get a serious buyer with no stupid questions and then I'll happily negotiate.

It's the price point. That end of the market is full of time wasters. Last time I sold a cheap car I sold it real cheap just to get it over with. Not worth the hassle over a couple hundred bucks.

Same problem with us, trying to sell the wife’s low Milage Audi Q7 4.2ltr V8 for I reckon a low price on TM, sick of dealing with the tyre kickers.
Also the state of the economy is rooted, and will stay rooted for another 12 months or so.

It's not the car/ economy/ price point. The way we sell things and interact with each other has changed.

Remember when you had to buy a newspaper, be able to read,call the seller arrange a time,go there to see it,test drive make an offer money upfront?

Now some fuckwit can lowball you anonymously in the hope he can flip it next weekend gor double the money.Wading through the dreamers is now an unfortunate reality.

It worked in our favour once. We needed an extra house for the farm. Was one for removal on TM. Show up to see it and the developer selling says he's sick of Fwits asking silly questions and wasting his time, and that if we have a chequebook, to just write down what we think its worth to us and we can have it.

I write a detailed advertisement on trade me with full disclosure of any known faults, improvements, invoices of work done, or invoices for parts,
detail the type of usage, and what likely work need doing in the near future,.

Be honest and knowledgeable tyre kickers dont like that.

Dont waste your time with specs on a used car, anyone can google that... and you'll just come across as a shifty salesman anyway.

The type of description you give will save on answering the same questions over and over again.

PRICE REALISTICALLY.

Not 100% guaranteed to be farked around, usually get some real confident guys saying they will turn up and buy... but then dont show up,
but eventually one does follow through.

A guy I know that sells a few cars just does it off the side of the rd. He just has a sign with the price in big writing so you can see it easily driving past. Phone number is in smaller writing so you have to stop and read it. He recons that sorts through a lot of the time wasters to a certain extent.

Originally Posted by whanahuia

It worked in our favour once. We needed an extra house for the farm. Was one for removal on TM. Show up to see it and the developer selling says he's sick of Fwits asking silly questions and wasting his time, and that if we have a chequebook, to just write down what we think its worth to us and we can have it.

Ive had that a few times as well.