Car Classifieds: PH or Autotrader?

[.blue]

We all know PH is the best place for car discussions but how about for selling cars? Mundane, run of the mill type stuff.

I've currently got mine up on PH but it's had no interest in the last few days since it's been listed. I don't think I can see how many views it has either and I guess it's pretty unusual for someone to be looking for a specific make/model run of the mill car (which is how you browse on PH) whereas autotrader lets you enter more generic criteria.

Am I being too imptatient or is it time to list it on AT?

[Jazoli]

eBay classified adverts and Gumtree have worked for me plenty of times in the past, I've never sold anything through PH or AT despite advertising on both.

[james28]

If advertised at the right price with the right description.A desirable car will sell regardless of where the advert appears.

[bakerstreet]

Jazoli said:

eBay classified adverts and Gumtree have worked for me plenty of times in the past, I've never sold anything through PH or AT despite advertising on both.

Seconded.

I believe that EBay classifieds is where its at. You get a lot more space to write descriptions and I like to put a lot of detail in the adverts.

I still look at AutoTrader though. Its a last resort for me to sell a car as Ebay is much cheaper than AutoTrader.

I've used PH, but I've had no success with it.

[falkster]

If its a really nice example of a specific car then PH classifieds is good. I've never sold a car on autotrader and never actually look on there anymore because of the amount of scam ads - I know they're not exclusive to AT but there seems to be more on there than any other site.
eBay no reserve auction for me!

[LotusOmega375D]

Well apparently nearly all the cars listed on here that swap hands are "Sold via Pistonheads"

Well that's what it claims anyway!

Never seen one that says "Sold via eBay" or "Sold via Autotrader" yet.

[Dracoro]

LotusOmega375D said:

Well apparently nearly all the cars listed on here that swap hands are "Sold via Pistonheads"

Well that's what it claims anyway!

Never seen one that says "Sold via eBay" or "Sold via Autotrader" yet.

When you mark your car as sold, you get the option to say sold elsewhere. IF you do that it just removes the ad. If you say "sold via pistonheads" it stays in the listings for a while marked as so.

[Gruber]

A 3 day, £1 start, no reserve ebay auction worked well for me with the old Jeep last week.

Take some decent photos, write a full description with proper sentences, punctuation and paragraphs, and enjoy the excitement.

ETA: would probably have worked even better if I had timed the auction to finish at 7.45pm on Sunday, rather than noon on Monday!

[Ari]

I advertised my car on Pistonheads. Got little response. Spent £50 on an Autotrader advert and sold it immediately. Via the Pistonheads ad...!

It was an MX5 though...

[sider]

I've advertised with Autotrader once before and got little success. Was a £9k car. Ended up selling via an old friend of mine who Dad's a 2nd hand dealer and did it on a sale or return basis for me.

My sister advertised her old Punto for £2.5k on Autotrader and got little interest, couple of calls, that's it. Oh and the obligatory "send us £50 and we'll give you a list of buyers" calls. She ended up going via my dealer friend as above too and he shifted it straight away.

A friend of my mother in law's however wanted to sell his immaculate MK4 Golf GTI a couple of years ago and isn't a big internet user so asked me to advertise it for him. He was insistent on using Autotrader and i tried PH too. Sold via Autotrader, to a chap from 120+ miles away, so would assume via AT online rather than magazine.

As someone said, get it the right price and it'll sell where-ever!

[.blue]

It's actually listed towards the lower end of price range for similar cars - though most of the rest are at dealers.

Just a case of wait and see...