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Best way to advertise a Healey for sale?

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PrintedGear

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I've put my car on Hemmings and Craigslist. Any good suggestions on selling a healey? I didn't see a for sale section here. Thanks!! Taylor
 
Well there is E Bay and they have a free listing/sale open now
 
The British Car Forum does indeed have a very good "Classified" section. Look up at the top of Forum listenings for it.
 
Johnny said:
The British Car Forum does indeed have a very good "Classified" section. Look up at the top of Forum listenings for it.
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Just click Home then Click classified and you shoid see that section of the forum
 
I would put it on ebay even if you don't really want to sell it in an auction format. It's a relatively inexpensive way to get a huge amount of nationwide exposure for the car. I think it the best bang for the buck advertising wise.

Just make sure you set your reserve price to what you want for the car so you don't get burned, obviously.

Later,
Wally
 
the sad thing is that these cars are no longer affordable for the weekend driver ebay buyers are a joke there is a buy it now price on the car for ltes say 55 thousand and guys are putting a bid in for 2 i think its a big waste of time especially with all the photos you have to do ,i think you have a better shot briging it to shows and see what happens
 
I think it depends. Is it a project, a driver, investment grade? I think these are different buyers and would change the size of he net that needs to be cast. Having a well written ad, with lots of pictures is as important ad where you post it. Certainly every British car forum classified sections, all surrounding major city Craigslist, a one sheet ad at every British car shop within 100 miles, all the local car clubs.... I received excellent feedback on my ad from this forum, before promoting my car, so I would also recommend that. There are a lot of cars for sale, in order for it to move, it really has to stand out and be priced right.
 
Tell us about the condition of your car.

Concours car: Live, national auction.

Nice driver: Live local auction, Ebay, magazines.

Driver needing work: Ebay, magazines, craigslist.

Restoration project: Ebay, craigslist.
 
In this day and age, the very first place anyone looking for a classic car goes is ebay. I would be willing to put money on that. Do a lot of classic cars get sold on ebay, no...but they get seen on ebay leading to a sale one way or the other.

I don't pay attention to Sprites or 6 cylinder cars, but I do watch 100-4's pretty closely. Do yourself a favor, go to ebay motors, go to cars for sale and list austin healeys. Then click "completed listings" (you will need an ebay login to do that) and sort by "year -oldest first". Start from the top and click on the 100-4's, there are currently 8 cars, half of which were listed on, then sold off ebay (two were sold for asking price on ebay and the remaining two have "dope smoking" prices, hence they will never sell anywhere).

My very recent personal experiences: I sold a Jaguar a few months ago, listed on this forum, the Jag forum, autotrader and ebay. No action anywhere except ebay where someone saw it, then we worked out a deal locally. Two weeks ago I purchased an '87 911 Carrera, initially saw it on ebay at a relatively local dealership, then I went there and worked out a deal.

In shopping for that car I religiously checked ebay <span style="font-weight: bold">every</span> morning, followed by a Porsche forum and only looked at autotrader classic once a week and Hemmings maybe once a month (in desperation). Don't get me wrong, I like Hemmings, I found my Dad's old 100-4 there which I now own...but that was in 1994, things change.

Sorry for the length of this post,
Wally
 
As a P.S. to my above exceedingly long post:

I wouldn't mess with craigslist unless you want to deal with a lot of no shows and offers like "will you trade this car for a '98 Caddy Deville with 22" wheels?".

Later,
Wally
 
I, on the other hand, have had good luck with Craigslist. I listed a 100/6 about a month ago in Atlanta. First person that called about it came over and bought it. Had two more folks waiting in case the first guy didn't come thru.

Marv
 
If you live in a large metropolitan area then craiglist or other local ads are probably a more viable option than if you are in a smaller community or more rural area. I listed my 100 in the local paper a few years back at $11,000 and got only one call, about 2 years later I put it on E-bay and it sold after many bids and much interest for about $24,000. You just can't beat if for exposure, and it is cheap to list cars there.
 
Johnny, I don't mean to speak for everyone else on this thread but...I guess we all assumed that someone <span style="font-style: italic">asking this question on a forum</span> isn't ready and/or wanting to tackle such an endeavor.

In my opinion, auctions really only make sense for super high end cars or dealers wanting to blow cars out.
 
Johnny said:
Strange knowone mentioned putting a car in one of the auctions?
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I did. As I tried to say in my earlier post, it all depends on the condition of your car. If you have a number 1 or very strong number 2 car, a live auction is where the big money is. But you have to roll the dice on selling with no reserve, and incur the expense of shipping the car.
 
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