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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I wouldn't even detail it before trading it in.  They aren't going to give you more money because of that.[/quote]

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Tidy it up at home for an hour. Paying $100-200 for a professional detail? No way.

How valuable is your time? Trading in is fast and easy. Selling an old and well-used car privately will require lots of time and patience. People will contact you. Not show up. They'll want to drive it. They'll want to have their mechanic look at it. It could take weeks. [/quote]

I have considered selling privately but we are not in DC and so the market for new/used cars is not like...SUPER plentiful. We can't be without a car because this is the car we have that is big enough to cart our kids around in. So the trading in is appealing because of the 'walk in with a car' 'walk out with a car' aspect. My husband has a little 06 lexus sedan so we could sell privately and go out that night or the next day and buy one but I guess I'm worried we won't find a car we like and then we'll be stuck without family transportation for a week or something. I'm pregnant and we have two little kids so the idea of I dunno, not being able to get to be driven to the hospital or get the kids to the ER or something. I dunno, I guess we could smush the carseats in his little car in an emergency.

This isn't an old and well-used car though and that is why it is so tempting to sell privately. I've never done that before though and am a little nervous about doing it right. It is a car that was bought new in 2015, we are the only owners. It has been kept up on maintenance but is a family car and has some exterior dings and scrapes. There is one panel that would need to be replaced for a dent when someone hit me in a parking lot. We had planned on keeping it for a long long time but with a third coming we just want the space the minivan will offer us. We take a lot of long road trips.

I wouldn't call a four year old car with less than 45k miles on it that has only had one owner 'old and well used' but of course it is in the eye of the beholder. [/quote]

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