Admin, please delete if this isn't appropriate. My brother and I are trying to sell my dad's car through Facebook Marketplace and as you can imagine, it's proving difficult. Is anyone looking for a cheap runabout, or know anyone who might be, or does anyone have any experience of using these online car buying sites. It's an 06 Honda Jazz, it's done 82,000 miles and had the clutch done at about 75,000 miles. It's got an MOT until January and runs and drives great. My dad regularly got it serviced when getting the MOT done, but doesn't appear to have any paperwork or stamps to prove it. It's got a lot of scratches, dents, cracked windmirror casings and quite a lot of 'age related' marks. It isn't a concourse example by any stretch of the imagination. My brother's got it up for £900 on Facebook, but he's open to offers. Advert here: https://www.facebook.com/share/18oR2bBhch/
Facebook marketplace is a joke. This is generally how it goes Buyer*-"Hi is the "insert selling item" still for sale?" Seller "Yes it is" Buyer*" " *timewaster
My brother has had 2 people contact him, and pretty much say the same thing, just worded differently. Is this available? Where is it? Then an offer considerably under the asking price. Both offers identical. We're convinced they're bots.
I sold my dad’s a few years ago, I can’t be too sure but I think I used Yorkshire Trader online. Can’t recall being charged for it. Sorry I can’t be more specific as it’s all a bit sketchy now. Edit, that’s Yorkshire Motor Trader of course.
I sold my BMW X3 a few years ago through FB Marketplace. An Asian guy travelled over from Oldham to view it and he said he works for several dealers in that area. After a three minute drive round the block he agreed my asking price and transferred the money to my bank straight away. I had taken the documents outside with me so there was no need to leave the car until the deal was done. I must admit I was a bit nervous at the start but there was no problem and fifteen minutes after he arrived he was driving my car away. There’s always some risk buying and selling cars privately, however you choose to do it but I’ve never had a problem over the years.
Just a word of caution in case anyone isn't up with the latest scams - there are a lot of fake banking apps going around at the moment that don't really do anything but which make it look like someone is sending you the money, so obvious though it may be, don't be rushed and make sure that the money is actually in your account before handing over any items.
I did exactly that and he waited patiently while I refreshed my account several times. It took a few minutes after he pressed send before I saw the deposit on my balance. I then happily tore off the bit of ownership document for him to take away and all was hunky dory. I was a bit misty-eyed though as he drove my car of the last seven years away, but I soon got over it.
Put it through Auctions, i work up ere at Bridlington Motor Auctions, bringing good money at the mo, good luck.
Any tips for putting a car through auction? I'm not putting one through or anything but always been curious about it. Any dos and don'ts? Ways to get extra money and things people do that are a waste of time and money and don't add any value?
I am old fashioned. To me, the only place to sell a car privately is a dedicated car sale site - ie Autotrader. The price of the ad is graded so it costs more the more the car is worth, which is a bit of a con because it's basically the same service regardless of the value of the car. But for a car under £1k, it's 15 quid to keep the ad up for 3 weeks, 27 quid for 6 weeks or 34 quid to keep it up as long as it needs until the car sells. As it happens, I have literally just sold mine this week on AT because I have replaced it with a lease car through work. I felt I had to go private and see how it went because the likes of WBAC were a good 2k lower than the suggested private sale price. It took 10 days to sell and went on Tuesday, to a cop. Got my asking price too. I only had one time waster, a guy from a lease company looking for stock. Offered me £50 more than WBAC did. "Sorry mate, if I wanted WBAC money, I would have driven it to WBAC and saved the cost of the advert" I was tempted for a second to put it on here and see if anyone was ready for a switch to electric. Might have done if it had gone unsold. To be honest, the chap it's gone to got a proper bargain.
