Re: Golf TDI

By way of comparison, we bought an '05 TDI golf from an Oregon seller
several months ago.  It had ~13k miles, and we paid 21,900 for it.  I have
since seen several older Golfs (e.g. 2003) with more mileage (e.g. 25K) go
for more money (or at least list on CL for more money, whether they
actually sold I dunno).

I would suggest the following:

1) use all the free listings you can, most are linked from

http://www.nwbiodiesel.org/default.aspx/BiodieselVehicles

(scroll about halfway down)

including Willamette Week, etc.


2) try some nearby markets but outside OR/WA, e.g. Boise, SF Bay Area,
etc.?  Northern CA has a lot of BioD going on too, after all and since you
aren't selling a new car, you aren't likely to run into the same issues VW
and the rest do re dealerships, etc.

3) a picture is worth a thousand words - get some good, detailed photos of
it up on ofoto or similar and link them from your CL posting - it
DEFINITELY helps!

4) watch and wait.  I sold my Karmann-Ghia several years ago to the ONLY
buyer who answered my Seattle Times ad - remember that you only need one,
but it may help to put in the 'no tire-kickers, please' disclaimer in your
ad?

good luck!

kevin
Seattle


> I wrote in to the list a couple of months ago to let everyone know that I
> was going to be putting up my 2005 Golf TDI for sale on Craig's List, and
> give the Co-op first crack at it.  Over the last month and a half now I've
> been trying ti sell it with very little luck.  The car is in beautiful
> condition with no issues, really low miles, and I've lowered the price to
> $20,500, which I thought was pretty reasonable.
>
> It's not that people are calling and then deciding not to buy, I'm not
> really even generating any interest.  I thought these cars were HOT!?  Am
> I
> asking too much money?  So far I've had a posting on Craig's List Portland
> and Seattle constantly and I took out an ad in the Oregonian as well, from
> which I didn't get a single call.
>
> Does anyone have any suggestions for me?  Anywhere else I should try
> posting
> the car?  Know anyone who's in the market for a really nice TDI?  I am
> getting calls from a website called www.greatcarsandtrucks.com who want me
> to let them market my car.  They want to charge me about $150 but say that
> I
> get the money back if it doesn't sell in 90 days.  Anyone have experience
> with them, or with this kind of thing?
>
> Thanks for your help!  Here's the current Portland CL posting by the way:
>
> http://portland.craigslist.org/mlt/car/293890908.html
>
> Jeff
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