How to Lose a Car in 10 days...

or "how I sold my 140,000 mile car for Blue Book* in ten days".

Part 4 - all done

The list of tools I used to sell my car:

• eBay Motors
• DreamHost web hosting - low cost high performance web hosting without the hassle
• Vinyl lettering from Pep Boys
• Google search Advertising (Adwords)

The vinyl letters stood out really well against the rear tinted window - and withstood the couple of weeks of dirt and the odd wash - but were easy to peel off when the sale was completed. Not to be confused with the darn near impossible to remove permanent lettering!

Frankly, I've never had it so easy. With only one person wanting to test drive it and a few emails to answer, this was easily the lowest stress way to sell a car I've ever used. OK, it did take a little planning and more than five minutes to write up the auction (compared to the time it takes to fill the pathetic little space alloted by the varii auto classifieds) but it sure was worth it. I was able to fit in a full work week without interruptions, dinner with the family and slot in a test drive over the weekend.

Go back to How I sold my car on eBay part 1

*Reference to the Kelley Blue Book - trademark of Kelley Blue Book co. kbb.com. This car sold between the trade-in and private sale price given by Kelley Blue Book.