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Must be lucky at the moment Sold my boys Rover van on eBay Tuesday Money transferred weds Van collected today with no problems And the guy kept in contact from the moment he won it That’s my first no trouble sale of a vehicle on eBay
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madmog
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Anyone sold through CarandClassic or classiccarsforsale? What was your experience? I always thought it would be a slower sale but to an enthusiast but haven't tried.
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I'm not sure that technology makes people rude, it just makes it so much easier to get in touch with a larger number of people who were rude to start with. If these people had to make a phone call to make an offer on something, they probably wouldn't bother, but because they can just send a semi-literate text message or email instead, they do. When you used to have to advertise stuff in the Auto-Trader of your area, or your local newspaper, the catchment area was smaller so there were fewer rude people in that area.
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Anyone sold through CarandClassic or classiccarsforsale? What was your experience? I always thought it would be a slower sale but to an enthusiast but haven't tried. From my experience you'r right in both cases. I sold a car through classiccarsforsale and it took about a month before someone bit, but he bit like a tramp on chips and was a real enthusiast.
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Anyone sold through CarandClassic or classiccarsforsale? What was your experience? I always thought it would be a slower sale but to an enthusiast but haven't tried. I tried buying through that site. Rang up for a mini automatic. Oldish chap answers the phone,I'm asking questions and I get one word and abrupt answers. Trying to get to view was impossible. Said he would call me back. Never did. It gets listed regularly for up to a year after with price rising by £100 everytime.
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HA! I've just looked on car and classic,and that minis still for sale 2 years later. It would seem he's dropped the price though.
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Never really had too much issues with eBay or gumtree or even facebook shop, but shpock I can't stand it seems that because you can make an offer on am item it makes people automatically think they can offer half or less even when I write in the ad NO OFFERS
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paul99
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Anyone sold through CarandClassic or classiccarsforsale? What was your experience? I always thought it would be a slower sale but to an enthusiast but haven't tried. I tried buying through that site. Rang up for a mini automatic. Oldish chap answers the phone,I'm asking questions and I get one word and abrupt answers. Trying to get to view was impossible. Said he would call me back. Never did. It gets listed regularly for up to a year after with price rising by £100 everytime. Seen that on the uksaab forum, conclusion was that he didn't want to sell it, but the misus wanted shot. Yes hun, it's advertised but no buyers......
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60six
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Another thing that has happened since the internet is far more exposure to far more potential buyers, and definite tw@ts.
Tw@ts simply wouldn't purchase autotrader or freeads, they would be doing other tw@t-like pastimes.
eBay has been much more beneficial to me in purchasing hard to find car parts. Genuine saab 9000 o2 sensor £25 - Thankyou!
Every SAAB I have purchased apart from two have been ebay purchases - The best being the red 900T which was £330.
You have to take the rough with the smooth - Before ebay I sold a car to someone who clearly could. not. drive. He crash-boxed it down the road until abandoning it around the corner, then came back and torched it.
It doesn't matter what era, with or without internet, it's just part of the life of buying and selling. The internet isn't to blame. Stupid numb-skulls who can't punctuate, spell, smoke weed like cigarettes along with the slopiest shoulders & severe self-righteousness were around before, it's just now they have to mix with the rest of us.
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Some 9000's, a 900, an RX8 & a beetle
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Does technology make people rude.
YES
Now if you don't mind I've got Facebook to troll and Instagram selfies to upload #emoji smiley faces hashtag hashtag hashtag "insert poorly abbreviated world here="
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1992 240 Volvo T8 1955 Cadillac 1994 BMW E34 M5 (now sold ) 1999 BMW E36 sport touring x2 1967 Hillman imp Californian "rally spec" 1971 VW bay window (work in progress) 1999 Mazda 323F 1987 Jaguar XJ12 All current
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ChasR
RR Helper
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Club RR Member Number: 170
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Feb 10, 2019 10:05:15 GMT
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Anyone sold through CarandClassic or classiccarsforsale? What was your experience? I always thought it would be a slower sale but to an enthusiast but haven't tried. A mixed bag but alright. Here are the cars I remember: Triumph Dolly Sprint It was up for £2.7k in 2012: I described it in the advert as being in good general condition for the year, detailing the resto etc. it had in that time. One guy asked about rust anywhere. That's fair, I told him. He then wanted photos. I sent said photos of the car. He then tried to offer me £1.8k for the car. I told I'd get back. The next bloke who saw it? Gave me the cheque for the asking price on the same day. Triumph Stag. I'll take this one ; it was a bit of me, and IMHO this affects most sellers out there, even some people in this thread I hate to say, sorry chaps! This car was a struggle to sell. TLDR: I bought it, spent a fortune on it and decided I no longer wanted to do this. It basically wanted the diff fitting in I had, some interior bits like doorcard fixings (they had been lost), some silicone hoses to replace the joke of new leaky Kevlar hoses I fitted and that was about it. It was sold to me as if it only required a weekend's work to get back on the road, which was not quite true. Forgive me if this sounds familiar. I put this up for £6k. I probably had around 3 people come to see it in that time. That went as above: - First guy took a look and said he'd get back to me/li]
