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Hi Guys, I'm trying to help my mum sell her Boxster, have advertised it on PH but not had any emails yet, just wondering where you guys think it would be best to advertise it? I don't think ebay would work that well, I know I wouldn't use it to buy something like a Porsche as I'd want to feel confident the owner has loved it and has a passion for the car if that makes sense? Thanks

Ebay. Seriously. Will get you huge exposure and people can make you offers etc.

Hello, can you pm me details please., Mike

Autotrader is worth a punt.

if its been on for more than 2 weeks and no emails then its to expensive

mrdemon said: if its been on for more than 2 weeks and no emails then its to expensive ^^This. Any old heap will sell at the right price....

Would agree on the price thing - I recently sold a 968 and got loads of emails in the first few weeks - all tyrekickers mind you!

be good to see the advert is it a nice colour, ie not blue leather have you listed the dates of every service etc etc. is it a nice spec car with full history inc a nice colour and black leather. so many to choose from, bad colours and esp bad leather colours don't sell well 2nd hand. they are only for new PCP hand me back clients.

To sell a car quickly; you need; Good pictures and lots of them. A Clear concise but detailed advert. Specific details are much more helpful than how "amazing" the car is or how it's your "Pride & Joy" or that "I looked at dozens before buying this one" or other such tripe that people write. Sensible price. Actually look at what other similar cars are for sale for as they are your competition!

Not sure if mods will mind me posting a link to it or not, if its a problem remove it. http://www.pistonheads.com/classifieds/used-cars/p... As for the price we worked on the suggestion of the specialist that has looked after it also the fact it had just had some expensive work done like brakes all round etc.. and service, we felt it fair. If you think it's too pricey some guidance would be great please I'll wait to read comments from you guys on the advert then if needs be try it on ebay, thanks!

EddyP said: Not sure if mods will mind me posting a link to it or not, if its a problem remove it. http://www.pistonheads.com/classifieds/used-cars/p... As for the price we worked on the suggestion of the specialist that has looked after it also the fact it had just had some expensive work done like brakes all round etc.. and service, we felt it fair. If you think it's too pricey some guidance would be great please I'll wait to read comments from you guys on the advert then if needs be try it on ebay, thanks! Seems toppy to me. I'm slightly out of touch with all thing Boxster, but I think £12-£13k would be closer to the mark.

mrdemon said: be good to see the advert is it a nice colour, ie not blue leather have you listed the dates of every service etc etc. is it a nice spec car with full history inc a nice colour and black leather. so many to choose from, bad colours and esp bad leather colours don't sell well 2nd hand. they are only for new PCP hand me back clients. Why have so many people got a downer on blue leather? You're not the only one to say this. Guess what colour mine is? The condition of the seats would seem to be more important I'd have thought, no burns or tears in them. I quite like dark blue. And my car only did 4900 miles in its first 3 years by the first owner (2003 - 06), unlikely it was PCP. Edit: I' agree listing is a bit too high IMHO, but with such low mileage, I'm surprised you haven't at least been contacted. Perhaps being tiptronic puts people off? Edited by ianwayne on Friday 19th September 17:29

ianwayne said: Why have so many people got a downer on blue leather? You're not the only one to say this. Guess what colour mine is? The condition of the seats would seem to be more important I'd have thought, no burns or tears in them. I quite like dark blue. And my car only did 4900 miles in its first 3 years by the first owner (2003 - 06), unlikely it was PCP. Edit: I' agree listing is a bit too high IMHO, but with such low mileage, I'm surprised you haven't at least been contacted. Perhaps being tiptronic puts people off? Edited by ianwayne on Friday 19th September 17:29 i sat in a 981 boxster at silverstone PEC with all blue leather and it looked so good, a lot better than the black. i do not understand why people do not like the blue

EddyP said: Not sure if mods will mind me posting a link to it or not, if its a problem remove it. http://www.pistonheads.com/classifieds/used-cars/p... As for the price we worked on the suggestion of the specialist that has looked after it also the fact it had just had some expensive work done like brakes all round etc.. and service, we felt it fair. If you think it's too pricey some guidance would be great please I'll wait to read comments from you guys on the advert then if needs be try it on ebay, thanks! My take on your car is this. Guards Red is a marmite colour, personally that alone would count it out for me. The spec doesn't include any of the really important options to me, I really wanted PASM, PSE, Bose and Nav but out of those I guess the most important to the average buyer is Nav. Yes I know the Nav is s t but it doesn't stop people wanting it and it does as a minimum provide a better visual interface for the audio system. Tiptronic I think would also put off lots of buyers, it is a sports car after all. Sorry as the chap above has said I think this all adds up to the fact that although it looks like a nice well cared for car, it is just too expensive for a private sale, I would try knocking a couple of grand and be prepared to take an offer

Seems your doing a good job advertising it here.

