Selling Your Car - A Few Helpful Tips

Sunday, June 1, 2008

Selling a car one normally feels is a complicated task but the fact remains that what actually is required is proper guidance and a perfect deal. You can either opt to sell your car privately or by having a trade with a car dealer. Following step by step approach would be helpful to sell your car.

1) Place an Advertisement for your car: You need to tell the prospective buyers that you want to sell your car, so the very first step in this direction is to place an advertisement. By placing advertisements you will find more customers for your car and the advertisement should have information like car model, date of manufacture and so on.

2) Set car price: Setting the right price is very important and you need o evaluate so many parameters before setting a price such as condition of the car, region where it is being sold. Normally the approach should be to set a higher price than your asking price, in case even if the buyer bargains you will get the required amount.

3) Give your car curb appeal: To strike the best deal you need to make sure that your car is in proper condition before you sell it, like wash and color the car to make it look more attractive also you can enhance the look by cleaning the tires, mirrors, and brake dust with a special fluid called Armor All. And before placing an advertisement get a mechanic check of the car and issue a report about its functioning.

4) Show the car to your buyer: After placing an advertisement you will start getting the responses and once you start getting buyers you need to make the buyer feel comfortable and answer their questions firmly. Normally you should ask them to take a test-drive of your car. Show them the reports of the condition of the car. If they insist of getting it rechecked by a mechanic, allow them to do the same.

5) Negotiate for the best price: Buyer when convinced with the state of the car then the next thing is that you need to settle n the mutually agreed price and it is quite possible that the buyer puts forward a very low price. This is the time when you have to make yourself firm and try to get the best price. You need to tell him about the positive points of your car. Never make haste decisions as there may be a higher deal waiting just behind.

6) Finalizing the deal: Once the price is also negotiated and settled then you need to check the laws governing the sale of motor vehicles. Depending upon the laws of your state you need to finalize the deal. Once you get the cash from the buyer sign the title over to the buyer. You can also offer them with a sale bill.

Both the ways of selling cars have their own pros and cons. It is up to you to decide which one is the best for you.

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