tried to sell my car it all went wrong! tried to sell my car, the scammers got hold of my protected ?!telephone numbers. they did 2 transactions with my barclaycard! inside job ?probably? a waste of £36 .decided to keep car will not use again

EXCELLENT way to sell your vehicle-Just 1 complaint 1-WEBSITE PORTAL-EASY for this 63 yr old to add and update listing! I cleaned up my photos using CANVA. Added a headline, and some details on some photos. I had the max photos so people knew exactly what the car was about. I also had a detailed description. 2-PRICING TOOL- I rate this a 1*. It is KBB (Kelly Blue Book) but go check KBB directly. I thought, based on their listing tool while you are filling out your listing, my car was UNDER-PRICED and found after a month of traffic, research, updating it was over-priced. I kept lowering the price. It sold, but having the RIGHT PRICE to start would have put me in a better position. 3-I logged in “incognito” often, to check my ad as a customer. All good. 4-CUSTOMER SERVICE- a 10 out of 10. I called nearly daily for a question or explanation I could not find via the website help. Never rushed, always friendly, helpful, very solution orientated and picked up on the 1st few rings! 5-LEADS- Expect fraudsters. Those asking for you to take checks, etc. How I filtered them: 1-ask questions. If they do not answer-they are fake. 2-ONLY after a couple of chat back and forth, I’d get on the phone after they gave me their number and I ran it through REV phone look up for a match. 6-I was excited for the opportunity to have financing offered/3rd party, but did not use that feature. 7-LEADS notifications- I went to AT several times a day vs relying on email etc to notify me. Stuff goes to junk mail, shows up late. I got a lot of views and tracked them. When it slowed, I updated my listing by switching up pictures or adjusting the description. That “refreshed” the listing. I also listed on Facebook Market, and sometimes referred those leads to AT to see a better “ad” post about the car, better layout and financing. I just pasted the URL of my ad into the FBM response. Excellent experience.

Autotrader is more scammers than car buyers Autotrader.com is more a data collection platform than a site for listing/selling cars. I recently listed my vehicle, a well-maintained Audi Q7. Of the approximately 20+ inquiries I received, 2 or 3 were actually legitimate. The site is largely populated by people trying to scam sellers. Autotrader.com appears to do little to vet potential buyers, but tries to get sellers to submit a driver’s license and photo, among other things. I eventually sold the car on Marketplace. If you want to waste $45 and spend time beating back scammers, Autotrader is the place.

Wasted nearly £40 in an effort to sell… Wasted nearly £40 in an effort to sell my car. Then all you get when you advertise with them is constant suggestions to spend even more money to sell your car on their website. I'm not really sure anyone looks at Autotrader anymore.

Not worth the fee This platform is no longer useful for private car sales. I recently sold 2 cars, one at £2k one at £20k, I paid £50 each time to Autotrader but got no enquiries from private buyers, only traders, despite marketing the cars at lower than their recommended price. In the end I sold the cheap one through Facebook and the other through a trading site. Don’t bother using Autotrader these days, it’s not worth the fee.