Help with Selling a Car

[temperflare]

This.

I sold a car on there last year in about two days, and this was a crappy old camaro that i thought no one would have any interest in. Turns out the town of boone is just down the road from ames and every dirty rednecky wierdo from there came out of the woodwork to come see my car! (being from there I'm sure you're well aware of some of these questionable characters that reside in boone) The only thing I would recommend is writing up a bill of sale on your own that just states the obvious "you are buying this car as is, I have disclosed any and all known mechanical issues with said vehicle, etc." just to cover yourself. when your selling a car for $500, its most likely gonna be to some dude with a mullet or rat tail, a cleft pallet or what have you and you don't want that guy coming back and trying to fight you because you allegedly "screwed him". I had a buddy sell a dirtbike a while back (to another booner) and it broke down not long after the sale. the dude basically tried to stalk him to get a few hundred bucks back so it's good to cover all of your bases when dealing with degenerates.

This. If you are selling a car for a VERY low amount (like under $2000.00). I listed my 06 Pontiac G6 at 9500.00 and the only inquiry I got was a guy wanted to trade his Harley straight across for it.

I listed the car on Cars.com and sold in within a week for the asking price.

[bugs4cy]

I agree with the posts about craigslist, free and easy to use. Dont forget about the other sites however, autotrader and cars.com. Craigslist is free for a reason, everybody uses it and before you know it your on page 46 after an hour of it being on the site. I have friends in the car business and they count on the pay sites to run their dealerships. 40 bucks and it runs till it sells, sorted by price not post date. check it out if no luck on CL.

This. Tried reposting it a couple times, but within an hour it was 8 pages back. Never got a call on it.

Summer of '08 sold a Jeep with 200K miles on eBay. Slick as a whistle. Even got a good price, oddly enough. Th only glitch came when the guy from Chicago missed 2 different appointments to pay for it and pick it up. He did show up, about a week and a half late, and with a cashiers check instead of cash. The good news is that it all worked out.

If remember correctly, eBay cost us about $90, but we chose some of the extras on the ad so no, we didn't just stick to the cheapest ad. And, I think that if we didn't meet the minimum price and thus not sell it, we could have gotten the cost of the ad refunded.