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Places to sell a car.
If you were to sell your car right now, where all would you list it for sale at?
I'm thinking cars.com, autotrader.com, and Craigslist. Are there any other places a car buyer would be searching for a car, that I'm missing?
It's going to be in the $21-22k range. So we want to try and sell it on places that people looking for vehicles in that range will try to find them. However, we want to avoid the dealership as a trade in because we know we will get more selling it private party.
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Re: Places to sell a car.
Damn. That's honestly what I'm afraid of. People spending that kind of money aren't buying privately. They're going to a dealership.
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That's kind of what I'm thinking at this point. Selling my car will get us $17k further out of debt. I absolutely love the car, but we don't NEED it. So I may try a couple months to sell it online, then we'll re-evaluate.
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I would have to agree but it cant hurt to post it on craigslist and see what happens.
Carmax isn't horrible pricewise well atleast compared to dealers... they can generally do better then what the average dealer will give you for it. They go according to NADA retail vs. most dealers now just use autotrader auction price which is really stupidly low. But make sure you go in there knowing what www.nadaguides.com says your car is worth.... I went in with just what kbb says so i said i wanted 12k because kbb said 10,500.... they came back with exactly 12... it seemed too easy. So i went on NADA and Clean Trade-in on my car says 13,850... but my husband went in for his car and they also gave him 12k ... And Clean Trade-in on his car was 11,650. They have my name on file now so i don't know i might go in a different carmax with like my maiden name and see if they'll give me more.... because something isn't right.
I think its worth a shot to try and sell it on craigslist or autotrader/carmax. I also think word of mouth/friends/social media is a good place to try too.
I have purchased many cars through private sellers with an auto loan. That isnt a problem as long as they actually can get approved for the loan.
I would do some leg work and take it to some used car dealerships. You might be surprised on how much they will give you for it.
I have also successfully sold a car on Craig's List. It was easy peasy, but at $2,000 was definitely in a different stratosphere.
I recently bought a car and almost bought from a private seller on Craig's. Her car was listed at $8900. My credit union was fine with it, until the seller disclosed it had a salvage title. Bank was not cool with that (nor was I).
So the car I did buy was off of Auto Trader. I actually didn't realize a private person could list on Auto Trader. At least in my areas, all the Auto Trader cars I searched were through dealerships.