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I read your online advice on selling privately, in particular the security precautions when taking a potential buyer on a test drive. There are a couple of extra precautions I was thinking about, and I wonder if you, or anyone else, had an opinion. Firstly, displaying a mobile phone in an advert rather than a home phone. Secondly, arranging to meet up somewhere neutral for the test drive, so that potential buyers don't know where you live; I heard a tale recently where someone had his car stolen from his garage the night after someone came round for a test drive. How long could you keep from divulging your home address if a sale was going through?
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Personally speaking I wouldn't buy form a private seller if I wasn't at his house - to much risk that the car is stolen etc. The instances of someone coming to look at your car then returning to steal something are few and far between. If your that worried about it then you might consider selling to a dealer.
Putting a mobile number in an advert is fine and I wouldn't give out my address until someone rang. Make sure you take the number of any prospective buyers - you could even take their number and ring them back to give them your details, that'll screen out a lot of scrotes.
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