Posted on 12th January 2011 by admin in Motor Tips
Advice, Car., Selling, Tips
So you want to sell your automobile and it’s the first time you have ever tried to sell a car. Well, here is what you can anticipate and a few tips to help you along. First of all give the automobile a thorough clean inside and out because not everyone wants to inherit your dog’s hairs all over the seats. You can add a few hundred pounds to its value with hardly any effort here. You would be surprised how many automobiles I have viewed which were totally scruffy. Next you have to let as many people as doable know your automobile is for sale. In the old days this meant advertising in a entrepot but now we have the Internet. Some people still like to use magazines but this can be very expensive. You will probably also have to pay to advertise on the web but it should be cheaper and of course a lot more people could see your ad. If you are trying to sell a BMW and want to sell it swiftly and without any cost to you, look here, this site has professional buyers inactivity and they send your automobile details straight to them.
Once your advert is published (in whatever medium) you hope to get buyers on the phone. You would think that having seen your ad, people would know a bit about your car, but no, most will ask questions which you have already answered in the ad, so write a list of good things about the automobile and necessary information for your own use and keep it handy, oh, and switch your mobile phone off whilst driving. It’s not a good intent to be discussing the details of your automobile whilst driving or your might crash it – end of sale!
Some people will state they are going to come and see it so you cancel that lunch out with your friend you had just arranged and they don’t turn up. Others will bring their papa who know bugger all about automobiles and who will try to show their son or daughter just how clever they are by pointing out non-existent faults with your beautiful motor. Others will want a test drive with them in the driving seat. DON’T LET THEM. DON’T EVER let anyone go on a test drive without you in the car. Don’t let them drive it at all without them first showing you in writing they are covered fully comp to drive your car. In fact don’t let them drive it at all. They will thrash it, rev it, drive your beloved motor like you would never dream of doing and maybe even bend it.
After the test drive (in which you did the driving) is over and they know there is nothing much wrong with the mechanics they will look for other reasons to reduce the price, like that scratch only visible from 3 inches away when the sun is at 32 degrees above the horizon, or one of the tyres will need replacing in 10,000 miles, or the tax or test runs out in 10 months. After you have concurred to drop the price a tiny because this is now the tenth mortal to view the automobile and it’s still not sold, they concur to the buy and state they will be back with the money in three days, and off they go never to be seen again.
Yes this is what selling automobiles is all about. Good luck.
Posted on 11th January 2011 by admin in Motor Car
Forward, Green, Insurance
Nowadays everyone is looking for a way to make their lives a tiny greener, and there are hundreds of ways to go about it. Previously making a difference to the environment focused on recycling your wine bottles and changing all your light bulbs to the energy saving variety.
Fast forward a few years and there are now hundreds of weird and wonderful ways to save the planet. Holiday companies offer you the opportunity to offset the carbon emissions from your plane journey by paying a small sum which could be used to plant trees.
Supermarkets offer incentives in you take back your plastic bags for another shopping run. Even banks have been known to entice customers with green accounts which pay a small dividend to various green causes. It seems that crossways all areas of a person’s life there are ways to make it greener, and now that even extends to cars.
Motoring has never been thought of as a green pursuit. In fact for years driving your automobile was considered one of the worst ways to pollute the environment. In particular anyone who bought a 4×4 vehicle; once the preserve of country folk and now the fashion accessory of trendy young mums; was considered positively against the environment. But things have started to change. Firstly a new range of green automobiles were released onto the market, which included fuel hybrids that claimed to be less polluting. Next came small city cars, some of which could run on electricity, which were defiantly less polluting. There was a brief spell when auto-gas was acquirable as a lower cost lower pollution option.
Now there are websites springing up all over the world wide web offering advice on how to navigate through the green automobile maze and select the ideal environmentally friendly motoring option for you. And it is not just the younger generation who are in on the act, driving greener automobiles has become favourite with people crossways the board.
It was not surprising considering the way things were going, that after the introduction of green cars, green automobile insurance would follow. One such insurance bourgeois is The Green Insurance Company, who claims that they will offset the environmentally unfriendliness of any automobile insured with them by planting trees. In addition they give 5 percent of their profits to charity and offer cheaper insurance deals for drivers of low emission vehicles.
The company has been built on an ethos of ‘reduce, recycle and reuse’ and acts on this by recycling as much of a car’s metal as doable if it has been written off and encouraging the use of reconditioned automobile parts where possible. It nearly sounds too good to be true. Could this be the new way forward for automobile insurance, where green behaviours are rewarded with additional discounts and continual action to save the environment is carried out as a major part of the business. It seems that with the current popularity of the green trend amongst all sectors that this could be the case.
Danielle is an author of several articles pertaining to Car Insurance. He is known for his expertise on the subject and on other Business and Finance related articles.
