Used Car Pricing

Other than Kelly Blue Book, where can I get used car prices? I want to
sell my PT and want to compare prices from more than one source.
Thanks

 

in message: "Other than Kelly Blue Book, where can I get used car
prices? I want to sell my PT and want to compare prices from more than one
source."

Try
http://www.nadaguides.com/autohome2.aspx?Lnk=1&wSec=10&wPr=0&wPg=2111


http://www.edmunds.com/


The best place is to look at newspaper classified ads or other magazines in
your area that sell cars to see if there are any models like yours for sale.
Compare their price to what you get on one of the pricing guides. I find
the pricing guides do not give you true value. especially on trade in.

Sarge

 

I found the autotrader.com site invaluable. You put in your zip code
and look at actual ads for cars in your geographical area. You drill
down to the make, model, and year. You can't find a more real-world
indicator IMO (realizing that asking and actual selling are going to be
slightly different).

It came in real handy last year when dealing with an insurance company
on the total-out/buy-back value of a vehicle of mine that their policy
holder hit. As far as I'm concerned, NADA vaules (which the ins. co.
iniitally insisted on using) are fraudulent - and I proved it several
ways in that situation. I ended up getting almost twice what they
insisted they could only pay - and what I got represented a true street
value (what you'd have to pay to get the same car in the real world).

Bill Putney
(To reply by e-mail, replace the last letter of the alphabet in my
adddress with the letter 'x')

 

cars.com is like that also.

 

One thing to keep in mind when looking at the newspaper is that asking price is
not the same as selling price. I would trust the on-line sources more than I
would ads in the paper.