Maser Spyder - Sell privately or trade in?
Discussion
Have returned back to the UK to nice weather, and decided it's time for some new metal.
In the process of looking for my lost service history (I know, I know) and getting the car up together.
Have been offered (back of fat packet calculation) a half decent amount for it from a main dealer to trade in, but is it worth the hassle selling privately? Might be about £4 or £5k more to the right buyer.
There are a couple of tiny niggles with the car that I intended to put right when they actually became a real problem, which I would be perfectly up front with to a private buyer, but is it worth going down this route? Or better to just trade in and let it be for somebody else to find out?
The last time I sold privately was some time ago, so I'm not exactly experienced in this. Don't have time to deal with time wasters and idiots, would rather sell it cheaper to somebody who knows what they're looking for and drives it away.
So, anybody sold privately recently? What are your experiences?
In the process of looking for my lost service history (I know, I know) and getting the car up together.
Have been offered (back of fat packet calculation) a half decent amount for it from a main dealer to trade in, but is it worth the hassle selling privately? Might be about £4 or £5k more to the right buyer.
There are a couple of tiny niggles with the car that I intended to put right when they actually became a real problem, which I would be perfectly up front with to a private buyer, but is it worth going down this route? Or better to just trade in and let it be for somebody else to find out?
The last time I sold privately was some time ago, so I'm not exactly experienced in this. Don't have time to deal with time wasters and idiots, would rather sell it cheaper to somebody who knows what they're looking for and drives it away.
So, anybody sold privately recently? What are your experiences?
maser_spyder said:
Have returned back to the UK to nice weather, and decided it's time for some new metal.
In the process of looking for my lost service history (I know, I know) and getting the car up together.
Have been offered (back of fat packet calculation) a half decent amount for it from a main dealer to trade in, but is it worth the hassle selling privately? Might be about £4 or £5k more to the right buyer.
There are a couple of tiny niggles with the car that I intended to put right when they actually became a real problem, which I would be perfectly up front with to a private buyer, but is it worth going down this route? Or better to just trade in and let it be for somebody else to find out?
The last time I sold privately was some time ago, so I'm not exactly experienced in this. Don't have time to deal with time wasters and idiots, would rather sell it cheaper to somebody who knows what they're looking for and drives it away.
So, anybody sold privately recently? What are your experiences?
If you reckon £4-5k difference, I would say trade in with bells on!!!!In the process of looking for my lost service history (I know, I know) and getting the car up together.
Have been offered (back of fat packet calculation) a half decent amount for it from a main dealer to trade in, but is it worth the hassle selling privately? Might be about £4 or £5k more to the right buyer.
There are a couple of tiny niggles with the car that I intended to put right when they actually became a real problem, which I would be perfectly up front with to a private buyer, but is it worth going down this route? Or better to just trade in and let it be for somebody else to find out?
The last time I sold privately was some time ago, so I'm not exactly experienced in this. Don't have time to deal with time wasters and idiots, would rather sell it cheaper to somebody who knows what they're looking for and drives it away.
So, anybody sold privately recently? What are your experiences?
I sold a Ferrari F355 spider and it was the biggest pain ever.
In the end, I just slashed the price to undercut everything else (apart from complete sheds).
This was a car with full, documented service history in laminated folder - it was Giallo Fly however.
No one who viewed it ever found anything wrong with car, they just messed me about (which meant I lost a genuine offer from Mario149). It took just under a year to sell I reckon.
If anyone would have taken it in the trade for £4-5k under private market price I would have bitten there arm off.
Life is just too short!!!
Surely, for a Maserati Spyder £4-5k is a fair percentage?
Personally, I think its worth selling privately - advertise on here and on MaseratiForum/SportsMaserati and see if anyone is looking. If taking a few phone calls and possibly having to spend an hour with someone/arrange and independant inspection isnt worth £4-5k to you, then just go for the trade in for hassle factor. Afterall, thats how the dealers make money - they take the pain away.
Personally, I think its worth selling privately - advertise on here and on MaseratiForum/SportsMaserati and see if anyone is looking. If taking a few phone calls and possibly having to spend an hour with someone/arrange and independant inspection isnt worth £4-5k to you, then just go for the trade in for hassle factor. Afterall, thats how the dealers make money - they take the pain away.
What car are you trading it in for? If you don't mind me asking!
My mate has just sold his 4200 Spyder for around £5k more (private sale) than he was offered against a Quattroporte at main dealer.
I think this recent weather has certainly made cabrios popular so could be worth the extra privately, but i suppose you must balance ease of trade-in with money saved with effort of prepping/selling private.
My mate has just sold his 4200 Spyder for around £5k more (private sale) than he was offered against a Quattroporte at main dealer.
I think this recent weather has certainly made cabrios popular so could be worth the extra privately, but i suppose you must balance ease of trade-in with money saved with effort of prepping/selling private.
eg Watermelon said:
What car are you trading it in for? If you don't mind me asking!
