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Cars.com gets over 3 million unique visitors a month,
plenty to see your ad. Your online-only ad with photo appears on
Cars.com and over 170 affiliated websites.
How It Works:
You can add the optional 9 photos to your ad. I highly
recommend it, now buyers can see how good your car looks on the
inside.
Favorite Features: Your ad runs for 30
days. Renew your ad free for more 30-day runs. Good search for a
used car from private sellers, used cars from used car dealers. |
CarsDirect.com will
help you
Sell Your Car Fast by showing your ad to millions of car
buyers every month.
How It Works: It's easy.
Enter your car info, upload a photo. Pay for the ad online with
your credit card. You can edit or extend your ad any time for no
extra charge.
Favorite Features: Run your ad until it sells, edit your
ad any time for free. Your ad gets preferred placement in
CarsDirect.com
premium used car listings. More cost effective and easier than
advertising in the newspaper. |
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Car.com is a popular site for buying new cars, used
cars, or selling your car on their used car classifieds.
How It Works:
Enter info about your car, and your
contact info. $19.95 for the first 30 days, includes a FREE
picture upload. Your ad appears online instantly.
Favorite Features:
Your ad is seen by 1.5 million monthly visitors, more cost
effective than newspaper classifieds. No word limit, no extra
word charges, updatable any time. Searching is easier than using
newspaper classifieds. |
 FACT:
Your strategy is to
blitz the media and let the world know you have a great car for
sale.You'll almost always get more for your used car by selling it
yourself privately, than trading it to a car dealer. If your car is
4 years or younger, the dealer will give you $3000 less than fair
market value for it, because they have to dump it on the wholesale
market. If your car is over 4 years old, banks won't finance it, so
it's worthless to dealers, they will only give you a heart breaking
25% of fair market value!
TIP:
Give yourself a budget of $75 -$100 to
sell your car. The world is not beating a path to your car so you
have to beat a path to the world. Spend more than just the usual one
week $35 newspaper ad to sell it. Very few frustrated people sell
their car using a one week newspaper ad. Like a key in a lock, if
the ad for your green 1997 Camry does not appear during the one week
time that a buyer is looking for a green 1997 Camry, you're out
$35. Your budget will get you into 3 different classified ad venues
like a newspaper for about $35 for a 1-2 week run, and at least 2
popular internet classified ad websites, usually $20 for a 30 day
run. Newspapers are not a scam, but that $35 classified ad fee they
advertise is a farce, as they are stingy on the number of words. In
order to really give any useable info in your newspaper classified
ad, you'll most likely end up spending $40-$50 for a one week run.
My friend Steve got dismal newspaper response on his Corvette
newspaper ad, yet he got 2 calls from his web ad the first day. He
sold the car 2 weeks later to a LOCAL buyer who saw his ad on the
web, not the newspaper! Auto classifieds on the web are much more
cost effective than newspapers because they are cheaper, and run 4
times as long or longer. Why limit your ad to maybe 5 local people
who might be interested in your model year car, when you can put it
on the web where there are millions of people interested in your
model. For half the price you get 1000 times the exposure! A
coworker of mine sold his Jaguar on a web based ad to the first
person that emailed him. Web based classified ads have the advantage
of your car appearing in a buyer's search of cars within hundreds of
miles of their house. But by contrast, newspapers usually cover a
small metropolitan area. Look for online classified sites where your
ad stays until the car sells. Don't even think about parking you
car on the side of the road to sell it, it could get vandalized,
ticketed, towed, or all of the above.
Driving Records
Driving Records are
state driver's license reports containing details about a
driver's history including accidents and violations. Each state
maintains records of their registered drivers' activities
occurring only in that state.
Driving records can be
obtained by insurance companies to determine your rates as well
as by companies during their employment screening procedures
when hiring. Some employers may even require that you submit
your driving
record along with your employment application. A single
typo on your
driving record can cost you hundreds of dollars in insurance
rates. It can even cost you a job. |
Savvy consumers search for
used cars online at car buying sites