List Your Classic Car with us.....

We keep a keen eye on the classic car market - there are so many outlets and platforms that this takes up a lot of our time (admittedly it might be reading the latest Classic Car Weekly or Classic and Sports Car over a pint somewhere...) that we have recently launched a new idea.

When we list our cars for sale we take at least 2 hours putting them up on Ebay, Facebook, Gumtree, Classic and Sports Car, Classic Car Weekly, Instagram and our website (amongst other outlets). Whilst we have all the user names and advertising both in print and online set up it occurred to us that many people looking to sell their car may not have. It also occurred to us that the rise of online 'specialist' auction houses are looking for at least 5% of the final sale either from the buyer or seller.

When we considered selling a car through a recently launched online auction site we were dismayed to read that we needed to provide over 100 photos (or pay their photographer to visit), write our own description and basically do all the work for them to put the car on their one platform. When we looked at the listings they were open for public auction but of course such a selling technique does not always return what one might think the car is worth. 

Taking this into account we decided to offer our 'List With Us' service. This means that when selling your car it will get the maximum exposure across all the many platforms we use including our website which gets around 1000 hits a week. We also have more than 4000 Facebook followers and we run a 'Classic Cars For Sale UK' Facebook page (with around 700 members and growing) aimed specifically at Classic Car buyers.  We advertise in Classic and Sports Car every month and we have the Barnes Classic Car Instagram page,

All our client needs to do is pop their chosen photos to us and give us a call to describe the car. We will (if required) write the advert for your car and get it live within a few working days. We will provide all this for a £150 fixed fee with no time limits on the advert. It represents great value for money and means that sellers can be sure they get somewhere near their asking price. It also saves sellers time and money - an Ebay advert costs around £25 and there is the final value percentage to pay, Facebook advertising costs around 50p a click and print media is very expensive indeed, By consolidating all of these channels we can pass the savings on to our clients so why not give it a go if you are looking to sell?

Let us know what you think in the comments!