Seriously. I understand why people trade in.

[mccrackenj]

RenOHH said:

kuro said:

Its not just cars, no matter what you sell these days you can guarantee there will be a procession of shysters looking for 50% off your asking price!

Yup. Selling some forks I used to have on my mountain bike. Got one guy saying "what's your best price?" and another saying he wants them but can't pay until Saturday. The response to best price man was "make me an offer". I've not heard a thing since. Only worth about £70, so it's nothing compared to a car thankfully!

Selling a brand new tyre (was on a car I'd just bought but didn't match the other 3 Michelins so I replaced it). Anyway, advertised for £18, and got a text saying "I'll give you £15 cash. Today!"

Haggling over £3 I ask you? And who is so despearate that having the £15 today will help. And 'cash'? WTF else?

Anyway, of course I agreed just to git rid of it and, predictably, they never turned up! Messing someone around over a £10k car just to make yourself feel big or important is one thing, but a £18 tyre? I could weep.

[RobM77]

TwistingMyMelon said:

The worst are the lightweight nifters who ring up and give you their car life story or recap everything they know on the brand

When I was selling my Celica Carlos Sainz I had a rally driver ring up who'd competed in one. That was a fascinating conversation Most, I admit, are a bit dull though!

Edited by RobM77 on Wednesday 4th March 11:03

[Sump]

mccrackenj said:

Selling a brand new tyre (was on a car I'd just bought but didn't match the other 3 Michelins so I replaced it). Anyway, advertised for £18, and got a text saying "I'll give you £15 cash. Today!"

Haggling over £3 I ask you?

Who the utter fack wants to start dealing with coins? £15 seems perfectly reasonable here on the convenience aspect. Let's get realistic here, no one is ever going to give a toss about the £3, infact, who even advertises it at such an odd number in the first place?!

[medieval]

Try selling your 17 year old sons moped and then enjoy the full panoramic view of the failing education system

[SPD14]

I've only sold two cars privately, but both sales went reasonably smooth. I still had to deal with the umpteen 'businesses' offering ridiculously low amounts, but that's just part of the process unfortunately.

I guess a lot of it depends on what type of car you're selling?! I would expect anything sporty & reasonably inexpensive to attractive the ones with the lowest IQ's.

[Claudia Skies]

SPD14 said:

I guess a lot of it depends on what type of car you're selling?!

I think it also depends what sort of job the seller does at work. I suspect people who are familiar with "customer interface" are better at selling cars and find the process less stressful.

[Panthro]

Selling a car has just become a joke now. Everyone out there thinks they can grab a bargain and overlook everything except the price. When I sold my Z4 (the cheapest 35i M Sport on the market and in bloody fantastic condition with a BMW warranty) all I got were time wasters who weren't after a black one but would take it for 5k less than I was advertising it. In the end I sold it to a dealer who then flogged it back to BMW. Just to point out he worked on volume sales with BMW and they wouldn't have paid me the money I wanted for the car originally.

[DSLiverpool]

No issues here - put a Nissan V6 3.5 up with a damaged door, priced it right, lots of pics, built in a £200 drop and an honest description and sold within a week. Only car I have been unable to sell privately was a BMW 760i that was under BMW warranty as well - no takers then the dealer sold it for a £4k mark up within 3 days GRRRR

[Sump]

DSLiverpool said:

No issues here - put a Nissan V6 3.5 up with a damaged door, priced it right, lots of pics, built in a £200 drop and an honest description and sold within a week. Only car I have been unable to sell privately was a BMW 760i that was under BMW warranty as well - no takers then the dealer sold it for a £4k mark up within 3 days GRRRR

Probably didn't trust it if it was in Liverpool with illegally spaced numberplates.

[crofty1984]

RowntreesCabana said:

Sold my last car via email communication only. Made an offer went back and forth twice before settling on a price, he sent me a deposit and turned up the next day. All done and dusted. Though my old Alfa attracted a lot of time wasters via email.

I guess you just have to play the game, but one things for sure, I made about £5000 between the two cars on what dealers wanted to offer me so well worth hanging on.

I usually email as I may or may not be having a sneaky look at work, or be on my lunch. Plus it's nice to have the responses written if you're looking at a few cars so you can remember which is which.
I always write properly though! None of this "arf price teks it away m8" bks.

[J4CKO]

We bought our C1 off a lovely couple, price was already competitive, but you always have to negotiate, or at least try, I said I would like the car and he said,

"Ok, it works like this, for £6000 you can take the car, for £5999 you cant take the car"

Cant say fairer than that.

[mccrackenj]

Sump said:

mccrackenj said:

Selling a brand new tyre (was on a car I'd just bought but didn't match the other 3 Michelins so I replaced it). Anyway, advertised for £18, and got a text saying "I'll give you £15 cash. Today!"

Haggling over £3 I ask you?

Who the utter fack wants to start dealing with coins? £15 seems perfectly reasonable here on the convenience aspect. Let's get realistic here, no one is ever going to give a toss about the £3, infact, who even advertises it at such an odd number in the first place?!

