Why selling my BMW 320d xDrive privately sucked and how I sold it instead!
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- Опубликовано: 6 июн 2024
- It took me months to sell my BMW 3 Series and I had many frustrating and hilarious stories along the way to finally selling it to a Car Supermarket.
In this video, I’ll tell you the story of how I didn’t sell it privately and some of the morons I encountered along the way and then how I actually sold it.
Be warned, I get quite ranty in this one but all in good humour!
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Buying a car is one of the eisiest things known to man,
Selling the same car is one of lifes hardest thing to do.
I completely disagree. Selling a car is probably the easiest thing to do. Make a good autotrader ad, price your car appropriately and you can expect to sell your car in less than a week. I sold my golf gti mk7 2 days after I put the ad up to a car dealer who paid £11,400 (got offered £7500 for part ex which was a complete joke). I didn't get any time wasters enquire.
Buying a car is one of the hardest thing. Full of people who don't service their car, have outstanding finance and expect way too much for their car. I always buy cars privately but there's a lot of time waster to deal with.
Agreed!
Thanks for the comment but after my experience here, it was anything but easy. I really think it depends on the car.
@car_babble I think for a 15.5k car I'd want to save £2500 to justify taking the risk of buying privately. Any less and it's not worth the risk. This is probably why your highest offer was 13k. That's what it's worth for both dealers and private buyers.
Using auto traders .. safe phone number filtered out all the time wasters
1st caller bought my car .. nice !
Sold my 15 month old low mileage Mercedes CLA 35 through Carwow. Buyer was a dealer from Hull and got the train up to Scotland where I met him at the station then went back to my house. Money paid by bank transfer and he drove the car away...all quick and super easy.
Using sites like Carwow or Motorway is the only way to do it in my opinion, because even though my car genuinely was in 'showroom condition' I'm sure I would have had the same hassle as you if trying to sell to a private buyer.
Easy money!
I bought my last car privately, the book price on it was £6,500 and it was advertised at £3,995. There were a few cosmetic issues but nothing major and it needed a really good clean inside but paid the asking price for it after a short test drive and about 30mins of speaking to the owner and having a good look. I got it home and there were a few lights on the dash after a few days but turned out to just be a faulty ABS sensor so I paid about £200 at my local garage including an Aircon regas and jobs a goodun. Saved quite a lot over what I would have paid at a dealer even paying the seller the fullasking price because I could see that the cosmetic damage (which I can fix myself when I get round to it but doesn't affect the way it drives at all) was reflected in the price it was advertised at. I hate selling cars privately personally and tend to keep them as long as I can before selling them for scrap.
I used Motorway and my experience was the same. Got the money they offered in the bank before they drive away. Probably use them again
Yeah really good, eh?
Great ranty video, hope you feel better after it🤣 Just had a similar experience selling a ZSEV to get a MODEL Y.
Cheers Paul it was therapy for me sharing that 🤣
15 months! My car (not a BMW, by the by) will be 20 years old this August (i special ordered it, bought it brand new), and the only way I'd ever get rid of it is if they pried it from my cold, dead hands! A new car every 15 months -- that is a BRUTAL financial hit, just for that new car smell and extra electronics and shitty firmware, where each year the chance that something will bust because of complexity increases...
I didn't a significant financial hit really at all otherwise I wouldn't have done it. Plus my new car is much cheaper to run, so was a consideration for the decision.
Love Beamers, had 4.
Great Video. I live in Northwest, Northern Ireland. I fly to GB to buy my cars. I would fly to Northern Scotland to buy the right car. I agree a price on the phone.
Thanks for sharing!
My friend. I feel every bit of pain that you've just been through as I've experienced it all recently all from that cess pit called buying and selling cars.
Long story short: Sold a car on Motorway. last year. Price was knocked down. from the agreed price (ce'st la vie I guess)..Later found out that the dealer who bought it later sold it with 20,000 miles less than they bought it from me with! Reported them... Bought another car recently which I later found out had been clocked...Sold to WBAC with mileage discrepancy disclosed.. Same car ended up in the hands of a Main Dealer who made a massive 8K on it.. (They Probably forget to declare the car's dodgy past to the unsuspecting new owner).
Moral of this story: Buyer AND Seller beware. What can I can say is that there are some genuine, HONEST buyers and sellers out there, but they are extremely few and far between.. The rest are just a bunch of brainless timewasters who enjoy annoying you with silly offers... "What's your lowest Price Bro"?..... Glad you made a good sale to a proper buyer in the end.
