After nearly 3 years of ownership I'm looking to move on my 2nd car which is a 2019 VW Polo GTI due to getting a Cupra Born through the company salary sacrifice scheme.

Basic question is how to sell it in order to get the most money for it.

I ideally want to get the most money for it as possible but also sell it quite quickly... The Cupra is being delivered next Friday and I don't really want it hanging around any longer than absolutely necessary.

In the normal way I would stick it on Autotrader and see what happens (my dad has recently sold two cars this way and got good offers from dealers almost immediately).

However I am interested in alternative methods such as Motorway etc so interested to hear other's experiences of any sale methods.

Motorways valuation of my car was about £500 more than Autotraders suggested selling price which got me slightly interested.

The car has done low mileage for the age at 25k of which 19k has been done by myself in the last 3 years (looks like it almost sat in a shed for the first 3 years of it's life!) and it's been bulletproof in terms of reliability so far with no unscheduled visits to the dealer.

Consider an Advert in a Enthusiast Forum like Briskoda, Cars for sale.

Maybe look at any Car Dealers near you that sell the kind of use car and see if they are interested in buying for cash money.

Selling privately is the way to get the most. But you have to wait for someone to agree your price and have the hassle of dealing with them on the drive.

Motorway sells to dealers so you will lose whatever margin they need to get.

This guy on youtube seems reasonable. If he doesn't want it he will suggest a price that other dealers might pay.

https://carsboughtformore.com/

Edited 16 May, 20251 yr by Stonekeeper

Well here's what happened FWIW.

Motorway valued it around £15,000

Autotrader around £14,500

I decided to stick an ad on Autotrader and see what happened. Before the offer posts they offer the chance to sell it via their 'Dealer Auction' service where it goes out to dealers in an online auction for a couple of days. As it's free I thought I might as well give it a go.

Once it finished I got a phone call to discuss the results.

Highest offer was about £13,700 which I wasn't happy with. They asked a couple of questions and then phoned back later and said the dealer said he would go up to £13,850 on the basis that I had the parcel shelf (it was missing in my photos).

I rejected this too.

They tried to put the frighteners on me saying it takes on average of 30 days to sell the car privately and I would have teams of boy racers coming round to floor the GTI.

I put it on Autotrader as a standard ad at £14,750.

Later the same day I had a call from BigWantsYourCar saying they could offer the full asking price.

I sent them a few extra pictures highlighting any damage (few scratches and a couple of the alloys kerbed slightly) but they maintained the price.

Dropped it round at the nearest site to me (they also offer free home collection). A chap came out and spent probably 15-20 minutes looking over the car including a short drive around the car park.

The moment of truth arrived - I had been expecting at least some kind of attempt to try and knock me down on price but he simply came in and said he was happy with it. He then took the service documents, V5 etc and came back a few minutes later saying I should have an email from them which I did. Entered my bank details and a few seconds later the money was in the account!

Overall very happy with the way it all went - very hassle free and not trying to negotiate on the price was a big plus!

I might have managed to get slightly more for it from a private seller but selling to a dealer was way less hassle as well as less risky. For anyone who's thinking of selling a car I would definitely give them a go.

Oh and WBAC's offer was £2,000 less than I got (and before they try and beat you down too...)

Sold my old man's honda jazz through motorway, got about £2000 more than a local non-franchise offered and about £1500 more than local Honda.
Motorway took it down about £500 from the initial temptation price based on a few scratches (they got quite confused about it not having alloys) and it sold for that to another Honda dealer further south.
No argument on collection, guy didn't even bother to test drive

You might have got £15,000 from Motorway ?????

I have heard good things about their service ... though this was some time ago.

If you're happy then all is well and good.