selling things

Has it got a CD player?

You get a mohair suit and a Trilby hat, grow a pencil moustache, buy a large cigar and put some bunting around your property. Erect a large sign saying 'Al's Best Deals On Wheels' and then wait for an unsuspecting punter, usually accompanied by his wife who keeps on about what a lovely colour the car is.

Lol [%sig%]

Nice one Racey! 'Give that girl another castle' 'But we don't have another castle your majesty' 'Well don't stand there like a eejit, build her one'

Eh? Just doin' me job, guv'nor.

Phone up a garage and ask them for the book price (or maybe it's called the list price, one or the other) of the model or the year, then you'll have a ballpark figure. Remember to send the change of ownership tear off part for the road tax once you've got rid of them or you'll get the £80 fine next time it's due...have copies of the recent MOT and any additional work so people can check them out and that they've been 'cared for'. Write 'one owner, careful lady driver' and 'no tyre kickers' in your add coz it's funny :-)

gawd i read that as "no tired knickers" ...

Look for similar cars in Murky area. Post a piccy (if you've can lay your hands on a digital camera) along with some speil (poetry will do), remember to post it as 'private sale', sit back and wait for the calls.

lol @ fish - you want to pour a tin of peaches down them, that'll wake them up :-)

Have had this thing about peaches in my head all morning. Quite disturbing. I don't even LIKE peaches, yet the idea seems interesting.

Can you sell cars on the evil Ebay? We were browsing on ebay for a tent (not my idea, daisy ebay addict - can you think of anything more gross than canvas sloppy seconds?). While browsing we found someone selling a set of five glass eyes for £40.

Well I no longer have that problem; Pat is buying me out of the house so he can keep the furniture etc

Liana is an ebay addict, Racey, in fact she's an expert in buying/selling on there.

I know she is. I had to talk her out of buying a 1920's art deco swizzle stick with tassles on it the other day...

You shouldn't have talked her out of it - it was a thing of beauty, and I was expecting her to invite me down to Revs to drink Martinis with her, so that she could demonstrate said swizzling technique. Boo!

Sorry!

ebay. i bought a 22 year old honda, immaculate, retro and drives like a dream. it's a good way to find out values as well. i am an ebay addict. i bought all the gear for my recording studio from there.

Ebay is EVIL. I mean look at this: [%sig%]

lol - free tin of peaches with every pair

not technically but it told me it'd love one

If you don't like ebay you could go on autotrader.co.uk (I think the '.com' version is American). Do a search of your type of car and it'll give you a realistic view of what price you want. You can put an add online too and in the local mag that goes with it. better still put a sign in the window and park it in view and put a free add in your local paper. that way it'll cost nowt to sell it/them. most important of all is to remember that it's not a friend and neither is the person buying it so treat both a part of a transaction and don't get into bartering or being told that it'll need a new this or they're prone to the other. Just set your price and ask for it with a little margin for negotiation, if they don't want to pay it then don't take it. They've made the trip out to you and will be keen to put your car down as much as possible to lower the price, even if they bring a 'mechanic' along to check it don't believe them, it's probably nonsense (if you have doubts then get your own to look it over later). Finally if you have no mechanical knowledge then say so and don't discuss things technical, just plead ignorance. It's SOLD AS SEEN and if it breaks down half way down the road then it's not your problem.

Hay Rachel, Thats me!! I'm not selling the Y-Fronts you know?

They aren't Y fronts, it's a G String (which takes it from mildly pervy to utterly depraved). Is it you? I had an terrible feeling that it might be Tony Blair.

HaHa? You never know? *Snigers.....Then realizes i don't no what the hell i am talking about* Y-Fronts! I ask you?

Rachel, what kind of tent are you looking for. I have a rake of camping gear that I no longer need but, like Fish, I hate selling things so it is just sitting there, all lonely and forgotten.

ooooooh storms, bought one online about half an hour ago. Its a four man Kyam jobbie that you can stand up in (well, I can stand up in a two man but then I'm a midget). Daisy said we needed a four berth for O'Neil and Merribel who are, apparently and alarmingly, our children. Thanks for the offer though.

Yeah, I kinda guessed you'd be looking for something smaller than my stuff. It's a 6 berth frame tent and I've also got a trailer load of accessories. *hopes somebody else might be interested* Actually, I ought to get my arse into gear and advertise the stuff before it rots from under-use!

Why does purplehaze keep going on about peaches?

what size tin?

ely will you come over and sell them for me?

You forgot to flutter your eyelashes, you tart.

rachey! what ARE you implying?????????

and don't say 'one careful lady owner' it may sound nice and gives people the impression that it will have been looked after but it tells most men the engine will be fucked due to too many short runs and never having its pistons cleaned by an occasional high revving run.

i am putting: selling due to lack of spatial awareness ...

that tells everyone it's a woman. HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

I'd love to Fish but my comission would be an insult to all decent minded folk and, besides which, my obviously cursed van's gearbox has gone AGAIN!!!!! the van that cost me a few hundred quid now stands me at a grand and it still doesn't work. I'd be lucky to get a tenner for it scrap so I'm hardly the person to be dealing with cars and money right now.... actually the idea of women and selling cars has given me an idea... ahem! Ladies! would any of you like to buy a lovely little red van? It's poorley at the moment (something to do with those gear thingies) from it's days when it used to be a post office van. I called it Jessie after Postman Pat's cat (awwwwww). It's ever so shiny and needs a little love and care before it can carry it's happy new owner about for many years. Plenty of room for cushions and coffee tables brought back from the car boot and the horn makes the sweetest 'peep peep' sound. only £500 * sold as seen, no responsibility taken by prev owner. once sat in it becomes legal property of new owner and must be paid for in cash.