Best Way To Sell The T?

[Archie]

Hi All,

I will be getting rid of the second car in the near future and was after opinions from anyone that has recently sold or looked for a car on the best way to privately advertise it such as newspaper, trading post, which internet site etc

Any advice appreciated

[LTSBGY]

The best places to sell it would be www.carsales.com.au cost you ten bucks and you can put 5 photos on there and stays on there until you sell it and also the trading post. that's where most people will look for cars. Dont expect to sell it any time soon though coz its so hard to sell a car these days with petrol being so expensive, people tend to stay away from the big cars and buy 4 cylinders. that's why the price of big cars and especially the T and the v8's have dropped so much and will continue to drop and the 4 cylinder cars are going up or keeping their value. It took me more than 3 months to sell my 6 cylinder Late model camira and I got jack sh*t for it in the end. Wish you all the best of luck though.

Nesh

[ZAP]

I agree with Nesh.

I have sold 5 cars in the past 12 months all on carsales.com.au.

I paid the $50 and got a highlighted entry. Make sure you have heaps of good quality pics of the inside and outside.

Give as much details as possible so that your car comes up in the searches.

The average time for my cars to be sold was about 5 weeks.

[harvyk]

I don't know if you have the in brissy, but in Canberra we have the car markets, for us it costs $80 for them to display your car until it's sold \ 2 months...

I sold my subi that way, it was great, I drove it down to the car markets and gave the dude the keys, prospective buyers where given the keys and where allowed to start it, and if they wanted to go for a test drive they would call me and I'd head down there and go with them on the test drive...

Saved a lot of trouble as I didn't need to sit by the phone and keep my weekend free just incase someone called... and when I was called the person was seriously considering buying the car...

Might be an idea to see if such a thing exists up there...

[Guest newl]

Another alternative is www.autoline.com.au which doesn't cost a thing.

[HellionXR6T]

Try both, if the other doesn't cost a thing, nothing's lost

Yeah, I'd say carsales would be the way to go and the $50 would be well spent. Just bare in mind that a lot of visitors to the site would probably look at only the 1st few results and move on.

[JBomb3000]

When I sold my N/A XR6 about 3-4 months ago I found a colour picture add in the trading post did the trick. Tried www.carpoint.com.au, auto trader magazine and the local rag. Got no calls from the auto trader mag, 1 from the local rag and only idiots ringing from car point who wanted to know if it was a mint condition turbo with 24,000 k's for $24,000 or JUST an N/A. The only genuine calls I got were from the trading post.

[Archie]

Thanks for the replies - now to work out what price to ask. Looks like a car that didn't get much use has cost me about $1000 a month in depreciation