steven walker

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With a heavy heart I'm having to sell my defender.
New house move is forcing me to have to part with her.I know I'm going to regret it as soon as she's gone but it's got to be done
Should I eBay it or autotrader ect ?
What's people's thoughts?
It's going to be hard enough to part with my landy without getting pestered by time wasters ect so I would be interested in people's views/past experiences
 
With a heavy heart I'm having to sell my defender.
New house move is forcing me to have to part with her.I know I'm going to regret it as soon as she's gone but it's got to be done
Should I eBay it or autotrader ect ?
What's people's thoughts?
It's going to be hard enough to part with my landy without getting pestered by time wasters ect so I would be interested in people's views/past experiences
Don't be silly :D
 
I was in a similar position about 18 months ago. I sold my 90 and still regret it to this day. but like you say it had to be done.
Just started again on a Major Project so feel like I'm back in the game again,.
I f you do sell it don't worry you will get the urge again for another when the times right.
 
I really wish I could keep it but I need all the funds I can get hold of for a house move.my landy is only used now as my weekend transport for dog walking and fishing trips so it has to go unfortunately.Thats why my mrs tells me anyway!!
Maybe I could just sell her instead !
 
eBay for twice the market value, if it sells ypu gpt the house cash and can buy a second landie.
If it don’t sell you and the dogs can live In it down the Fishing lake
 
I've sold a few cars on the various sites, I think landy's attract a "better" buyer, than certain cars at least.

Ebay - cheaper option, ad will receive views, but from my experience 95% of them will be time wasters
Autotrader - Exceedingly expensive nowadays, usually receives less views but equally less time wasters
Gumtree / Retrorides and various other free sites are a good supplement as well.

No doubt you've sold a car or two before, but anyone who phones and offers anything before asking a fair whack of questions (or more importantly viewing), is a wretched time waster and should be hung up on, don't even bother engaging conversation with them.

More importantly, is ensuring a good setup if someone does show enough interest to view. Make sure you have someone with you in the background (in-case you need backup, as such), I find some people turn up with 1-2 mates and can overwhelmingly get into everything, or worse be scammers / thieves, and try to distract you or cause deliberate damage to get money off. Equally don't send potential viewers straight to your home address, meet on an arbitrary (busy) street a mile or so away to get a measure of said person to make sure they're genuine before going to view the land rover. Equally, it shouldn't be viewed and tested near where you keep it. Do not let anyone test drive the landy without showing you their VALID driving license either (and ideally some evidence of insurance, you can always drive for them if in doubt). You also want to photograph this or memorize their name and registered address - on the off chance of them being dodgy even after everything else seeming okay. If you don't like anything, cut the sale off and don't pay any attention to pressure tactics, some people will really go for it.

A little extra hint, try and sell the vehicle between 9am and 5pm on a working day if at all possible, if the buyer wishes to pay and take it away immediately - this way you can go down the bank, have buyer withdraw cash, which you then immediately pay into your account, no possibility of fake notes or a reversible bank transfer of stolen funds then. A cleared bankers draft is also acceptable. An unwilling buyer is not a genuine buyer. The online reg transfer service from the DVLA is also available during this time, and you can immediately sign the vehicle over online, this is then effective immediately. So if they decided to travel with no insurance or tax or get a load of speeding fines you don't have the headache of arguing that it wasn't you.

Bit grim I know but a lot of crusty individuals are about nowadays and land rover theft / car purchase cons are both easy and frankly common, can't be too careful! Safest bet... Keep it locked up for weekend appreciation, it's basically an investment in happiness! :D
 
I've sold a few cars on the various sites, I think landy's attract a "better" buyer, than certain cars at least.

Ebay - cheaper option, ad will receive views, but from my experience 95% of them will be time wasters
Autotrader - Exceedingly expensive nowadays, usually receives less views but equally less time wasters
Gumtree / Retrorides and various other free sites are a good supplement as well.

No doubt you've sold a car or two before, but anyone who phones and offers anything before asking a fair whack of questions (or more importantly viewing), is a wretched time waster and should be hung up on, don't even bother engaging conversation with them.

