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Craig's list (be careful, lots of scams, but it can work.) Also try specialist websites, meaning a site dedicated to your make, or even model of car. I sold a car out of Manhattan to someone from Ohio on the VW specialist site. Even signs and local networking can work. I sold a car to someone who came into my garage looking to rent a spot (for the car they hadn't bought yet), while I was driving in with my car (which had a for sale sign on it.)
I would drive to CT and take the train back to the city, as there is a CarMax in East Haven if you do not like what a BMW dealer offers for the car. An '09 328 might be more attractive in the suburbs as it would make a good first car for a teen, so there might be a better market in Westchester, Fairfield, or LI for it.
CL is full of scammers, so I would not deal with it when looking to sell a vehicle that's $15k+. Then again, I do not like the hassle of dealing with the flakes, lo-ballers, and the other denizens of the fine city who come out of the woodwork when one advertises something for sale. If you had a personal connection to someone who wants the car, and you know that they will not cheat you, and that the car is in good mechanical condition, then I would do a private party sale.
An '09 328 is not that unusual that you would need to go the specialist route, unless you get very low offers from the dealer and Craigslist. If you're not active in those communities prior to placing the vehicle for sale, you may not garner the same interest as a regular forum member who has a vehicle for sale.
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I would drive to CT and take the train back to the city, as there is a CarMax in East Haven if you do not like what a BMW dealer offers for the car. An '09 328 might be more attractive in the suburbs as it would make a good first car for a teen, so there might be a better market in Westchester, Fairfield, or LI for it.
CL is full of scammers, so I would not deal with it when looking to sell a vehicle that's $15k+. Then again, I do not like the hassle of dealing with the flakes, lo-ballers, and the other denizens of the fine city who come out of the woodwork when one advertises something for sale. If you had a personal connection to someone who wants the car, and you know that they will not cheat you, and that the car is in good mechanical condition, then I would do a private party sale.
An '09 328 is not that unusual that you would need to go the specialist route, unless you get very low offers from the dealer and Craigslist. If you're not active in those communities prior to placing the vehicle for sale, you may not garner the same interest as a regular forum member who has a vehicle for sale.
Thanks! That sounds like a great idea, I've never considered going outside the new york but if I can get better offer outside the city, I'm sure that will be worth it
Sell your car on craigslist. It's really not hard to do and you get the most money for it. I sold an old car for $1200 that was totally dead. It would not even start at all but somebody bought it and took it away with a tow truck.
You will get emails about scams with paypal and money orders and stuff like that but they are easy to ignore. You can google for how to do craigslist. Every person I've dealt with selling a car has been a normal person just looking for a car.
If you're buying a new car, I've found that dealerships these days are eager to make sales quotas and will give pretty fair trade-in offers. I recently traded a 2004 infiniti g35 coupe for $10,000 towards my new car, after not being able to sell it on craigslist for that price for over a month.
Selling a car on craigslist in NY is a nightmare...countless emails and calls with people seeming to be interested, but not one genuinely is. I think everyone browsing for cars on CL is so wary of scams that they often get cold feet even with legitimate listings.
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