I've got a Skoda Octavia 63 reg 2.0l diesel 6-speed DSG automatic Elegance trim with heated seat and adaptive cruise. In later this month month, I'll be looking to move this on after over 5 years mostly trouble-free ownership.

 

What's the best way to shift this in today's seller's market?

 

 

Sell privately? I see similar spec with slightly lower mileage but no heated seat or ACC asking a staggering £8260 by a dealer. I can handle a few punters, don't want any time wasters or have patience for this to take many weeks. What's the best advertising medium?

 

Website like webuyanycar/motorway? Both are giving estimate of around £5000. Quite a fall from dealer price. But should be very quick and easy as long as their valuation holds when they look at the vehicle.

 

Trade-in? I'm still waiting on Tesla to reply with a price estimate. It has to be near website buyers despite the convenience factor. But am I right to say trade-in will usually offer the lowest value?

 

I'm thinking I can try selling privately first for a few weeks. Try to undercut the dealer price (by how much?). Then if no buyers found, move on to whatever is offering best price from websites.

Upgrade your membership and advertise on here and support the forum?

That's a good shout, forgot there's a for-sale section here. Though audience may be limited and it's not a rare build or highly thought after spec.

 

If similar car is asking £8200 by dealer and Autotrader scale shows it's "lower price". What sort of price should private seller advertise at?

 

I see there's a sold elsewhere, similar spec Octavia mk3 2.0l diesel advertised on the forum for £6750. I guess this would be my ballpark price for the forum.

Edited 4 August, 20223 yr by wyx087

People looking to buy a Skoda that are not members of Briskoda still look at Cars for sale in Briskoda and can join if they want to ask more.

Even members look for cars from other members. 

53 minutes ago, wyx087 said:

That's a good shout, forgot there's a for-sale section here. Though audience may be limited and it's not a rare build or highly thought after spec.

 

If similar car is asking £8200 by dealer and Autotrader scale shows it's "lower price". What sort of price should private seller advertise at?

 

I see there's a sold elsewhere, similar spec Octavia mk3 2.0l diesel advertised on the forum for £6750. I guess this would be my ballpark price for the forum.

Auto trader gives you a price guide once reg entered. If the car is pretty standard there is not much movement on price. Most dealers and garages are very over priced at the moment. Part ex usually always the lowest you will get. Worth trying your luck here and Autotrader if you get to make 1k plus selling. Offloading quickly like WBAC or part ex comes with risk you getting less than selling private.  

Edited 4 August, 20223 yr by gav_is_con
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Baaa, Tesla responded, only offering £3760. That's waaaay off compared to website sellers. I suppose good thing with WBAC is that you can refuse to sell if they change their office price too much, because it's at a drop off location. 

 

Right, once I phone them to make sure it is delivery appointment is 100% confirmed and I'll get a car on that day, I shall start putting up adverts. 

Have a look at what similar cars are going for from a dealer, get a WBAC  (and similar) quote and price somewhere between the two. 

http://cazoo.co.uk/sell-my-car

http://motorway.co.uk

http://carwow.co.uk/sell-your-car

http://evanshalshaw.com/sell-your-car

 

Carwow phoned me after I tried them for valuation. It's been advertised to dealers for £5250 now. Almost £1500 over what Tesla offered for trade-in.  Hope dealers bite at that price. 

7 hours ago, wyx087 said:

Carwow phoned me after I tried them for valuation. It's been advertised to dealers for £5250 now. Almost £1500 over what Tesla offered for trade-in.  Hope dealers bite at that price. 

 

We recently sold our 13 plate Ford Fiesta with Car Wow, they advertised it for £5460, alot were under £5k. It was initially advertised through Motorway for £5300 but was messed around by the buyer who, despite agreeing to purchase it for that amount never got in touch. Seems that's the only negative of these buying car sites, they make no guarantee and as you've entered into no contract there's no legal basis agreement.

 

We did have a positive experience with Car Wow though, within 2 weeks of agreeimg to the cost someone was collecting our car and the full price was paid quickly by balance transfer.

 

Facebook marketplace is the other place I have used but you have to put up with numpties and low ball offers.

Right, it's up on classified subform with many photos and detailed description Thanks for reminding me there's a for-sale section here. 

So I finally sold it to a not-so-local dealer. I showed Motorway price to him and he agreed to pay the motorway price.
2013 Skoda Octavia 2l diesel, sold for £5200 to a dealer just outside M25.

Unfortunately trying to sell it locally was fruitless. I live very close to North Circular, driving into it need ULEZ compliant car to avoid £12 per day. All enquiries were "is it ULEZ compliant". Can't you read it's a 2013 diesel......

I had it on Carwow for a week initially for £5250, no dealer bid on it. So overall happy with the price I got.
In summary, to get best price, have to do some legwork and talk to dealers if private sale is fruitless.


So overall cost for me to run this car for 30k miles VS running a similarly priced Nissan Leaf for 36k miles and very pessimistic resale value.

 

 

 

edit:

if anyone bought this, I can tell you all about this car: 

https://www.autotrader.co.uk/car-details/202209149769755

Edited 15 September, 20223 yr by wyx087