More importantly, is ensuring a good setup if someone does show enough interest to view. Make sure you have someone with you in the background (in-case you need backup, as such), I find some people turn up with 1-2 mates and can overwhelmingly get into everything, or worse be scammers / thieves, and try to distract you or cause deliberate damage to get money off. Equally don't send potential viewers straight to your home address, meet on an arbitrary (busy) street a mile or so away to get a measure of said person to make sure they're genuine before going to view the land rover. Equally, it shouldn't be viewed and tested near where you keep it. Do not let anyone test drive the landy without showing you their VALID driving license either (and ideally some evidence of insurance, you can always drive for them if in doubt). You also want to photograph this or memorize their name and registered address - on the off chance of them being dodgy even after everything else seeming okay. If you don't like anything, cut the sale off and don't pay any attention to pressure tactics, some people will really go for it.

A little extra hint, try and sell the vehicle between 9am and 5pm on a working day if at all possible, if the buyer wishes to pay and take it away immediately - this way you can go down the bank, have buyer withdraw cash, which you then immediately pay into your account, no possibility of fake notes or a reversible bank transfer of stolen funds then. A cleared bankers draft is also acceptable. An unwilling buyer is not a genuine buyer. The online reg transfer service from the DVLA is also available during this time, and you can immediately sign the vehicle over online, this is then effective immediately. So if they decided to travel with no insurance or tax or get a load of speeding fines you don't have the headache of arguing that it wasn't you.

Bit grim I know but a lot of crusty individuals are about nowadays and land rover theft / car purchase cons are both easy and frankly common, can't be too careful! Safest bet... Keep it locked up for weekend appreciation, it's basically an investment in happiness! :D
Some excellent advice there, but as a buyer I'd be suspicious if the seller didn't want me to come to the address the vehicle is registered at. Dodgy dealers do this to hide the fact they'e dealers, and to make them harder to find when it almost inevitably goes wrong. I once went to look at a car to find no-one at home at the address I'd been given, phoned the seller's number, and was asked to meet him round the corner. The car was a scrapper.
 
Be very careful of the thieves who will be among the genuine buyers trying to find the whereabouts of your vehicle. Only give a locality and try to arrange viewings away from your actual home address. I had several contact me when I was selling mine both by phone and by email who wanted to come and view, as soon as I told them they would need to come to my works and I would need their names and phone no.s to give to the security lodge who would let them into the secure site they suddenly lost interest.
 
I've sold a few cars on the various sites, I think landy's attract a "better" buyer, than certain cars at least.

Ebay - cheaper option, ad will receive views, but from my experience 95% of them will be time wasters
Autotrader - Exceedingly expensive nowadays, usually receives less views but equally less time wasters
Gumtree / Retrorides and various other free sites are a good supplement as well.

No doubt you've sold a car or two before, but anyone who phones and offers anything before asking a fair whack of questions (or more importantly viewing), is a wretched time waster and should be hung up on, don't even bother engaging conversation with them.

More importantly, is ensuring a good setup if someone does show enough interest to view. Make sure you have someone with you in the background (in-case you need backup, as such), I find some people turn up with 1-2 mates and can overwhelmingly get into everything, or worse be scammers / thieves, and try to distract you or cause deliberate damage to get money off. Equally don't send potential viewers straight to your home address, meet on an arbitrary (busy) street a mile or so away to get a measure of said person to make sure they're genuine before going to view the land rover. Equally, it shouldn't be viewed and tested near where you keep it. Do not let anyone test drive the landy without showing you their VALID driving license either (and ideally some evidence of insurance, you can always drive for them if in doubt). You also want to photograph this or memorize their name and registered address - on the off chance of them being dodgy even after everything else seeming okay. If you don't like anything, cut the sale off and don't pay any attention to pressure tactics, some people will really go for it.

