Finally, BMW 320i sold.

The other day, I finally said goodbye to my beloved BMW 320i (F30).I mentioned it briefly in an article a while back.However, for this sale, I decided to use an online bulk appraisal service. Also, I decided to have my husband, who is used to this kind of thing, do all the negotiations this time and let me study on the side.

By the way, this article is about a car purchase lump-sum assessment site.Not a propaganda article or a lantern article of any kind.I would like to state at the outset that

Why did you decide to do a batch assessment on the same day and time?

I decided to do the bulk assessment because my husband said, "I sold my car this way before and it was great!Because he said so. Incidentally, here is what my husband had to say about why he decided to do the bulk assessment.

In my past experience, once I brought my car to a buyer, they were very insistent that I sell it there, and it was very difficult to get them to leave.
Same thing with the on-site purchase, because the first vendor that came along was persistent and, well, persistent anyway.In the meantime, I'm getting tired of doing so.
So I'm not...I want no negotiations at all.I thought. No hard feelings, one shot. I have no other choice but to use the lump-sum assessment method because it is the only way I can do it.

This was the case.

Indeed, I have an image that buyers are hard sell...I would definitely be pushed around and lose a lot of money.

Sell your car in a lump-sum assessment

Now, I would like to share with you our example of the process of selling a car using a lump-sum valuation service for your car.

(1) Apply to the Net's one-time assessment service for your car.

In the past, I applied to Rakuten's bulk assessment service, but this time I applied to Car Sensors'Easy online car assessmentI decided to apply at

Previously.When I applied for a lump-sum valuation service for my car, there was usually a remarks field where I could freely write comments.Yes, but in many cases that field is missing these days, and in such cases, we chose Carsensor because they allowed us to write some comments on their application form.

At this time, the husband wrote the following comment in the remarks section.

This time, we will ask the entire company to come at once at 00:00 on 00:00 on 00:00 and decide who to sell the property to on the spot in a bidding format. Please contact only those vendors who are willing to accept those conditions.

And.The key points are "date and time specification" and "lump-sum assessment.So it is important to bring it to the point where we can take the initiative to move forward, he said.

(2) Respond to calls from vendors

After completing the online application, you receive a phone call in about five seconds. At this point, the call comes immediately from the call center of a major vendor, and while I am answering one call, more and more calls are coming in.

After a while, a salesman contacted me from the call center and said, "We can go now, but...Although I sometimes receive phone calls saying "I'm sorry.(A few more calls came in this time)I politely declined and said, "I'm not going to do it."As I mentioned in my comment, do it all at once with a specific date and time.I made sure to reiterate that "the

On the other hand, about small local vendors, they often call not immediately but a few days after the application is submitted.

Therefore, I think that the date and time we offer should not be too close to the date and time. Incidentally, in the case of our family, it was one week later.(In case you're wondering, I chose a sunny day.)specified by the

(iii) Respond to vendors who arrive early on the day of the event.

On the day of the event, I went to a local gas station first thing in the morning and asked them to clean the body and interior of the 320i.

As I thought, my car looks so much better when I have it washed. My car looks about 50% cooler than usual.

Then afternoon. About 20 minutes before the scheduled time, my husband went out to the parking lot to do some mosquito coils and found that about 5 companies had already arrived and were waiting for him. It was just thatWe waited until all the vendors were available, as we had a little time before the scheduled time.However, all eight companies were present before the time was up, so we decided to get started immediately.

Everyone was checking the body, popping the hood, checking the interior, starting the engine...Frankly, I had no idea that we would have eight companies come to us.(I was hoping for a couple of companies to show up)

I was talking about this with some of the sales people who came in.

With older BMW's with manual transmissions, there are still a few out there.F30 MTs are few and far between, and to have a normal 3 Series model that is not an M-Sport is very rare.Since they are rare and in good condition, we would like to buy them from you.

Everyone said. I see.

However, all eight companies came by car, so we had eight cars lined up around our house, which was a nuisance to our neighbors... My husband said, "I'm not sure what you mean by that.I didn't think we would get this many people. It would have been better to set up a large coin-operated parking lot or some other location where there are fewer people and cars.He said.

(4) Separate time

After a while, my husband told the sales people, "I would like to break the time, how long will it take to get the amount? Do you need five more minutes? Or do you need more?He was asking around about the "what's the best way to get a job" and so on.

If the time is not closed in this way, he said, the time becomes stretched and difficult to collect.

In the case of a typical domestic car, he said, the price is often immediate, but in the case of this 320i, it was a rare manual transmission car, so he said, "I'm not sure if it's a good idea."We may need a little more time to get the amount.There were also a few vendors who said.

But "Other salespeople have their next appointments, so we don't stretch it out.So, after checking the actual vehicle, I had it set up in about 30 minutes.

(5) Have them write the amount of money on the back of their business cards and take them out all at once.

In the end, the contractors who had told us that they might not be able to come up with a good price were able to make it, and we were able to get all eight companies to give us a price.

The way to do it.Ask your husband to give you a business card with the amount of money written on the back of it, and everyone checks it at once.This took the form of a

As for the actual amount, I'll keep that under wraps at this juncture.The difference between the lowest and highest asking price was, nada, 1,033,000 yen!
We then asked only the vendor who offered the highest price to stay, and the others were thanked and dismissed.

I've tried the bulk assessment method.

If you're considering switching, I'd suggest you take it to the dealer and trade it in.If you switch to another manufacturer, it will still be cheaper to have it appraised.(When I previously switched from a Volkswagen Golf to a BMW 320i, the appraised value of the Golf I saw at BMW was quite low.)You might try a batch assessment once.

Also, what I found out when I tried the lump-sum assessment method this time is that

Everyone knows that theVery low asking price for a very large buyer.On the On the contrary.High for local used car dealers.They'll give you a price.

That's what I mean.

This time, theThe highest price was offered by a local used car dealer, and all of the highest asking prices, even if not the highest, were all local used car dealersIt was.

On this, my husband was

Well, from a business standpoint.The big companies cost more, so they don't pay as much.I can understand why. The cost of advertising is totally different, and the cost of labor and equipment is quite high, so no matter how much they say in their commercials that they will buy at a high price, in reality it is difficult.
This became clear to me once again this time.
Next time I sell my car, I will not ask the big companies to come to my house again, but I will ask a few local used car dealers whose offer was high this time to come to my house.
Also, this time I applied from the Carsensor's bulk appraisal site, but I like that a local used car dealer also came here, I'll use this site from now on.

He said. I guess you can understand a lot of things only after you try everything. Then, I prepared the documents, etc., and had them pick up the 320i the next day.

Goodbye, 320i, and may the next owner who loves MT take good care of it.

If you are thinking of selling your car, why not try the bulk appraisal method?