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Edt

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5,132 posts

290 months

Saturday 8th April 2006
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Anyone here sold a car on ebay? Good/bad?
Like the idea.. lots of exposure (hopefully). How much does the listing cost & do you pay a %age of final price or anything?
Ta

rustybin

1,769 posts

244 months

Monday 10th April 2006
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Sold a couple of bangers on e-bay. I think that's probably what it is best for, reasonably low value stuff with a collectors / enthusiasts market. I got rid of an Alfa 164 cloverleaf and an old cherokee both MOT failures / non-runners and both went for over market value. The fee is around 30 squids and is based upon final sale value. IIRC the Jeep went for around £1,100 and cost £35 in e-bay fees. Over all I thought it was less hassle than classifieds or equivalent and the bigest bonus was I didn't get any phone calls trying to get me to put an add in their publication.

seamus

1,053 posts

288 months

Monday 10th April 2006
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Yep - bought and sold a few on ebay, agree with Rustybin though. If it's a good example or rare version it will fetch good money - run of the mill stuff doesn't tend to do as well and from what I can tell most things go for trade money - but a sale is a sale if that's what you're after.

edt

Original Poster:

5,132 posts

290 months

Monday 10th April 2006
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cool beans. If I stick a realistic reserve on at least if it goes, it goes OK

bluesatin

3,114 posts

278 months

Monday 10th April 2006
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What you selling ed? Making room for an Ultima?

jellebabe

8,824 posts

222 months

Monday 10th April 2006
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hi i sold a golf cab mk3 on ebay, no MOT, electrical faults, for £2800. cost me £11 to list. put on about 4 pics, but had lots of emails asking for more which was a pain in the butt using a camera phone!! defo worth it, had advertised in local rag, autotrader and had no luck.(prob cos the car was a shed) i know people have probs with time wasters but i was happy! Good Luck!!

Kinky

39,779 posts

275 months

Monday 10th April 2006
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Sold about 4 so far - no worries at all.

Although they were all lowly priced (the highest was just under £3k).

Tons of quality pics, hosted elsewhere (not ebay) and a good thorough description always does the trick.

Just imagine it from the buyers point of view. If it was you, and you were interested in buying - what info/pics would you want to see?

K

Edt

Original Poster:

5,132 posts

290 months

Tuesday 11th April 2006
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bluesatin said:
What you selling ed? Making room for an Ultima?


An Ultima? Pah. three more like.
Going to sell the little white car. Been a good 18 months with the little fella but now time to move on

Edt

Original Poster:

5,132 posts

290 months

Tuesday 18th April 2006
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success! waved bye bye little white car just now.

Now, if only I could work out how to end the auction early... any tips?

Ed

sliced bread

202 posts

225 months

Tuesday 18th April 2006
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Yeah - tell 'em that you're awfully sorry to have to withdraw it but the rear suspension's just fallen off it.

trevorh

1,359 posts

290 months

Tuesday 18th April 2006
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There's a button somewhere where you can withdraw the item from sale (listing edit page, I think) provided there's at least 2 days left on the auction.

gbbird

5,193 posts

250 months

Wednesday 19th April 2006
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Edt said:
bluesatin said:
What you selling ed? Making room for an Ultima?


An Ultima? Pah. three more like.
Going to sell the little white car. Been a good 18 months with the little fella but now time to move on


To a Cerbera ? You still my passenger next week Ed?