I am confused about second-hand car prices. Have they risen recently, either because of an allegedly improving economy, or because the scrappage scheme has pulled a large number out of the market? Or have they fallen, as your DT colleague Mike Rutherford recently suggested in his column? I ask because I am having trouble with my wife. A couple of months ago we bought an ex-Skoda UK 1 year-old Octavia Elegance estate 1.9TDI with DSG. I need the DSG because of a deteriorating left knee. I had intended we put my wife's 3-year-old Fabia 1.9TDI Ambiente in as P/X, but she was unhappy about the sum offered by our main dealer and refused to play ball. I have told her that what we paid for it 2 years ago bears no relation to what it is now worth retail, let alone trade. Indeed it would have lost about £1k as we drove it off the forecourt of the garage. But she doesn't see it that way. My nephew is in the trade and has given us book trade and retail prices. He will not take it as he is 350 miles away and works for a FIAT dealer. I can’t to judge whether his figures are realistic because one does not see many Fabias advertised. It is losing a few hundred a month sitting on our driveway, although my wife has yet to be convinced of the fact. Should we try to sell it privately or try through the website company you recommend, whose name I have forgotten?