My mate has just sold his 4200 Spyder for around £5k more (private sale) than he was offered against a Quattroporte at main dealer.
I think this recent weather has certainly made cabrios popular so could be worth the extra privately, but i suppose you must balance ease of trade-in with money saved with effort of prepping/selling private.
Still not 100% sure, either a Gallardo if I can find one, or a Vantage Roadster if I can find the right spec. Finances are all done for me, so ready to do a deal for the right car. Just not sure if it's worth the hassle selling privately!My mate has just sold his 4200 Spyder for around £5k more (private sale) than he was offered against a Quattroporte at main dealer.
I think this recent weather has certainly made cabrios popular so could be worth the extra privately, but i suppose you must balance ease of trade-in with money saved with effort of prepping/selling private.
Right, have decided to offer it privately and see how it goes.
Looks like prices have just risen since the sun has come out, and mine is a good, low mileage car, so should sell fairly quickly.
Will make it perfectly clear I'm not interested in time wasters, I'd rather trade it in than deal with idiots!
Haven't sold a car privately for about ten years, so this will be interesting....
Looks like prices have just risen since the sun has come out, and mine is a good, low mileage car, so should sell fairly quickly.
Will make it perfectly clear I'm not interested in time wasters, I'd rather trade it in than deal with idiots!
Haven't sold a car privately for about ten years, so this will be interesting....
Nic remember last year I bought an Argenta blue spyder 04 30k miles ? It wasn't for me and I autotradered it, could have sold it many times over at £20k guy who bought it keeps sending me updates he is so chuffed.
Payment was transfer between same banks so happened immediately
In 18 months ive sold the DB9, CLS55 and Mas all privately and quickly, only car I couldn't sell was my Bentley Turbo R which I chopped in for the Jag
Good luck
Payment was transfer between same banks so happened immediately
In 18 months ive sold the DB9, CLS55 and Mas all privately and quickly, only car I couldn't sell was my Bentley Turbo R which I chopped in for the Jag
Good luck
DSLiverpool said:
Nic remember last year I bought an Argenta blue spyder 04 30k miles ? It wasn't for me and I autotradered it, could have sold it many times over at £20k guy who bought it keeps sending me updates he is so chuffed.
Payment was transfer between same banks so happened immediately
In 18 months ive sold the DB9, CLS55 and Mas all privately and quickly, only car I couldn't sell was my Bentley Turbo R which I chopped in for the Jag
Good luck
Actually, I looked up your pm to me a few months ago about this, which sort of swayed my decision on which way to go!Payment was transfer between same banks so happened immediately
In 18 months ive sold the DB9, CLS55 and Mas all privately and quickly, only car I couldn't sell was my Bentley Turbo R which I chopped in for the Jag
Good luck
I'll give it a try privately for the extra few dollars, if I get nothing but time wasters and idiots, I'll just chop it in and make up the difference.
Strangely, it appears all the 'cheap' (higher miles, naff colours) cars have disappeared from the classifieds, leaving only the more expensive dealer stuff, so it looks like a good time to get it advertised.
Just had a look at a Ferrari 612, interesting....
Change of plan....
So I spent the past three or four weeks prepping the car for sale, getting it serviced so it's all up to date, polishing, and replacing the odd little niggles that I've always meant to, new windscreen scuttle rubbers, and bits like that, it's pretty much ready to put the ads up.
So I went to test drive an Aston, which is what I'd likely replace it with. Beautiful car, feels very grown up, very comfortable, really nice drive. But, it just doesn't have the 'zing' of the Maser. Dare I say it, it's really quite boring. Like a noisy executive saloon, with a better badge. For a sense of occasion, it just doesn't do it for me.
Hopped in the Maser for a quick turn around the block, and found myself grinning like a schoolboy, it really is fantastic fun, and reminded me all over again why I bought the damned thing in the first place. It's the four-wheeled equivalent of a Ducati, you can't really use it every day or you'd get bored, but for weekend blasting around, it's just perfect.
So after all that, it looks like I'm keeping it!
Until Gallardo Spyders seem a realistic purchase....
So I spent the past three or four weeks prepping the car for sale, getting it serviced so it's all up to date, polishing, and replacing the odd little niggles that I've always meant to, new windscreen scuttle rubbers, and bits like that, it's pretty much ready to put the ads up.
So I went to test drive an Aston, which is what I'd likely replace it with. Beautiful car, feels very grown up, very comfortable, really nice drive. But, it just doesn't have the 'zing' of the Maser. Dare I say it, it's really quite boring. Like a noisy executive saloon, with a better badge. For a sense of occasion, it just doesn't do it for me.
Hopped in the Maser for a quick turn around the block, and found myself grinning like a schoolboy, it really is fantastic fun, and reminded me all over again why I bought the damned thing in the first place. It's the four-wheeled equivalent of a Ducati, you can't really use it every day or you'd get bored, but for weekend blasting around, it's just perfect.
So after all that, it looks like I'm keeping it!
Until Gallardo Spyders seem a realistic purchase....
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