I am selling one of my companys pool cars and would like peoples opinions on what to sell it for please.
It is a silver Vectra 1.8 SXI Y Reg. 60,000 miles and fairly standard, air con and so on but nothing special.
Any guides would be appreciated.
Thanks
Marcos
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Sorry forgot to mention that it is in average condition.
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Of course it is. It\'s a Vectra, the epitome of average.
::: Dons flame proof overalls and battens down the hatches :::
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Is this a newspaper ad, a disposal to an employee, an auction reserve, a figure for a trader coming round? All could be slightly different for different reasons.
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I don't see a difference. If someone buys a car, goes over it very thoroughly, services it and re-sells it, then fair enough. They have added value. But if someone is just selling a car I don't see any difference between the price they should expect for it from a trader or from a private punter.
HJ
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I don't see a difference. If someone buys a car, goes over it very thoroughly, services it and re-sells it, then fair enough. They have added value. But if someone is just selling a car I don't see any difference between the price they should expect for it from a trader or from a private punter.
Whilst I agree with you HJ, and would personally not want to pay over about trade price for a car (Which I've not done for either of my last two cars), it would seem most of the market disagrees. Hence there being several values given in most reputable guides - the 'Private Sale' value often hundreds, sometimes thousands, more than the 'Trade' value.
It's reasonable to expect to fetch more for a car if you sell it through Autotrader to a private individual, than if you were to auction it to trade punters, or trade it in at a local independant garage, don't you think?
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Reasonable to expect more out of autotrader than if as a private punter you sell it at auction at no reserve. But not reasonable to expect more from a private punter than from a trader when selling from your doorstep. You can try, of course, but because you are not offering the car with any sort of warranty you are selling it on trade terms and cannot expect as of right any more than trade money for it.
HJ
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