Selling the truck: Nary a bite
June 26, 2008
This is getting tres frustrating. I know the economy’s tanking so it’s going to take a while, way to go me for waiting this long to sell the truck, but still, it tries my soul that there has been absolutely no response to my Craigslist ad in the past several weeks. Not even a single flaky, half-interested email. None. Zip. Nada. Zilch. Nothing.
I went to AutoTrader and found that they don’t even have their 90-day, sell or get your money back guarantee anymore. Dangit!
I’m doing so well with the little things, but the big things are really breaking my budget.
So, am I a standard, enhanced or deluxe ad buyer? I’m so anxious to get rid of the thing that I’m willing to consider springing for the deluxe ad!
Standard: $29
Enhanced: $49
- Magazine Ad
- Single Photo
- Thumbnail Photo
Deluxe: $79
- Magazine Ad
- Single Photo
- Thumbnail Photo
The mood I’m in? I just want to spring for the $79 and pray for the best. It’d feel worth it get the craptacular payments off my expense sheet!
Good luck selling the truck!
Exposure is the most important factor; if your ad doesn’t reach the people who might be looking for a truck, pretty photos are useless. I’d go for the standard ad. The deluxe version adds more photos, but if someone is interested, a single photo will do–and people are suspicious when something has been listed for many weeks (they figure that it has been rejected by many other shoppers already, so why even look at it?). Anyway, who reads this “magazine”? Nowadays, people read classified ads online, for the most part. Maybe consider a one-time ad in your local/big city newspaper’s online classified. Or try http://www.Topix.net for your city; they offer free classifieds.
savingdiva: Thanks!
susan: AutoTrader’s a fairly standard used car shopping tool, but I’ve held off on that for now. I’ve reposted with Craigslist and posted on topix.net (thanks!) I’ll look at the local papers to see if that pricing is worth an online ad with them, but I don’t know if people really bother with newspaper classifieds for cars when they can just go directly to a website featuring cars for sale.