#frugle

2001 Ford Focus inherited from wife, thing barely ran, sold for ($1500 worth $500 on its best day) 

2004 Ford Focus bought for $500 fixed a few things, sold for $2000 (worth probably $1500) 6 months later

2010 Dodge Ram 1500 loaded, bought NEW with 0% financing for $36,000 sold 1 year later for $49,000 (worth $44,000)

2010 GMC Sierra bought for $20,000 sold after pulling everything and anything for $21,000 8 months later (worth $19,000), I think the transmission was going to go

2011 F150 Bought for $21,000 sold for $22,000 a year later (worth $20,000)

2011 Lincoln MKX Bought for $21,000 sold for $21,700 2 months later (I assume this is close to worth)

2008 F350 Harley Davidson Edition Bought for $26,000 sold year later for $28,000 (worth $25,000)

2012 Ram 3500 Bought for $24,000 currently trying to sell for $35,000

2006 Smart Car Bought for $1900 selling for $5000

2011 Ford Focus Bought for $7000 2 years ago, keeping as commuter

Get some good pictures- This is so underrated, too many is better than not enough, if a person likes your vehicle they want to see more of it to make a decision. Make your main picture angled from the front to get the most out of the vehicle as possible. Don’t use stock photos of your vehicle that a dealership would have, that looks so bad/lazy, it usually means the vehicle is such a mess they won’t take a picture of it. Take pictures of the tire and tread if it is new and make sure any accessories are shown as well. Interior and even engine pictures are good to have on the profile. Pretend you are a fitness girl on Instagram, that many pictures. 

Story with Description- Always mention why you are selling the vehicle, it adds some personality to it, I usually say that my wife is looking for something smaller or different. I want the purchaser to think that it is way too nice of a vehicle for us to have and it deserves an owner like them. If you make it personal like, “baby on the way, need the extra room” it connects the purchaser with a problem that they can help solve so it turns it into a feel good purchase. Don’t write “need to sell to go to Mexico and party like a rockstar” people don’t wanna hear that stuff. 

Key Points of Description- Mention how awesome the fuel mileage is and how well that engine pulls, even though you have never towed with it, and how it was always changed with full synthetic on time and it never had a mechanical problem ever. Is it all true? Hell no, but the guy that is trying to lowball you because it’s all the money he has is lying too. 

Accessories- I like to do this but a buddy of mine hates doing this, I always list out all the accessories and over inflate the prices I bought them for. New tires, yea I spent $4000 on those (Actually $1200, out of the states with a coupon) and another $6000 on the rims (when I bought those off Kijiji last spring to some guy going bankrupt), they don’t need to know this, you have to make as much as possible off of your vehicle. I add them all up at the bottom and go “I have spent X amount of dollars on this truck” it won’t actually fetch you a higher price but will rather sell your vehicle faster. 

Do Your Research and List High-  You can always go to blackbook to find what in and around what your vehicle is worth but I actually find the best way is to go and find similar vehicles, see how they are listing them and for what and go off of there. I do a pre-sell sell, I list the vehicle really high, like the most it would ever be worth and I do that for about a month to see if there are any bites. Sometimes you get lucky and sell it for way more first. Then consider dropping the price slowly. 

Listing Times- Repost every Friday to get to the top of the list, people do their vehicle shopping on the weekends so they really start to search, so make sure you are on the top, Saturday morning seems to work well also. 

Negotiating-  They are going to try and get the vehicle for cheaper one way or another, so make sure you throw negotiating room into your listing so you can wiggle down a bit, I like to do around 10-15% markup to come down. They know you are willing to negotiate when you put OBO (Or Best Offer) on your posting. If they are good, they will pick out flaws, if you counter those flaws and get personal with them you can get full asking. Always point to the strongest features to offset the bad, never mention a problem you have had, rather just mention all the good things about it. Budge a little not a lot, there are ways to really work this but it deserves its own post. 

Don’t Post it on Facebook- I think this looks so bad, the worst customer to have is a friend because if something goes wrong with the vehicle they will always blame you for it. Just easier to keep the friendship.

So there you have some fast tips to getting the most out of your vehicle. Hope this helps bring up the asking price on Kijiji so I can negotiate more as well ;)