"DailyTurismo" (thedailyturismo)
12/03/2013 at 14:21 • Filed to: Daily Turismo
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"DailyTurismo" (thedailyturismo)
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It's an interesting, almost philosophical question: why post your car for sale on Craigslist versus eBay? Certainly there's overlap, but the venn diagram is clear.
Craigslist
- primarily local audience
- free and easy to post
- clear distinction between owner and dealer sellers
- no shipping issues
- minimal oversight and rules
eBay
- national and even international audience
- structured postings, better filter and sort options
- fuzzy distinction between owners and dealer sellers
- shipping
- buyer and seller protection, lots of rules
No doubt there's more to it - but the stories should generally fit:
- eBay for rare, newer, unusual and/or higher value cars
- CL for more fungible and/or lower value cars
Other
factors can skew it: laziness, comfort with one site or the other, not
wanting to deal with callers and people dropping by - the size of the
metro area is probably a factor too, with big city CLs covering a
diverse enough market that sellers can reasonably go either way, whereas
in small metros unless it's a very usual car you might have trouble
ever finding a buyer
This is where flippers come in
- when
a car is on CL but really should be on eBay (or on a used car lot for
that matter), and the seller doesn't want to deal with it, the flipper
spots it and moves it upstream - if they can resist the temptation to
futz with the story and the car, and don't get too obviously flippy
about it, none of us will probably mind, and even would call it a
service - on the other hand, like with that green peugeot from a few
weeks ago, we get a bit indignant
Anyway, that's how I see it
from putting a bit of time and effort into this activity - your
perspective may vary, and I'd be interested to hear it.
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regular reader, commenter & tipper Kaibeezy and posted
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. Photos from the craigslist
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CalzoneGolem
> DailyTurismo
12/03/2013 at 14:39 |
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My CL covers the entire state.
MonkeePuzzle
> DailyTurismo
12/03/2013 at 14:43 |
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eBay
- structured postings, better filter and sort options
CL's search is actually improving, with mileage, year and make/model now definable fields
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DailyTurismo
> MonkeePuzzle
12/03/2013 at 14:49 |
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And they just announced they will charge dealers for posting - that should tidy up the CTO results nicely!
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MonkeePuzzle
> DailyTurismo
12/03/2013 at 14:49 |
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which will be awesome! so many dealers posting as private owners
RickyD
> MonkeePuzzle
12/03/2013 at 14:58 |
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It is absolutely awful, I don't even post my dealer ads to craigslist anymore because there is so many double/triple/quad posts from other dealers spamming or dealers curb siding their inventory.
SpeedSix
> DailyTurismo
12/03/2013 at 16:26 |
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Hemmings is where you go for legit collectable cars, while Ebay is where you go for somewhat rarer cars (~25-30 year mark).