10 mins later I’ve got another ping from another scammer. What fun!
Give it a day and you'll really wish you'd taken that grand less from the dealer!! 😬
Hehe. I reckon about £1800 less tbh. But yeah that will start to look attractive. We Buy Any Car Eventually After You're Sick of the Private Sale Process.
johndoh
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Hey M8 – is it still availible?
I dont have the money until the end of the month. Will you hold it for me?
What did you buy? Is the big question.
That wasn't the reason.
That fake HPI site seems to be latest FB car selling scam. I had loads of initial interest in a cheap car I was selling - all asking is it HPI clear? "It's less than a grands worth of 11year old car of course it is!!!!" And if you're that bothered about its history YOU get the HPI report done. ****ing Muppets. I pulled the ad as I couldn't be bothered with the mither.
It’s less than a grands worth of 11year old car of course it is!!!!
most HPI checks include insurance writeoff, milage discrepency as well as finance checks. I'd suspect more low value cars flag things on hpi than high value cars
M8 wil u swop yur car 4 a playstation 2?
I know I spoke to you about my i3 Molgrips. I subsequently sold that within 24hrs of the ad going up on Autotrader. WBAC and Motorway were quoting about £13k, a local specialist was offering just over £13k or £14k sale or return. I could see nothing on AT under £16k at this point. Figured I wanted to sell quickly and pitched it at £14950. Sold at asking price and could have sold it twice. Had a few spammers but nothing I couldn't ignore. Interestingly, after the first two chompers I don't remember getting much other interest. So I think it needs to be cheap enough for people to overlook any issues you have (like it being a taxi).
If i send a mate who lives nearby, is it ok if i send him to check it and hand over a cheque?
@RichPenny that was 6 months ago or more? Things have changed a bit since then, it seems, and my car is less desirable than yours.
Yeah happily this car is not affected by that 🙂
FB seems to be an absolute cesspit.
I'd recommend using Gumtree (free) instead.
Sold my van a couple of weeks ago with no scammers at all.
But if you're already on AT, that's the best place for a vehicle of that price anyway.
FB seems to be an absolute cesspit.
I think I was lucky - I had several idiots with the usual stuff but one gem – I posted an ad. at 5pm on Saturday, we agreed a fair price at about 7pm, he collected Sunday morning at 10am and paid the full amount by bank transfer there and then.
What concerns me is that I haven't even had any stupid low offers.
Did you get a discount on the Ionic?
No... If anyone was going to be able to negotiate a discount, it's not me.
Someone offered me £7.5k for the Leaf.
That's £800 more than WBAC isn't it ? Just take it 🙂
I might have, but my wife said no...
molgrips
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I might have, but my wife said no…
It's now her job to sell it 😀
Lol good point, I'll transfer it all over to her.
On a <£10K car, I would have a said that £1K above WBAC price is a sensible value to list at and anything above WBAC price is acceptable (depending on perceived desirability and actual interest received). I'd bite their hand off.
Very low ball offer, cheeky £250 cash in a brown envelope to the salesman.
Is what a dealer friend found one of his team doing, straight out the door.
"Someone offered me £7.5k for the Leaf."
That's the lowest amount they're prepared to pay for it. If you want £8k or £8.5k then you'll need to persuade them that it's worth the extra. New tyres, blah blah blah. TBH, if similar is on AT at £9k from a dealer, I reckon getting £8 isn't a bad result.
Dealer models are mostly £10k or more. Private sales are £9.5k but I just downloaded a Chrome extension that shows when ads were listed and how the price has changed - some of the private sales have been there for 6 months and nearly halved in price..!
My time and energy is worth less hassle/money and this is why I am now happy to just trade in my cars, yes it’s less money but it’s less hassle. If the car is priced low enough it will sell, if you want a few quid more you could be sitting on it a while, which costs time/energy/money and you may need to reduce the price/wbac it in the end to shift it. In my limited experience if it’s not shifted in a week you may have it a while. People often have alerts set up for when new cars are advertised and snap up the good ones as soon as they go up. Might be worth trying Gumtree too, my dad shifted his Passat in a day to a taxi driver on gumtree. You only need one interested buyer so fingers crossed (or sell it to the bloke who put in the offer and be rid off it).
I find face book works.
But I refuse to enter negotiations sight unseen and I state as much on adverts.
I'll ignore messaging lowballers -i won't even respond if your opening Gambit is a low ball. - Ill likely even block you. No good has ever come of entertaining their nonsense.
Everything I've tried to sell is priced fairly and seems to sell easily.
So either it's priced high..... Or possibly flagging up as a taxi or some other massive red flag when they check the history on the plates.
Sold it! Someone asked for one on the FB group. £8k in the end, which is a bargain for them but I'm glad to be rid of it in a falling market.
