Re: How to sell car these days

Posted by PackardV8 On 2012/5/10 21:18:16

Do your homework to establish a REALISTIC price. From there u have to make a personal judgement call. IF hot to sell then cut the REALISTIC price by 15% and allow for aanother 5% lower offer OR drop the price 30% and FIRM PRICE and stick to it!

If NOT hot to sell inflate the price by 15 to 30%. Haggle from there down. But u mite be a LONG TIME selling.


Biggest mistake in eother case is to chase off serious buyers. Chase off serious buyers real fast by trying some old horse trader tactics. Such as "make me an offer". Or "come on over an look at he car and then we'll talk price". 95% of those that actually come to look at the car on a "make offer" tactic are just out as curisoity-seekers.

On the other hand if u establish a price that u know is realistic or lower and a caller tries to beat u down on the price BEFORE even looking at the car then u know u have a time waster on your hands and cut the conversation with him short.

A market is a market. THere are buyers and there are sellers. Unfortunately there are many many more day dreamers (on both sides of the market) than just the buyers and sellers.

If the car is not running then u got big problem selling. Even if it only runs good enuf to drive a couple of laps around the yard is very positive. But not running at all makes it a parts car price range unless it's extra sharp on details