As promised, my experience with selling on Collecting Cars. Over all, pretty good and straight forward. They recommend getting a professional photographer to take the pictures. I opted to do my own which were okay but probably not as good as they could have been. They then drafted the text based on an online form they ask you to fill in. you get to adjust the text as appropriate. I found, perhaps understandably, that they were pushing for a low or no reserve so there was a bit of haggling over this but once agreed the auction then went live. For my car, very little happened for the first 5 days and the price was stubbornly stuck on £5k. In effect, everything happened in the last 3 hours of bidding. CC called a few hours before the deadline trying to push for me to remove the reserve or lower it and again at 10 minutes before the auction end time “to encourage more bidding” in their words or to ensure revenue for CC depending upon your viewpoint.
After the auction had closed, a simple email giving the winning bidder’s contact details was received. I also go a text from the guy within the hour which started the communications for payment and collection. So, all pretty straight forward and painless. I’ve now got the funds and am waiting for the collection.
I would like to have got a bit more for the car but it met it’s reserve and I didn’t have to deal with lots of time wasters and test drives which may have been a difficult thing with the current pandemic. Would I use the service again? Yes, I think I would. I hope this helps anyone else looking to sell their car and considering using one of the online auction sites.