There may be a lack of decent second hand cars around due to the lack of registrations lately, but in the last couple of weeks I've had the hardest job imaginable to sell my car. I was selling a very very tidy diesel A4 Avant, (a car that is normally very sought after) and struggled to get anyone even willing to come and look at it. I got the usual succession of time wasters, but only sold it after over three weeks of multi-point advertising.

And furthermore I didn't get any belated calls either.

Four years ago, I sold an A4 B6 diesel Avant with about 50K miles on it in about 18 hours, and got plenty of post-sale calls also.

On the plus side I did get a very good deal on a nearly new Audi.

I'm afraid its quite simple - the market is very poorly I'm afraid, due to redundancies, public sector culling and general financial stagflation in the Uk at present.

If you can't sell a car, you're asking too much. Simples.

I have to say this is a bit of a sweeping statement. I'll admit for the first week I was probably a bit over what I should have been, but still in the same ball park as all of the other similar cars/mileages. Even when I dropped the price right down after doing extensive research and consulting glasses guide, I was still experiencing a phone-call desert.

I'm sorry , that I have to disagree that the market is 'bouyant' at least 2 traders told me that they were getting very little footfall indeed on their forecourts, in fact one even said that people were not buying unless they absolutely have to. And this is in a part of the country that isn't particularly recession ravaged.

You can sell anything if its cheap enough, but if you sell a Porsche for 50p it doesnt mean the market is bouyant !

Edited by Roly93 on 13/06/2011 at 15:40