or is autotrader better?

What are the ebay/paypal charges?

Is it possible/best to put a reserve on?

Never sold a vehicle on ebay so interested in experiences from a sellers point of view.

You have two options – auction or classified.

Classified is like autotrader – £15 fixed fee, but you get to write a decent length description and photos you can actually see.

After selling my car a few months back and using A/T (£30!) and eBay, I’ll not be using autotrader again – their days are numbered IMO. Too expensive, too short a run, not enough space, poor photos etc etc.

From a searchers point of view be up front and honest as possible, include mileage as obviously as possible as well as stating if it’s cat d or not. Must’ve enquired on over 10 vans to find out the mileage is stonking high or they’re cat d’s.

Just out of interest what are you selling?

ex-AA T5 transporter, insulated wired carpeted. Great day van with bikes and does well as a stealth camper (127000 miles 06 plate).

Will potentially be doing 100 miles a into Edinburgh at rush hour so……

couple of months ago i tried autotrader cost £44 !!

had no calls for a week

put same vehicle on ebay, had a guy call after 30 mins, he was round viewing within the hour and bought it – then took if off ebay so only cost the listing fee

try pistonheads too – its free

Another option might be to pop it up in the classifieds on here.

When I sold my van I got both interest from forum users and quite a few emails from folk who had found the ad through search engine referals due to STW being very well ranked by google.

Send me some details of van please.
Regards
Richard

TD email addy?

Ditto for details please..
Email in profile,

DrP

As others have said ebay classified is the way to go, Autotrader is indeed limited. It’s just not flexible enough any more now people are used to ebay searching and it’s too expensive for sellers.

gumtree and trade it too.

Ebay, 99p, no reserve.

I’ve sold a couple of our old vehicles on on there – one an approx 10 year old Citroen Despatch, white, drove OK, ply lined, 150k on the clock, massive dent in the side door, head rests chewed by someone’s dog. Fetched £1300, which was more than I would ever have had the face to advertise it for. I was thinking of advertising at around a grand and would have taken £8-900…

99p no reserve really seems to pull people in, and if you’re not getting anywhere near the money you want, there are ways of pulling the auction. Or you could always refuse to sell and take the bad feedback. You’re not compelled to sell like in a real auction.

If you sell on eBay, do yourself a favour by supplying tons and tons of photos on everything, detail whatever history you have, make it available for inspection before purchase/bidding etc.

Also, advertise it on here – sounds like an STWer’s dream car. I know someone in London that might have been interested if you were closer…

richardjballATblueyonderDOTcoDOTuk

An ex-AA T5 is not your normal van 🙂 It’s a specialist outdoorsy potential day van.

You should try on this forum (I bought my ex-AA T4 from STW!), ebay and http://www.vwt4forum.co.uk and any other forums for bikers, motor-Xers, canoeists, surfers etc

I agree with the ebay no reserve idea – I sold a T4 like this and had over 200 people ‘watching’ it – calls from 5-600 miles away, including Cork (I’m Edinburgh).

You could try used vans site http://www.vanlocator.co.uk – they charge a tenner for advertising any vans for sale