I can highly recommend E bay to sell your car if you don't want top price for it.
Well, since the market seems to have fallen lower than low for petrol Xantia hatchbacks, I finally decided to give E bay a try.
Although I was not extatic at how much I actually got for the car, I had decided that it was time to cut my losses and streamline our lives by pricing down the car.
OK so £460 for a P reg 1.8 16v aint great, but the local papers etc bore no serious calls whatsoever.
I was tempted by a free listing day on E bay so decided to try my luck.
Before I even knew that the auction had ended I got a call from Malcolm to ask when he could pick it up.
We agreed a couple of hours time and I have to say, he took one look at it and merely confirmed his decision to go ahead with the purchase, well he was getting a bargain and he knew and admitted it. His view was "get it home then poke around with it and do what needs doing if anything".
Then there followed yet another very smooth pleasent transaction.
There was no haggling as the price had effectively been fixed at the auction, so after counting the money we did the deal in 10 minutes.
He was pleased with the deal and I was pleased to sell it and put the money in the bank.
So, if you need to sell a car and don't want top dollar for it, E bay is the way to do it!
Hugo
"Forever indebted to experience of others"
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Congratulations, but not entirely a 'free lunch' because eBay will still be charging you (£18 IIRC) a success fee.
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My friend sold her dilapidated old camper van on Ebay and got £150 more than she bought it for!!
Fill what's empty, empty what's full and scratch where it itches!
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yes ebay is a fantastic medium for advertising. In the past 2 years I have used it frequently to buy and sell items (mainly car related)- check out this list:
Items sold:
My old Mini alloys - got £250 for them which was good going
Nokia 8310 - 11 months old - £155
Nokia 8310 - 12 months old - £150 - AMAZING price
Nokia 7650 - 16 months old, average condition - £145
Samsung flip phone - 1 year old - £135
Ericsson T68i phone - 1 year old - £150
Amstrad em@iler - 2 years old - £20 + postage
Petrol radio controlled car - 2 years old - £250 (what I PAID!)
Italian Job CD (free promo disk) - £15!
Italian Job Poster (free promo) - £7!
++ various other items
Items brought:
Mini 17inch S spoke alloys with 2 new pirelli runflat tyres - £300! (off a genuine Mini cooper S seller - not stolen)
Mini beesting aerial
3 Computers
1 PDA
Siemens C35i
BMW Mini Cooper S spoiler
Mini stickers
Canon photocopier
Some CD's
probably more stuff but i cant think!!
lol people will literally buy anything off ebay too. There were some reports in the press of the following items at auction with their final figures reached:
Empty Coca Cola can with creases in the side - £0.85!!!
£1 coin - £1.65!!!!!
I believe there were more as well - do a search on google :D
But for cars, i would love to try selling on ebay. I recently saw an M3 go for excellent money (97 R go for £16,000!) so it does show that at least there is a chance of getting good money. I believe auto express did an article on selling over ebay and they said it was fast and effective however expect to get a price somewhere between trade and private values.
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I sold "Excellence was Expected" (an out of print book on Porsche.. in immaculate condition ) for £97 last year. COst new when I bought it 9 years ago.. £35..
Way to go!:-)
madf
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