Magna said: Seems your doing a good job advertising it here. Can't blame him for trying..

Too expensive in my opinion. CAP valuation is £13200 - £13800 for private sale. I'd guess WBAC will be £9500ish or less.

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Regards the blue leather caper, my first Boxster (1 previous owner, 58k miles, FPSH) had blue leather. I loved it, it wasn't even full leather! Slumming it big time! My current car has full black leather ( a 550 Anniversary 986) and I can honestly say I preferred the interior ambience of my blue leather-seat equipped 2000MY S! After all, you can get black leather on a rucking Mondeos/Vectra!.. Aside from that rant I absolutely love the 550 Anniversary!

Always 2 or 3 buyers for blue, but 200/300 for black. As I said if you like it buy it, but don't expect to sell it easy. Porsche go over the top and make every thing blue or every thing red, it's rank imo. As for the op car, that's well over priced, just picked up a low mint seal grey s win black for 11.5k for a mate. Tiptronic does limit the market and the cars £4k over priced No one cares about new parts how ever daft that sounds, it's the bottom line price people go for. Also has the big 40k service been done.

Sorry but agree with others 4 k over priced.

Well over priced I'm afraid. Very similar spec to mine. Except I have Bose & some fancy multi-way seats. Mines Bassalt black. I bought 2 years ago from a dealer £16k.

Thanks for the info everyone, will look at repricing it, she might just decide to keep it instead, who knows.

It's an usual spec, I like guards red it's the right colour for a sports car, however I would definitely not want tiptronic, red needs a manual box IMO. I also agree it is too expensive to attract a sale, especially at this time of year. I sold an 05 plate 20000 miles 3.2 S in silver back in 2010 for 17.7k the new owner sold it in 2012 for 13k with just over 30000miles on it. The used market has picked up a bit since then to be fair however at this time of year you really do need to find the right buyer for that spec, 11-12k at best for me, sorry it's not what you wanted to hear, try it on e-bay for £12995 or best offer would be my advice!!

anonymous said: [redacted] what colours your leather ?

anonymous said: [redacted] list all of the cars you own leather colour.

Please don't become one of these "if I were to buy" forum posters. loads of people say "if I had the money" or "if I wanted a car" etc etc but we all know when push comes to shove none of these people would buy what they say on forums bit like the b ks 100k garage bull s t threads, no one would buy if they had 100k SO lets put a stop to it now before it gets out of hand :-) point is you did not or have not owned a car with blue leather, and that's a fact so until you buy one I call bulls tty ;-) once a car gets older there are quite a few things which make them unsellanle at top money tiptronic seems to be a bad seller now and Blue leather has always been as is dogs knob red every thing inc steering wheel. 2 tone looks nice or a bit of another colour. I agree silver cars with blue look ok, but I would not buy one unless it was a hand me back 3 year pcp. Edited by mrdemon on Saturday 20th September 13:27

We will never agree then :-) in the slow car selling times all the nice private cars sold, all the blue leather cars were traded in cheaper at 911v or rsj etc They are slow sellers. I was quite shocked to see how many blue leather cars were stuck at dealers. People just could not shift them for top money private so had no choice to sell tothe 3rd parties. Yes they sell but at a price like most things. Cars are selling atm quite well but you can stick full blue and full on red where the sun don't shine. Porsche go way over the top.

Oh dear, you boys used to get along so well.

a silver Spyder with full blue leather, buckets amd a navy blue sun cap, now that woud be an inprovement on all black. and i have all black

The car looks nice. Looking at the advert the points I'd address are: 1) Check price 2) Clearly clarify why it's a 'rare spec'? Remove if it's not. 3) 'Both owners have been ladies' I'd remove this. It will put as many off. 4) Don't list the 'heater' or 'key' issues if they're now sorted. 5) List the service history as a section 6) Cut out the jargon 'no expense spared' 7) Show any negatives in the photos - it demonstrates honesty! Good luck with the sale. Edited by g7jhp on Saturday 20th September 20:29

I'm trying to sell a Cayman (admittedly not yet on Ebay) and wandered whether this was just not a really bad time of year to try to sell a car? I'll perhaps give ebay a whirl but was wandering whether I'd not be best just waiting until the spring.

Blue leather is fine. I am pretty sure its not savannah esque in its effect on values.

i like it in red, though don't think it's the colour most would go for, and £12k to £12.500 would sell it,though £10,500 would probably shift it in a week.

As long as it's not that Neolithic green!

billzeebub said: As long as it's not that Neolithic green! jeez yes, that is horrendous! I think its Nephrite.