Carzone vs Buy and Sell vs AutoTrader?

cianclarke

Just wondering where have people had the best results in their experience selling?
As I recall I sold my last car on carzone, but I'm not 100% on that.

The car is a 2000 passat, looking for 6000 ono for it, so that's the price range. Its in the free buy and sell, and of course adverts. Next step is either Carzone or Autotrader - autotrader fetches way way better prices, but is more expensive.
Carzone, however, has been ridiculously slow for me lately so that's putting me off.

Opinions?

DJ Hafez

cianclarke wrote:

Just wondering where have people had the best results in their experience selling?
As I recall I sold my last car on carzone, but I'm not 100% on that.

The car is a 2000 passat, looking for 6000 ono for it, so that's the price range. Its in the free buy and sell, and of course adverts. Next step is either Carzone or Autotrader - autotrader fetches way way better prices, but is more expensive.
Carzone, however, has been ridiculously slow for me lately so that's putting me off.

Opinions?

Use usedcars.ie, it's carzones database on a different faster server

cianclarke

Wow that's way better. Still, the fact that carzone.ie is slow in the first place is pretty piss poor given that's the one they advertise.

Volvoboy

On friday night i put my car up for sale, saturday morning at 11am i get a call, papers signed at 1PM, car sold within 24 hours!!! the car had been for sale on adverts.ie and buy and sell for a few weeks with nothing but time wasters!!!


Carzone FTW!!!


-VB-

worded

I sold on adverts.ie within 24 hours

- Its excellent for creating a free mini web site for yourself. Words unlimited.

- You can ref to it else where with the small url thingy

As for carzone.ie - slow server city.

I think the answer is advertise everywhere free for sure.
www.buyandsell.ie - Its easy for buyer to search - consider a paid ad which will go to print as well.
www.gumtree.ie

Then pick one good www for $ - Two if the budget stretches to it.

Its a full time job selling a car.

Volvoboy

worded wrote:

Its a full time job selling a car.

? Well yea if your a car sales man/lady?




-VB-

Brillo_pad

tried the lot and in the past and got the most enquires from www.carsireland.ie

cianclarke

Thanks folks. I'll post on carzone for sure and maybe pay for a buy and sell one.
Edit: carsireland.ie looks pretty good too, added to that. Thanks!

BostonB

I found the traditional papers much quicker than websites tbh. I assume more people read papers than look up ads on a PC.

silver campaign

The way I see it,
people lookin on buy and sell are lookin for a cheap deal,
it's mostly dreamers that buy autotrader and just want to look at car porn.
Carzone is the one that most potential buyers would search first.

Stephen

Autotrader is rubbish if you're south of the border, most of it seems to be northern cars. Carzone is where I would advertise - I bought my previous car through it. If I was selling a banger i'd put it in the B&S. I'd put any kind of car on adverts.ie - you may not sell it there but like a previous poster said you have loads of room for your description and can post a bunch of photos for free, so nothing to lose.

smash

BostonB wrote:

I found the traditional papers much quicker than websites tbh. I assume more people read papers than look up ads on a PC.

I would strongly disagree with that..... With a traditional paper you don't get half as much info, you have nothing to compare against and you have no photos of the car!

personally rather than sitting on a bus or in a cafe and looking through autotrader, I'd check out the carzone mobile site!