Foot_Tapper

Would be interested to know what people use as a baseline for
calculating what their scoob is worth, when selling.
If you go by Parkers, people are overpricing their cars by
between 1000-1200 (on the trader), over the private sale price.????????????
Peeps obviously dont use parkers.
If buyers go by parkers; no wonder not many ppl are buying.
Obviously how much it's worth is what ppl will pay for it;
I just cant fathom the difference between what ppl want for their
mota's and what parkers says.
Anyone any thoughts ?????????????

Andy Tang

iTrader: (3)

I had a chat with my dealer!

They told what they would pay for it, and what they would put it on the forecourt for!

I sold it privately for the price exactly halfway!!

frisby

I priced my car at the trade in value indicated in parkers. Had loads of enquiries and it is sold.

Had loads of offers of swops but the potential swaps were all valued at dealer sort of prices.

Everyone wants cheap new cars, hence the number of cars supermakets now around. People have to take with this a lower value second hand for their car when its time to sell.

Price your car to sell and it will.

laters

Stu

Foot_Tapper

Before i get flamed, i would like to add; i think for sales
on here, peeps are more realistic.

Reffro

The reason is everyone has three prices in their head when they come to sell a car. The ASK, LIKE and SELL price.

They will always ask for more than they would ever hope to get and be ecstatic if they actually got. The like price will be the price they would prefer to sell the car for, and this would still leave them with a smile on their face. The sell price will be the minimum they would sell the car for, but would be loathed to do it, put if push comes to shove, they'll go for it.

Now bearing the above in mind, and the fact that everyone knows that if the dog eared cars that everyone else sells are worth a certain amount, their one owner, perfect in every way car must be worth at least ten gazillion pounds more than that, so that's what they will advertise it for. That's why you get lots of joke prices in private sales.

Every car I have sold privately may have looked cheap in comparison, but then I advertise the car at the correct price and hence will get a sale.

[Edited by Reffro - 2/13/2003 5:53:11 PM]

ScoobyWon't

Value my cars by the above method.

If I'm buying I value by Glass's guide trade price. Then take off value for excess mileage. I never add anything on though if it is under average mileage. It's a buyers market afterall.

Danny B

I use this place
http://glass.lycos.co.uk/scripts/uvv...clientId=Lycos

Groucho Marx

Good site that Danny. I`ll use it in the future. Thanx.

Gastro

Well for a Subaru - pick a number thats low, halve it and lower it a little more and thats about the price you'll get

Gastro

pcdude

http://glass.lycos.co.uk/scripts/uvv/uvv1.asp?laf=lycos&clientId=Lycos

so it gives a you dealers price of your car , the price a dealer would take in px for another car on their fourcourt
, and then proberly bump a £1000 or so on top and re-sell

it doesnt really give you a privte sell value does it ,

i looked at autotraders value site , and a couple of others they are higher by at least £1000 to £2000 more for private sells

its quite a minefield lol

Ringpeas

What about Jap imports? eg normal wrx v's UK turbo. Are they worth more or less than UK cars?

tizard99

Just sold mine on Autotrader and got just on the bottom limit for it, Bloody dealers on Autotrader pulling the **** out of Scooby prices (artificially making prices drop by competition).

Makes me wonder whats wrong with a car for a japanese person to sell a low mileage Impreza so cheap in japan that enables a trader to import it (with all the SVA costs included approx. £1500) and then sell it at £4500 for a profit.

possibly another thread subject.......

T.