What Are The Best Car Buying Websites?

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  oscargamer on 11/04/2017 - 18:53

  nope

  but avoid gumtree, unless you want to buy a lemon or a stolen car

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    mskeggs on 11/04/2017 - 20:46

    +5

    Nonsense.
    The vast bulk of cars on Gumtree are fine, and you can ensure the car isn't stolen or encumbered via whatever REVS is called now.
    As for lemons, you need to do appropriate due diligence as with buying any secondhand item, but like for like will be cheaper than a dealer.
    I probably wouldn't buy an $80k Mercedes on Gumtree, but I don't make those kind of investments.

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      Nugs on 12/04/2017 - 06:52

      -1

      'investments'

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    Euphemistic on 12/04/2017 - 08:42

    Gumtree is fine, no worse than any other car site. Difference is carsales costs money to advertise, so people are less likely to list cheap cars there. Lemons could be anywhere.

    It depends what you are looking for as to where to look.
    Cheap car: Gumtree, side of the road
    Recent Model: Carsales, Carsguide, actual car yards.
    Rare model: everywhere

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  dylanando on 11/04/2017 - 19:02

  facebook looks legit

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    subywagon on 11/04/2017 - 20:43

    lol do only bogans sell through Facebook?

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      [Deactivated] on 11/04/2017 - 21:18

      +1

      ive gotten some true bargains on fb
      got a surface 3 with a screen that wasnt working for $150, discovered it was under warranty and microsoft swapped it
      got a iphone 5s for $100 that was "voda "locked" which it wasnt
      got a ipod classic 120GB for $50
      the list can keep going

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  Nugs on 11/04/2017 - 19:05

  carsguide is OKish

  trovit seemed useless for me

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  pao2x on 11/04/2017 - 20:05

  +1

  pickles

  manheim

  mostly auction but still has tons of fixed price stuff

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    crentist on 12/04/2017 - 03:58

    their fixed prices always seemed high to me, auction is a much better way to go

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      pao2x on 12/04/2017 - 12:04

      same,I go with auctions

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  [Deactivated] on 11/04/2017 - 20:44

  Pickles

  Manheim

  Slattery

  There's another one in Seven Hills in NSW - forgotten the name but they had a decent line up as well.