Anyone sold or bought a car recently?

[riggaP]

Yo,

Just wondering if anyone has sold or bought a car (not necessarily a Skyline) recently in Vic. I would like to know where you advertised/looked, and from sellers, what sort of response you got, and how long it took to sell.

Unfortunately my car will be on the market as of next week (going OS) so I'm looking for the quickest way to sell it.

[saff_cossie]

Well my Lexus is up for sale up the moment (free plug!). It is advertised on Carsales.com.au and Carpoint.com.au. Also went in the Age for 2 weeks and is in Unique cars.

The amount of ridiculous emails I have had from people from those ads is not funny. Emails with no introduction or sign off and read:

"does it have alloy wheels"

"does the sun roof slide"

"would you take 20K when it was up for 30K"

I now have a couple of people seriously interested in it but even on here I got offers for a straight trade from people when I clearly put that I wanted to down grade to release some equity for a house deposit.

Be prepared is all I can say!

All up advertising was about $350 from memory as whilst the websites are free or under $10, the mag and Age cost a bit.

Having said all that, I have had several genuine enquiries from here including Swordfish so it is not all bad.

Oh and can you let me know details of your car as I am looking for a Skyline.

[sars]

www.carsales.com.au, but if you want to sale it fast, your car has to be cheap enough.

For example, I sold my skyline in 2 days after I advertised it in carsales, but it's around $2000 under market value, and now I want to sell my lancer, nobody asked in 2 months because I only want to sell it at reasonalbe price.

[DivHunter]

I bought my last two cars off forums - FordMods.com and this one

[riggaP]

Cheers saff. I'll post up the details of the car on the weekend after I take a few photos. Condition can only be described as immaculate

sars, did you get the price you posted or did you get offers (for the line)? The lancer might be taking longer coz there are millions out there?

DivHunter, sweet

[Tours]

Sold my Car on here last week. Was only advertised for a week

I also advertised it on Carsales.com and in the trading post.

Exspect some idiots calling, i had ppl offering half what i had it advertised, and i had heaps of idiots asking if i had run boost in the past when i slearly stated it was a GTS non turbo.

And i just brought my new car from a private seller on carsales.com

pz

[saff_cossie]

riggap - sounds good mate.

sars - I tried that after initially pricing it high, I then dropped it right to the bottom of the bracket so the only couple in the state that are cheaper are galaxy kilometres and even they are only 1K or so below. It started at $34K a couple of months ago and and is now up for 28K and I still get annoying emails.

I think it also depends on the actual price of the car in $.

[Interloper]

hey Paul, we got our S15 from the trading post (they also have the website) and sold our lancer through the trading post.

Best choice in my opinion.

[mikep]

Yo,

Just wondering if anyone has sold or bought a car (not necessarily a Skyline) recently in Vic. I would like to know where you advertised/looked, and from sellers, what sort of response you got, and how long it took to sell.

Unfortunately my car will be on the market as of next week (going OS) so I'm looking for the quickest way to sell it.

hey Rigga,

when i was looking for a Skyline I was looking at carsales.com.au, and occasionally in Unique Cars magazine. Ended up buying from a guy that advertised on carsales.

mike

[urbanoperations]

i advertised my skyline out the front of my house because we live right near a main road where i got 1 stupid offer by some old ****.., had it adv on carsales, the Age and numerous forums, and yes you do get a lot of timewasting tooles with no money asking you stupid question and stupid offers.. as previously said, be prepared to deal with knobheads

[SuAvE-1]

I had my series 4 rx-7 about two months ago on carsales and carpoint. No interest what so ever. Put it in the trading post, that night when it came out i sold it and got a few people interested in it afterwards. Its fairly expensive, but it worked for me.

[paulr33]

when i was selling my old vl i put it in the trading post, the thursday that it came out i had calls at 6:30am from dudes who were interested in buying it.

[sars]

sars, did you get the price you posted or did you get offers (for the line)? The lancer might be  taking longer coz there are millions out there?

DivHunter, sweet

Yeah I asking for 16k(already 2k less than what I after because I need cash very urgently), but somebody still offer me lower price such as 14k.....but anyway, I sold it at 16k to the first person to see the car. A little bit regret, I should advertised it for 17k :jump:

[inark]

EBAY $14

just sold the daepoo earlier in the week on there.. it had been on carpoint for about 3 weeks and i advertised it twice on auto supermarket... on ebay it sold for exactly what i wanted for it within 3 days.

will be puting the soarer on there once its fixed up too... *** carpoint...

[riggaP]

I think im just gonna spam it everywhere

inark, did people bid or was it a buy it now?

[inark]

bid... started the bidding at exactly how much i wanted for it.... got emails which i responded to and then it was sold the next day to the person who put a bid on it.

[riggaP]

Without even seeing it?

[inark]

yup... i put up a heap of pics tho to make it a bit easier...

[INASNT]

Watch out for the scammers when you advertise your car on carpoint or carsales wanting to pay you double what you advertised it for and then want to ship it to america or europe.

I have my dads old 1989 magna for sale on carpoint and some guy in America want to pay $15,000 for it and then wants to transport it to America!!

[Ronin 09]

I have my dads old 1989 magna for sale on carpoint and some guy in America want to pay $15,000 for it and then wants to transport it to America!!

America - where shi*t cars go to die.

Hang on a sec...

They come from there too...