Where to advertise caravan
Planning to sell my Lunar Clubman SB (2014) and possibly get another new 'van next Spring (or quit caravanning altogether!). Where would be the best place to advertise it to get the best price and to avoid time-wasters and dealers offering silly money? Plenty of selling site around but keen to know which ones to avoid and which might get me a good result.
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Don't know what part of Norfolk your in but I used Downtide at Alby, just outside Cromer to act as Brokers for my Lunar Steller. I paid them a fixed fee of £500 and they took care of everything. They valeted the van, advertised it etc. etc. The van sold within a month and made way more than if I had part exchanged it. I didn't have to worry about con merchants etc.
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No real idea as it is something done rarely by most.
I advertised my neighbours caravan on several free sites. Sold via a reply to Preloved site. No real time wasters on any of the sites a few made offers which were rejected. It took 9 weeks to sell which did not surprise me as the price reflected the fact that it had a 2 year old E&P full self levelling system and an 18 month old automatic engage motormover. Not everybody wants a levelling system. Chap that bought it travelled from Cornwall to near Chester.
Sites that I used with good responses were Preloved, Gumtree, Shpock. No doubt that there are better sites but they worked for us.
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best avoid the big names like Ebay or Autocar, we had several scams from people saying they're working overseas and a friend will collect if we could just give them our bank details - NO!!! Preloved is quite good but we sold our last one by simply putting it on the drive with "FOR SALE" in the window.
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and of course there's the good old CAMC classifieds!
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We sold our last caravan via Autotrader. All went without a hitch (no pun intended 😉)..... advertised to being towed off our drive within the week and the money transferred from bank to bank via mobile phone in our kitchen. We got far more for it than we thought we would.
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Thanks for all the suggestions and recommendations. As it is only an hour away from me, the brokerage idea at Alby sounds most interesting. Preloved and Autotrader could be worth a punt too.
The prospect of giving up caravanning remains a difficult one to swallow. I have been touring home and abroad, first with my parents in the 1950s, and then with my wife since the early 1970s. We are both fit and able but we question the value of taking just six (at most) weeks in the caravan each year. Holidays in high-spec cottages (as we have done) now begin to look more attractive bearing in mind the cost of insurance, storage, servicing etc plus depreciation.
But waking up in the bed only you have slept in on a site with lovely views from the windows and the opportunity to move on if the location is not to your liking are still plus points that make us think we should give it one more year and hope the weather will be better than it was in Brittany in June and in north Wales in September (both disappointing!).
We are discussing what to do now for 2020 and. maybe, we could be back on the road again with the same 'van. Need also to justify the £600-plus spent on fitting towbar and electrics last year! Just hope the pleasure of a long-haul holiday to Sri Lanka in February does not make us change our minds again!
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We are both fit and able but we question the value of taking just six (at most) weeks in the caravan each year
It is difficult to justify financially Poshman. In the past I had a 7 year old van and ran it for 12 years. Followed by another caravan of around 6 or 7 years of age. I fitted electric to it and it was intended that when youngest daughter was off to college about 5 years later we would replace it. Sadly I lost my wife 12 months later but at least we had a 7 week holiday in it and a 2 week holiday as well as a couple of weeks in the Algarve without it that year. It continued to get well used later. When I met my present partner 19 years ago she was not working having taken ill health retirement. A couple of years later she started working again and I gave the caravan away to the scouts who used it as a medical room at a local camping area as with several 2 week holidays abroad meant little time to caravan. Two years on and she moved in with me I persuaded her to retire as she couldn't match my regular 12 weeks a year holiday and we decided that we would get a new caravan.It does seem daft having a caravan if you can't get the use
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We have just sold our 10 year old van having made less use of it over the past couple of years for a variety of reasons making it difficult to justify the getting on for £1000 cost of storeage, insurance and annual servicing.
We sold it to a company called ..... wait for it ...... "webuyanycaravanltd.co.uk". We got about £500 less than we'd wanted but, to be honest, it saved all the hassle of advertising privately having to stay in for viewings etc. especially as there were a couple of minor repair jobs that would probably have needed doing before we sold it. All done very efficiently, chap drove all the way from Colchester to collect it hitched up and drove it off. Might be worth getting a quote from them.
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