Selling a car on Craigslist - the results
Thanks Craig!!
If you recall my earlier post, I have been helping my sister sell her used Volvo using Craigslist. I posted the vehicle on Cragslist and made a one page mini web site for the car with lots of photos since Craigslist only allows 4 pictures. I linked the Craigslist posting to the one page mini web site and had 60 people follow the link from Craigslist to the site. Here's the funny thing. I only had two inquiries on the car...and one bought it.
So, let's see...60 people looked at it and two actual inquiries and one bought. No complaints with that kind of action. There are two reasons why we probably didn't get more calls, first of all, the asking price was on the high side, and secondly, the mini web site had a ton of pictures of the car, warts and all. The pictures probably answered most peoples questions about the car and it's condition.
Lesson's learned:
First, if you don't want people calling you asking a ton of questions about the car, put up a mini web site with lots of pictures, similar to what people do on eBay Motors.
Second, if you're not in a huge hurry to sell the car, don't be afraid to list it at a higher price...just don't expect many phone calls. And if you don't get any action on the car and decide to drop the price, you should probably delete the original listing and create a fresh one so it's not obvious that you've been dropping the price and your new listing gets re-sent in the new RSS feed.
Tags Car - Selling - Buying - Shopping - Tip
If you recall my earlier post, I have been helping my sister sell her used Volvo using Craigslist. I posted the vehicle on Cragslist and made a one page mini web site for the car with lots of photos since Craigslist only allows 4 pictures. I linked the Craigslist posting to the one page mini web site and had 60 people follow the link from Craigslist to the site. Here's the funny thing. I only had two inquiries on the car...and one bought it.
So, let's see...60 people looked at it and two actual inquiries and one bought. No complaints with that kind of action. There are two reasons why we probably didn't get more calls, first of all, the asking price was on the high side, and secondly, the mini web site had a ton of pictures of the car, warts and all. The pictures probably answered most peoples questions about the car and it's condition.
Lesson's learned:
First, if you don't want people calling you asking a ton of questions about the car, put up a mini web site with lots of pictures, similar to what people do on eBay Motors.
Second, if you're not in a huge hurry to sell the car, don't be afraid to list it at a higher price...just don't expect many phone calls. And if you don't get any action on the car and decide to drop the price, you should probably delete the original listing and create a fresh one so it's not obvious that you've been dropping the price and your new listing gets re-sent in the new RSS feed.
Tags Car - Selling - Buying - Shopping - Tip
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