minty99z

Thinking about maybe selling mine. What do you guys think?

Starfire Pearl (with Tints all around and grey interior)
10k miles
F Sport package
Factory remote start


Mint condition. Thoughts?

GBFSport

Are you trading in or selling private? Obviously you will get a better price trading in, a pretty loaded new model is about $57K so probably figure on low forties for a private sale.

Good luck.

minty99z

I will only attempt a private sale because I dont want to deal with a dealer and looking to buy something else private party

bigblack06

iTrader: (20)

Just a heads up prices aren't really great for the GS if your looking for a lot you will be getting low offers just a heads up. I was going to trade it in for a 15' and at the moment the price they offered me was 38K highest I've got about 25K on my car, with a little more options than what you have.

Christobol

38k doesn't sound so bad considering that I could buy a 2013 with 25k and certified for 42k. You're paying for selling it to a dealer. Plus that was 6 weeks ago and it's only going to keep going down. All of the after market stuff is worth maybe 15-20% of what you paid for it, so don't expect it to impact the value of the car much at all.

I considered buying from a private party but the guy thought his car was worth 46k which was the lowest advertised price. Sadly he wouldn't accept that advertised price is not final price and I bought my new car for the same price he wanted for his 25k used car with the same options.

4TehNguyen

iTrader: (1)

get it appraised at carmax, can use that price at the dealership to get them to match it (and also get tax savings)

ECL

I was just offered $40K in trade in a preowned Porsche. We had not even negotiated the purchase price on the Porsche. I decided to keep my GS.

Christobol

That's always a good thing to do just in case the come out lower than Carmax. Though when I got my last two cars appraised at Carmax the price was awfully low. This was on both my IS300 and my SC430. My SC was totaled when I was rear ended a couple of months ago, and was given 17k for it, while Carmax had valued the car at 9k in January, and the blue book trade-in value was listed as 10.5k.

The tax savings is something to consider if your state offers it, for those of us in CA we are screwed.

jtrue28

I got $40K for my 2011 3GS with <10K miles when I traded in for the 4GS in Feb 2012.

Now, I paid very close to sticker price since the car was 2 days post release. It's all the same. Either get them to give you more for your trade or take less for the car you want. Either way the dealership is going to make money.

Carmax could not beat the price my dealership had offered me.

You will definitely be able to get more going private sale.

$40k seems a bit low for a 2013 4GS F-Sport that stickers at close to $60K.

Christobol

You can buy a certified car for 42k, and that's going to keep going down as the 15s get closer to being released. Certification is $1000 roughly, plus any cleanup they do on the car and whatever profit margin they want, that doesn't leave a lot of room for profit if they pay 40k.

Like you said, one way or another they'll get their money somewhere.

bigblack06

iTrader: (20)

I find that still low for a GS my car was valued more than that and I find that price far from it. Yes OP you will have a better chance selling your car on your own.

moose66

A better price for what? The best money maker is a private sell. That is if you have the time and effort it takes to sell the car yourself. Trade in does help with taxes in some states and is convenient. I like the appraisal approach (i.e. CarMax). Just to get a ball park figure. Then decide from there the best option that meets your needs. Good luck!

FastTags

I would say around $41-42k

Christobol

6 weeks ago I found 6 GS4 Fsport's for sale for 44k or less, two were at 41 (in southern CA). I don't think any dealer will give you that much, and I think it'll be hard to find a private seller who will pay that much unless they haven't done their research. Every dealer I talked to was willing to drop their price by at least 5% and some went as much as 10% off. So you're looking at selling prices of 42-45k, so there is no way you'll get that much on a trade-in unless you're willing to buy a car at MSRP or close to it. Like bigblack06 said, they are going to get their money one way or another.

There are of course ways to buy a car for a lot less, but trade-in $ should not be considered in tandem with the sales price of a car because a savvy dealer will just move money from one side of the equation to the other to make you think you're getting a good deal.

There is an exception to every rule, but odds are... you, me, him etc aren't that exception.

FastTags

The OP was not talking about trade, he was asking price for selling to an individual. Unless i misread it.

Rule 1- never trade your car to CarMax
Rule 2- never trade you car, unless you can break even. Post it on CL and your time will come.