Looking for feedback on my for sale ad

lukester

Hope it's okay to post this here, mods please let me know if it's not.

Have our car up for sale at the moment (see sig), and am looking for any suggestions to improve on the ad, either photos or wording. I also realise it's probably priced a little high- I based the price on what other similar cars were listed at online- so will modify the price shortly, but just wanted to get feedback on how it's portrayed currently.

Many thanks

Senna

I'd say the car is over priced, by about 1-1.5K

bazz26

It is way too expensive to be honest. Golfs are generally overpriced anyway in this country but 7 year old Golf diesels are not fetching that sort of money. You will need to price it around €7k to shift it imo.

Lurching

Not sure how many people look at adverts.ie. I know I wouldn't.

No harm in having it on donedeal.ie.

Nonoperational

Too expensive

bazz26

Makes no difference where you advertise it, if it is overpriced nobody will enquire about it.

grinds

Priced too high... look around at the motoring websites and you'll see the same car priced around a grand cheaper at least.

squod

€8,749.00

Stick a few grand in the boot..........

robtri

as above, way to expensive asking price...

advertise it for 7 and expect 6.5....

As folks have said
- it's too dear
- adverts.ie is a fairly crap site for cars (no offense to board.ie but in my experience you only get muppets offering swaps of crap they can't shift on themselves), donedeal.ie is the only way nowadays.

Ormus

RoverJames wrote: »

As folks have said
- it's too dear
- adverts.ie is a fairly crap site for cars (no offense to board.ie but in my experience you only get muppets offering swaps of crap they can't shift on themselves), donedeal.ie is the only way nowadays.

is there something wrong with carzone.ie that i haven't noticed?
cars seem to be much more competitively priced there than donedeal.ie
its also laid out better....donedeal seems to have lots of ads which forget to tell you really basic info like the mileage or the year of the car

lukester

Thanks for ask the honest feedback, much appreciated.

The car is on done deal and cars ireland as well.

Re the price, I realize it's overpriced, but it's the 2.0 tdi sport model, a totally different beast to the standard tdi. I've been offered 7500 as a trade in value too. Just wonder what bearing those two facts would have on the price?

Atomic Pineapple

lukester wrote: »

Thanks for ask the honest feedback, much appreciated.

The car is on done deal and cars ireland as well.

Re the price, I realize it's overpriced, but it's the 2.0 tdi sport model, a totally different beast to the standard tdi. I've been offered 7500 as a trade in value too. Just wonder what bearing those two facts would have on the price?

It depends on what the trade in is against and also what you could get the car your were trading against for a cash price.

What differences does the sport model have that make it in reality any better than a non sport model?

mullingar

Ormus wrote: »

is there something wrong with carzone.ie that i haven't noticed?
cars seem to be much more competitively priced there than donedeal.ie
its also laid out better....donedeal seems to have lots of ads which forget to tell you really basic info like the mileage or the year of the car

Yes the Carzone is a better format, but its the cost of the ad, people want cheap advertising.

€3 for Donedeal
€30 for Carzone (I think it went up to €50 recently before it came back down)

EPM

It's way to expensive for what it is. It's a sportline, but still a pretty spartan car spec wise. Also, you have the condition as excellent and tbh it doesn't look in excellent condition. There are marks on the dront and rear bumers plus it looks like something on the boot door too.

I would clean every inch of it and take it somewhere nicer to take the photos. They don't do it justice. Also be more honest about condition.

Good luck with it either way.

Ormus

mullingar wrote: »

Yes the Carzone is a better format, but its the cost of the ad, people want cheap advertising.

€3 for Donedeal
€30 for Carzone (I think it went up to €50 recently before it came back down)

ah right fair point, i was only looking at it from a buyer's point of view

thanks

bazz26

Ormus wrote: »

is there something wrong with carzone.ie that i haven't noticed?
cars seem to be much more competitively priced there than donedeal.ie
its also laid out better....donedeal seems to have lots of ads which forget to tell you really basic info like the mileage or the year of the car

carzone is full of dreamers imo. Private sellers see what dealers are asking for cars there and then look for the same. There are also alot of scammers viewing carzone and do nothing more than annoy sellers with silly emails with BS stories about how their car is for sale but is currently in another country and deal through a shipping company. Also paying €30 or €40 to advertise your car on a site is crazy when there is an alternative site with just as many viewers offering a better service for just €3.

bazz26

lukester wrote: »

Thanks for ask the honest feedback, much appreciated.

The car is on done deal and cars ireland as well.

Re the price, I realize it's overpriced, but it's the 2.0 tdi sport model, a totally different beast to the standard tdi. I've been offered 7500 as a trade in value too. Just wonder what bearing those two facts would have on the price?

People will not pay much of a premium for the 2.0 TDi over the 1.9 TDi especially when the car is approaching 7 years old. Also the 2.0 TDi has a poor reputation for reliability compared to that of the 1.9 litre.

Trade in value has little bearing on a private sale value. It is great a dealer giving you €7500 for it against another car but the other car he is selling could be overpriced to offset the generouse trade-in allowance price.

Nonoperational

+1. It's the cost to change that matters not the trade in allowance. 7500 trade in on a car priced 1500 above it's real cash price would really value yours at 6k.

Ormus

Ormus wrote: »

is there something wrong with carzone.ie that i haven't noticed?

The price basically, a well priced car with a well worded add will shift no bother on donedeal.ie, so too on carzone no doubt but at x10 the price it's not attractive.

lukester

bazz26 wrote: »

People will not pay much of a premium for the 2.0 TDi over the 1.9 TDi especially when the car is approaching 7 years old. Also the 2.0 TDi has a poor reputation for reliability compared to that of the 1.9 litre.

Trade in value has little bearing on a private sale value. It is great a dealer giving you €7500 for it against another car but the other car he is selling could be overpriced to offset the generouse trade-in allowance price.

Fair point. I've been offered varying amounts from different garages, but the last offer was against a car that seemed keenly priced. But it's possible the dealer got it cheap so had more leeway on the trade in value anyway.