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General => General discussion => Topic started by: Bellend on 24 March 2012, 15:50
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So I'm having a clear out recently cira 5 cars and it's quite amazing what some people pay for what and what sells and doesn't sell.
Auto Micra with 100k on the clock, flew away at £1300.
Golf MK4 with 142K eventually sold for £420 but they never picked it up. Gearbox went a couple of days later and along came a tow truck straight away with £380. All I got was certain races of people literally NON stop offering £300 for it with MOT & tax. Literally probably about 30 odd. No interest when offered for breaking.
Chrysler Grand Voyager pretty much no interest in at all other then a guy from Hungary with no feedback wants to pay by PayPal and have it shipped. Breaking it up and today I have a bundle of £320 in notes and there's 3 people coming tomorrow with more notes.
Skoda doesn't look like it's going to sell well other then two mates want it for £500 so that's fine with me.
An auto 1.4 Polo absolutely no interest with loads of MOT and 4 months tax. Relist it with "needs TLC" and it's now sold for £500 with dents everywhere on an R-reg with 98k on it and a heater matrix gone.
There is no rhyme or reason. :laugh:
Anyone else find this? It seems that if you smash them into a wall or take an axe to some vital part, there non stop bidders on it. The MK4 was dead trying to sell it before the box went and with the box gone had a bid within 3 mins!
This isn't all eBay either!
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next up, understanding women :lipsrsealed:
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next up, understanding women :lipsrsealed:
F*ck that, I got beer. :grin:
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you will never understand car sales, and why people will pay for certain vehicles. :huh:
If you think you will ever understand it then perhaps you are in the wrong trade :lipsrsealed:
We sold a Y reg Corsa 1.0 , 19k from new with full history - £2995.
a BOG standard, not thrills corsa, 3 cylinder.
I only paid less than that for my 06 plate Vectra. :grin:
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you will never understand car sales, and why people will pay for certain vehicles. :huh:
If you think you will ever understand it then perhaps you are in the wrong trade :lipsrsealed:
We sold a Y reg Corsa 1.0 , 19k from new with full history - £2995.
a BOG standard, not thrills corsa, 3 cylinder.
I only paid less than that for my 06 plate Vectra. :grin:
yeah but the vectra has cost you 3k to put right :lipsrsealed:
yeah but the vectra has cost you 3k to put right :lipsrsealed:
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really, :huh: u sure you arent about £1800 out :rolleyes:
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bellend, were do you buy these cars from to actually make a profit, cause i cant see you making much of a profit off the prices youve said there, bar the micra
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Street, Gumtree.
However, the Chrysler wasn't mine, the Polo was my nans, the Micra wasn't originally bought to sell.
The Skoda I walked up my hill one day, saw it advertised and got it for £250. Spent a total of £315.
Golf was off a mates mate.
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Some times it just needs the right person to see the advert,
Not long ago I had a Y reg Polo 1.4 for sale, Had a years MOT & 3 months tax, On 60k, The car was mint, Had it up at £1195 & didnt get a call,
The week after I put it back up at £1895 & sold it the same day!!
So far this week I have had 2 calls on an 03 Reg Yaris, 1 Owner from new & 28k on it, Full MOT & will include 6 months tax, The people who called seemed to have a foreign accent & said they would "Come Today with £1500" :rolleyes:
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car market is terrible at the moment.
''ill bring cash''...What else? Tesco coupons?!!!
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Depends on what cars your selling,
I sold 2 Yesterday, An 06 Plate Corsa 1.2 SXi + for £1700 & an 04 Plate Micra for £1400
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''ill bring cash''...What else? Tesco coupons?!!!
keep up Mr Blue, clubcard points now innit :kiss:
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It was more the fact that the car is up at £2750 (forgot to put that in the other post though :rolleyes:)
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I had a p reg astra 1.6s when I was 13, paid £125 for it and sold the next week for £325, want to do it again when money isn't tight but hopefully back working soon, my dad had a diesel fiesta he bought from a dealers that was p/x, paid £250 for it, sold it for £750, was a nice car and really good on fuel for the 3 weeks we owned it
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I had an old series 2 espace with a broken gearbox, no history at all and hardly any mot or tax and when i put in ebay i could have sold it 10 times over, yet when i put up a very clean and tidy one owner mk6 fiesta i couldn't shift it and eventually px'd it for a new fitted kitchen.. :undecided:....no rhyme or reason..
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really, :huh: u sure you arent about £1800 out :rolleyes:
of course i'm way off i'm guessing :grin: :grin: :grin:
would have cost 3k if you weren't tight with the vauxhall chimps :lipsrsealed:
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Depends on what cars your selling,
I sold 2 Yesterday, An 06 Plate Corsa 1.2 SXi + for £1700
That's not a typo? £1700?? What was wrong with it??
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Depends on what cars your selling,
I sold 2 Yesterday, An 06 Plate Corsa 1.2 SXi + for £1700
That's not a typo? £1700?? What was wrong with it??
