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Carsource
• www.carsource.co.uk
Headers: New Car Search, Used Car Search, Sell Your Vehicle, Car Survey
You can either sell a car or search for a new car or used car with Carsource. They have over 70,000 used cars for you to browse, with pictures and descriptions, and a very fast search engine. If you want to sell a car, £20 will get you a listing for 3 weeks and the details will be emailed to users who have expressed an interest in that particular make. If the car isn't sold after 17 days you get a re-advertisment free of charge. The site has 200,000 visitors per month.
Comebuycars Ltd
• www.comebuycars.co.uk
Headers: Buying Cars, Selling Cars
Whether you are buying or selling a car, check out Comebuycars. You can advertise your car on the net for just £15 till its sold, with automatic submission to 5 major car sites as part of the deal. The sites are: Fishforcars, Mirrorcars, Autouser, Cardata and Carsource. If you are buying, then the site gives you access to thousands of cars for sale. Recomended by Quentin Willson in the Sunday Mirror.
Desperate Seller
• www.desperateseller.co.uk
Headers: find a car, sell a car.
Whether you want to find a car or sell a car, then you might want to make DesperateSeller.co.uk a port of call. Car sellers are able to advertise their car on 101 websites (including the likes of Whatcar, Fish4cars, Carsource, etc.) to a market of over 5.5M potential buyers. This will cost you a single payment of £29.99 and the car stays advertised until it is sold.
Fish4Cars
• www.fish4.co.uk
Headers: Cars, Motorbikes, Caravans, Vans, Trucks, Boats
Probably the biggest of the car buying websites with over 150,000 used cars up for sale. If you want to sell it costs around £15 for 2 weeks displaying up to 12 photos and with a potential audience of 400,000. When you place an ad with fish4cars, it will also be seen on Lycos, Autoexpress and over 180 local newspaper websites across the UK, for example Manchester Online.
Loot Classified Ads
• www.loot.com
Headers: Motoring, Property, Personals, Shopping, Music Computers Electrical White goods, Audio equipment, Cameras, Adult, Lifestyle, Student, Jobs, Courses, Travel Business & office, Mobiles Software, Penpals.
Online version of Loot magazine full of classified ads for anything and everything. You can place up to 3 private adverts a day free. If you need something quickly, for example you may be flat hunting, then you can buy the "EarlyBird" feature. You then get immediate daily access to every advert published in Loot - both the online and printed versions. Subscription cost is £15 for 7 days with the option to extend.
Automart
• www.automart.co.uk
Headers: Search for Cars, Advertise Your Car
Advertise your car with Automart for a one off fee and it will be advertised until sold. Prices from £12 to £29. Alternatively, if you are looking for a vehicle, search their database which contains 1000s of vehicles currently for sale. Note that search results turn up cars from all over the country.
Autoblue
• www.autoblue.co.uk
Headers: Search, Sell, Dealers, Forum
If you are looking for a car you can perform a detailed search (for free) for cars, motorcycles, motorhomes, caravans, trucks and other commercial vehicles. If you want to advertise your vehicle for sale you will need to register first. Prices are fairly modest from around £6 for a weeks advert.
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