I wanted to sell my car, my lovely BMW Z4 Roadster. I used to sell my car the hard way: I would contact the local newspapers with my car details and traipse around the local newsagents putting a car advert in their shop window, and then wait for the telephone to ring.
The last car I sold, a BMW Z4 coupe, people contacted me night and day, wanting to know all about my car. Don’t get me wrong, I love to talk about my car, but not at 2am! When they had finished quizzing me about my car, they would inevitably book an appointment to see my BMW. And then they wouldn’t turn up ��” seriously annoying ��” or they would turn up 3 hours early: just as I had stepped out of the shower, and with fuzzy vision because I hadn’t put in my contact lenses, and they would stand on the doorstep demanding to see my car!
I don’t know about you, but I have found potential car buyers fall into certain categories, for example ��” ‘Kick-the-Wheel’ type: they don’t know much about cars but they want to give the impression they do” usually blokes who want to impress their new girlfriend. ‘Do-you-have-this-in-pink?’ type: are normally females who are not interested in the engine, the bodywork, the service history etc, but just the interior d