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Posted: 8/29/2023 7:15:02 PM EDT
I've got a car that I need to sell, and I don't want to mess with Facebook/Craigslist buyers... I just want to accept an offer and have somebody pick it up.
I know there are a bunch of online services such as "CarBrain" that will do this (similar to Carvana, but for cars that don't actually run)... anybody have good/bad experiences with any of them? |
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I hauled one to a U Pull It parts place and they wrote me a check .
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You should at least say what the car is.
Go to a car show and ask around. Someone may want it for the sum of its parts. Always can call a junk car service too. But a blown up Porsche is worth more than a blown up Corolla. Sooo, what is the car. |
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OP, what kind of car? Also, most salvage/junk yards will pick up vehicles and pay scrap for them. I used to get about $250-300 for stripped down Honda Civic rolling chassis
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If you just want it gone, any junk yard in town will show up and get it from you as long as they legally can. And they'll pay you a couple hundred bucks for the privilege.
If you want more than that, you get to post an ad and deal with the tire kickers and lowballers. |
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Pull it to the ghetto, set it on fire, and collect that sweet insurance.
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Salvage yard. You won't get much.
Personally I'd use Craigslist - these days in Montana you get cash and a decent amount. Used vehicles in any condition are worth a shit ton here for whatever reason lately. |
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Sold my Ranger to them
Had a blown transmission. Got more than a junk yard. They in turn sent it to Copart. |
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Insure the shit out of it, tow it to San Francisco, put a Trump 2024 bumper sticker on it with some assorted American flags and let nature take its course. You should have a check in a week.
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I know craigslist sounds like a pain in the ass, but I've sold a truck and a camper on there, both of them were gone to the first person to respond to the add in less than 24 hours after I posted it.
Post good pictures, and list "mechanics special" because some people search for cars that need repairs they can do. |
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What kind of car is it? Junkyard sounds like best option with all that info you gave us
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Needs carb cleaned.
Don't try to lowball me, I know what I have. |
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It is something that can take an ls swap? If so there’s a healthy market for that.
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Typical mid sized car running or not is worth 5 to 800 at most bone yards in my AO. A lot of them will haul it away, too.
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What car? It might be worth jack shit, it might be worth $1500. My son has bought and done engine swaps on 2 different BMW E46’s now. First one had a bent valve and he ended up selling it back to the kid he bought it from. 2nd one is his daily beater.
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Sons ex had a mint condition 2nd or 3rd gen Explorer that the transmission went out in. The car looked like it rolled off the showroom floor yesterday. This was about two years before the covid shit hit.
It was sold to Pull-A-Part for $350. Today, you could have dropped $2500 into that transmission rebuild easily and still had a car worth more than the repair. |
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Haul it to scrapyard unless you want to deal with methheads that will buy it and then case your place for their next burglary.
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Quoted: Be careful with vehicle donations. It’s very common to get a big fat tow bill in the mail after donating to these organizations. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: 1-877-Kars-4Kids. Write it off as a donation. Be careful with vehicle donations. It’s very common to get a big fat tow bill in the mail after donating to these organizations. And no tax deduction unless you itemize deductions, which have to be in excess of the standard deduction, currently $24K, IIRC, for a married couple filing jointly. And then, the deduction would only reduce your taxable income by the value of the car (which the IRS may question) leaving one with a net of 25-30% depending on one's tax rate. So, if the car is worth $1000, the deduction would be worth, at a 25% tax rate, $$250. Far better to get cash in hand than go through all of that. |
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Peddle.com
I’ve sold several complete pieces of shit to them and got so much more than I would have asked |
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Quoted: 1-877-Kars-4Kids. Write it off as a donation. View Quote Just a side note, that ALL money raised by Kars 4 Kids goes strictly to Orthodox Jewish kids, and not just any needy children. Also according to the article below only 38% of the money raised actually goes to the kids, with the remaining 62% for administrative costs to run the 'charity'. https://www.charitywatch.org/charity-donating-articles/costly-and-continuous-kars4kids-ads-disguise-charity39s-real-purpose |
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You're gonna need a title in order to scrap it unless it's exempt due to age. At least in my state.
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Quoted: I don't want to mess with Facebook/Craigslist buyers... I just want to accept an offer and have somebody pick it up. View Quote Then put it on Craigslist and when the first person makes an insulting lowball offer, you say "yes" |
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Just got rid of my sons old Saab that's been an eyesore in the driveway for the past year.
Parts yard came and picked it up, gave us $500 for it. I would've taken nothing, I just wanted it out of here. |
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Donate it to Carsforkids.org. They'll come get it. You get a full value tax write off for the charitable donation.
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Blown motor ? part it out.....
How much do you want for just the Blower ? |
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Quoted: Donate it to Carsforkids.org. They'll come get it. You get a full value tax write off for the charitable donation. View Quote Umm, that's a maybe. See my post a bit up the page. Additionally, I've read that the IRS is not pleased with people writing off "full value" of junkers because they know that most of those cars get scrapped. So, even if you can deduct the donation, it may be disallowed. After all, why should they allow you to take, i.e., a $1000 deduction on a car that gets scrapped for $250? Bottom line: the organizations soliciting car donations are scammers and, like most scammers, they are appealing to the public's innate greed. Scammer scamming scammers, imagine that! |
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