Important Tips on Selling Your Vehicle

by ERIC SOTIUSO

It��s finally time to sell your vehicle. So why sell your vehicle your self? Because you can get extra money if you sell your vehicle the right way. Just a little more effort can yield you an increase in your selling price by as much as 10% to 15%.

With today��s technology and resources, you can prep your car like a professional and sell your vehicle more easily than ever before.

Follow these simple helpful hints below and you could be on your way to increase the selling price and decrease the time it takes to sell your vehicle.

Setting a Selling price

Setting a selling price is obviously very important. A price too high warrants no interest. A price to low loses you money. So a good place to start is Kelley��s Blue Book. Remember this is only a starting price and not an end all. You need to remember that supply and demand plays a big part in the price also. If there are few vehicles in your market with the options available on your vehicle, then you could get a premium price.

You need to research your local market. Search through local classified vehicle ads found on sites like Chicagolandauto.com. Chicagolandauto.com is a local classified used car website for the Chicago area. If you are in a different market, look for a local website with used car classified ads. Search these ads and look for a vehicle with the same (or close to) miles, options and even color.

Once you come up with a selling price, the next important item is your low price. What is the lowest price you would be willing to take for this vehicle? Again remember supply and demand. If you start getting a lot of calls, you shouldn��t have to negotiate to your lowest price. If your not receiving a lot of inquiries, you might have to lower you rock bottom price when someone does make an offer.

It��s Time

There is the old saying in real estate �C location, location, location. In the automobile industry it is appearance, appearance, appearance. When someone is looking online at your ad, they tend to look at the pictures first and read later. If the picture looks bad, the probability of someone passing up reading your vehicle goes up. If they come to look at your vehicle and see it is dirty, smelly or some other appearance flaw, this will push them away. A couple good tips to get your vehicle in prime selling shape are:

?Clean You vehicle on the outside

?Wash

?Wax

?Shine your wheels and rims

?Clean the windows

?Clean your vehicle on the inside

?Vacuum

?Clean the windows

?Wipe the Dashboard

?Take out you items. Don��t leave the vehicle cluttered with your belongings.

??Make sure the trunk is clean, the spare is intact and filled.

?Make sure all fluids on the car are topped off

?If you have any lights out, replace them

Your vehicle��s History

You can tell a buyer all day long what you did to the vehicle, but he/she will not care until they actually see your records. Make sure you have all your records neatly organized and easy to read. Now a buyer can see that you actually took care of the vehicle. Just remember to cross out your credit card information on the receipts.

Another history item to consider is buying a vehicle history report. This can be a good selling point if the title is clean. Now a buyer can not only see you have all the records and took care of the vehicle, but they also see in writing the title is free and clean. In addition, it will show all accidents and proof of what the vehicle has been through.

Time to Let Others Know it is for Sale

There are many ways to let others know your car is for sale, but the three best ways and most efficient ways are:

?Word of Mouth

?Online Advertising

?Window Sticker

Word of mouth �C Let your friends, family,neighbors , co-workers and others know your car is for sale. They may know of interested buyers. The plus is you now have people who will help you find buyers at no additional cost.

Online Listing �C With the internet becoming more and more part of our everyday life, a great advertising medium is to post your vehicle online. First, listing your vehicle online is a great way to direct towards your target audience. There are many places to list your vehicle online, but the best places are the free websites that deal strictly with used cars and have lots of traffic. Every market has one of these websites. For example, chicagolandauto.com lets users sell their vehicle for free in the Chicago area. Again the plus to this type of advertising is maximum exposure and free of charges.

Window Sticker �C Not everyone looks online, reads the paper or looks at other forms of advertising. Putting a for sale sign in the back side window is a great way to advertise to a local market. When you drive and when you park, people will see you are selling your vehicle. The people you get to call you are very interested because they all ready know the price and they have seen it first hand. Again the great part, this is FREE