Used car question
 

I figured I'd turn to the collective wisdom as I try and figure out how to sell my car. I haven't sold a car in about 5-6 years and I used autotrader.com or something. What site are people using that is not craigslist?

Also, I am trying to value this thing, it's a base 2006 Rav4 in really good condition with about 77k miles (I live close to work). Wheels are about 10k miles maybe, all recalls fixed, great condition. So KBB tells me the car can fetch around $7,500 in this condition. Fine. My wife has been looking at cargurus.com to find us a new car. When I put my car in to cargurus, it tells me the value based on 350 listings is $10,500 or so. That is quite a big spread. Does everyone just use KBB to value their car? Thanks!

Do you have a carmax by you? They usually give a pretty fair offer that isnt too far below KBB

I've found carmax to be pretty terrible, but I've only taken them cars around 100k miles. I think they are much better with new-ish cars. 77k miles...you'll get more selling yourself, question is, is it worth the hassle?

I used cars.com and autotrader, but think it was craigslist where i finally ended up selling both my cars. It may be shadier but it definitely gets responses.

Just using the sniff test, 10k for a 10 year old car with almost 80k miles sounds really high to me, but I'm no expert.

Good luck, the whole process is pretty miserable.

CarMax is the worst possible choice. Kbb private party very good condition is usually pretty spot on, ime.

Don't overlook options. Certain. Options will move price by 1-2 k

Go with the higher number. KBB is more of a traditional market, but this isn't is a traditional market. Used cars are at a premium right now, and it looks like CarGurus is reflecting the reality of the heated market.

Our bot population is getting pretty diverse these days

SI

I found that post pretty insightful, ngl