With apologies to anyone also on PistonHeads where I'll shortly be asking a similar question...
It's a while since I've sold a car privately but now I find I need to due to my brother in law selling me his Merc A class (I know - but its an expanding family thing!) at a decent price. I've priced up my Clio 172 Sport using parkers and what car (mileage adjusted) and looked at what they're actually advertised for on here and autotrader. Trouble is I'm not convinced it's worth what that research suggests so it looks to me like people are loading prices a bit expecting to get knocked down by rather more than the 5% I always used to work on.
The car is 2003 53 black Clio Sport 172, decent spec and condition (won't list to avoid accusations of blatant advertising! Once I've worked out a price it'll be in the classifieds anyway!).
It is high mileage at 82000 ish but even factoring that in the guides suggest £5500 ish - I think the mileage is more of a factor and am thinking of pitching it just below £5000, does that sound a bit more reasonable?
It's a while since I've sold a car privately but now I find I need to due to my brother in law selling me his Merc A class (I know - but its an expanding family thing!) at a decent price. I've priced up my Clio 172 Sport using parkers and what car (mileage adjusted) and looked at what they're actually advertised for on here and autotrader. Trouble is I'm not convinced it's worth what that research suggests so it looks to me like people are loading prices a bit expecting to get knocked down by rather more than the 5% I always used to work on.
The car is 2003 53 black Clio Sport 172, decent spec and condition (won't list to avoid accusations of blatant advertising! Once I've worked out a price it'll be in the classifieds anyway!).
It is high mileage at 82000 ish but even factoring that in the guides suggest £5500 ish - I think the mileage is more of a factor and am thinking of pitching it just below £5000, does that sound a bit more reasonable?