Thank you for the comment and good to hear someone else feeling my pain. It just gets so nauseating hearing "what's your best price bro?" straight out of the gate. Those are some shocking stories you have and sorry you got so unlucky. Everyone just ripping the arse out of it.
Nice rant.... Subbed.
Thanks!
I don't bother selling privately anymore. The financial hit from not trading in or selling to a dealer is offset by the amount of time I waste with tyre kickers, advertising and waiting around for people.
The reason people ask what you will accept is is because if it's lower than they were going to offer they have a bargain and if it's higher they know what ballpark they need to be in. Generally speaking the worst negotiating position is to speak first about the price.
The price in the advert is the first move really, so that's the seller's position. The buyer should then make an offer. Asking the buyer what you'd accept just seems pointless, if the seller has priced it to sell.
Yep, last time I bought a car I was thinking "I want this, might have to go to asking", so I asked the guy his bottom line and got the best part of 10% off!
Happy for you. People will always change their arm. If the seller was not pricing the advert to sell, that's possibly why they'll accept a lower price. But 10% is surely relevant to the value of the car. In my case, 10% would've been very cheeky.
I find it hard to believe you could be nice to anyone! You are rather angry ! All part of buying and selling I'm afraid .
I always part exchange saves the grief !
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Enjoyed the video. Thankyou.
Glad you enjoyed it mate 😊
Great learning video! Thanks.
In my driving life I have sold two cars privately BUT both these instances were to people who knew me AND knew the car, instant sale and no comebacks.
The others I traded in for another car but two I wanted to sell I sold to the trade, lower money BUT lower distress from private sale probs.
Trade sales are great for speed and no comebacks and get rid BEFORE something major does go wrong with the car whilst trying to sell, and no time wasters!
Two cars sold in two weeks. Move on to the next no trade in, cash buy!
Trade each and every time for me.
Thanks!
Same here used motorway 3 times now and always get the best price as in effect it goes out to auction
Nice one mate!
Haha this reminds me when i did some work at a restoratiom place and they had slod a fork lift truck on ebay. When they came to pick it up yoi coidl tell it was gonna go tits up, the winning bid from them was £3,600, they came in with 3 gramd cash 😂😂. Onwer of then truck told them to get the fuck off his property even after they pulled out the extra £600 he tefused to sell. Absolute shit kickers.
There are some absolute belters out there, eh!?
Excellent video, thanks. Love how the used-car salesmen (the ones that cannot write properly) are bleating in comments; you must have hit the nail on the head!
Thanks mate and yes, I expected a few salty used car salesmen. Got the same the last time I made a video about selling my car.
I had the same. Recently I put my car up for sale and just had scammers connecting me. In the end I sold it to Carwow to move it on. Great wee car but people just don’t have the money and most prefer to finance or lease these days
Did you get a good deal from Carwow?
@@car_babble the car was Mini Cooper S 2017 my bottom line privately was £9k. It sold to car wow for £8250 so £750 less than I wanted but was happy to proceed. It’s now advertised for £10700.
Very interesting, nice one.
Thanks for watching
Great vid
Thanks!
A sweet Drake, left himself open but didn't get stiched. Well done 😊
Never tried it but I think definitely going to be car specific. A grey 320d M Sport is a prime target for dirty chavs and small dealers trying to knock the price down while being quite an abundant generic car for private buyers who probably gravitate towards dealers.
Spot on mate...
Most people aren’t as honest as you so the used car market is still risky. I bought my 2017 F30 from a local garage, they had bought it from a member of the public. Day 3 I found a knock on the steering rack and it needed a rack rebuild, new motor and steering rod, £2,600. Garage got a third from the warranty company (Warranty Wise) and paid the rest themselves. Personally I would never buy anything more than £3k privately. I find you can buy from a main dealer, negotiate them down and get 2 years warranty at the moment. Sounds like you got a good deal though mate and get to stalk the reductions they make on the car they are now trying to sell 😀
Yeah those are all good points 🙂 sneaky buggers everywhere and unless you get a rock solid used warranty there is certainly risk to consider in relation to how cheap a deal you think you've gotten.
Carwow dealers best offer for one of my cars was 1/3 of the actual price I sold it for privately so never tried them again.
Interesting!
