So I'm still looking for a second hand vehicle. Currently I mostly look on Gumtree and Carsales. Any suggestions of other worthwhile sites?
What Are The Best Car Buying Websites?
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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.'investments'
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
facebook looks legit
lol do only bogans sell through Facebook?
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
carsguide is OKish
trovit seemed useless for me
pickles
manheim
mostly auction but still has tons of fixed price stuff
their fixed prices always seemed high to me, auction is a much better way to go
same,I go with auctions
Pickles
Manheim
Slattery
There's another one in Seven Hills in NSW - forgotten the name but they had a decent line up as well.
nope
but avoid gumtree, unless you want to buy a lemon or a stolen car