Top 7 Ways to Sell Your Old Car
It’s almost spring, and that sense of newness is in the air, but before you can get a new car, you have to sell the old one.
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Part-Exchange: part-exchanging your car with a company like Border City Autos is a great way to save money on your new vehicle. You hand your old car in and get the value discounted from the cost of a new car. You get the added benefit of not having to find a buyer for your old car. Less stress and less money!
Online Auctions: a fast, easy way to sell your car. Online auctions are open to anyone; you don’t have to be a car salesperson. You will need to have your vehicle correctly valued, though, so you can get a fair price for it. After that, you can set a reserve price, so your car will not be sold for less. The great thing about doing this online is the number of eyeballs you get on your vehicle.
Live Auctions: if you have a car auction house near you, give them a call and arrange to take your car in. Their technicians will create the listing for you, giving you a better chance than if you’d done it yourself, but live auctions do have fewer people around to bid on your car than anything online would.
Private Sales: you can always sell your car privately, whether you take out an ad in a local paper, put something up online on sites like Gumtree or Craigslist, or even put posters up in shops. Follow all the usual safety guidelines for trading online and consider arranging viewings away from your home address in a supermarket car park, for example. Don’t organise test drives with strangers alone, either. Have a friend to back you up.
Swapping: are any of your friends, colleagues or other contacts looking for a new car? Maybe your car is precisely what they’re looking for. If you need other things like help with ironing or childcare, consider swapping these to the value of your vehicle too. There are ways to trade your car online also. Don’t discount a straight swap!
Scrap: got a car that’s past it’s best? If you have absolutely no other options, you can always sell it for scrap. At least it’s some money in exchange for your car, and you’re not at a dead loss. If you know someone who has a mechanic’s skills, perhaps they could strip your car for you, and you could sell off the parts on eBay.
Freecycle: If absolutely nothing else works, and you need to get rid of that hunk of metal on your driveway, try giving it away! Even if you think no one would want it in a million years, someone might want it for something: parts, a restoration project, or maybe they collect classic cars. In essence, there are plenty of reasons that someone somewhere might want it.
Got a car to sell? Any of these tips is worth a try!
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