Selling my car - what's it worth?

[Howsafe Workwear and Safety Equipment]

I know, one of those posts!!!

 

I apologise in advance - I have written my advert in the Westfield for sale section

 

However I honestly have no idea what sort of price to be looking for as prices do seem all over the place when I look at other adverts and this car has lots of expensive upgrades - your thoughts please

 

 

[Mark (smokey mow)]

Ok, I'll start..... somewhere over £12K, maybe up to £15K depending on condition and how keen you are to sell.

[Kingster]

I’ve said this before on such posts but I’ll stick to my guns. 
 

You are the only one who can answer that 😁

 

You know what it stands you and what stupid offer you’d refuse - so just man up and post a price 😛

[Nick Algar - Competition Secretary]

Having been looking around for quite some time now looking at cars trying to buy one and I've now just bought one so I've hopefully got a pretty good idea of the marketplace. I've seen similar cars for sale for between £ 14,000 to £ 18,000 whether they sell for that kind of money is a different matter. Also that's a big range deliberately as you need to be happy to sell at the price. Hope that helps.

[Steve (sdh2903)]

I'd agree with nick above. The market is bouyant at the minute. Start high if your in no rush you can always lower it. 

[Howsafe Workwear and Safety Equipment]

36 minutes ago, Chris King said:

I’ve said this before on such posts but I’ll stick to my guns. 
 

You are the only one who can answer that 😁

 

You know what it stands you and what stupid offer you’d refuse - so just man up and post a price 😛

 

trust you 😁

[TAFKARM]

He is right though, it makes it easier for everyone…

[Kingster]

21 minutes ago, Howsafe Workwear and Safety Equipment said:

 

trust you 😁

Yeah sorry! But I bet you secretly have a price in mind 😁

[Howsafe Workwear and Safety Equipment]

30 minutes ago, Chris King said:

Yeah sorry! But I bet you secretly have a price in mind 😁

 

honestly so out of touch with all things Westfield Chris and it was a spur of the moment thing to get an advert up without any research on general market prices - within a few hours I had some serious interest so was caught out a little 😚

 

In have seen way too many undervalue their cars, with the usual "too cheap" comments and then the back track from the seller (in the wider world beyond Westfields that is)

 

Just trying to gauge a fair price where neither party feels ripped off

[Onliest Smeg David]

1 hour ago, Nick Algar said:

£ 14,000 to £ 18,000

@Howsafe Workwear and Safety Equipment

Having sold myself and scouring the market myself, I would agree with Nick.

Although I think yours is a great car in very good nick and would be trending towards the upper end of this.

[Onliest Smeg David]

Just now, Dave (OnliestSmeg) - Manchester AO said:

@Howsafe Workwear and Safety Equipment

Having sold myself and scouring the market myself, I would agree with Nick.

Although I think yours is a great car in very good nick and would be trending towards the upper end of this.

 

B#gger!!! Played that wrong...

It's worth between 8-10k, and because you are a trusted member of the club I'll give you 12k 🤪😜😁

😃

[Dave Eastwood (Gadgetman) - Club Chairman]

One of the topics of conversation at the last Cheshire & N. Staffs meet kind of revolved around this sort of thing - we had a few there that had bought recently, also, being petrol heads a long way from first car buying days, many of us have history when it comes to buying niche vehicles!

 

One of the interesting things to come up, (as I’ve noticed a lot, here), and I should stress, this is many cars that attract strong ownership clubs, not just Westfields, one example quoted was DeLoreans, so not just kits, either! Was that members of big owners clubs tend to consistently under value their cars. It’s a combination of things, I suspect, we’re perhaps too close to them, and not analytical enough, there’s also a definite “priced for Club Members” trend, as we like to think of our babies in the hands of fellow enthusiasts etc.. and even an “I know what I want for it, and am happy with that” approach, that avoids looking at market values, all together!

 

One of the downsides of the undervaluing approach, is that I’m afraid all the chumming the water with way underpriced cars has started attracting the sharks. We are absolutely seeing traders join (paying, legitimately) to try and snap these up so they can flip them for a good profit.  

[Dave Eastwood (Gadgetman) - Club Chairman]

2 hours ago, Nick Algar said:

Having been looking around for quite some time now looking at cars trying to buy one and I've now just bought one so I've hopefully got a pretty good idea of the marketplace. I've seen similar cars for sale for between £ 14,000 to £ 18,000 whether they sell for that kind of money is a different matter. Also that's a big range deliberately as you need to be happy to sell at the price. Hope that helps.

I’d have been guessing the same sort of range, details of condition, like exactly how you define the body work “issues” compared to some one else, affecting just where it sits. (From the photos and your general approach to cars, I suspect your definition of what’s got a bit of a patina of use on it, is probably harder on the car than many others would be.)

[Steve (sdh2903)]

Does this mean we'll see the porsche replica  build start back up???

[Captain Colonial]

39 minutes ago, Steve (sdh2903) said:

Does this mean we'll see the porsche replica  build start back up???

That’s what he needs the cash for - more tube and box section steel and brazing wire.