Straight answers about what your car is worth.
Written for the moment you are actually in, offer in hand, trying to work out whether to take it. Including the parts that are not in our favour.
No statutory warranty
Dealers price statutory warranty risk into every trade offer, and on luxury and European cars it can run to thousands. We sell your car on consignment for you, and in Queensland that sale carries no statutory warranty. So that discount never comes out of your price. How it works
Deciding
Working out which way to go with the offer in front of you.
How to Know if Your Trade-In Offer Is Fair
A practical way to sanity-check the number you have been given, in about an hour.
DecidingShould I Trade My Car In or Sell It Privately?
A short decision guide, including the cases where trading in is genuinely the right answer.
DecidingThe Best Way to Sell a $50,000 Car in Australia
Above about $40,000 the maths, the buyers and the risks are all different.
Understanding value
Why the numbers are what they are, and where the difference goes.
Why Are Trade-In Offers So Much Lower?
Where the difference between a trade figure and a listing price actually goes, line by line.
Understanding valueHow Much Margin Does a Dealer Make on a Trade-In?
What the margin has to cover before any of it becomes profit, and why the headline gap overstates it.
Understanding valueWhat Happens to Your Car After You Trade It In?
Where it goes, what gets done to it, and what it sells for a few weeks later.
Watch out
The things that cost people money because nobody explained them.
Practical
How to actually get it done.
How to Get a Genuine Dealer Offer on Your Car
The right way to ask, so the number you get is real and usable.
PracticalSell Your Car Without Dealing With Private Buyers
For people who want retail money and have no interest in strangers at the front door.
PracticalHow to Sell a Car With Finance Owing
The most common reason private sales collapse, and how the settlement actually works.
Before you trade it, TradeBeat it.
Get your dealer offer first. Then give us the chance to beat it. No statutory warranty on a consignment sale, so no warranty discount off your price. If we do not beat it, you have lost nothing.