Wow, how times have changed?
The last time I tried to sell a car was almost five years ago. Back then, it was basically a straight choice between part-exchanging with a local dealer and going through the tiresome "haggle" routine. Or, it was to pay extortionate local private advertisement fees and face up to the the twin irritants of time wasters and "tyre-kickers"!
In the end, can you believe I actually did both? Having used Glass's Guide to value my car, I placed an ad in the local Gazette (which ended up costing over £100) and barely received any interest, other than two stereotype "tyre kickers", one of whom actually had the barefaced affrontry to say he would "take the car off my hands" if I knocked £400 pounds off the £1600 asking price!
After that, the part-exchange option seemed infinitely more attractive and although, I didn't get anything like what I wanted for my vehicle (I was told I got the "car book price"), I think I got a reasonable deal (but no more than that) on my new Ford Mondeo.
Basically the whole car selling process soured me and, I think that is the reason I held on to my trusty Mondeo for two years longer than I ideally wanted.
Thankfully, in the words of Bob Dylan 'The times, they are a changin'! The advent of new car buying websites gives the vehicle seller a quick, hassle-free option which simply wasn't there five years ago and let me tell you, in my experience at least, the world is a better place for it!
Listen, you would have to be super-naive to think you will achieve the very best cash price for your vehicle with any car buying company, but the trade-off is the simple, time-saving, hassle-free process. And, again in my experience at least, their valuations aren't anything like as miserly as some of the more negative critics out there would lead you to believe. After all, with respect to all the car valuation tools out there, the true value of anything is what someone is prepared to actually pay!
So, it's car buying websites all the way for me now and I think the future is only going to get better, as new 'trading portals' like Car Arena enter the marketplace, thus exposing vehicles to a much wider audience of potential car buyers!
The last time I tried to sell a car was almost five years ago. Back then, it was basically a straight choice between part-exchanging with a local dealer and going through the tiresome "haggle" routine. Or, it was to pay extortionate local private advertisement fees and face up to the the twin irritants of time wasters and "tyre-kickers"!
In the end, can you believe I actually did both? Having used Glass's Guide to value my car, I placed an ad in the local Gazette (which ended up costing over £100) and barely received any interest, other than two stereotype "tyre kickers", one of whom actually had the barefaced affrontry to say he would "take the car off my hands" if I knocked £400 pounds off the £1600 asking price!
After that, the part-exchange option seemed infinitely more attractive and although, I didn't get anything like what I wanted for my vehicle (I was told I got the "car book price"), I think I got a reasonable deal (but no more than that) on my new Ford Mondeo.
Basically the whole car selling process soured me and, I think that is the reason I held on to my trusty Mondeo for two years longer than I ideally wanted.
Thankfully, in the words of Bob Dylan 'The times, they are a changin'! The advent of new car buying websites gives the vehicle seller a quick, hassle-free option which simply wasn't there five years ago and let me tell you, in my experience at least, the world is a better place for it!
Listen, you would have to be super-naive to think you will achieve the very best cash price for your vehicle with any car buying company, but the trade-off is the simple, time-saving, hassle-free process. And, again in my experience at least, their valuations aren't anything like as miserly as some of the more negative critics out there would lead you to believe. After all, with respect to all the car valuation tools out there, the true value of anything is what someone is prepared to actually pay!
So, it's car buying websites all the way for me now and I think the future is only going to get better, as new 'trading portals' like Car Arena enter the marketplace, thus exposing vehicles to a much wider audience of potential car buyers!
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