Is it worth trying to sell a car on Ebay?

[ali1965]

I'm currently trying to sell a Mini Cooper convertible 2005 plate and got it listed on PH and Gumtree. It was on Autotrader but got no replies from there.

Has anyone used Ebay and is worth trying?

Edited by Shaw Tarse on Friday 22 August 14:46

[emicen]

Just "sold" a MINI on eBay.

I write "sold" because it was some French bawsack that bought it who had no intention of ever buying the car and clearly just wanted to dick me about.

[Martin_M]

Advertising my bmw on ebay at present but won't hold out much hope...you never know.

[GWS33]

I sold my Golf R32 through Ebay couple months ago. Got alot of timewasters offering stupid part ex and silly offers. but had a couple interested people. One guy called in the morning, had cash in hand that afternoon. sorted. worked better than pistonheads, autotrader and gumtree.

[jamiesonmurray]

i've used Ebay loads of times,
I find there is a reverse psychology,
if you put an advert on gumtree, pistonheads, or a fixed price advert on ebay,
all you get is chancers offering you loads less, or "what's your best price" or "fancy a swap for my MOT failure corsa"
if you put it on ebay as an auction, 99p start (10 days maximum listing) with a reserve, it will generate a lot of interest, and you will then get people wanting to know "how much to take it off Ebay?"
and then you start the bargaining and try and get a sale,

you do get a lot of idiots too, but you can sift through them,
it will cost you about £17 in total to have a car on auction with a reserve, (and you get to find out what it will reach)

I once had someone e-mail me what my "best price" was for a car i had advertised, this guy was from a town less than 8 miles away, when i told him "come and have a look at it then we will talk money on my drive way" he couldn't even be bothered to come and look at it, so he was just a time waster,

[JumboBeef]

This ^^^^ but list it at 99p start with no reserve.

As long as you give a really good and honest write up with really good photos, this is the best way to get the highest price. No reserve means people will think they are getting a bargain, so more people will bid thus higher price.

I've sold all my cars in the last 15 years or so like this and always achieved a good price (including an old Land Rover I bought for £300 from a small garage which was a trade in which I sold on eBay six months later for £2,300).