Tootle - any thoughts?

[bramston21]

Morning all,

appreciated this a sub for 'car buying' but figured if you're buying - you've also been selling at some stage!

Wondered if anyone had any views on 'Tootle'..; ease of use, any experience of completing a sale, how does it compare price wise to say what you could expect from WBAC, Autotrader, Gumtree..?

Thanks,

A.

[Chiefbadger]

I put my S4 up on Tootle a month or so back and was pleasantly surprised. Got an offer almost immediately from a large Audi dealer for more than I was expecting. I ended up selling it to my local Audi dealer in the end (for the same amount) just due to ease and familiarity, but I'd definitely use it again.

[doogle83]

Copied from my WBAC post:

doogle83 said:

Markbarry1977 said:

Tootle.co.uk

Recommended to me by someone on here. They seem to be quite good. I used AT in the end though.

Having just sold my S2000 via tootle today i thought it worth dropping in my experience for anyone else searching.

I posted an Ad Sunday night and had 2 half decent offers within 30 mins. By Monday night the bids were where i wanted them. I contacted the dealer who drove over this afternoon, had a 2 minute look round the car to make sure it was as i described and then did a bank transfer there and then.

It's the first car I've not opted for a trade in against because i hate the idea of selling cars privately. I got £2050 more than current WBAC prices and bang on what Honda said a "showroom" condition would fetch (and it wasn't).

Overall, would definitely use again.

[bramston21]

Thanks Guys,

looks like a thumbs up for ease, and indeed price.

A.

[R E S T E C P]

I put my car on a few hours ago but nothing yet.

I may have set my desired price too high, though. I set it in line with a private sale, rather than what WBAC and others are offering.

[anonymous-user]

Anyone else had any recent experiences with Tootle? I put mine up yesterday with an identical asking price to WBACs online valuation but only had the one offer which is £1,200 less than WBAC.

6 days to go so keeping the faith.

[markstev0]

I used tootle to sell my BMW 320 msport. WBAC offered 15k!! It had full M Performance kit on it skirts spoiler etc etc looked really smart.

Had 3 dealers fighting over it bidding went up to 18K from a dealer 300 mile from me, I accepted the offer and the dealer collected the car 2 days later, transferred the money to me whilst the collection driver was stood next to me.

Couldn't fault the process at all
Mark

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RaymondVanDerDon said:

Anyone else had any recent experiences with Tootle? I put mine up yesterday with an identical asking price to WBACs online valuation but only had the one offer which is £1,200 less than WBAC.

WBAC for my car was £4,900, private guide price was £5,700.
I put it on Tootle asking for £5200. No offers.
Lowered it to £4,900. No offers.
Spoke with Tootle customer service to ask why there were no offers - "your asking price is too high".
Put it on AutoTrader for £5,900, it sold the same day for £5,800.

It was a high spec diesel Mondeo estate in black, so quite an easy car to sell. Can't work out why I didn't get a single offer even at the WBAC price

[krisdelta]

I guess it's down to the vehicle. I listed my mint 2011 JCW on Tootle (12k asking), I got two offers at £7825 and £9000, sold it privately for £11,500 last November

[Gazz28]

Tootle,
Contact them about selling my wife's Juke Nismo, tootle said a value of £13250. Got offers of £11500, £12000 and £12050 ?? Way below the offer tootle say it's worth, just dealers trying to get cars at well under their true value

Give them a miss and sell privately

[JS2808]

I tried them on my TTRS (appreciate they aren't the easiest cars to sell)

Mine was up for 22k, no interest on Tootle and they emailed me saying I should lower it to 17k

In the end I sold it to a garage for 21,250 by contacting them myself.

[Patch1875]

I sold my MK7 Golf GTi last year for a few hundred more than what I wanted.

Tried again recently with an A4 black edition, WBAC offered 15k tootle was very slow and went up to 15.5k ended up getting 16.8k from Evans Halshaw!

[doogle83]

^^ I think that sums it up really, you need to shop around with all these things and the prices seem to change daily!

[Ben-v0vyj]

It's like ebay - Set it low and then the dealers start bidding against each other.

Sold my m3 a couple of months back using it - Set it @ 22k to start and got 28k for it after some bidding / counter bidding between dealers

Best part ex i was offered was 26k before using the service so i was pretty pleased.