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andrewhyperblue · Aug 5th, 2007, 11:48 AM

A quick story here: three weeks ago, beautiful R56 Cooper S arrived. Dealer offered 29k trade-in on MY05 Cooper S Chili with 52,000kms. I thought, "I can do much better than that selling privately". But no. It's been advertised on line with two different sites (carsales.com.au and drive.com.au) and also in The Age for two weeks. I've reduced the price successively from $35700 down to $32999. I've had just ONE phone call and ONE visit from a prospective buyer in three weeks.

Any wise people on this forum who might (i) tell me what I'm doing wrong here and (ii) suggest ways that I could sell in the next 10 days! It's a really beautiful car and I'm perplexed. Suggestions much appreciated!

Aug 5th, 2007, 11:48 AM	#1
andrewhyperblue MINI2 Newbie Join Date: Aug 2007 Local Time: 08:17 AM Posts: 3 Offline	Anyone having trouble selling secondhand R53s? A quick story here: three weeks ago, beautiful R56 Cooper S arrived. Dealer offered 29k trade-in on MY05 Cooper S Chili with 52,000kms. I thought, "I can do much better than that selling privately". But no. It's been advertised on line with two different sites (carsales.com.au and drive.com.au) and also in The Age for two weeks. I've reduced the price successively from $35700 down to $32999. I've had just ONE phone call and ONE visit from a prospective buyer in three weeks. Any wise people on this forum who might (i) tell me what I'm doing wrong here and (ii) suggest ways that I could sell in the next 10 days! It's a really beautiful car and I'm perplexed. Suggestions much appreciated!