If you can come up with a foolproof way of avoiding timewasters, scammers and all the other assorted undesirables you'll be a multi millionaire in a week...:-)

Check out other ads for cars similar to yours and adjust the asking price to account for better or worse and private versus dealer.

I wouldn't mention the reason for sale in the ad.

Could try Pistonheads as its free or relatively cheap for a better ad i believe.

I also like Ebay classifieds, plenty of room for a full write up and lots of pics.

Put your car onto webauyanyoldstuffs online thing (with truthful appraisal) and see what they would offer, that should give you a starting low, remember they will knock the online offer down if you've been less than truthful in the unlikely event you end up selling to them.

Lots of information online how to avoid being conned by chancers and thieves, though i tend to use my ''if it quacks and waddles its a duck'' antenna, rarely does that fail.

Edited by gordonbennet on 09/10/2012 at 12:40

I think Parkers' prices are on the high side. As Gordon says, you don't pay for an online valuation when 5 minutes on autotrader will give you a better indication of the market.

Nice car btw!

I second this, Parkers prices are a little bit the work of fantasy a lot of the time.

For a realistic valuation for free try wisebuyers I have found them to be spot on for the current marketplace. I priced up an A$ Avant like this recently that I was selling in roughly the pricerange you are in. It is unfortunately a tough market for these types of car at present.

Having tried and failed to get any interest for my Mazda 6 through eBay, I wouldn't recommend it. I went looking at all of the hits for advertised cars and it's nothing like as many views as Autotrader. Preloved is a free place to advertise it. I am really struggling to get rid of my Mazda - it's not fashionable, it's over 100k and it's cheap but not sub-£1000. I'm running out of ideas and I'm loath to take it to wbac or similar, as their offers are insultingly low.

I priced mine based on Autotrader and eBay adverts and selling prices for the same model and year etc of car.

Thank you for the info Tony,out of interest how much do you think a reasonable offer would be from a dealer , ie approximately , since I am not sure what the margins might be between a private buyer and a dealer offer

As much as it is tempting to try and get a better price from a private sale,the hassle of advertising and dealing with potential timewasters is not something I am keen on.

Other details -Full Audi dealer service history,has run approx 2000 miles on 4 new tyres.

The way to price your Audi to achieve a sale is to compare it to other cars for sale ,Do a search on autotrader for a car the same age ,mileage and specification as yours ,the cheapest could be a cat c or d write off ,so ignore those ,

Utterly correct ! Part price guide and part marketplace should do the trick.

Might be worth using suresell? It would allow you to use the car right up until you leave?

Thank you for all the comments, very useful, I will start with Autotrader and see what happens.Also Suresell looks good as I am not in a hurry to sell

I have a few months and a second car which was the one I used for workdays, one ,this was my weekend car and so selling it early is not a problem.

This is a Sept 2005/S line/3 L TDI

Just took a pic

tinypic.com/r/29wsqjk/6

Try Pistonheads and Gumtree.

When I was buying my car (coincidently a 3.0TDI A6) , I saw many of the same ones on these sites that I saw on Autotrader but they saved £42+

Ended up serendipticiously with an A8L from Gumtree in any case, but that was also on Autotrader and others.

Edited by Hamsafar on 14/10/2012 at 23:07