Please don't yell at me. I've seen posts saying "Don't bother e-mailing or texting! No low ballers!" I think you will find that it is hard enough to sell your vehicle without screaming text at people looking at your ad.
When I see that you've just replaced the transmission and the water pump and the battery and the O2 sensor and the AC compressor, I don't think, "Hey! This car is half new and sure to work well for a long time now!" I think, "Oh God, this piece of machinery is falling apart. I will now navigate away from this page." Leave that out of your ad until someone asks you about it.
Don't spell the make or model of your car incorrectly. I have seen way too many "Infinity"s and "Carolla"s for sale.
Dealers: don't try to sell me an '02 Civic with 182k miles on it for $8500--that's idiotic--I don't care how cool your in-house appraiser thought the rims were.
Please don't tell me that 2xx,000 miles "is nothing for a [insert make of car]." Two hundred something thousand miles is not "nothing" for any make. Instead of saying stuff like that, you could tell me you did all the expensive routine maintenance on it already (e.g. tune-ups and whatever).
Why did you put high performance tires on your hybrid Civic? Did you also put aftermarket exhaust on it?
Please don't tell me the 2003 you're trying to sell "still has new car smell!" You sprayed that weird new car smell spray in it and you're actually trying to pass it off as being eight years old. If all the chemicals in the plastic and adhesive in the interior are still leaching off to that extent eight years post-sale, I should probably actually be worried.
Why would you list your price as $7500 and then say "will not consider offers under $7200"? That means I can just waltz in and argue you right down to $7200 because I know you're willing to go that low. I mean really guys. Might as well just post "$7200 firm" and forget about the extra $300.
I love it when people say they have the Carfax available upon test drive. That's brilliant, and that saves me and anyone else who's interested in the car money. It makes me like you already.
Probably more things are coming. Also I am falling completely in love with a different car each day. Yesterday it was a gray '04 Mazda3 hatch. Today it is a completely obscene silver '03 Celica GT with a TRD package and a spoiler to be ashamed of. But I'm telling myself that I'm young now, and will only be for a little while longer, and now is the time to buy completely unreasonable cars. Also it gets 27-29 city and 33-36 highway and is a stick. <3
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I ran into a lot of this while looking for my first car--which ended up being an '09 Yaris with under 20k miles and all the factory add-ons for $9900; it had no sketchy stuff on the Carfax, they'd just had a hard time pushing it because it's bright yellow.
ReplyDeleteI have no idea why people think they can sell older Toyotas for $8000-$10,000. Actually, I have no idea why people think they can sell any kind of economy car with over $150,000 miles for more than a few thousand dollars. Having painted it some gaudy color and upgraded components no one cares about doesn't make it a better value.