Hi guys ,

I have my cooper s for sale atm, it has 60k, fsh , all the extras like pan roof, chilli pack , cruise control etc .

It is very good condition for the 05 plate and is immaculate inside and out.

I have priced it at 7 , after checking ebay autotrader pistonheads etc and seem to have proced well due to condition and the rarity of all the extras and colour combo etc .

Its been on autotrader a week and iv not had a nibble!

Any suggestons ? Thanks

I've just checked with Parkers Price Guide and, based on the information you've given, £5,500 would be about the highest price to expect.

The problem with checking against other cars that are offered for sale is that it doesn't give you any indication of whether anyone is phoning them either.

I sold my own utterly pristine 2/07 R53 Cooper S Chilli Pack, very late '56 plate, (one owner, garaged, 48k, dealer serviced every 6,000 miles) for only around £7,800 and that was over 2 years ago and after 6 weeks of trying everything I could think of to get a good price! :eek:

There are definately some much worse cars condition and spec wise going for more on ebay and autotrader a few iv watched have been sold as with pistonheads :/ dont really get what im doing wrong? Any tips ? Iv listed on here,gumtree,autotrader and pistonheads and no luck . Help appreciated ! Thanks

How are you able to tell what price the cars actually achieved on Pistonheads? Are you able to tell if very high bids were honoured on eBay?

You're advertising in all the right places. I didn't get one single serious enquiry over the 6 weeks that I advertised mine, in all of the places that you are advertising yours, not even when it got down to £8,000 (and mine was only 3 years old, not 7!) and eventually I had to give it to a dealer, as a PX, for £7,800.

If you are convinced that it's worth £1,500 over book price, then keep advertising it at £7,000; you've only got your time and the cost of advertising to lose and you might even find someone whose prepared to part with all of £7,000 without checking the book value first. Good luck.

sounds overpriced to me unfortunately....... i bought a 08 cooper S high spec with 23k on it for 9.5k and that was about 6 months ago.

Sounds overpriced. I got an 07 MCS with aero kit jcw wheels pano sunroof 3 months ago with 37k on the clock from a used dealer for 8500.

Ry


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doesn't sound bad at all mate for £7K.
It would have to be immaculate inside and out. I've been looking lately and there are loads for sale, look mint in the pics but are heavily used in real life.

it is pretty much immaculate, bar a few scrapes to alloys from previous owner, thanks for the feedback guys, all i know is the area round here, Harrogate area there are not many around and those that are seem higher pricing than down south :/ im after a new gen in black with the jcw bodykit but finding one of those round here is like a needle in a haystack!

it is pretty much immaculate, bar a few scrapes to alloys from previous owner, thanks for the feedback guys, all i know is the area round here, Harrogate area there are not many around and those that are seem higher pricing than down south :/ im after a new gen in black with the jcw bodykit but finding one of those round here is like a needle in a haystack!

Second that. Finding mine in black with the aero kit took 4 or 5 months and had to get to the dealer the next day to get it otherwise it would have gone!


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for a good clean 05 I think £6500+ is fair, Hold out it took me 6 weeks to find my last buyer.
I have a 52 Cooper S on this site for £4500 very clean only trouble is NO ONE CAN VIEW IT because the classified is down and know one answers your emails about it.

I'm looking for a Cooper S at the moment, I've been away from the fold for too long :-)

From a buyers point of view I'm looking for a facelift first gen, with less than 60K. It has to have the chilli pack, and I also have a list of colours I like and a list I don't. Looking at Autotrader I'm not going to be going more than £5800, and if I go top end of my budget then it has to have a good long tax disc on it. Realistically I'm aiming for £5200-£5500.

Extras wise I'd like auto aircon and a mfsw, after that everything else is a bonus. Extras rarely up the value of a car I'm afraid, maybe the aero kit would push me up £100 or so. Big turn offs for me, and judging by the number sitting on auto trader for weeks, is electric blue or yellow colour and cars that have blue leather interiors.

As for proximity, I'm in Surrey but would travel 200 miles for the right car.

Oh auto trader...that took over my life for months. I honestly thought the wife was going to stab me at one point when I was looking for my mini!


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I've been looking for weeks and weeks and I've even travelled 270 miles to view one. There seems to be loads of dogs out there, how can a car with less than 60K on the clock be so haggled and worn?
Luckily I used found a nice JCW in white with nearly every JCW extra so I'm well chuffed.

Sounds overpriced to me too and I think it would be difficult to sell t that price as its the old shape too. Mine is a 54 plate jcw kit, 58k, with all the add ons and dealers have priced between 4k -5k. Private you will gt more but not much

Dealers should wear striped jumpers, i mean webuyanycar offered me 5k and thats usualy a couple of K lower! i just really want rid as i have my sisters old one lined up for me! iv not even had any serious offers only one joker offering me £3,000! oh and a Nigerian wanting me to ship it STANDARD!!

At the moment it's definitely a buyers market , you will find if you don't advertise at a realistic price then you won't even get a single call from genuine buyers , people don't mind a small haggle of a few hundred but when it starts to get to over a thousand then they don't even pick up the phone.

At the moment it's definitely a buyers market , you will find if you don't advertise at a realistic price then you won't even get a single call from genuine buyers , people don't mind a small haggle of a few hundred but when it starts to get to over a thousand then they don't even pick up the phone.

I'd have to agree that selling privately is extremely difficult at the moment.

I advertised my S1600 Fiesta for 6 weeks on Autotrader and Pistonheads with not a sniff so eventually it went in part exchange for my Mini.

The irony of the situation is that whoever buys it will have to pay a lot more from them than they would have done with me.

I think Autotrader and Pistonheads are ok if your car is only a couple of thousand but if it's more......:confused:

I'd have to agree that selling privately is extremely difficult at the moment.

I advertised my S1600 Fiesta for 6 weeks on Autotrader and Pistonheads with not a sniff so eventually it went in part exchange for my Mini.

The irony of the situation is that whoever buys it will have to pay a lot more from them than they would have done with me.

I think Autotrader and Pistonheads are ok if your car is only a couple of thousand but if it's more......:confused:

My boss sold his late 1980s 911 to a specialist classic Porsche dealer and they said that there was not much demand for them so they could only part with 12k for it.

Appeared on their website a week later for 38k marked "extremely rare"

Gutted!


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When I'm looking around at cars I use one of the text check services which allows you to check the history, mileage, value etc..

An 05 Mini usually comes out at around £5K, so WeBuyAnyCar.com probably isn't too far off the mark. If I were you I'd advertise at £5,999, there are a lot of older cars out there with less miles on the clock and when you're buying a car that is well out side of the warranty then miles count. Be prepared for a buyer to try to knock you down further, especially if there is a service due in the next few thousand miles or tax is only a few months.