[li]2nd guy (for the chaps thinking it's only younguns who are bad) was in his 60s, and brought along an Ant Anstead lookalike mechanic. He was saying the body was super full of filler and that the car was a rotbox. While it had filler, the car was solid, which the next guy noticed by looking behind the panels etc. He offered me £3k for a running & MOT'd Stag with a new gearbox, roof, seats, dash, carburation and so on. I told him no thanks. He told me I wasted his time and really tried to belittle me as did the mechanic, with him saying "It's not really right, is it mate, you trying to sell a shitbox to us. It's jsut all curse word as is the workmanship"? - 3rd guy was off this forum : I mentioned the faults with him and he was under no illusions ; he did even say "If I wanted a nice Stag, I'd be paying £12-15k, not £6k!; but for what I want to do it's not quite worth it". We've all been there. He paid up after making me a reasonable offer, and we both parted ways while keeping contact
'77 Spitfire 1500 ; November 2012Spitfire was similiar to the Stag. I put that up for £2.3k for a rot-free Spitfire in 2013. That had no filler in the bodywork and boy you knew that! Tiny dents you can barely see? Painted over. It was a home resto, albeit not a bad one and the history showed how bad the car was for the previous owner. First guy came with his son and came along with a 3 page checklist. He shook the car around, revved the engine hard (I told him to back off), and crunched the gears (I did say it wanted a new slave but it could be driven with care. He told me the engine was knackered (it wasn't), the gearbox was shot and the car wasn't worth it. Next two people who saw it couldn't buy it quickly enough off me ; It was a case of who offered the cash first Like the Stag, both are still on the road to this day. That Spitfire was a pretty good car to be fair (New chassis, floors, sills, home done dash veneer, new carpets, Spax dampers all round, poly bushed all round. It wanted a dizzy and UMHO a new set of carbs as the spindles were leaking, like most old SUs do. For £2.3k it wasn't too bad looking back. eBay can make sellers stupid as well. My 2CV is a good example here.I bid and I won it. I was all set to pick it up on Saturday. The the convo went as follows: "Please pay now (Friday) or don't bother coming up to pick the car up" "Errr, eBay is a contract between two people. It relies on two people to be satisfied with the terms" "Nope, it's an auction and that's that. Pay up or curse word off". In hindsight, I should have become a timewaster and told him that he had a different way of eBay working to most people out there! I paid stupidly. He then said he bought an 18 plate Fiat 500 and paid upfront. I'm sorry, buy a new warrantied car from a dealer is very different from a seller selling what has turned out to be a sound car with some dodgy bodges on it. Some may say i was wasting his time, but I've seen and bought some right horrors off eBay in my time. Some of them looking back should have been put out of their misery and scrapped (I'm talking tack welded chassis legs, floors, wiring bodges which would set a car on fire, all because an owner bought a car for the plate and put it through the dodgiest MOT known to man to get the plate off. And then sold the car as "Sound, but it only wants an ignition switch to get it going again. As it has turned out, even this 2CV has had some iffy bits done by the last previous owner, which you can read in the thread. Not loads, but enough that it was a miracle the car didn't destroy an engine, or cut out. So, in short, interesting. BMW sale was a smooth sale as was the Carina relatively speaking, in addition to the Merc, which was a super smooth transaction. Some people will probably consider me to be a 'snowflake' with the above and say the older buyers were right. But that's my experience.
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Last Edit: Feb 10, 2019 10:11:37 GMT by ChasR
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skinnylew
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Feb 11, 2019 23:45:00 GMT
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It's a bit of both with internet selling, sometimes you can direct an item at a specific crowd and have success other times it just attracts dregs of society.
I went through a phase of scrolling through pages and pages, thousands of items, to bid on badly advertised cars in Vehicles, Parts and Accessories section on ebay*. I 'won' a Toyota Avensis for £1, a Vauxhall Zafira for £4.99 a Citroen Picasso for £97 and a Peugeot 406 for £99. Both the Avensis and Zafira had the excuse of it's been damaged/broken and i've still offered to have it and dead silence. The Picasso the guys wanted it gone, it was hanging but served me ok for a month, spent a day cleaning it out (made about £5 in change back!!) and put new clocks in, then eventually sold it for £250 roadside within 3 days, £90 profit. The Peugeot 406 was given to the guy and he'd just moved closer to the skate shop he'd opened in Dartford so just needed some money and didn't need a car. Has been faultless pretty much and owes me nothing after 20k miles. Same with my Ax GTi it was advertised badly and was a trade in so the guy didn't care too much, even gave me some money back as the speedo cable was broken lol
Point is that it can work for you as well as being irritating when selling. I will admit to occasionally throwing a reasonable offer but still on the low side if something is cheap to tempt me but i have no need for it. That's why i ended up with a Triumph Toledo a few years back, didn't need or want but was cheap and local and he accepted £200 for it.
However I will always be polite and write a proper message, a few seconds of courtesy costs you nothing and might make you stand out above the 'send a number' or 'whats your best' or 'wannabe Mike Brewers innit' lol
I try and sell things on here, last one took a bit of patience but the guy came down from Yorkshire to buy it and was a smooth transaction. Good pictures and accurate description go along way!
*this is no longer possible because of the new eBay search function. If you don't search for something it won't hold your parameters and therefore is useless after the first page. I have given them feedback on it innumerable amount of times ranging from witty sarcasm to down right expletive (starred obvs) ridden rants. Some people are bored enough to scroll through 20 pages of items within 15 miles and 200 to a page........
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Last Edit: Feb 11, 2019 23:49:01 GMT by skinnylew
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vulgalour
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Technology allows you to sell to a wider audience and that's fantastic. It's also the worst thing ever.
I've got to sell one of my cars and honestly, I'm dreading it. I put it up on the forum here and some social media for a couple of weeks last month and then changed my mind, and now I've changed it back again. I don't want to part with it, I know the new owner will ruin it, but I can't really keep it either.
There is another problem I suppose. I can much more easily find a dedicated market for the car in question but nobody in those markets are looking for that car. That means selling to the general public and honestly, I'd rather scrap the car that have to go through that.
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