How To - Selling Your Car on Craigslist

Many of us find ourselves in a situation where we need to rid ourselves of an extra vehicle, while this may seem like an easy task there is actually a little bit more involved with selling your car than the average person might think. There are a few different methods for selling ones' car, but time is a valuable asset and with that being said lets simply focus on the easiest most effective way to sell your vehicle.

The internet allows us to put our ad in front of thousands, potentially millions of people depending on the method we use to distribute our ad throughout the internet. One of the most heavily trafficked websites on the internet is Craigslist and ads posted on their site get a very large amount of exposure. At the time of this article's creation Craigslist is ranked number thirty one on the list of websites with the most traffic. Millions of people use it every day making it easy to find a person interested in purchasing your vehicle. Craigslist has different sites for all the major cities of the United States. Find your local Craigslist as this is where we will post the ad for your vehicle sale.

Creating your Craigslist ad is simple and you can make it as nice or as plain as you like, but anything you can do to make your ad stand out from the other ads that are out there will help you get the extra attention your ad needs to get your vehicle sold for the price you want. The ad is comprised of the title, description and the pictures. The title needs to cover all of the major points that people would use as search parameters when shopping for a car year, make, model, and bonus features like low miles, orig owner, and so on all help to grab attention to your title. Many people use other items like all caps, a series of asterisk and other tricks with key characters to make all sorts of things, browse through the Craigslist of a major city like New York, or San Francisco to see examples of some of the title types people use.

After your title you will need a great description. A comprehensive description is important the more information you post in the ad the more serious your callers will be about buying your vehicle. Ads that are incomplete get a large number of unnecessary phone calls from only semi interested parties as they do not have all of the information they need to determine if this vehicle meets their criteria; bottom line, more information in the ad means better, more qualified prospects when the phone rings. You need to include all of the major features of the car in your description, how many miles, what size is the engine, does it have a manual or automatic transmission, are the windows tinted, how are the tires, does the A/C work, and the status of the title. Some sellers even include the VIN# for buyers to run a CARFAX, this saves even more time.

Once you have a title and description you are happy with, it is time to move on to the pictures. They say a picture is worth a thousand words, well sometimes it can be worth a thousand dollars... or more. Buyers may pass over a great car that doesn't look good in the pictures or worse has no pictures at all. Camera phones are cool, but they don't always take the best pictures and when it comes to getting top dollar for your car you want the best pictures possible. Make sure your pictures cover the major angles, show the customer what they want to see, the front, side, interior, and the engine. Get down low and close, fill the picture area with the vehicle, get as close as you can while keeping all of the car in the frame. Taking great pictures will attract more buyers to your car and get you more money.

Craigslist can make it quite easy to sell your vehicle and best of all its free, Craigslist doesn't charge anything. If it still seems too hard there are companies on the internet that can help you list your car on Craigslist. For a small fee you can have photographs taken and a quality description written, it couldn't be any easier! Get the most exposure possible for you ad so you can get top dollar for your vehicle.

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