Selling your car used to be a pain. You could take it to a dealer who would be most interested in you trading it in against one of their cars for sale. They would offer as low a price as possible to ensure they could turn a good profit when they put the car on their forecourt.
You could advertise it in the local paper or a sales weekly such as Exchange & Mart. That meant steeling yourself for timewasting phone calls from buyers trying to knock you down to a ridiculously low price. Or you could park the car outside your house with a ‘For Sale’ notice in the windscreen and hope for a buyer to magically appear.
Thankfully, the…
