Advice on selling car

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Car in question: '99 BMW 328i (e46) SE Touring. FSH, 97.5k. Blue with cloth sport seats. Alpina-style wheels and Eibach springs

I've had my car listed on Pistonheads & Autotrader for a few weeks, and the response has been really poor. I know it's all about price, especially now on any relatively large engined car, but I've dropped the price (from something rather ambitious I now realise) and state I'm open to offers, and still no real inquiries.

I'm not going to list the car here for breaching advertising rules, wondering if anyone had any thoughts, apart from giving it away..

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£4295

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Orient Blue



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If you turn this post into and ad it will be deleted.

Edited by Big Al. on Thursday 31st July 18:19

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insideout said:

1. In your description you might want to put how much each of the options cost (e.g. costs of alloys, springs, tyres, ipod connection, sound on top (which is very good upgrade!) etc.)
2. Some performance info perhaps? e.g. 24v, 192bhp etc.
3. Also state that it is exempt from the upcoming road tax increases!

I wouldn't go into too much detail about the service history (it's FSH), you can mention this when the buyer is on the phone or when viewing the paperwork

I would also try to ensure that it appears on the first page of the autotrader results page. Not easy with a 3 series as there are so many! You might want to drop to £4000 help achieve this.

HTH

Z

Thanks for that.

Funny you should mention the car tax. I was speaking to a dealer today, and he asked if I used Pistonheads. He says he likes to keep track of buyers feelings and said that he was getting the impression that anything pre-2001 big-engined car was reaching the limit of dropping in price, with general buyers being aware of the tax advantages of the earlier cars in a years time.

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Orient Blue



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If you turn this post into and ad it will be deleted.

Edited by Big Al. on Thursday 31st July 18:19

Sorry about that, not wanting it to be an advert, hence the wording in my first post