OT: Best place to sell car (private party)?

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Submitted by lizzers on July 14, 2008 - 6:47pm

Hi,
What are some good places in San Diego to advertise/park a car for sale? I'm trying to sell mine, but I wanted to see where people have had success. I don't want to sell it back to the dealer, I'd rather sell to a private party.

What's worked for you?

Submitted by Ash Housewares on July 14, 2008 - 6:53pm.

Craigslist. It's free, and tons of buyers look there. It worked for me.

Submitted by sdduuuude on July 14, 2008 - 7:46pm.

I have used Auto Trader and the UT.
UT seems much better, and is cheaper.

Craiglist is free so do that for sure.
Also, try the SD reader. Some of their classifieds are free or dirt cheap.

Submitted by teatsonabull on July 14, 2008 - 8:00pm.

I had great success using www.cars.com listing service. This was about two years ago.

Submitted by jennyo on July 14, 2008 - 8:03pm.

Craigslist is the way to go. Before listing it, go to Carmax for a cash offer that is good for a specified period of time (I think its 7 days or 300 miles). I would recommend getting the Carmax offer and using that to counter any offers you get on Craigslist. It's good to have in case people want to dicker with you on price. I have found Carmax's offers to be more than fair, often much higher than a dealer trade-in offer. And you don't have to smog before selling.

Submitted by j on July 14, 2008 - 8:27pm.

It depends on the car. I think craigslist is best for cars under $10,000, Classic Trader for classics, and traderpub.com was better for higher priced cars. But it has been about two years since I have sold a car. Get advise from people that sold comparable cars to yours in the last 4-6 months. The auto market has really changed in that time.

Submitted by anxvariety on July 14, 2008 - 9:12pm.

I bought a new truck last year from dealer.. the dealer offered me 13k for my old one (which was paid off). I said no, went home posted it on Craigslist and took a nap.

20 minutes into my nap my cell phone rang, picked it up, guy said can I come look at it, I say yeah.. I go back to sleep thinking it was not a strong lead or something he didn't seem serious. About 1 hour later I hear someone knocking on the door.. I show him the truck he gives me $21000 cash and we're done. Craigslist!!

Submitted by equalizer on July 14, 2008 - 10:07pm.

what j said. if you have uncommon car, autotrader will bring in people from all over socal, sold car to someone from Palm Springs and for cheap car, UT. CL can bring the superlow bids and you exclude people who dont waste time on PC.

Submitted by nostradamus on July 14, 2008 - 10:37pm.

I sold mine in November. Used craigslist. Sold in 3 days. Got $2k more than the dealer offered as a trade-in. Won't ever go with the dealer's trade-in.

Submitted by flu on July 15, 2008 - 4:57am.

Best to advertise it in your company's for sale listings, unless you have such a POS car that you would be embarrassed that a fellow coworker has the unfortunate luck of buying it :)

Submitted by LAAFTERHOURS on July 15, 2008 - 6:25am.

Depends on the type of vehicle at the moment - SUV values have tanked.

Submitted by lizzers on July 15, 2008 - 5:13pm.

Thanks for all the advice...I will try craigslist and the reader first (since they are free and seem to get a high amount of traffic).

Maybe if that doesn't work I can take it to CarMax.

It is an SUV (Highlander), but since it is a 4 cylinder I get really good gas mileage - around 28 mpg.

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Submitted by svelte on February 12, 2009 - 6:29pm.

How did I know this profile would be but hours old?

I'm psychic!

Submitted by marsi on August 2, 2009 - 7:52am.

Just google "sell used car" or "used car classifieds" along with city name

and add as much details as possible in your description, like why you want to sell the car, the interior/exterior conditions. do add few snaps of the car you are going to sell. adding picture will increase your chance of selling more then 50%.

marsi,
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Submitted by briansd1 on August 2, 2009 - 8:57am.

What are you selling? I know someone who needs a good reliable car. Not an American car.

Submitted by flu on August 2, 2009 - 2:44pm.

briansd1 wrote:
What are you selling? I know someone who needs a good reliable car. Not an American car.

briansd,

Check the post date of the original poster of this thread. This thread isn't new. It came from 2008. The reason why it was resurrected is because someone with the handle marsi decided to spam this forum with a shameless self-promotion of a website. :)

Submitted by Aecetia on August 3, 2009 - 3:13pm.

Marsi must be a spam troll. DFTST.

Submitted by twola on August 3, 2009 - 10:02pm.

One of the best places I have found to sell a car is AllTheRides.com.

We have sold several cars there and also from what I read in an article that it is highly preferred by dealers as they are much more affordable than any other classified site.

Craigslist is just a scam infested site where people do not like paying more than $500.00 for a car.

Submitted by freshman on August 4, 2009 - 7:58am.

There is a small road between Mira mesa high school and mira mesa blvd, closed to the Tuesday farmer market. People park their cars there for sale all the times.

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Submitted by samcan123 on August 26, 2009 - 10:18pm.

I think you can use newspaper and try to sell in Ebay.. you will get customers..
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Submitted by kev374 on October 2, 2009 - 9:56am.

Does CarMax buy all types of cars?

Submitted by jennyo on October 2, 2009 - 1:23pm.

kev374 wrote:
Does CarMax buy all types of cars?

Yes.

Submitted by jeffsharon888 on October 2, 2009 - 2:33pm.

I tried selling my car by parking my car near SDSU. I got a couple hits but they were low ballers. Then, I got my car pre-inspected by Aimmobileinspections.com and it proved to be a good tool to use in negotiations. The buyer felt more comfortable after seeing the report. I sold the car a week later.

Submitted by paramount on October 2, 2009 - 4:03pm.

jeffsharon888 wrote:
I tried selling my car by parking my car near SDSU. I got a couple hits but they were low ballers. Then, I got my car pre-inspected by Aimmobileinspections.com and it proved to be a good tool to use in negotiations. The buyer felt more comfortable after seeing the report. I sold the car a week later.

How do you people find these threads?

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