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85 messages, Last post on Feb 09, 2008 at 9:39 AM
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| If you are REALLY trying to sell your vehicle, for heavens sake, pay the $30-50 and advertise the thing right. Those freebie listings are a total joke. I can't believe that there are people are there tring to sell $15,000 vehicles and don't won't to spend $40 to advertise correctly. Talk about cheap.. | |
| Can you tell me what the "correct" way is? Cause I've tried every avenue in my 12 years and 20+ cars of experience and have yet to find one way that works better than any other (including spending money on ads). My best results have come from parking it near the street. And that costs me nothing aside from the paper I printed the sign on. | |
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That would depend on what kind of street you live, lol. corrrectly to me means local paper, Autotrader magazine(or similar mag. in your area), internet, word of mouth, flyers, ect ect. Basically, if you really want to sell a vehicle...get the word out there in as many places as possible.....and most important, price the car right, don't list at what the dealers are listing at. Listing solely in the freebie section of autotrader.com is not going to get the job done. IMHO |
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........ The biggest problem is -- people don't "Present" their vehicle. They just run a little 2 or 3 liner, it looks like everyone else's, the buyer's get bored into a coma after the 2/3 line, and off they go to the Vegas style ad by ABC Dodge .... This is what -0- bucks gets you: -0- This is what 15 bucks gets you: 1997 Buick Regal, low miles, all power. $7,900 call Bob. XXX-xxx-xxxx This is what $40 bucks gets you: *1997 Buick Regal LS*, 39,000 original miles. V6, power seats, power windows, cruise, tilt, CD Adult driven, garaged and professionally Maintained, looks new, drives new. *Must see must sell* $7,900 call Bob. XXX-xxx-xxxx Call me silly ... Call me stupid, but I think one ad, in the major newspaper, will do volumes more than hanging signs or waiting for the next "phone book" from the Auto-trader. But, it's your dime ... Terry.
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I agree with Terry. Back in 1985 I put an 81 Toyota Celica in the autotrader. It sat there for 3 weeks, in the meantime my ordered 85 Toyota Mini-van was due in. I got on the phone and called the San Diego Union/Tribune and placed an ad that read something like this: Beautiful silver blue Celica in excellent condition. 5spd manual transmission, a/c, am/fm cassette, alloy wheels, 39K miles, one owner, all service/maintenance records. New baby forces sale! $xxxx or best offer. Call xxx-xxxx up to 7pm. I placed the call on a wednesday, ad came out friday morning, car was sold Saturday morning. Best $39.95 I've ever spent. : ) Mackabee |
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| Also, an ad in the local paper will get a lot more SERIOUS callers. | |
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I just bought a '99 Chevy Prizm via an AutoTrader.com ad. Went through about six different dealers before settling on two to actually visit. Found and bought the car I was looking for in two weeks. I tried looking at the want ads in the local papers. Never found what I was looking for or just priced too high. But I also agree that some of the advertisers there do not post what tranny or what mileage or the vin# which can be aggravating. I was fortunate in that only one dealer I called about in their ad was already gone. Overall, not a bad buying experience. I'd use it again. Leo |
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About the VIN number? when they don't post the tranny, you can bet it's a stick. If they don't list the miles they are probably high.
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Hi isell, Well because, with vin# you have the option of doing a carfax. This might bring up a red flag and save you some $$$. The other two I have to agree with you in that it usually means that they're purposely avoiding stating it due to high mileage or an "undesireable" tranny. Although price usually reflects the high mileage. BUT from a customer's perspective it would allow me to narrow my search or at least keep me from wasting my time on what would otherwise be consider dead lead(s). Regards, Leo |
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| In some cases, I think people assume everything has an AT, so they don't bother to put it in. Unless I see stick indicated, I figure it is an AT, although sometimes they are mis-labelled. | |
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