Re: Advice on selling a car on Ebay or Autotrader? (old SR5 Corolla)

"Hachiroku ????" <Trueno@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On Thu, 08 Mar 2007 12:36:45 -0600, DH wrote:

<johnyang97@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hi all,
Was wondering if anyone ever bought or sold a used Toyota on Ebay or
Autotrader before and if you had any specific advice? For example, is
Autotrader a good place to sell? (saw some mixed reviews of it online
but they were not recent). More and more I'm thinking about simplying
my life and selling my '89 Toyota Corolla SR5. It's in near-perfect
shape and has tons of new parts, and if I sell it I'd like it to go to a
good reliable home (and get a good price for it too, realizing that I
can't recover the cost of all the maintenance I've recently put into
it). Where's my best bet for finding someone who really wants the car
and will appreciate it? I'm tempted to do Ebay but since it's mostly
distant buyers, I can't show and prove to someone that the car runs,
drives, and rides perfectly.

On the other hand, if I sell locally, I'm afraid that potential buyers
will think "hey, cheap car in perfect condition, I'll take it," and then
will abuse it after buying it because it was cheap.

Dunno if you get sentimentally attached to your cars too, but whenever
my family's had to get rid of an old car, it was always like saying
goodbye to an old friend :(

Take care,
John

Sell if for the maximum $$ you can get. If you're sentimentally attached
to it, take a photo for your album.

I don't see a downside to putting a fairly high price on the window and
waiting to see who bites. If somebody is willing to pay more than what
you think is a reasonable market value for it, then you can rest assured
that they're buying it because they like that car, not just because it's
cheap wheels. They'll change the oil and take pretty good care of it.

SHHHHHHH!!!! DAMMIT!!!!!

Oh, I meant, why don't you sell it to Hachi for a song? He'll love it and
take care of it like it was his first-born child.

If I lived in the area, I'd probably take a look at something like that.
Or, if I liked the pictures, I could pay the asking price if the owner could
get it to Minnesota in 32 hours (that's 22 driving and 10 resting). You'll
know the owner has confidence in the car if he takes up an offer like that.

I have occasionally looked at eBay but I'm not quite sure I want to buy a
car by remote control.

If I found a car like that with a "for sale" sign going for a song, I'd
certainly buy it for the cheap wheels. But I'd still take care of it.
So
would a lot of other people. But you're not placing an elderly relative
in a nursing home, you're getting rid of a thing that you don't need.

As for getting your maintenance money back, there was a '91 Honda Accord
in the parking lot the other day, for $1200. Slight bubbles of rust at
the rear wheel well but otherwise good-looking. 150K miles with a
stickshift, which really hurts resale around here. It didn't last a day
before somebody bought it, clearly the owner should have been asking
more.
Go ahead and ask for a lot of money and see what happens. Chances are
you'll get some of it back. Your garage fees are history, of course.

"He who can not cast away a possession at need is in fetters" - Aragorn



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