Your Options When Selling Your Tired Old Car

by SpeedLux

Before you buy a new car, you have to get rid of your old one. Depending on the condition of your existing car and how quickly and easily you want to get rid of it, you have several options. Here are the four main options that you should consider when selling your car.

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Selling Online

Selling your car online is obviously a pretty new innovation. But it offers all kinds of great opportunities to buyers and sellers alike. You can now simply take a few photos of the car, list it online and say how much you want for the car. You can then sit back and wait for the offers to come rolling in. Or you can use an online auction site like eBay. With these kinds of sites, you can let people bid on it to determine how much money you get for the car. But, don’t worry, you can still set a limit, so that your car won’t sell below a certain amount.

Part Exchange

This is one of the most common options that people choose when they are upgrading their car. It’s good because it pretty much kills two birds with one stone. You get to lose your old car that you don’t want at the same time as you pick up a new one. There are some downsides to this option though. For a start, you will not get as much value from the car as you would if you sold it directly to a private seller. The dealer wants to get something out of the arrangement, so you will have to pay most of the money in cash towards your new car. Visit http://www.usedcaradvisor.co.uk/pros-cons-partexchange.html  to find out about the pros and cons of part exchange deals.

Selling to a Dealer

There are many dealers and companies that will happily take your car off your hands if they feel like they will get a good deal. The main problem with this kind of deal is that you will have to settle for a price that is below market value. This is because the company that buys the car will want to make a profit on it when they sell it on to someone else. There are plenty of benefits though. It gets the car off your hands swiftly and allows you to get on with the job of finding a new car to buy. Visit http://www.stlouisautostop.com/we-buy-cars to find out more about the whole process.

Scrapping

If your car is in terrible condition, and you simply want to get rid of it as quickly as you can, scrapping it is probably the best solution. It will not allow you to make very much money, but you will get a bit of cash for it. Having said that, scrapping your car is not the option to take if you want, or expect, a lot of money for your car. It’s easily the quickest and easiest of all the options listed here though. You won’t have to mess around listing it on an online auction site. And you certainly won’t have to deal with any second-hand car salesmen. All you have to do is drive it to a scrapping yard and haggle a price for it. Remember not to leave anything important in the car though!

 

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