ULPT request: Help! Has anyone here successfully high-balled a dealership? I need to sell my car!
Posted by roelanola@reddit | UnethicalLifeProTips | View on Reddit | 10 comments
My car is in good, daily driving condition. I’m hesitant to private sell it, as I probably won’t get over $6k for the damn thing. It’s a 2nd gen, 2019 Chevy Cruze with 130k miles. My question is, has anyone here ever had the chance to high-ball a dealership? What were your selling points? How did you do it? Did it have to be thru a dealer specific to your vehicle’s make/model? What other tips can be provided to me, if any?
GrandNews3293@reddit
Dealerships will always try to offer you way less than market value. Have you actually looked into private selling. You could get more money and PrivateAuto makes the payment and title transfer pretty easy now. Just make sure you know your cars actual value before talking to anyone about selling it.
Responsible-Cow5828@reddit
To get top dollar, you either need to sell private party or try carvana/carmax. You're not going to make any money at the dealership. Best case scenario they give you the price you want on your trade but bend you over the price of the new/used car you're buying from them.
Sometimes there's a glitch in the matrix and the carvana or carmax offer is much higher than what you expect.
roelanola@reddit (OP)
Thank you very much for your input. I tried doing research beforehand, and was afraid this would be the answer, which isn’t entirely a bad thing. It’s just more time consuming. I probably sound rtarded without more context; this will be my first time ever, selling a vehicle on my own without a dealership involved. I do not plan on ever doing a trade-in again as I hate dealer practices and have become very mechanically inclined over the course of 5 years, in between fixing cars I’ve owned & offering to help my friends & family with major projects on their vehicles.( In other words, we’re fckin BROKE) I’ve bought many standard & specialty tools over the years. I don’t want these or my newfound skills to go to waste. Thanks again! And thank you to everyone else who’s replied as well!
spotpea@reddit
Carvana and Carmax are way faster than a dealer,
spencerAF@reddit
Echoing what others have said I've played poker with tons of people involved with car dealerships, in general they don't give a shit about buying used cars, it's all about selling and financing new ones.
If you think your car is worth 6k 99.9% of new or even used dealerships will offer you 4.5-5k max for it and laugh in your face if you push for more. They want to make money and they are already thinking longterm about what will happen if the car doesn't sell immediately, or gets low balled, and they have a reason to take a lower price than 6k just to get it off the lot.
If you want some ideas on how to get top dollar selling a used car maybe check out BuddysDIY on YouTube. He has tons of videos flipping used cars and treating yours like a flip, doing things like cleaning and polishing it, is likely the best way to attract the ideal buyer who will be willing to pay the high end of what you're looking to sell the car for.
Icy_Huckleberry_8049@reddit
sell your car here: givemethevin.com
Other-Resort-2704@reddit
A car dealership isn’t going to make any money giving you a top dollar offer on a car.
More likely you will make more money doing a private sale and you have multiple people show up at the same time to test drive the car. Sometimes people will get competitive at buying a car or you can create a bidding war between them.
SilentDroid75@reddit
why would a dealership give you more than a private party...?
maufkn_ced@reddit
Get a carmax offer then find a spot that beats those offers.
DannySantoro@reddit
The dealer has no major incentive to buy it from you unless you're buying something new. You're going to have to sell it on your own, or use Carvana. My wife got a surprisingly good deal on her old car, it was the easiest sale I've seen.