Bad Time To Sell Car?

[A13]

Had my car up for sale for two weeks now. I believe it is competitively priced and has a lot going for it, i.e. significantly lower mileage and higher spec than other cars in the price bracket, doesn't need a service for 18 months and has 6 month approved warranty left on it.

Haven't had one call..

Not in a massive rush to sell, but is it just a bad time to be trying to sell what with the fuel issue and everything?

[djglover]

Probably depends on the size / fuel type etc.

Sold my Octavia Diesel in days, but the BMW 330i I picked up in replacement had been hanging around for months with the prices steadily droping way below the glasses figures...

[vixen1700]

You'll get a buyer, it's amazing what a little reduction in the price can do though.

Sold my XJ-S last month after it had been up for months, dropped the price to under a threshold amount then the calls came flooding in, and it was sold in days.

[A13]

It is an 2007/57 Audi A3 1.8T FSI S-Line, so not a particularly thirsty car..

Edited by A13 on Thursday 5th April 15:09

[trickywoo]

http://www.pistonheads.com/sales/3752222.htm

Looks nice.

My experience with PH classifieds (I live not far from you) is that you'll need to be lucky to have calls.

When it was free to advertise I tried selling a couple of quite nice things very cheaply and had no interest.

As much as I hate to say it you'll probably do better on AT.

[HON2A]

vixen1700 said:

You'll get a buyer, it's amazing what a little reduction in the price can do though.

Sold my XJ-S last month after it had been up for months, dropped the price to under a threshold amount then the calls came flooding in, and it was sold in days.

+1

Having large "For sale" signs in the windows has been good in the past for my cars

[A13]

I've got it up everywhere!

PH
Autotrader
eBay Classifieds
Friday Ad etc...

2 people are 'watching' it on eBay and that's it.

[A13]

HON2A said:

+1

Having large "For sale" signs in the windows has been good in the past for my cars

Think i might try that. Am using it to drive to the station (which is why i'm selling it, too much car for just a station car) so will get a lot of 'passing traffic' from commuters etc..

[trickywoo]

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[Bitzer]

Maybe the colour.

The 'popular' choices seem to be:

Resale Light Silver
Resale Dark Silver
Recession White
Finance Black

I do like red Audis though

[Chrisw666]

The issue as I see it is that for £11k I could go and buy diesel A3 of the same age from a dealer that offers finance and a warranty.

Unless someone really wants the petrol most used buyers are going for diesel cars and most people spending 5 figures on a car want to borrow to fund it.

You car also falls in the no mans land between premium brand and spec, without the extra desirability that the outwardly performance models have or the VFM price tag that cars like a Focus and Astra enjoy.

[v8will]

I've just blown out my LS400 on a no reserve eBay auction. Got pittance for it but hey ho such is life.

[dave_s13]

Chrisw666 said:

You car also falls in the no mans land between premium brand and spec, without the extra desirability that the outwardly performance models have or the VFM price tag that cars like a Focus and Astra enjoy.

Yup, if it were a colour it would be magnolia.

At that price point if I needed a practical hatch that wasn't to bad on fuel I'd get a golf GTI.

Without wishing to offend the OP that car is obvioulsy perfectly capable and competent but I would never choose to own a boggo A3, only reason it's not selling is the price.

I recently tried to sell my Volvo V70....not a sausage, keeping it now (until it breaks again).

[A13]

Personally wouldn't class it as a boggo A3, but anyway, not in any particular rush to sell it, just see it as a waste just sitting at the station every day. Just put it on autotrader for 6 weeks so will see if anything comes of it. Fingers crossed.

[Sir Bagalot]

It's overpriced. Simple as. Yes you may get lucky and sell it at that price but as others have said you're asking dealer money and you're not a dealer.

[Chrisw666]

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[lawrence567]

As already said OP, it'll need to be significantly cheaper than a dealer, as for that amount of money, private buyers would be extremely reluctant to drop £10k privately, without the piece of mind of a warranty + it's a lot of money to just have lying around to splurge on a car!

[stropley]

Only owning it for 6 months rang alarm bells for me - until I read the explanation in this thread.

Might be worth stating your reason for sale in the adverts ?

Good luck with the sale

[MoonMonkey]

I'm selling our A4 TDI PD130 on gumtree for 2.5k which I thought was a good price considering it's a good car, has loads of history, economical in this age of austerity etc. Had 3 texts in 2 weeks. One from a Nigerian scammer and the others were low ball offers. Hey ho

[A13]

Cheers for the feedback guys. Will rewrite the advert and reconsider price. Was hoping the fact it is currently under warranty and has been all it's life would count for something.

Don't want to loose too much on it tbh, would rather keep it. We'll see..