It was cat D repaired in 2009, Had Bumper & drivers wing from what I could tell
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Depends on what cars your selling,
I sold 2 Yesterday, An 06 Plate Corsa 1.2 SXi + for £1700
That's not a typo? £1700?? What was wrong with it??
It was cat D repaired in 2009, Had Bumper & drivers wing from what I could tell
got a clio 1.5d thats on the hit list for the same damage get nearly 70mpg if u drive like miss daisy :grin: pity it gettin sold as soon as i get it back
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i sold a metro straight away decent price and a fiat seicento 900cc seam small car sell well at decent prices, cant shift my audi a4 though v6.
i also sold a saxo vts and flew out door, i sold quite a few cars and found same as poster weird what sells and what dont :laugh:
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I got sell the other halfs Polo hopefully won't have the hassle some of you seem to had !
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The advantage I have ATM which is living in London, small eco, cheap cars fly away. Probably why the Chrysler's sell well up North.
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Depends on what cars your selling,
I sold 2 Yesterday, An 06 Plate Corsa 1.2 SXi + for £1700
That's not a typo? £1700?? What was wrong with it??
It was cat D repaired in 2009, Had Bumper & drivers wing from what I could tell
Bargaino!
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The advantage I have ATM which is living in London, small eco, cheap cars fly away. Probably why the Chrysler's sell well up North.
Only an idiot would buy a Chrysler :lipsrsealed: :grin:
You can buy cars to order and scrap the rest of it for good money in London.
A lot of people are doing this right now, sell a gearbox and other bits for a couple of hundred weigh in the rest net profit.
Its fecking annoying as this goes on outside my office window and all the sh!t gets left in the road and river :angry:
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I got sell the other halfs Polo hopefully won't have the hassle some of you seem to had !
If you get stuck let me know what you want for it
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This isn't actually that difficult to figure out:
1. People want a bargain - if it's slightly broken it'll be a fixer-upper and a million and one goons will be convinced they can make good money on it. If it's missing some history or is a bit dicey then surely everyone else will stay away from it, so you must be getting it for cheap.
2. More people love small engined, small bodied cars - cheap to run and fix, surely, aren't they?
Please no one PM me asking if I know how women work, because I don't have that answer although most of it can be covered by 'psychotically'.
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Women need friends to sit and gossip with, when a woman has someone who will sit on the sofa with them and b!tch about how fat someone is then they leave you alone to play with cars :grin:
Cars are like magic beans to some people
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The advantage I have ATM which is living in London, small eco, cheap cars fly away. Probably why the Chrysler's sell well up North.
Only an idiot would buy a Chrysler :lipsrsealed: :grin:
Tell you what, I'd never buy a newish Chrysler from 2002 onwards, but this 98 Voyager 3.3 V6 has been absolutely spot on other then last year onwards it needed a few bits like a fan relay which caused the radiator to pop. Now a driveshaft seal.
Other then that it's been 100%. Been well impressed. Build quality feels completely solid up front but as soon as you go past the front seats going down the car it just drops dramatically.
Engine is strong though, towed many a van with it and it didn't struggle or even feel it slightly.
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The advantage I have ATM which is living in London, small eco, cheap cars fly away. Probably why the Chrysler's sell well up North.
Only an idiot would buy a Chrysler :lipsrsealed: :grin:
Tell you what, I'd never buy a newish Chrysler from 2002 onwards, but this 98 Voyager 3.3 V6 has been absolutely spot on other then last year onwards it needed a few bits like a fan relay which caused the radiator to pop. Now a driveshaft seal.
Other then that it's been 100%. Been well impressed. Build quality feels completely solid up front but as soon as you go past the front seats going down the car it just drops dramatically.
Engine is strong though, towed many a van with it and it didn't struggle or even feel it slightly.
Always the odd one which is reliable, they are generally dire and expensive which is why they are so cheap to buy, why BMW put the neon engine in the mini is a mystery to me :grin:
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I got sell the other halfs Polo hopefully won't have the hassle some of you seem to had !
If you get stuck let me know what you want for it
Thanks for the offer but shouldnt have any issues already been offered £2200 for it but want £2600 plus wasn't that keen on selling to the person that wanted it ( long story )
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:laugh: :grin:
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I have a 1.6 vvt Megane 2004 up for sale at the moment, thought it would fly off the shelf with only 83k on the clocks, put 12 months mot on it and 6 months tax 2 weeks ago, did a bit of work on it but only 2 enquires so far?
Strange market at the moment? cheap to run and fuel, shame it's french...
Put my 2002 Celica up for sale a month ago and had over 25 calls in the first day, stacked them 1.5 hours apart throughout the day, first one who came purchased it for the full price :smiley:
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same with the mazda mps... nothing for 3months. then they put an article on pistonheads about how cheap and fun a mk1 mps can be. I list it the same day and BANG.... 8 phone calls in one day, and sold after first viewing for asking price. reeeee zult :cool: