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Looks like eBay is a bit cheaper, but does AT get more eyeballs?
It's a van worth £2-3k.
Anyone got experience of either/both for a similar sale?
Sold the last few cars with ads on ebay (cheap) and Facebook (free). Its fixed price on ebay now so you don't need to worry about auctions and fees. Its just an advert basically. They still turn up, kick the tyres and give you cash/transfer the money. Went pretty smoothly each time. Just need to be a bit hard nosed with filtering out the idiots, but you can usually do that at the email stage. Certainly fine for a lower value vehicle.
The extra that Autotrader has is that it sets up a temporary phone number that forwards to your phone so you don't have to hand out your number and people can ring to ask questions before them come and kick tyres and haggle.
I've used eBay classifieds in the past too with no issues. Depends on where you think will get the right buyer looking which can be a lottery.
Many years ago I wanted to sell my 205Gti so just put a for sale sign in the window. Had a knock on the door from two very dodgy looking blokes who asked if they could hear it running. Luckily a little voice in my head kicked in so I said no,and didn't regain consciousness later with the car gone...
A thing to consider really is that on ebay, it's an auction and in auctions people bid up. And if they are lucky enough to win they feel like they got a bargain, even though they basically paid more than anyone else was prepared to. Autotrader is a classified listing and generally the culture of car buying is to haggle people down to fell like you got a good - people don't want to pay the asking price.
For that reason at that price point I tend to buy from classifieds like autotrader and when I come to sell I sell on ebay. Sometimes I've bought, used a van for a year or so and sold again for within £50 of what I bought for. One I bought with tax and mot used for a year and sold without either for £10 less than I bought it for
Don't rule out Gumtree either.
Sold mine on FB within 24 hours last weekend.
Thanks, hadn't thought of FB or Gumtree
maccruiskeen
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A thing to consider really is that on ebay, it’s an auction
I'd be looking at a classified ad on eBay.
Just remember the usual rules about both though, the time wasters and lowballers are easy to filter out. I sold my MOT failure shit heap within a day of putting it up for 20 quid less than I posted it at which still put me 80 quid up on what I'd already spent trying to put it right.