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Mon 6 Jul 2020 10:35
Private Sales - COVID-19 - tkerby

We are looking to sell a used car privately in Scotland and I'm wondering what people are doing with regard to advertising and test drives.

We initially said no test drives in the ads, but we would demonstrate the car running and could video a drive but we've had little interest even at a decent price.

Clearly we cant accompany someone on a test drive with either party driving and keep social distancing in place. The alternative would be to let someone take an unaccompanied drive. I'm thinking this would be on receipt of the full asking price as a deposit, proof of insurance and copies of driving license including counterpart - ideally with a signed agreement that any costs for damage etc will be born and the deposit not returned.

Any thoughts? Would be interested to hear what others are doing

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Mon 6 Jul 2020 12:31
Private Sales - COVID-19 - _

Suggestion 1.

stick it on ebay.

lots of photos.

set a reserve. buyer collects deposit paid via ebay.

ASK slo76 if he is reasonably near you.

Hw knows all the tricks..

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Mon 6 Jul 2020 12:34
Private Sales - COVID-19 - badbusdriver

Nobody is going bother with all that hassle. What are you going to do if someone test drives the car and decides they don't want it?. How are you going to sterilise the car for the next prospective customer?. How are you going to hold their licences, proof of insurance and indeed money, without touching it or contaminating any of these items in any way?.

If you really need rid of the car now, We Buy Any Car (or similar) is the only sensible option (assuming they are trading during the lockdown?)

Otherwise you are just going to have to hang on to your car till things are back to (relative) normality.

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