When using SmartCarOptions, you will avoid the hassles and expenses associated with selling your car yourself and still receive the highest price possible for your vehicle. If you were to deduct all of the costs associated with selling a vehicle yourself (usually from your home) from the final sales price, the net proceeds from the sale are comparable to the solutions offered by SmartCarOptions.
Consider the fact that the costs associated with selling a car on you own are staggering. The expenses you will likely incur are many, including:
- Advertising Costs. Did you know it takes 6 - 8 weeks on average to sell a vehicle? Most sellers must factor in the costs of multiple newspapers, advertisements, online ad placement and/or online auction costs. These expenses add up quickly.
- Maintaining Insurance coverage until the car is sold. You certainly wouldn't want a stranger driving your vehicle without yourself, your family, and your vehicle protected.
- Maintaining registration and paying all applicable taxes and fees.
- Performing repairs that are necessary prior to the sale. Correcting one or two mechanical issues on the car prior to offering it for a private party sales is usually needed. A repair bill of $200 - $400 must be accounted for when selling the vehicle. These repairs do not need to be completed when using SmartCarOptions. Sell your car as is!
Let's review the typical expenses involved when selling a car yourself:
- Full Detail: $100
- Advertising costs: 6 weeks of newspaper ads and one online ad = $110+
- Vehicle insurance costs during sales process (2 months): $116+
- Required Repairs: $300
- Personal Time Required: $144 (8 hours x $18/hour)
- Registration Fees: $65
- Monthly car payments???
Total: $835 at a minimum! Once theses costs are subtracted from the sale of your vehicle, the net proceeds easily compare to SmartCarOptions services. We offer real results with none of the hassles!
In addition to financial costs involved, there are other costs incurred during the sale. Meeting with strangers, possibly at your home, and allowing them to test drive your vehicle are not appealing situations for many individuals and may lead to potential safety concerns. Also, potential buyers may haggle and argue heavily on the price of your vehicle, as well as not show for schedule test drive appointments.
Most importantly, your time is valuable. Smartcaroptions manages the entire transaction for you. It's fast and easy!
We can always sell your car for more or pay more for your vehicle than other car dealers. Why??
Unlike a traditional car dealer whose primary purpose is to sell cars, our main focus is to buy our customers' cars quickly and to consign their cars, if requested. Because a new car dealer does not know what to do with a high mileage car, and may not be sure of its current market value, they will make a low ball offer or worse, possibly an inflated offer, adding the majority of the stated trade-in offer to the price of the car about to be purchased.
We can pay you more for your car or sell your car quickly compared to a new or used car dealer! How? Because we work on a smaller profit margin and we know the current value of your vehicle in your local area. We also have lower overhead and do not employ sales personnel. These factors allow us to operate for far less than other car dealers. We take car dealers' great profit margins and put it in your pockets.
Assume the fair market value of your car is $1000. How can a car dealer offer you a guaranteed trade-in allowance of up to several thousand dollars? This is because the difference is usually added to the price of the car about to be purchased. So, be very cautious when trading your vehicle. The bottom line is this. Sell you car, take the cash and then go buy a new car. You have more negotiation power when you sell your car for cash and use the proceeds for a down payment or purchase of another vehicle. If you receive a trade-in amount for your vehicle, always ask the following question: If I decide to purchase a car at another dealership, would your dealership still purchase my vehicle at the stated trade-in value? Most of the time, the answer will be, “we are not interested unless you buy a car from us.”
Our customers always receive the best cash appraisal offer the first time, we never harass our customers and we show clearly how we determined the current market value of your car. We make you car selling process simple and fast, and you will be treated fair. Avoid the trade-in games. Call SmartCarOptions at 888-207-1911 and sell your vehicle the fast and easy way today!