A little extra hint, try and sell the vehicle between 9am and 5pm on a working day if at all possible, if the buyer wishes to pay and take it away immediately - this way you can go down the bank, have buyer withdraw cash, which you then immediately pay into your account, no possibility of fake notes or a reversible bank transfer of stolen funds then. A cleared bankers draft is also acceptable. An unwilling buyer is not a genuine buyer. The online reg transfer service from the DVLA is also available during this time, and you can immediately sign the vehicle over online, this is then effective immediately. So if they decided to travel with no insurance or tax or get a load of speeding fines you don't have the headache of arguing that it wasn't you.

Bit grim I know but a lot of crusty individuals are about nowadays and land rover theft / car purchase cons are both easy and frankly common, can't be too careful! Safest bet... Keep it locked up for weekend appreciation, it's basically an investment in happiness! :D
I'd never buy a vehicle not at the registered address
 
Thanks for all the advice guys.
I have sold and bought cars in the past off eBay but I suppose it's a whole different ball game selling a defender on there.
Thieves much more or a problem with landys
 
I've sold a few cars on the various sites, I think landy's attract a "better" buyer, than certain cars at least.

Ebay - cheaper option, ad will receive views, but from my experience 95% of them will be time wasters
Autotrader - Exceedingly expensive nowadays, usually receives less views but equally less time wasters
Gumtree / Retrorides and various other free sites are a good supplement as well.

No doubt you've sold a car or two before, but anyone who phones and offers anything before asking a fair whack of questions (or more importantly viewing), is a wretched time waster and should be hung up on, don't even bother engaging conversation with them.

More importantly, is ensuring a good setup if someone does show enough interest to view. Make sure you have someone with you in the background (in-case you need backup, as such), I find some people turn up with 1-2 mates and can overwhelmingly get into everything, or worse be scammers / thieves, and try to distract you or cause deliberate damage to get money off. Equally don't send potential viewers straight to your home address, meet on an arbitrary (busy) street a mile or so away to get a measure of said person to make sure they're genuine before going to view the land rover. Equally, it shouldn't be viewed and tested near where you keep it. Do not let anyone test drive the landy without showing you their VALID driving license either (and ideally some evidence of insurance, you can always drive for them if in doubt). You also want to photograph this or memorize their name and registered address - on the off chance of them being dodgy even after everything else seeming okay. If you don't like anything, cut the sale off and don't pay any attention to pressure tactics, some people will really go for it.

A little extra hint, try and sell the vehicle between 9am and 5pm on a working day if at all possible, if the buyer wishes to pay and take it away immediately - this way you can go down the bank, have buyer withdraw cash, which you then immediately pay into your account, no possibility of fake notes or a reversible bank transfer of stolen funds then. A cleared bankers draft is also acceptable. An unwilling buyer is not a genuine buyer. The online reg transfer service from the DVLA is also available during this time, and you can immediately sign the vehicle over online, this is then effective immediately. So if they decided to travel with no insurance or tax or get a load of speeding fines you don't have the headache of arguing that it wasn't you.

Bit grim I know but a lot of crusty individuals are about nowadays and land rover theft / car purchase cons are both easy and frankly common, can't be too careful! Safest bet... Keep it locked up for weekend appreciation, it's basically an investment in happiness! :D

Some great advice there :) The only minor point I'd make is about:-

and ideally some evidence of insurance,

The ideally bit is wrong IMHO - if you allow someone to drive your vehicle without proof of insurance, you are allowing an offense to take place, and could be prosecuted for same:eek:
 
Good additions about insurance both ways there. Didn't realise you could be culpable allowing someone to drive, but I suppose negligence to check is the same as not bothering.

I'd never buy a vehicle not at the registered address

Very much the case - deffo do not buy anything from the address you're at which is not on the V5. As a seller, merely meet the buyer somewhere neutral first and then take them back to the house once you're happy with them - I've had pikeys turn up to view a car before, immediately regret the fact they then knew where the car was parked at night after I didn't sell it to them (especially as i was actually going away that same weekend without it, nothing came of it luckily)
 
I think I'm going to brace it and stick it on eBay and gumtree
eBay as a fixed price advert rather than an auction? I'm thinking that way it stops a lot of people bidding them not buying at end of auction?
I have sold a couple of cars on eBay before with no real problems but defenders are a bit different I know
 

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