You can sell the EV6 yourself. This is the other option.
A generic buyer looks at an EV6 and sees another used electric car, which is exactly why you have been thinking about advertising it yourself.
Before you commit your weekends to that, it is worth knowing what the private sale actually asks of you.
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The private sale
What listing it yourself actually asks of you
Not whether it works, because it does. The question is what it takes out of your month, and whether what is left is still worth having.
Start with who turns up. A well advertised EV6 brings messages from people who want to drive one and have no intention of buying anything, and there is no way to tell those apart on a phone screen. Each of them wants to come to your house at a time that suits them, sit in your car, and be taken around the block while you make conversation with somebody you have never met. If you work weekdays, that is your Saturday, and it is rarely the one Saturday.
Then there is the money, which is the part nobody pictures while they are working out what a private sale might be worth. A buyer using their own lender pays when that lender is ready rather than when the two of you shake hands. If your car still has finance on it, you are clearing a payout with your financier while somebody you met on Tuesday stands in the driveway waiting to be told it is done. Both of those are ordinary. Both of them are yours to carry.
Our version is one inspection, at your home or your work, at a time you pick. Where there is finance we settle it directly with the financier, and where the payout is larger than the car is worth you see the shortfall in writing before you sign anything. The paperwork happens on your phone. No stranger stands in your driveway, and no weekend disappears into it.
Before the call
What we ask about an EV6
Some of these are about the car and some are about what has already happened to it in the market, because both of those move the number.
- Is it advertised anywhere at the moment?
- Tell us where, and leave the ad up. Knowing what it says and what you have asked for the car tells us what you have already been offered and what you decided to turn down, which is far more useful to us than starting from nothing.
- What have the enquiries actually been like?
- Silence, offers well under the ask, or people who booked a drive and never arrived. Each of those says something different about how the car is being read. If the ad has been sitting there a while without a serious offer, we would rather you told us than let us guess.
- Is the finance settled, or still running?
- Either is fine and neither slows anything down. If it is still running we deal with the financier ourselves, and where the payout is bigger than the car is worth you get the shortfall in writing first. It is the part of a private sale that most often falls over, and here it is simply ours to handle.
- Which cables are in the boot?
- The one for an ordinary power point, the one for a public charger, or both, and the box off the garage wall if it is coming with the car. These are priced as part of what you are selling. In a private sale they tend to be the thing you end up throwing in for nothing to get the deal closed.
- What is on the tyres, and are those the wheels it came with?
- If you have put a set on it, say what they are and roughly when. If the original wheels are stacked in the garage and something else is on the car, mention that as well, because both sets can carry value and one of them is easy to forget on the day.
Whatever you decide
Three things that hold even if you list it anyway
- Getting our number does not take the ad down. Ask us, keep the listing exactly where it is, and see which one turns into money first. Nothing we do asks you to stop trying to sell it yourself.
- The finance is ours to unwind. It is the part of a private sale you would be standing in the driveway trying to explain to a stranger, and here it is simply a job somebody else does.
- The charging gear goes into the number, not in for free. Cables and the wall box are part of what you are selling, so they belong in the number rather than being the sweetener a private buyer talks you out of.
Weighing it up
Three questions from sellers halfway into an ad
Should I just sell it privately instead?
Sometimes, and we will say so on the call if that is what we think. What we can give you is a number and an honest account of what the private sale involves, and the arithmetic after that is yours to do.
Can I get your number while the car is still advertised?
Yes. Leave the ad exactly where it is. There is nothing to cancel if it works, and knowing your floor before you negotiate with a private buyer is a perfectly sensible way to use us.
What if a private buyer is already interested?
Then you have a real number to weigh ours against, which is the best position a seller can be in. Tell us what has been offered and how far along it is. Nobody here is going to ask you to walk away from a better deal.
Have both numbers in front of you before you spend another weekend on it.
Or call us on 03 9000 0075 and talk it through first.