Selling car on Autotrader

[ReganAndCarter]

As mentioned already on here, always be very careful to make sure the keys are always under your control. Over 20 years ago, a friend's father was dealing in sports cars from home. He had a very nice Alfa for sale. Two blokes came to view it and went on a test drive - friend's father driving. They stopped so one of the 'buyers' could have a drive. Friend's father was out of the car before the other two, they quickly closed both doors and locked them from inside. Never saw the car again, very expensive lesson.

 

[Belle427]

Its possible to reverse a bank transfer too if its a fraudulent one so not even that is set in stone.
Selling privately these days is hard work, id take a slight loss if the offer from wbac or motorway was ok.
I find Autotrader terrible for selling cars personally but they do let you list it until sold.
Facebook marketplace has been the best for me but you do have to deal with quite a few muppets before someone genuine comes along, i find that fun though playing around with them!

 

[robinbanks]

Type it into webuyanycar for a cash in price.

Noo, if it's truly worth 4500 she'll get offered 3 grand and some sales shark will turn up with a list of bullshit/aiming to knock it down to 1500

Ignore the " most comprehensive insurance has occasional third party use insurance " post. This all went out the window about 8 to 10 years ago

Every policy I've ever had has had a third party extension. I disagree that they "all went out the window" - I specifically target policies that have it and it's not difficult to find even amongst the cheapest quotes

OP can drive the car/perform any test they want, or insist on payment and signed dated timed receipts first so it's their car and insurance is their problem, refund after test drive over if not happy

Never saw the car again, very expensive lesson.

Worthy point. GPS tracking devices very cheap these days, even an old iPhone tucked under a seat would help avoid this

OP, it's worth also bearing in mind that you'll naturally get every single horror story and imaginary possible problem when you ask anything on a forum..

 

[cdbe]

Depends how much you value your time, just put mine into WBAC and it came up as £1000. I know I could get double that by the end of the weekend on eBay, or I could buy a very similar car from a dealer for 3 times that.

 

[Elsa TLC]

Ive got the time. Just a bit worried about being done.
However it is a 15 year old Honda. I'm sure there are better more worth while cars to nick.