So difficult to sell a car

Clean it, good pics and stick it on local Facebook selling pages.

Under £1k adverts are free on autotrader I think. Never had a massive problem selling cars and my current car is number 28.

Tbh, if it's a bit rare or expensive I use classified adverts on ebay.

Sub £1k cars should sell easily.

I'd agree with most of the above - this is more likely to go locally to someone who isn't a car person.

It's a bit of an awkward age - too new (and a bit ordinary) to interest many people on here, too old to appeal to first car type buyers.

Give it a clean inside and out, back to black the bumper strips, take some photos which show off the good condition and don't show it parked in some bushes with the bonnet up and it'll sell

Corsa Bs are worth absolute buttons unfortunately. I was selling one last year, I think it went for less than £200 in the end. Full MOT, nice enough little car, but nobody wants them.
10 years from now we'll be wondering where they all went and the ones that are left will be going for decent money.
That's just old car economics.

IMHO the issues are:

-Corsa Bs aren't very desirable; 106s are I am afraid.
-It may be low mileage but it is quite old to where mileage *may* not influence the mix as much, but some people do get taken in by numbers on a clock BenzBoy's point applies too.
-It needs a clean inside. Just a good hoover inside and some baby wipes will do the trick.
-You have almost no interior shots. A few of my mates are like: "Who cares what the inside looks like"? I do for one. Seeing that it's not stained with faeces, ripped to shreds inside etc. is always great. Mileage is no indicator here; I saw an E46 M3 go for sale with 32k on the clock the other week with worse seats than mine despite it having 100k less on the clock.
-IMHO this forum isn't the place to sell such cars. I tried to sell my 323i on here. Despite alot of bits being done to it I had zero takers, I reckon because alot of people felt it was pricey. Once it was on Pistonheads and Gumtree it went within the week with people still calling me! Maybe I sold it too cheap. When my mate bought it prior to doing the work he struggled to find one for under £1k to put things into perspective.

I'm not the best person to advertise cars but here are a few of mine to give an idea.

forum.retro-rides.org/thread/175852/1997-323i-coupe-1200ono-warwick

forum.retro-rides.org/thread/170240/1974-triumph-stag-auto-warwick

forum.retro-rides.org/thread/167387/1989-peugeot-205-sold-warwick

So, I've been harsh I admit and potentially against RR's MO. Time for some positivity If it were me I'd do the following:

-Clean the inside out and deal with the black plastics; a hairdryer can work, or worst case, just get some Bumper Black onto them.
-Take more photos of the interior, including the front of it and the back clearly showing the inside of the car. If you can take them not on your driveway; the shots will come out better. Keep your thumbs out of the pics too .
-Put it onto Autotrader & Gumtree with the amendments as said.
-If you really need shot of it put it onto eBay. 99p, no reserve. It will sell and IME for a reasonable price too. Follow akku 's guide in the How-To section. It's a great read. I've seen people fighting over a mate's Clio 1.2 he put up for sale with this! Enough so that he removed it from eBay to sell to the highest bidder!

Finally, if the above sounds like too much effort you'll have to accept it won't go for its full price. Remember a few traders put in this legwork for this very reason; you're competing with them at this price point.

As all of the above, you're not selling the car you're just saying 'this is my car and this is what I want'. Photograph it against the nice new fence and block paving over the other side, not the bit of overgrown waste ground it's on now, turn the car round as necessary. Because that shows you look after things, it might be subliminal but it works. Don't leave it in the puddle from where you washed it, nobody wants the damp patch.

Colin

Edit: Optimus got there faster than me.

It's there, just a pita to find. I couldn't find it on the ipad and had to use the laptop.

Its a tick box near the price bit, whereas it used to be a option early on when listing.

Looks tidy but base model b's are currently worth very little.

Stick it on eBay or the Corsa B Facebook page, people are starting to buy tidy examples just because their tidy and numbers are dwindling.

I've tried to sell several cars on here with zero results, a 1 owner 205D, a Tigra, a Saab Turbo convertible and a Cavalier. As of today I have a Corsa B to sell myself, it's a scruffy 1.0 litre 5 door that was my son's first car. It has 11 months MOT and a new clutch and is solid underneath. but the laquer is peeling all over it and there are plenty of dents and scuffs. I really can't be arsed to polish this turd for a few extra quid so it will go on the local FB selling page for £200 ONO in the hope of getting £150 for it. I put a nice, tidy, Black Corsa SXi 1.2 3 door with lots of new bits and a fresh test on EBay last year, 99p start, no reserve and it made £210, not worth the time I spent cleaning it! I know how to write an ad and I know how to take a picture to show the car to it's best advantage, but some cars just don't seem to be selling lately and the Corsa B is one of them!

Steve

I’ve sold four cars via here
Many more via car and classic and classic car weekly
Desperation to sell never works and constant bumps on here seem like desperation to sell
I always put my cars on here first then car and classic
As said a good clean inside and out is always the key
And I find total honesty in a car ad will always stand you in good stead in the future selling car
There’s a buyer for every car it’s just worth taking time to find that buyer
I have had calls on certain cars and told the caller straight if I feel the car is not for them, I’ve never sold a car via eBay, yes I’ve listed them
On there but been inundated with messers
Car an classic for me, there is a more modern section on there too
Cheers Danny