Are these cars selling?

[afmuir]

Hi
I am just wondering if these cars are selling now and if so what people are getting for them. Excuse me if this is the wrong place to ask but seemed appropriate.

I have an immaculate (yes another and I stand by it!) GTI Edition 30 5dr, DSG with 30k miles, and all the usual good selling points. I had it for sale at £13,500 and got no interest. These are cracking cars, but are there people buying them? I did a CAP valuation of my car which said Private Sale £14,650 - £15,250 and Trade In £11,800 - £12,600 so felt my price was OK and assumed I would drop it a bit in negotiation. But nobody seems interested!

Are other people having trouble selling or is it just me?

Thanks
Andrew

[Vman]

I had my O7 GTI with 13,000miles  and lots of options up for sale for near £14k, I had 1 person come out to see it, but did not buy due to him getting such a bad price for his Civic type-R. I then dropped the price by £1000 to just under £13k. Nothing for 2 days then had 1 person who was really interested rang, we agreed a price, then over the next few days I had about 10 interested people, I could not believe it. Anyway the car is now sold, alot less than what I wanted it to sell it for but, its sold.
I had a look ay your spec and pics and to be honest I think you would get a lot of interest if you priced it about £12600, the hardest part is getting people to come out and if your car is in as good condition as mine was, the first person to see will buy.

[stfc_gti]

i guess its the economic climate at the moment.

[bacillus]

i guess its the economic climate at the moment.

Absolutely, it's a buyers market atm...

[_Adam_]

Hi
I am just wondering if these cars are selling now and if so what people are getting for them. Excuse me if this is the wrong place to ask but seemed appropriate.

I have an immaculate (yes another and I stand by it!) GTI Edition 30 5dr, DSG with 30k miles, and all the usual good selling points. I had it for sale at £13,500 and got no interest. These are cracking cars, but are there people buying them? I did a CAP valuation of my car which said Private Sale £14,650 - £15,250 and Trade In £11,800 - £12,600 so felt my price was OK and assumed I would drop it a bit in negotiation. But nobody seems interested!

Are other people having trouble selling or is it just me?

Thanks
Andrew

swap?   

[david25]

The cost of change and the general economic climate are probably big factors.

I would be looking for a ED30 right now BUT the uncertainty of how long it would take to sell my current car (and what price) means this plan is on the back burner.

[AlanD]

Are you desperate to sell? If not then just be patient. Someone will always come.

[shakee]

I had my 06 plate gti on pistonheads recently and had one person interested who turned out to be a complete timewaster, times are hard

[Phil1980]

I had mine up for sale too, dropped the price a couple of times but no interest.  I'm going to hang on to it for the time being and change to something else next summer.

[_Adam_]

think the mk5 is very unfortuneate right now....

ignoring the "economic climate" and all that...

the hardcore dub enthusiasts want mk1/2 (3? )
the new car lovers want a mk6
and the mk5 is just a bit too expensive to buy over a cheaper 1.8t mk4

if someone REALY wants a mk5, i recon it would be an ED30