Sell my Citroen C3 / Buy my Citroen C3
Are you looking for an easy and reliable way to sell my Citroen C3? Have you tried the private sale option but had no success? Do you want to avoid any further costs and depreciation by selling my Citroen C3 today? Do you want to sell your Citroen C3 to an Citroen buyer you can trust?
Selling my Citroen C3 online
Isn't the internet a fantastic mechanism! Who would have believed just a decade ago that you would be able to sell my Citroen C3 quite simply at the push of a button? As one of our competitors says - "one click and it's gone!"
SellCar-UK.com was set-up in 2007 to cater for the enormous private and company car sale market opportunity. We identified quite early on that there was a need within this market for a company that would simply "cut the bull" and agree to buy my Citroen C3 there and then. No more expensive advertising; no more strangers coming to your house, no more uninsured test drives. Rather, an accurate and fair price agreed to sell your Citroen C3 for a quick cash sale, free and speedy collection included and, most importantly, the full amount agreed paid into your bank account and cleared (by "cleared" we mean you can spend it straight away) before you release your car / sell your Citroen C3!
My word, how this market has grown (and continues to grow) since SellCar-UK.com started! Perhaps the most well known online car buying website, courtesy of their massive investment in TV advertising, is... well, you know who they are! With a network of local branches, they will make you an online offer to sell my Citroen C3 but then you are required to make an appointment to take your car to them, for viewing and, where required, to re-negotiate an agreed price. Time off work, handing your car to them prior to receipt of full payment, reputed issues with pricing accuracy - for more information on the approach of SellCar-UK.com in comparison with that of, yes you guessed it correctly, webuyanycar.com when you sell my Citroen C3, please click here.
Should I contact an Citroen buyer to buy my Citroen C3 or should I ask someone to sell my Citroen C3 for me?
You might be aware of the increase in number of cash for cars price comparison websites, who market that they will buy my Citroen C3 for cash, sell your Citroen C3 for you. Such companies will set about re-marketing your car to a database of car dealers, with view to effectively auctioning your car / sell your Citroen C3 to the highest bidder, less of course, whatever fee they apply for themselves. This is an interesting concept and one we have considered implementing at SellCar-UK.com - our own database consists of more than 4000 car dealers and 22000 retail customers! However, there are at least two fairly significant pitfalls with such a business-model: speed of transaction / timing risks and reliability of third party valuation accuracy.
When selling my Citroen C3, time is crucial as used car values can adjust downwards on an almost daily basis!
The official motor trade car valuation guides (Glass's Guide and CAP) are issued monthly, normally in the last few days of the preceding month. (Note, whilst these valuation guides are issued monthly, in reality values adjust on a daily basis). The guides invariably show a downwards adjustment in values each month, sometimes small adjustments, sometimes not so small! However, these valuation guides are precisely that - they are just guides! In a strong market, you might sell my Citroen C3 for guide value plus 2%; in a very weak market, you might struggle to find someone to buy my Citroen C3 for guide value less anything up to 10% (and we have experienced much worse!). Monthly guide fluctuations can be very extreme. As an example, we agreed to buy a car in week three of Sept 2010 and by week one of October 2010 the guide value had fallen by more than £2200, or circa 10% of the agreed purchase price. There isn't a car dealer out there who is going to be prepared to absorb such an "overnight" drop in value and it should be the responsibility of any genuine Citroen buyer to forecast and allow for these value adjustments when making an offer to buy your Citroen C3. In other words, if the Citroen buyer assures you that the offer is valid for more than a few days, let's say a week at most, our advice would be to proceed with caution!
The challenge for the price comparison websites is how to manage such scenarios from the perspective of seller and buyer - note, both parties are their customers in such a business model!
When looking to sell my Citroen C3 to an online Citroen buyer, one of the first questions you should ask is how quickly will they buy my Citroen C3 and facilitate collection - a week is a long time in the motor trade (as well as politics!) and you therefore run the risk of agreeing to a deal that will never actually materialise, at least not at the price you are expecting!
How genuine is the offer I have received to sell my Citroen C3?
Whilst considering selling my Citroen C3 you might also want to consider the potential issues with the accuracy of online valuations - an Citroen buyer can only value what he or she is made aware of! Over the last twelve months, SellCar-UK.com has worked very hard to establish a car valuation process that is both reliable and transparent and we have averaged just under 97% of our initial offers. In other words, if our online offer to sell my Citroen C3 (prior to viewing) was £5000, you would on average have achieved £4850. When you consider we effectively buy cars "blind", this is an exceptional achievement and one that we will work tirelessly to maintain - click here to see how this compares with one of our main competitors.
Cash for cars comparison sites serve purely as middle-men, putting the person who wants to sell my Citroen C3 in touch with the company or individual who wants to buy my Citroen C3. But what control do they have over the appraisal process of the Citroen buyer? In the paragraph above we highlight the risks attached to timing when selling my Citroen C3, a product that is only ever going down in value in a sector where values adjust downwards almost daily. What control does the cash for cars comparison site have over the speed of inspection and collection by a third party? SellCar-UK.com know, from our own experience, that it can often take weeks for a car dealer to finally get around to collecting a car we have agreed to sell to them, by which time the value has often gone down. We also have first-hand experience of the all too frequent last-minute adjustments in offer to buy my Citroen C3, sometimes without any justification whatsoever!
So if you are looking to sell my Citroen C3 who is the best Citroen buyer to opt for?
SellCar-UK.com will buy my Citroen C3 for cash. We will make you an accurate offer to sell my Citroen C3 online, in line with our commitment to continuing to average the 97% actual purchase price vs. initial online offer. We will aim to facilitate collection of your car within 24 hours of you accepting our offer to sell your Citroen C3 to us and we will ensure that full payment for your car is cleared in your account prior to driving it away. In short, when you sell your Citroen C3 to SellCar-UK.com we will endeavour to eliminate all the associated risks of selling my Citroen C3 online, be it to a cash for cars buyer or a cash for cars comparison site.
Sell your Citroen C3 to SellCar-UK.com, Citroen buyer throughout the UK.
Mike Hall , Bristol, Alfa Romeo Spider