If you aren't sure, you could pay the listing fee and put the reserve at the least you will accept for it, this will test the waters and show you what others think it is worth. If no one bids then hang on to it until your price expectation lowers, if someone bids then you know you have the price about right. The grooming and adding features may help the price, great photos and a concise but accurate description always helps as well. Make sure everyone knows how great the navigation, dvd, camera and disability seat are. Good luck.
tony9,
Feb 10, 9:46am
When you say "they are going for a good price", do you mean the price that people are actually biddy and buying or the price they are listing for? The only real price is what buyers are paying.
I find Redbook http://www.redbook.co.nz/ to be fairly reliable for the private selling price, but you pay for the service.
I also find cars at $1 reserve do seem to sell for a reasonable market price, but you have to be brave.
smac,
Feb 10, 10:13am
Ya there's a huge gap between listings and what stuff actually sells for (for some vehicles). Private sellers been the main culprits/dreamers. Plus I've never had much luck with the TM 'expired listings' search feature either - there's obviously some serious filtering going on in the results, but because you can't see what those filters are it's impossible to tell what you're looking at.
tamarillo,
Feb 10, 2:10pm
With that mileage maybe keep it and run it into ground. You'll not get a good price for it with so many around and real prices being low. It might be fine but with those miles a buyer would pass on for Lower milage cars surely.
msigg,
Feb 10, 4:01pm
What ever you think is a good price then drop it by $1000 and it will probably sell. Sellers big mistake is trying to get too much. As above some of these prises on here are stupid, look how long it take to sell ,if at all, then you get disheartend and have to give it away.
john7891,
Feb 10, 5:00pm
I watched the market for a month to see what cars like mine were selling for and priced accordingly - sold within 3 hours of listing. You can hang around for weeks trying to get an extra $1000 or met the market and get rid of the bloody thing,
smac,
Jun 25, 11:55pm
The other problem with selling high is when you eventually drop to the right price, people think it's been sitting for sale for ages so must be something wrong with. If you list with your absolute bottom dollar as the reserve, do a good ad with good photos you can't really go wrong. Whereas if you start too high, or start bidding low with some stupidly high reserve you need to relist, and as soon as people see a car getting relisted again and again they figure (IMHO) there's something wrong with it.
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