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Moving Country - Need rid of car fast - Suggestions

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  • 24-08-2008 2:52pm
    #1
    kwikksilva
    Registered Users Posts: 44 ✭


    Leaving for US in October for at least 12 months.

    Have a 2006 Peugeot - 40k miles

    Is absolutely identical in every way to this one.

    http://www.carzone.ie/used-cars/Peugeot/307/1.4-ST/1169620/

    Any suggestions on how i should sell this?

    I know the dealer pretty well, so i was thinking i might ask him to sell it for me, but not sure how much they would want to do this?

    Anyway, comments welcome on how i can shift this quickly.


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    miju
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 8,486 ✭✭✭miju


    sounds simple. but if your looking for a quick sale put in on carzone / cgb for a cheap price and keep lowering it by a few quid until you get a taker.

    market is very depressed at the mo though


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    TommyT
    Closed Accounts Posts: 511 ✭✭✭TommyT


    Run it through an auction, maybe take amate who knows what he is doing to bump the price up a bit.


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    miju
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 8,486 ✭✭✭miju


    auction is a bad idea unless you really dont care about how much you get for your car. Usually the sale price at auction is very low


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    snowman707
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,279 ✭✭✭snowman707


    miju wrote: »
    auction is a bad idea unless you really dont care about how much you get for your car. Usually the sale price at auction is very low


    Can you not put a reserve on it ???


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    miju
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 8,486 ✭✭✭miju


    AFAIK merlin and a few of the other main ones dont allow you a reserve


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    snowman707
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,279 ✭✭✭snowman707


    miju wrote: »
    AFAIK merlin and a few of the other main ones dont allow you a reserve

    ok thanks for that

    was never at a car auction, as you say it may not be the best to sell a valuable car


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    merlinsmerryman
    Registered Users Posts: 693 ✭✭✭merlinsmerryman


    miju wrote: »
    AFAIK merlin and a few of the other main ones dont allow you a reserve

    Yes they do. Every car that goes through an auction has a reserve on it, unless specifically specified by the vendor to sell it with "no reserve". Guess how I know?:D


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    colm_mcm
    Registered Users Posts: 73,456 ✭✭✭✭colm_mcm


    you've got to put a reasonable reserve on it. these yokes aren't worth anywhere near what that guy on Carzone is asking.

    so the car goes through the auction, nobody gets near your reserve price, and you've wasted an evening.

    Anyone going to an auction to buy an 06 307 is going to want it cheap. also - a dealer almost definately won't sell it for you ahead of one of his own cars - unless it's worth his while - i.e you get far less for the car than he does.

    Sorry for being negative, but you've got a car that is hard to sell, and you need to do it in a hurry, the only way I can see around it is by sticking it in carzone at thousands less than the others.


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    miju
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 8,486 ✭✭✭miju


    well ya learn something new every day. I help prepare about 20-40 cars a week that go to merlin for auction and I've never heard of our crowd putting a reserve on the cars


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    bazz26
    Registered Users Posts: 51,244 ✭✭✭✭bazz26


    The market is dead at the moment.

    If you want to get rid of it quick then you are going to have to price it accordingly, in other words way cheaper than other similar cars.


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