I sold my Maverick today. KBB was about $13,800 and I sold it on craigslist for $17,000. It was a tough sale and had it listed for nearly 60 days. I had it posted on FB, craigslist, and autotrader. I will never use autotrader again. It cost about $30 to post it and I got mega spammed on autotrader. Not one scammer on craigslist or facebook. On Facebook, I had many used car dealers low ball me and not one individual contact me. Maybe people don’t have $17K cash but I advertised I was willing to work with your bank or credit union. Not sure if they would finance that much above KBB or not.
It was higher mileage and I had little faith in the small ford to last to 200K without major repairs.
A couple drove 3 hours and paid in $100’s. I fully disclosed everything. They were happy to have it. They own 17 rental properties and I suspect it is a business expense to haul small things for their rentals.
Craigslist is still alive and well. It has been a while since I used them since most classifieds moved to FB. I did buy my avalon several months ago on craigslist. I think I will start using craigslist again more often. If it was not for the marketplace, I would get rid of facebook all together.
On a side note, I was listening to a used dealer on YT the other day. He was talking about the rise in salvage title vehicles. He mentioned my previous observations that decent cars were getting totaled for small accidents and banks are now willing to loan on a salvage title vehicle. He also mentioned that salvage title vehicles are no selling at up to 90% of book value.
Craigslist use to have tons of scams posts. Craigslist now charges $5 for 30 day auto ad. Now scammers don’t post fraud posts on there.
How autotrader scam work. Someon would contact the seller. Ask some basic questions then schedule a test drive. The day of the test drive, they would contact you asking for a carfax like report. The website is a scam website where they give your a bogus report but steal your credit card info in the process.
Facebook is free to post so there is all kinds of garbage on there. Tons of salvage title vehicles. Also FB charges you to promote your listing. I am convinced that FB is controlling what people can see of your ads. I have had other things posted for weeks, then sudden burst of people inquiring in a short period of time like it was just posted. My wife was unable to search and find my Maverick posting on FB. I have no idea but it really smells like they don’t really show your ad unless you pay to promote it.
Me either until recently. There is a decent population that don’t have facebook. If your buying or selling certain things then craigslist might be better. I’d say if your buying stuff that seniors have, you are more likely to find buyer or seller on craigslist.
Facebook is weird, I’ll see something listed and then come back a day or two later and it’s gone but then it shows up again a day or two after that. Also, I won’t see posts from bars and restaurants I follow until after the special. Same with some posts, they will show up a day or two after someone posts them and others within minutes. I guess I’m getting what I pay for.
I had to replace the transmission at 90K miles. I would consider this to be unacceptable. I have had numerous 300K mile toyotas and never had one transmission issue. Many people that are finally catching up to my mileage is experiencing transmission failures. I also have no confidence that the engine will last to 150K.
IMO, any vehicle that can’t go 200K without major repairs is a complete failure. Given the advancements in engineering, design, & manufacturing the automakers should be able to accomplish this. All they really need to do is to dust off their engineering from early/mid 2000’s and update the body design. Done!
