Suggestions on pricing a car

mikebites

I'm trying to sell my Opel Astra '01, 1.6 Automatic with 49K miles on board. Could any of you suggest what would be an appropriate asking price for this car? It has been a week I placed this ad and not much response yet, so I thought may be I should ask some experts on boards.ie if I'm going wrong with the asking price.

http://www.adverts.ie/showproduct.php?product=191865&cat=2

EPM

How much are you prepared to take?

Very limited market, although it looks a nice car. But 3.5k for an auto 9 year old astra is quite a lot. Maybe drop it below the 3k mark and be tougher on the negotiations

mikebites

I bought it from Dublin for around 4000 in October. But I need to sell it soon as I'm leaving the country, so probably I'll take your suggestion.

Saab Ed

1800 quid IMO.

That sort of car will always sell for a good price if you wait long enough but for a quick sale it will have to be very cheap.

colm_mcm

I'm thinking under 2k.

Alanstrainor

I have to say, the car looks well in those pics, i have to agree with RoverJames, it'd sell if you had time to wait. I'd be thinking of asking for 2300 but accept 2000 if an offer was on the table.

mikebites

Please keep in mind that the original price when I posted the thread was €3500. After the first reply I reduced it to €2950. I understand it may have confused some of you and some may have thought that I did not get any response for €2950. I can report on that may be a week later.

But thanks a lot to all of you for your suggestions. Please keep them coming. As some of you suggessted, the car is really a nice one and has good features. I bought it to keep it for next 3 years but selling it as I decided to relocate from Ireland.

I suggest you put it on donedeal.ie with automatic in the add title, two friends of mine both learned to drive fairly late (one was 40 odd the other was late 30s), they both decided on autos as its far easier to drive, both of them had to search hard for their Astra auto. If you aren't in a hurry it will sell for not far off the €2500 mark I reckon, it's just a waiting game. The issue is the market for a small (ish) auto is quite small.

Lots in its favour though, low miles, fresh NCT, new tyres etc. The Asta does have a good name amongst non trade folk too so it will sell, may take a month or so though, patience is a virtue and all that

mikebites

Thanks for the donedeal.ie suggestion. I'll post there.

unkel

RoverJames wrote: »

I suggest you put it on donedeal.ie with automatic in the add title, two friends of mine both learned to drive fairly late (one was 40 odd the other was late 30s), they both decided on autos as its far easier to drive, both of them had to search hard for their Astra auto. If you aren't in a hurry it will sell for not far off the €2500 mark I reckon, it's just a waiting game. The issue is the market for a small (ish) auto is quite small.

Lots in its favour though, low miles, fresh NCT, new tyres etc. The Asta does have a good name amongst non trade folk too so it will sell, may take a month or so though, patience is a virtue and all that

+1

There definitely is a market for automatic small family cars. And they are worth significantly more than the equivalent manual models. This market is small though and OP does not have much time. Smart suggestion to put "automatic" in the ad title. I too would advertise as €2495 and accept whatever I could get