Selling a car, Carsoup? Ebay?

TurboDomestics · 07-31-2010

What do you guys think of selling a car on carsoup or ebay? Is it worth it?

Im talking about the Spyder GSX that's in the classifieds. I have it posted on the free sites so far. But I'm trying to decide if it is worth posting on the pay sites like carsoup or ebay.

I tried to sell a GVR4 a few years back on ebay and was very disappointed in with it.

What do you guys think? Its obviously not something that your everyday person would want, so I'm not sure if its worth the money to market it on the pay sites.

**Kracka** · 07-31-2010

Carsoup and Autotrader are great for typical cars while eBay not so much. With a more unique and custom car like yours I'm thinking eBay would be a good idea. I would think for your car the best bets would be forums, eBay, and Craigslist.

simulatedwood · 07-31-2010

Car Soup and Autotrader will be great places to advertise, they also have the advantage of being in paper form for the non internet types. I have used both with sucess when the low ballers on craiglist didnt come through.

TurboDomestics · 07-31-2010

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Originally Posted by Kracka

Carsoup and Autotrader are great for typical cars while eBay not so much. With a more unique and custom car like yours I'm thinking eBay would be a good idea. I would think for your car the best bets would be forums, eBay, and Craigslist.

Yeah, I guess I'll just have to see what other spyder gst's are going for on eBay and go from there.

It's already on the local forums, dsmtuners and dsmtrader. Dont really know of others except widsm and chicagodsm, but i dont have enough posts on either one. Maybe someone can link it up for me

The thing I don't like about eBay is it is so expensive, I think the last time it was around $100.

**Goat Blower** · 08-01-2010

Ebay for sure. I doubt there's much of a local market for that. I sell normal stuff locally and interesting stuff on Ebay. You just have to be reasonable on your pricing.

**Halon** · 08-01-2010

I sold my saab on carsoup.

**goodhart** · 08-01-2010

I tried selling the WRX on EBay, spent the $30 or whatever, it ran for a week and that was that. I forgot what package I bought, but it sure didn't seem like it was worth it. I have had quite a few hits on craigslist, not a damn one of them have been serious, they will ask a question or two, then I never hear from them again, but its free so whatever. My car is on CarSoup right now, have had a few callers, no serious ones yet, but I spent ~$30 and it runs till it sells.

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Originally Posted by simulatedwood

Car Soup and Autotrader will be great places to advertise, they also have the advantage of being in paper form for the non internet types. I have used both with sucess when the low ballers on craiglist didnt come through.

Not sure about autotrader, but with CarSoup, it ran in the Sunday Star Tribune once, they called me and asked if I wanted to continue to run it and it cost extra after the first one. First week is free, after that it is extra to get it in the paper.

awd-drifter · 08-01-2010

I've put my car on the local forums and craigslist only. I've had a bunch of people emailing and even one person be seriously interested but back out at the last minute, literally. There's alot of people out there that will just ask 1-2 questions (like goodhard said) and you'll never hear back from them again. I'm thinking about ebay but I'm not sure if it's worth it because it'd be a specific car (GVR4) they'd be looking for and if they're looking for a GVR4, they buyer would have either 1) owned one already 2)is in the dsm game 3) is buying another "project" car 4) young teen/kid in the dsm game or 5) both 1+3 . Maybe I'll do the carsoup thing, run it till it sells. that might be more worth it i guess.