Best way to sell my GF's car

[shocker-z]

Hi all,

I'm currently trying to sell my girlfriends car as she is due to drop my litle baby girl in *8 weeks and she hazs finance so we have a setlment fee of £3900 and are wanting to sell her Ford KA 54plate for around £4100.

Auto trader advert
http://tinyurl.com/3cujw6


What is the best way you have found to sell privatly for this kind of price range? I received a call off http://www.cardata.co.uk/ saying they had a buyer who was interested but it's £80 for the advertising/buyers to be sent to you, has anyone had experience with cardata and are they any good or do they just phone everyone on autopeople and say the same but bring no buyers?


Kind Regards
Liam Wheldon

[Robin Hood]

shocker-z said:

I received a call off http://www.cardata.co.uk/ saying they had a buyer who was interested but it's £80 for the advertising/buyers to be sent to you, has anyone had experience with cardata and are they any good or do they just phone everyone on autopeople and say the same but bring no buyers?

You've sussed it already, if you go to their web site there are 28 Ka's for sale, why would they have a buyer for yours ?

Tell 'em to get stuffed and keep your £80

[hollypop]

I recently sold my car and it was the worst experience ever. However it went within a week on Autotrader (online only). Don't bother paying someone £80 to sell it, it'll be fine on Autotrader.

Thinking about it I know someone who paid the £80 and got nowhere with it. He sold the car privately through Autotrader the next week, £80 worse off.

[SneakyNeil]

Cardata If they ring again offer to sell it to them there and then for £500 cheaper and they can sell it on to their guaranteed buyer themselves, see what they say.

[shocker-z]

Thank's

It sounded great at the start because they say, "Hi we're calling from cardata a finance company and we are wondering if we could send somepone over who saw your car on autotrader as their interested?" So i was like yeah sure, then she said well it's £80 for us to send the interested party and you get that back when the client buys off you, then it changed to £80 and thats the fee.. then i was like there must be a catch here this aint right.


it'll be 2 weeks on tuesday and no interest so far.. baby is due in 7 weeks Might have to drop it to £4100 and put it back up.


Liam

[havoc]

Liam,

Plenty of time, don't stress it too much yet. Summer is always a bad time to sell cars as people are on holiday.

- Autotrader one of the best places.
- It's also worth putting an advert in the window of the car.
- Depending on where you both work, might be an idea to put an ad up on the noticeboard at work, if you're allowed.


Also, do a 40-mile radius search on Autotrader, check how yours is priced against similar cars.

[Robin Hood]

That's more than dealer price, needs to be around £3,500 or less to have a chance of selling it:

That's why there have been no enquiries.

http://www.parkers.co.uk/cars/used-prices/Valuatio...

Edited by Robin Hood on Thursday 2nd August 09:34

[vixta]

I sold my old car privately earlier in the year. i advertised in the local rag and given that i was selling from my folks place, they were bombarded with calls and it was sold within 24hrs of being advertised. to advertise locally it cost me about 30 quid. I'd consider it again.

[shocker-z]

Robin Hood said:

That's more than dealer price, needs to be around £3,500 or less to have a chance of selling it:

That's why there have been no enquiries.

http://www.parkers.co.uk/cars/used-prices/Valuatio...

Edited by Robin Hood on Thursday 2nd August 09:34

£4200 seems bout average on autotrader.. the thing is we can't aford to pay £400 to get rid of the car..

i'd rather pay it off for her than have to pay to get rid atleast then it's hers..


I'll maby pay it a few months get the final payment quote lower and then try later in the year