Car Sales & Tossers

[Gerry H]

In an effort to try and regain some semblance of order back into my life I thought it would be a good idea to have a clearout and start afresh. 09 was a particularly crap year for car related things and I rather hope '10 will be better. So far I'm not too sure I seem to be attracting a particular end of the car buying public, i.e. the 'innit brigade.'

Mazda went on PH 3 weeks ago at what I thought was a cheap price, having bought it cheap I was selling cheap. One called at 7:30 last Saturday night from Manchester and wanted to drive the 200 miles to buy the car, in the dark and probably for considerably less than the asking price. There were others with a single question. What's da lowest you'll take for da car mate, innit?

Today, the Citroen went on ebay for spares or repair. Low start price, no reserve. I set the ad to go live automatically at 8:30. At 8:35 I get a phone call from a local innit scrappy asking for me by name. WTF.

"How much do you want? It'll cost a lot to get a new turbo fitted blah blah. I can come and give you cash tomorrow and take it away, blah blah.

I basically told him it wasn't for sale and the auction would run. But I came away bloody incensed. When I asked him how he'd got my name and number he said he got it from ebay. Just click on info and it comes up. This [email="w@nker"]w@nker[/email] has bid on the car, has a big fat feckin' ZERO feedback and knows all but my blood group.

So much for ebay privacy.

Rant Over and breathe

[blacky]

Oh dear Gerry, welcome to the world of selling cars....people seem to be so flakey and dodgy it seems....had loads of the same selling the Impreza!

You'll get there, there are genuine people out there somewhere!

[maff]

I hate the process so much i usually sell on to friends/family or trade them in and take the shitty price the dealer gives just avoid all the grief.

You could do worse than bung them on the for sale section here, you never know, and at least you've got a rough idea that the people buying aint mentalists.

[Gerry H]

Can't believe how much interest the Citroen has created. I've had a private offer for

[Stuart]

I hate selling cars, full stop. I love buying them though

I feel your pain Gerry (in terms of selling cars to family) When Rob and I swapped the T5 for the Volvo there were a couple of bits that the Golf needed and a pile of bits that the T5 needed. I still felt bad.

Maybe we should have some kind of in-club swap shop? We could have a pool of cars like those posh P1 clubs and just argue over the keys

[Mr Fletcher]

ok it looks like we have a gap in the market here

we sell any car .com:biggrinjester:

[tandyboy]

i know it sounds daft but have you tried that 'we buy any car.com' lot?? they do seem to offer very reasonable money, i've even seen them up their offer after a couple of days via text message, might be something to consider for the Mazda mate

[Ben]

I sold my very reliable golf to my sisters boyfriend, it had never let me down in 4 years - it broke down on his journey home!! - overheating and stalling!.

However I put this down to me toodling around in it - and like everyone of us, you get in a new car and thrash it to see what it can do - so my driving was sympathetic, his manic, result Bang ...

[Mr Fletcher]

i know it sounds daft but have you tried that 'we buy any car.com' lot?? they do seem to offer very reasonable money, i've even seen them up their offer after a couple of days via text message, might be something to consider for the Mazda mate

My mate used them got a great price on his shogun until he got there and they bid him in the balls for it

[Gerry H]

I did try them for the Mazda but as Jase says, I'd expect them to negotiate downward once you're there. A bit like the gold buying scam that's going around. Send us your gold and we'll stuff you good and proper on value.

I can't believe what's happening with the Citroen. It's now heading towards silly money which it can't be worth. I've accepted an offer of