Guides
Guides: what to settle before buying a car
Long-form answers to the questions that get three sentences on a landing page — from importing through the viewing to the handover when you sell.
Selling
Seller's statements: answers that save questions
Most messages to a seller ask the same ten questions, each time in different words and often in a different language. The seller's statements answer them once, in fixed form, readable in every language of the site. That is exactly why each answer deserves the same care as a line in the contract.
6 min read
Selling
Once around the car: a listing from a walk-around
A listing form has a lot of fields, and you know most of the answers without looking anything up. The walk-around turns the order round: first photograph and talk, then check what came of it. That saves typing, but only if you know what the analysis takes over and what explicitly stays with you.
6 min read
Selling
Show, don't claim: odometer, service book, keys
“Service book available” is a sentence. A photo of the service book is something anyone can look at for themselves. The “Visible in the photos” card connects the two: it does not say that something is true, but on which photo you can check.
5 min read
Selling
Handing the vehicle file to the buyer
When the car changes hands, so does its memory: invoices, test reports, due dates, the mileage at the last service. Hand that over in order and you spare the buyer guesswork and yourself later phone calls, while keeping what is yours.
5 min read
Selling
Cutting days in stock: what keeps a car unsold
A car that sits too long costs money every day, and the usual answer is a discount. Often that is right, often it is not — a car can be held back by its price, by its photos and text, or by being offered in the wrong market. This piece shows how to tell those apart across your whole stock.
7 min read
Selling
Answering enquiries until they become viewings
An enquiry is not a sale but the start of a conversation that can break off at any point. Sellers with many enquiries lose most of them not to better offers but to follow-up questions nobody should have needed to ask. This piece sets out the order that leads to a viewing.
6 min read
Selling
Dealer listings that get found: data over prose
With a single car, the text decides whether anyone writes. With fifty cars, something else decides first: whether they show up in searches at all — and that depends on data fields, not on wording. This piece goes through the fields buyers actually use and shows how to get them complete across a whole stock.
6 min read
Selling
Answering wanted requests: offers for cars you lack
A wanted request is a buyer who did not find their car in the search but still wants to buy it. For a dealer, that is a rare chance to offer a car that is not yet in any results list. This piece shows what an offer looks like that gets taken seriously.
6 min read
Selling
Selling a car in Belgium: inspection, Car-Pass, plates
In Belgium the buyer does not drive off on the seller's plates, and without a Car-Pass the sale can be undone afterwards. Knowing that, you sell without surprises — and can tell a buyer from a neighbouring country what to bring.
6 min read
Selling
Selling a car in France: cession, non-gage, ANTS
Selling a car in France is a paperwork exercise with fixed building blocks: four documents for the buyer, a declaration through ANTS and a code that links the two. Know the order and you are genuinely out of it after the sale — even when the buyer takes the car across the border.
6 min read
Selling
Trade-in: leaving your old car with the dealer
Handing over your old car at the dealer and driving off in the new one is convenient, and convenience has a price. The question is not whether the dealer pays less than a private buyer — he almost always does — but whether the gap is bigger than what a private sale would demand of you.
7 min read
Selling
Deregister first, or sell it still registered?
A deregistered car is safe but hard to sell; a registered one sells more easily and leaves you liable until the buyer re-registers it. The question is not which route is right but which one fits your car and your buyer.
8 min read
Selling
The handover record: the lines that protect you
A contract says what was sold; a handover record says in what condition and at what moment it changed hands. The second one is almost always missing — and it is exactly the document people ask for later.
8 min read
Selling
Payment fraud when selling: how to spot it
In a car sale one side lets go of an object worth four or five figures, and the other hands over money. Every scam aims to pull those two events apart in time — and it is almost always the seller who is asked to go first.
9 min read
Selling
Selling a damaged car: residual value, not the scrapyard
When the repair costs more than the car is worth, that does not mean the car is worth nothing. It only means its value now consists of parts, substance and other people's interest — and that value is regularly higher than the first offer anyone makes you.
9 min read
Selling
The listing text that brings enquiries
The data fields of a listing decide whether your car appears in a results list at all. The text decides whether someone who sees it there actually writes — and it is usually written as if it had the first job.
8 min read
Selling
Selling your car: the order that saves money
Most private sales do not lose money in the negotiation but before it: on a price set wrongly, and on a listing that brings no enquiries. This order removes both problems.
7 min read
Selling
Selling a car: how to set the price without guessing
Priced too high, the car sits for weeks and gets cheaper while it does. Priced too low it is gone in two days — and you left money on the table. Both are avoidable if you know what to compare against.
6 min read