Private Sale - Advice

budhabob

Hey all,

The OH is looking to sell her car. We moved into Dublin last year after years of commuting, and now both have jobs with good public transport links so only need the one car, so genuine reason for sale.

Getting the car valeted today, and will be putting advert up tonight. Its a 2010 1.6 litre diesel Proceed, fully service history with kia etc.

Just wondering is there anything we should definitely do / or avoid in a private sale? Have never sold private before, but have bought. Will be looking for bank draft only in payment i think, and we'll require that it is us who send off the completed log book. Anything else we should do?

Thanks in advance.

(PS - hope this is the appropriate place, seemed more appropriate than motors section, but feel free to move if necessary)

Atlantic Dawn

Never ever ever ever ever give the buyer the log book, you get them to sign it and you send it off, otherwise you open yourself up to fines and penalty points.

Only accept a bank draft if you can verify with the issuing bank that the draft is legitimate. Other options might be meet buyer at your bank and have them deposit cash in to your account or transfer money in to your account if they are with the same bank and funds can be verified as cleared.

The ad is very important, take a good 20 photos and use the best of these for the ad, make sure you have inside the car covered and out, photo the service history with owners manuals etc. Plenty of good ads to look at and rubbish ones too, use your own judgement.

Don't accept bids over the phone for the car without the person seeing the car, don't keep the car for anyone without a deposit given.

budhabob

Cheers Atlantic Dawn, Some really good advice there.

Nuw

As above. on top, this thread is worth a good read.

Good luck with the sale.

budhabob

Nuw wrote: »

As above. on top, this thread is worth a good read.

Good luck with the sale.

Legend, some great advice there too. Cant wait to have only the one car.

Dia1988

Can you show us the advert ?

budhabob

Dia1988 wrote: »

Can you show us the advert ?

Didn't get to take photos tonight, but once up will share.

Dia1988

Best time to place an advert is on a Thursday around 4pm

colm_mcm

Fact.

budhabob

Dia1988 wrote: »

Best time to place an advert is on Tursday around 4pm

How come? (Or are ya winding me up )

cruizer101

Not sure but I'm guessing you will have a lot of people who want to view cars at the weekend and they start looking on thursday evening and your is top of list, then again could just be bs but does sound plausible.

budhabob

Hi folks,

We're having difficulty selling the car, we have dropped the price a few times, but really havent been that active in trying to sell.

We were considering looking into having some dealer sell it for us for a fee to take the hassle away (both flat out with work). Any recommendations for this kind of service in Dublin?

The car is a 2010 1.6l Diesel Kia Proceed with 97k Miles on the clock. Its currently priced at c.7k, but no bites.

Thanks in advance

CountingCrows

Bad time of year for selling 2nd hand cars privately. I've a low mileage, high spec Qashqai for sale for over a month now. It's the lowest priced car in its class and I haven't had a call.

Dia1988

Is your car the Kia with all the doors open outside Woodies?

To be honest, the pics aren't great. There's no picture ofthe side of the car with the doors closed. Taking pics in a car park never reassures potential buyers, what are you hiding? It's best you take good pics outside your house where you will probably show people the car.

Maybe take pics of the service history.
Or even take a walk around video of the car

In advert description:
What has been done in servicing and by who?

Why you selling it and how long have you had it?
Maybe write how economical it can be etc

budhabob

Dia1988 wrote: »

Is your car the Kia with all the doors open outside Woodies?

To be honest, the pics aren't great. There's no picture ofthe side of the car with the doors closed. Taking pics in a car park never reassures potential buyers, what are you hiding? It's best you take good pics outside your house where you will probably show people the car.

Maybe take pics of the service history.
Or even take a walk around video of the car

In advert description:
What has been done in servicing and by who?

Why you selling it and how long have you had it?
Maybe write how economical it can be etc

Yip, thats the one. Fair points in this, will look to update the advert. All services by kia main dealer, selling it because we no longer need 2 cars. Good point re the economy.

clement

It's going to be a hard sell as its priced the same as similar cars and is not substantially cheaper which I would expect for a quick sale. If I were considering it I would like to see better pictures at the home. Photos of the service book. Details of when timing belt was changed. Am I right in thinking its a UK import. This will mean more history checks and owners on a 100k miles car. Price it at the minimum you will take and see what reaction you get. Best of luck with the sale.

budhabob

clement wrote: »

It's going to be a hard sell as its priced the same as similar cars and is not substantially cheaper which I would expect for a quick sale. If I were considering it I would like to see better pictures at the home. Photos of the service book. Details of when timing belt was changed. Am I right in thinking its a UK import. This will mean more history checks and owners on a 100k miles car. Price it at the minimum you will take and see what reaction you get. Best of luck with the sale.

It is an english import brought in by a kia main dealer, and bought off them.

Good points here, will tackle it at the weekend.

Mc Love

What does it matter if its a UK import? The buyer wont know the difference if I'm honest

Del2005

Mc Love wrote: »

What does it matter if its a UK import? The buyer wont know the difference if I'm honest

I highly doubt that the speedo has been changed to km only, not telling leads to a potential buyer thinking what else the seller is not telling.

budhabob

Mc Love wrote: »

What does it matter if its a UK import? The buyer wont know the difference if I'm honest

It does that it happens to be a higher spec model that alot that are available here. But the point re Km/Miles is fair too.

bazz26

UK imports are so common here I'd doubt it matters much. Also anyone who runs a history report and looks at the service history will know that it came from the UK unless you're dealing with a right idiot buyer who doesn't do any checks.

clement

It wouldn't bother me that its a UK import but to others its an issue that the clock is in mph and can't be changed on this car. It also means that I would have to do a check on the UK reg to satisfy myself the mileage is correct. They are little things which put off potential buyers which the op is trying to gain interest from. Sell up the car with what ever extras the car has over Irish models is a good way of portraying transparency and knowledge of the car for sale.

bazz26

Most cars have dual mph/kph analog clocks or can switch from one to the other if the clock is digital. Also we drove here for donkey years up to 2005 with the same clocks as the UK. Judging by the amount of cars being imported from the UK the mph clock thing is a non issue for the majority if there is a bargain to be had. I really think it's nitpicking or some people just cannot get their head around the mph to kph conversion.

Mr Whom

CountingCrows wrote: »

Bad time of year for selling 2nd hand cars privately. I've a low mileage, high spec Qashqai for sale for over a month now. It's the lowest priced car in its class and I haven't had a call.

Throw up the ad til we have a look at it

CountingCrows

Mr Whom wrote: »

Throw up the ad til we have a look at it

Traded it in.