Has anyone sold a used car on craiglist before? (price, bill)

[dennise]

Yes, I agree I have been getting scam emails for the car. luckily I did not post my phone number just email. so far its been a pain of not serious people with low ball offers. I will look into auto trader now. thanks,.

[uncgdad1]

Recently purchased a car on cars.com, the nice thing about this site, is the tools provided when you bring up a car you're interested in, you can view car specs, reviews, kelley blue book value and safety and reliability records for that type of vehicle. This may weed out some of the CL scammers and sketchy people...good luck!

[mayday30]

Be Safe!! Set up a temp email (I did gmail) for contact and only go with a phone number after you have talked through email. I also would meet somewhere public and not at your home. I took someone with me and things went very well. We actually drove to his bank and did it all in the parking lot. Good luck!!

[bluetruckguy]

oh yea.. scam emails.. from africa and UK that they want the car to be shipped there and the payment will be done via money order and that they are ready to pay double the price.. its gotten annoying..

i gotten such emails for everything and anything.. rent a place.. sell/buy furniture.. sell/buy electronics everything.. therez simply no way to filter them.. i think next time i sell/buy.. i'll connect two international folks 1 who is interested to buy from africa and 1 who is interested to sell from africa and let them play it out with eachother.. LOL!!

[North_Raleigh_Guy]

I have my used car listed on craig's list right now. I put the ad up on Tuesday and within 15 minutes I was contacted by a perspective buyer. I've now been contacted by 8 legit buyers and had 3-4 scam emails I promptly deleted. I am meeting with a potential buyer tomorrow. I don't want people coming to my house so I plan to meet them at a grocery store parking lot down the road from my house.

If you put you car on craig's list I highly recommend you host photos on a free website like photobucket.com and put image tage <img> in your description. The size and quality of the pictures will be much better than the 4 pics craig's list limits you too.

Good Luck!

[DECH]

Originally Posted by johnchristine375

i am going to purchase used car.. can anyone suggest how can i check which one is good???

There is a lot to this, but let me start with a couple of the basics:

Research the make, models, years in consumer reports and other feedback sources to ensure you aren't buying a car that has known issues.

Identify the prospective make model and year vehicles you and establish the target purchase price. Learn what MMR (Manheim Value) is as this is wholesale and what dealers pay and how close you are to this the better.

Once you identify a prospective vehicle, start off by running or obtaining a carfax vehicle history report.

Interview the owner and ask important questions such as:
length of ownership
Garaged or Stored outside
Prior accidents
Smoked in or not smoked in
Any prior paint work
Prevent. Maint performed and are records available
Known Issues/Problems

Then if all sounds good, go inspect the vehicle and best to do so at the owners house. If the car has been started and pulled out, ask to see the spot it rests and look for oil leak spots

If you can get your hands on a paint meter, get on and take meter readings on the outside of the vehicle so you know 100% whether the vehicle has been involved in accidents

If all looks good, make an offer subject to successful completion of a dealership ppi (inspection)

If the offer is accepted--immediately get a bill of sale in writing documenting the price and that the offer is subject to successful completion of a ppi

Arrange the inspection with a reputable dealer and get not only the basic inspection, but if the car is out of warranty, you may want to get other things like compression, leakdown, trans oil sample, ecm data print out, etc.

Obviously how far you want to go with a lot of this may depend on your budget and model year of vehicle, i.e., if you are buying a $900 dollar vehicle vs. a $50k vehicle.

Most of all be patient with the process as rushing into something can create bad decisions.

Good luck -

[jsbailey]

I actually put my Camry on Craigslist in Jan 09 b/c it was free. Just wanted to see if I would get any hits before I had to pay Auto Trader to do it for me. I actually got about 5 hits. We sold it to one family for exactly what we wanted it for in one week. We met them at a local grocery store which worked out great. I would recommend it. It was the 1st time I had ever used Craigslist.

[jsbailey]

Originally Posted by Sepulgeek

Doesn't Carmax buy cars even if you dont buy from them? You could try them out. You wont get as much as selling yourself but there should be less hassle.

We went to Carmax 1st and they offered us 1/2 of what we got for it off of Craigslist! Carmax was awful! I would not recommend them!!

[bugguy]

I sold a motorcycle on Craigslist. Also used it to get a tenant for one of my rental houses. I had no problems whatsoever. I didn't put an email address in the rental ad - only a phone number. I didn't put a phone number in the motorcycle ad - only my email address....lol....things worked out okay though.

[clavoski]

Dont use your phone number, just email, to better screen out buyers. You may want to use a secondary yahoo, or hotmail acct , not your personal email acct.On the ad promise a quick call back, but at least you will have some control