Eh? So you round up or down the of absolutely everything you buy or sell to the nearest £5?

And that wasn't really the point of my post anyway - it was the emphasis on "cash" and "immediate payment", in order to clinch the big £15 deal, and the not turning up in the end.

Never mind, why did I waste time with it in the 1st place and why am I replying now?

[DSLiverpool]

Sump said:

Probably didn't trust it if it was in Liverpool with illegally spaced numberplates.

Lol The Wirral isn't Liverpool and plates don't matter to anyone but fussy knicker time wasters.
From that same house I have sold privately a DB9 Volante, Maserati 4200 Spyder, SL55 AMG, SL320, CLS 55 AMG, Jag XFR - only failure was the 760i

[MitchT]

bigkeeko said:

I`ve had email pen pals that I`m now ignoring as I just don`t get the point. These people are obviously allergic to telephones.

I don't get why people get a bee in their bonnet about e-mail. With e-mail you send a message when it suits you, the recipient reads it and replies when it suits them, and you read their reply when it suits you. With the phone you ring up and no one answers, or it's engaged, or they don't have the information to hand and will have to get back to you ... which they never do, or they've finished for the day (in the case of dealers), etc.

[DonkeyApple]

bigkeeko said:

Put my car up for sale two or three days ago. I`ve had a quite a few enquiries but man, timewasters and eejits.

Maybe it`s me but I just wouldn`t ring anyone and talk complete sh*te with no interest in buying their car. I couldn`t do it.

Of all the cars I`ve sold over the years I had the cockiest b**Stard ever ring up. Sounded like Ali G with a kids screaming in the background soundtrack. He basically ran the car down, didn`t like the colour, price, mileage, apparently liking little about it then made a stinking low ball offer stating it would never sell as "Peeps don like big engine and difficult to shift innit".
I`ve had email pen pals that I`m now ignoring as I just don`t get the point. These people are obviously allergic to telephones. Maybe I`m getting old so is this how it is now? Let`s have 20 email rallies as opposed to picking up the phone? No, it`s anonymous time wasting.
Any phone calls I have had have started, "hello What`s your lowest price?" or similar. One total balloon (and I hope you`re reading this) rang up, then hung up. Then with held his number and rang again. The ensuing mumbling of stupid questions such as, would you drive it 400 odd miles for me to see it, seeing as you`re too far away" Then telling me that that one of ways of telling I have the particular model is the twin centre exhausts. Well, thanks for that, I wasn`t really sure what car I was selling.


This had me on the verge of barking down the phone. Especially after all the `John Rocks` that had made contact before.
The number one DH award goes to the " You live too far away so if you deliver the car to my driver at the services I`ll wire you the money" caller. Cheers for that.

Well. I bit the bullet and put it on Ebay. One day and couple of really genuine callers. Deposit now taken. Good as sold. Maybe more luck than judgement and I know, I know , you always get these people when selling cars but this one was a bad one.

I`ll probably kop flak for this and be told I should have more patience with ejits sitting in their vest calling me withheld on their mums phone but I think I`m done for a while. I am a grumpy sod admittedly so I accept that.

Edited by bigkeeko on Tuesday 3rd March 14:31

Next time you are at a set of traffic lights and you see one of those little signs with a mobile number to call if you want to earn £££££ from home I suggest you give it a call. You will learn two things, firstly that the job is to call all ads for certain cars commonly sold at car supermarkets and you'll be paid on lead generations that deliver a deal. Secondly, they will inform you that you are far too qualified for this job.

Agents are using armies of semi functioning tards to filter through car adverts to find vendors open to a low bid.

This is why we now get plagued by the same sounding vegetable if we try and sell a vaguely normal car.

[Mr2Mike]

Claudia Skies said:

With that attitude, I'm not surprised!

Remember, the customer is always right.

Only if you are running a business, and even then not always. If you are selling a car privately, then unless you are absolutely desperate you are free to avoid dealing with these time wasting gene pool pollutants.

Luring them into your garage and bludgeoning them to death would be a public service as far as I'm concerned.

medieval said:

Try selling your 17 year old sons moped and then enjoy the full panoramic view of the failing education system

I can well imagine what a delightful experience that must have been

Edited by Mr2Mike on Wednesday 4th March 13:14

[3xpendable]

Best one I ever heard was from a friend selling his R6: He had some guy asking him lines and lines of questions about it then offered him 50% of his asking price. My mate told him to ring back and hour later when he wouldnt be so distracted by the BJ this guy's sister was giving him

[anonymous-user]

2 sides to the story thou, look at some buying posts on here, offer low ball bids, drive the price down by picking faults etc. just to get a 'deal'.

[surveyor]

Selling my car at the moment and am loosing the will to live.

It's cheap - dirt cheap because I need it gone, but the phones not ringing other than tossers. Getting me right down.

[catman]

I'm lucky that the last car that I sold was a 1.8 Mondeo. I doubt that it's even on a chav's radar...

Tim