I feel the pain and I think your remote location was the main barrier. I tend to keep my cars for about 5 years and typically have 3. I have sold privately almost every time with an honest detailed description, good photos and a sensible price. You do have to filter out the wasters. I am very selective when buying and I look after my cars so I know they are usually way better than most other equivalents. When buying the history and spec is super important to me and I will travel to get it. If a car is being sold with any form of non premium or non matching tyre it is an instant fail for me - a simple but effective filter.
Thanks for the comment. Interested to know why the mismatched tyres is an instant red flag for you?
@@car_babble Premium tyres perform significantly better (than budget/mid market) particularly in the wet and even more so when a bit worn. It also a sign of caring for a car - if the tyres are poor what else has been skimped to save money? Mismatched tyres on different axles is understandable but on the same axle is just no good. Left and right will perform differently in an emergency or in treacherous conditions. To an extent the stability control electronics can deal with that but only by reducing overall braking or traction. I mostly drive manual transmission powerful petrol rear wheel drive cars but the same applies to FWD or AWD.
Makes sense!
My bmw 435i had all the following faults when I sold it to some garage from motorway. 4 bald tyres, knocking from the front, broken aircon (bmw had quoted me 2k to fix) due a service and was pulling to one side. I listed all the faults and the guy came and gave me what I wanted. Next day it was up for 4k more on their site clean MOT but wheels had been painted black and they added a crappy front lip spoiler thing. When zooming in the pics they had clearly just bodged the mot as I seen my same old bald tyres on there... I called anonymously and asked about the aircon and all this stuff saying "common faults these have they been done" and they like yeah no record of it but is all working 😂 load of bollocks
Great info, thanks. Hope you exposed the dealer who resold it for being such utter crooks.
I sold through Motorway. Didn't quite get the price that they valued it at, but the process was straightforward and I'd recommend.
Out of interest, how did they justify knocking you down?
@@car_babblethey didn't really. When i loaded up the details of my car Motorway said it was valued at 18k. When it went out to dealers i only had 3 offers but all were at 17k. My father in law works in the car trade for a car auction company so had access to all the CAP prices. It was coming in at 17k so the bidders were offering honest money for it. I was about to buy a car from a dealership that would only offer me 15.5k as a trade in. Maybe could've got 18k selling privately but couldn't be bothered dealing with the tyre kickers etc.
Everyone posts the price higher than what they really expect, so you MUST expect everyone to expect a discount. Getting all flustered about it is a bit childish. He asks what you will take, you tell him, he counters. In negotiations, the first person to say the price typically loses.
Childish 🤣 did you even watch the whole video? I literally said if someone makes an offer and it's close id consider it. It's fine to ask for a discount in certainly situations like when the price is high. Also maybe after you've actually seen the car and asked some other questions. Clearly that was not the case for much of my experience here. And what is the point of the advert price if that is not the price I want for it!?
@@car_babble I did, and when the guy asked what you would sell it for, you went into a hissy fit.
You think I actually reached like that in front of the guy? 😂
@@car_babble Sorry, but you need to vet buyers before agreeing to meet them, and if the asking price is fair make it damn clear to them that you will not be entertaining cheeky offers.
@@gartgreenside3657 How do you vet buyers?
Advertised a car for £2500. First call - Would you take a grand? No.
Yip, sounds familiar
💯 true ! Nothing but messers when selling cars !
Don’t know how car dealers put with time wasters , messers , dreamers !
Buyers need finance generally on £8 plus stuff !
Cheers!
Well last year mate I had a Nissan leaf tekna in red and it was very clean and I put on 2,430 miles and a service and amount of time wasted on people not showing up or trying to buy it for 6000 pound off the price
It drives you bonkers, doesn't it?
is Dundee far from where you live then? Or is it 2 mins away? Did you think we all knew where you live? So selling a car privately hasn't changed in the last 40 years. As a rule I don't waste time with Pakistanis or Indians, they are always looking for a cheap deal and most can't even pay the asking price. As for your knowledge on selling car - it seems limited, like a 10 years olds.... for example you think a dealer would sell your car for £15 and so they should give you £12 ? After the prep and warranty which they have to give no BMW dealer will do this for less than £1000... so basically no dealer will give you £12K (you are dreaming).
I'm in Aberdeenshire. I think my rational for where you price proved to work. I got 13k from a dealer, similar to what I should have hoped for a private sale.
Imo, selling privately works best if selling cars below £5k, paying with cash or bank transfer.
