How do we price up out motorhome? (16 Viewers)

[StephandJohn]

Its so sad. We've got to sell our lovely motorhome due to ill health.
Its a 2007, Sprite Firebrand 590RL. Specially made for Barrons Dealers and a much better spec than a 590RL Swift. Four brand new tyres, full MOT, VGC. We don't know where to start with an asking price.
We'd also appreciate any suggestions on how to sell it as we don't have the strength or energy to deal with private buyers. A local dealer says it's too old for them.
We're in Lancaster.
We're thinking of we Buy Any MotorCaravan.com who have good TrustPilot reviews
Any help or ideas would be very gratefully appreciated.
Thanks.

 

[tonka]

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[Jev88]

Autotrader, Gumtree, Facebook marketplace....... Search for similar age and spec and start there.

 

[Just smiffy]

If your going to sell it to a dealer or one of these buy it companies you may as well put it on autotrader/ebay or other at a stupid low price and the first viewer will buy it….

Or get motorhome depot or other broker to sell it for you….

 

[Badknee]

Research research research. Find others out there to get an idea of what it’s worth.

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[Grummyb]

The suggestion of using motohone depot seems the best idea to me i bought a van through them at the start if covid and that was a similar situation to your ill health fircung the sale i never saw the seller the van was at a little compound them motorhome depot guy had he dealt with everything which i would think is exactly what your looking for and as someone said if you go to we buy any motorhome type dealer you will get peanuts

 

[MisterB]

Simon Select is a well respected dealer on this forum. He may be able to help ?

 

[Four of us]

We used motorhome depot to sell our 2007 van last year. You do lose the price of their commission but my husband was unwell and we really didn’t have the energy for a private sale. We found them very straightforward and efficient.

 

[Cal54]

StephandJohn - have you tried Bay Motors in Morecambe. They recently bought an oldish van from a neighbour of mine when I lived in Lancaster.
Also get it listed in the classifieds on this site.
Good luck

 

[Puddleduck]

We sold our van via Motorhome Depot because of our circumstances. They are a franchise and some agents are better than others but our experience was all good.

I would use them again for both buying or selling.

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[barryd]

You will get nowhere near its value with the we buy anything lot and whatever they offer you will likely be knocked down once they turn up and start finding imaginary faults. If you can get a rough price or valuation from a dealer as their buy price then if you want a quick sale I would add a few grand to that and stick it on Facebook Market place. It will likely go quickly if you price it right. I sold my Kontiki on there back in May in 24 hours. You do have to sift through scammers and pond life though but its fairly easy to sift them out by checking out profiles and never give out your phone number, do it all by message, initially at least. Its free so if it doesnt work out or you feel its too much hassle just delete the ad. Otherwise Motorhome Depot might be the way to go. However as a buyer I found them next to useless whenever I enquired so make sure you give them chapter and verse on the van as a crib sheet and please! Please include the payload. They never know that one.

 

[StephandJohn]

Thanks everyone. WeBuy are coming to look at it on Friday. Offerred a fair price over the phone but we'll see. Very good reviews on TrustPilot.
we can't go through selling it ourselves because we've both got serious illnesses and won't be able to sift through timewasters etc. Having said tht we won't be pushed around either so we'll have to see.

 

[Brains]

Thanks everyone. WeBuy are coming to look at it on Friday. Offerred a fair price over the phone but we'll see. Very good reviews on TrustPilot.
we can't go through selling it ourselves because we've both got serious illnesses and won't be able to sift through timewasters etc. Having said tht we won't be pushed around either so we'll have to see.

I'd talk to Motorhome Depot

They will sell it and take a commission.
Which means a higher price than the WeBuy lot.

 

[Brains]

A neighbour bought a new car.
Unfortunately he ended up in hospital and then a care home, he has never left.

The new car, with 47 miles on the clock, then sat on the driveway for about a year, before the family sold it using WeBuyAnycar.
They paid £10k under the price he had paid a year earlier, and I daresay they sold it for the new price with a slight discount for 'old' stock.