Where to advertise AM V8?

[D16RR_Rich]

Hi guys
After 4years of ownership, am now looking at selling my 2007 Aston Martin V8 Vantage.
Car is in mint condition and has done 14,500miles.
Where is best to advertise car - Pistonheads / Autotrader / EBay etc
Also when is the best time to secure the best price for the car - now / may / June ?
Many thanks
Rich

[yeti]

On here I think would be the first place people would look. It's where I saw mine and sold the two cars to buy it!

Just in my mind, eBay smacks of desperation... I bought my £1200 Rover on there, that's what eBay is for!

Have a look on AMOC and see what's for sale, if yours is something different that might be worth a punt...

[Jockman]

yeti said:

On here I think would be the first place people would look. It's where I saw mine and sold the two cars to buy it!

Just in my mind, eBay smacks of desperation... I bought my £1200 Rover on there, that's what eBay is for!

Have a look on AMOC and see what's for sale, if yours is something different that might be worth a punt...

+1

Furthermore, have you seen the fees ebay will charge you??? Thousands !!

Dealer territory only - and that comes from somebody that's never used ebay, and doesn't have a paypal account.

I stick to Amazon - 4x the size of ebay.

Definitely give PH a go for a couple of months for such a low cost

[Lunablack]

Jockman said:

+1

Furthermore, have you seen the fees ebay will charge you??? Thousands !!
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Really?.... Last time I sold a car on the bay it' cost about £50 quid...

[Jockman]

Lunablack said:

Really?.... Last time I sold a car on the bay it' cost about £50 quid...

Really ?? My brother is an ebay addict and he advised me for future reference not to sell £70k cars on ebay due to the fees.

Can you enlighten me on the fees Luna?

[Lunablack]

A quick look at eBaymotors fees reveals


Format
Single Item Listing
Multiple Item Listing
Auction-style
£10.00
£10.00
Buy it now only
£10.00
£10.00 multiplied by the number of Vehicles listed.
Classified Ad
£14.99


Final Value Fee
Final Selling Price
Final Value Fee
£0.01 - £1,999.99
£20.00
£2,000.00 - £3,499.99
1%
£3,500.00 and above
£35.00
Classified Ad
No Final Value Fee applies

[Jockman]

Do you think he may have been referring to this format?...

List an item using the auction-style format with a reserve price

Starting price: £10

Reserve price: £150

Final selling price: £200

Total eBay selling fees are £25.80 comprising:

Insertion fee: £1.30

Reserve fee: 3% of the reserve price, which in this case is £4.50

Final value fee: 10% of the final selling price, which in this case is £20

...and if so, is this NOT the advisable route with these cars?

[Lunablack]

Jockman said:

Do you think he may have been referring to this format?...

Final value fee: 10% of the final selling price, which in this case is £20

This bit isn't in the eBay motors fees..... They use a different format

[yeti]

Anecdotally, it also seems common on eBay for people to 'win' the car in an auction or buy it on via the classified ad and then not complete the sale; either they don't turn up, don't like it when they see it or look at it and try and knock you down on price.

It is not quite legally-binding enough like a physical auction...

[marcelg]

In selling my previous cars, I always put on PH and Autotrader.
Have always sold from the Autotrader ad rather than the PH (I ask the buyer where they saw the ad), and had more calls from Autotrader ad too.
Not very trusting of car ads on eBay although have bought one from there before (albeit saw the ad, and did all negotiating over the phone.

Autotrader ads £56 for 6 weeks online (20% cash back available on quidco)

[mikey k]

D16RR_Rich said:

Hi guys
After 4years of ownership, am now looking at selling my 2007 Aston Martin V8 Vantage.
Car is in mint condition and has done 14,500miles.
Where is best to advertise car - Pistonheads / Autotrader / EBay etc
Also when is the best time to secure the best price for the car - now / may / June ?
Many thanks
Rich

I'd stick with here and Autotrader
Does this mean you will not be at the NW meet in April?

[yeti]

Focus/Astra/Shopping car = Autotrader

Aston/Porsche/Interesting car = PH

[franki68]

I posed this very question about my car on another ph forum,same reaction,but I will say I know someone recently had no luck on here or autotrader,put it on eBay,3 days later sold it for 70k .so in answer to the op....try all 3

[michael gould]

Having sold more than 10 high performance cars privately I would agree.......auto trader and piston heads ..."good luck

[D16RR_Rich]

Thanks for the advice guys.