People want finance & warranty on anything more expensive, so they go to retailer dealers.
I think you could be right
Good place to sell a car when transmission starts to whine
trouble nowadays is every back street jack the lad is dealing and looking to buy low and sell high! i couldnt be bothered with the jokers around today on the internet absolute minefield of dickheads
Bingo pal!
Anyway enough about the bmw ! Just getting rid of our x3 I'm sold on the long range long range 3
Good choice!
Motorway were excellent twice for me
Good to hear!
If I was delivering/picking up cars, i'd invest in some kind of compact electric folding bike (such as a Brompton)-and some good quality cycling gear.....Agree with your comment that dealers are trying to make profit by offering low trade-in values, instead of on sales (but new prices are sky-high, so i'm sceptical that they aren't making good profits from new sales).
Yeah something that's not a push scooter would make sense 🤣
Have long since given up on Private Sales it seems to attract the absolute dregs of Society, Selling into the Trade or a Straight PX is worth it when you consider the t wats you have to deal with.
Can't disagree with that for the most part!
I did, from Germany 😊😊😊
😂Scooter 10 Miles through the country Lanes
I was quite shocked when he pulled that bad boy out 🤣
What mug sells to these companies? I've always sold cars and been patient. They always sell in the end. Don't expect forecourt prices.
Who sell to a company who charge to send the log book off or charge you to have the cash in your bank the same day. Fancy buying a car and telling the seller you will charge them extra to give them money straight away in their bank.
They steal your car not buy it .
Obviously this mug and I didn't expect forecourt prices. Not sure what you are on about with regards charging to send the log book off?
Disagree with you, buying from a dealer you have more security than private. As example, if something goes wrong with the car after purchase and it’s not fit for purpose, you can reject the car and get full refund. Yiu can’t do that buying private.
I should know, I bought a performance car from a dealer and the engine seized not long after purchase. Thankfully, I got a full refund.
What are you disagreeing with or did you not watch to the end where I said that people don't want to take the risk on a private buy?
I think you would be a very difficult man to deal with.
How so, for wanting close to my advertised price for a car that is always one of the cheapest in Britain online?
Yeah carshop in Wakefield couldn't of come up in a recovery truck or car with a trailer could they. Wtf goes through your mind
The joke was about him taking his scooter but maybe went over your head.
@car_babble there was no joke I think you need to watch your video again. £12k is a good offer if retail is £15k. I'd suggest your car retail was more than 15k if they paid 13k. 3k margin isn't a huge amount. For starters you'd have 600 vat so that's 2400. On top of that they have to collect the car. Prep it. Assuming it doesn't need anything not even an MOT it leaves 2400 and then dealer has to advertise, pay sales staff and be on the hook for 12 month if it goes pop. So as a very experienced car dealership owner I can tell you for fact that a 3k margin isn't a huge amount
@DaleSteel 12k was what BMW offered me. They would have retailed it for 16 or 17k, but I don't know as I didn't sell it to them but undoubtedly would be higher than the £15.5k that the Carshop sold it against a 13k purchase. For a high volume business like a Car Supermarket, if they make a grand even off my car (actually profit) I'd say that's good business for them. But obviously you're all experienced in car sales and stuff so as per my video, feel free to disagree with that.
"Couldn't HAVE come up.....". Zero credibility if you cannot write English.
@@EvoraGT430 RETARD ALERT. I guarantee I have a higher IQ than you. The fact you have just made such a retarded comment proves it. You haven't even used the correct comma
From what i can gather your clueless. 12k for a car that a dealer can only get 15k for sounds like 12k was a fantastic offer. 3k margin is peanuts.
Lol Obviously 12k isn't a good deal cause I 13k, didn't I? And I don't agree anyway, 3k margin is not peanuts.
You'RE clueless.... at spelling/grammar!
Heres the most common scenario: "THREE ASIANS LADS TURNED UP. THEN THE EXHAUST STARTED SMOKING BADLY AND THEY OFFERED ME A FEW HUNDRED QUID FOR THE CAR. THEY WERE INTIMIDATING SO I AGREED"
Outstanding comment x
Or was it a black lad that came down and offered to sleep with your missus and since we all know white lads love to be cucks and so you gave the car up for a tenner
I know this is meant to be a joke but this is exactly what happened to me.
Its always foreigners, never get a british buyer these days
The majority appeared to be tbh