17 really working tips. And 5 more from readers.

You have decided to sell the car. What to do now?

1. Decide on the price in advance and objectively

The first thing you look at is the prices. This is the key modifier by which the buyer will evaluate everything else in the car. Be adequate, look at the car strictly - your love, memories, and stories about it have zero meaning. The best way to decide is to look at ads with similar models, so you will immediately understand what to dance from.

4. Take detailed photos in a good location and lighting

The purpose of photographs is to show as many important details as possible. Gentleman's set of a good announcement: front, back, both sides at right angles; interior front and rear, all under the hood and trunk. See for yourself next. You can take pictures and post pictures directly in the application Auto.ru and attach them to the ad, save time.

More photos are always better, the buyer sees that you are not hiding anything. Here good an example of an ad with a photo, but a bad one.

5. Sell your car "a little cheaper" if you've owned it for less than 3 years

Remember that after the sale you will have to file a tax return. Any sold car worth more than 250,000 rubles will be required to declare, the tax amount is 13% of the difference in the cost of the car.

Example: bought for 650,000, sold for 800,000 - get ready to pay 13% tax on profits of 150,000. The way out is to sell "slightly cheaper" than bought, and even better for 249,000.

6. Don't paint before selling if possible

One small scratch is not worth it. If you paint it and the buyer notices it, in absentia you will look like a scammer whose half car was damaged in an accident. If there is no option not to paint, there are too many scratches, then do not hide this fact.

Be sure to take photos before painting, it will be yours alibi when the car will be viewed live.

7. No need to wash the engine compartment in advance

After all, you will wash away the history and evidence that everything is in order. An experienced buyer might think that you are trying to hide problems - for example, that you have something leaking there. The best option is to say that you will wash with a positive decision.

8. But wash everything else - be sure

Don't waste money on this. A complex procedure for 5-7 thousand with dry cleaning will allow you to put up a car at a higher price and cover these costs. Cleanliness is especially relevant at the stage of taking photos for an ad - it should be like here, but by no means like here.

Do you want to know how much your car is worth? Check it out right from the app Auto.ru for iPhone.

9. Show in daylight and in a safe place

It doesn't matter what they told you over the phone. Viewing conditions should be set by you and carried out as close as possible to crowded places. Do not rely on the honesty of the buyer, your safety and the safety of the car - in the first place. Do not repeat the sad mistakes of other car owners.

10. Never give out the card number, do not take an advance payment on it

No prepayment by bank transfer. For many years in a row, the following type has been working fraud. A potential buyer calls you, listens to a story about a car and says: ready to buy, but now in another city / in the service / sailor / in Sevastopol-Crimea / sick relatives and so on. Since he cannot come personally, he is ready to transfer the deposit to the card.

He will find out the card number from you, ask you to dictate the code ... and that's it, he will withdraw money from there. You can't even imagine how many people have been this way. Only cash. Only personally. Can't come - sorry, goodbye!

11. At the meeting, speak only the truth. Seriously

You can be at least a hundred times Ostap. But the buyer, who silently noticed at least one discrepancy with your words or announcement, will not return and will not even tell about it in advance. Do not risk money or time, and even more so the lives of others, if something is not right, not positive.

On the contrary, honesty in discussing problems will only add confidence to the buyer that you can be trusted. Here, look how to compose - respect to the guy for honesty.

12. Do not allow to sit in the salon in your absence

He sat down, shook hands and left. What was he doing there? You don't let strangers in, so don't rush into the car. From the inside, show in person, keep the keys with you and look at the actions of the buyer from the corner of your eye. For now, it's your car, don't forget.

13. Don't let yourself steer, ride yourself

You are not a car dealership that signs a contract, imposes responsibility. The buyer can not cope with the control out of habit, just make a mistake. In the event of an accident, you will not present anything and you will not take anything. He will steer easily when he pays the entire amount. And so it can sit in the front passenger seat.

14. Make sure the new owner deregisters the car

No need to take on the achievements and sins of the new owner. Some people “forget” to re-register the car after the purchase, and then there may be trouble. How to check: either go with the buyer to the traffic police and transfer money there and register the car, or ask to send a photo of the TCP with a mark + a new certificate of registration.

Life is a complicated thing, you never know what happens to a person. Do not waste your time and nerves in the future.

15. Accept money in full and on the transaction

It's up to you, but take your word for it and take payment in installments, giving the car in advance - a recipe for a bunch of problems. If the buyer cannot pay the agreed amount, do not go on about “salary soon”, “I will borrow from friends this week”, “I will withdraw the deposit” and so on. Let them withdraw, receive, and come with the money right away. This is fine.

16. Do not mess with commissions, salons and auctions

Have you seen or heard an advertisement for a service that promises to sell your car in 30 minutes? Go and read real reviews about him: how they take the price from Auto.ru and underestimate it, psychologically pressure for the sake of accepting unfavorable conditions, play for time and increase their profit to the maximum. Do you need it?

While you are tormented with them, you will have time to sell the car for announcement– with profit and a minimum of hassle. The truth of life, which burned tens of thousands of Russians.

17. Sell separately 2 sets of tires or wheels

Yes, the buyer will be happy with additional rubber as a gift. But this is unlikely to be the reason for his positive decision - perhaps one of the last. Selling wheels separately, you will earn from 5 to 20 thousand.

P.S. Where is the easiest place to sell a car?

This is the largest site for the sale of cars in Russia: 500 thousand ads in all cities of the country and all models. A lot of filters for selecting the parameters of the car - and the same number of opportunities for selling your own.

At Auto.ru there is a mobile application (here is the Android version) for convenient selection of options - a justified thing with such a huge number of ads.

What Auto.ru can do for iPhone(A lot of everything):

• view ads for motorcycles, cars and trucks;
• find popular offers in collections;
• choose a car that immediately meets dozens of your requirements;
• place an ad for the sale of a car or motorcycle, directly from an iPhone;
• read thousands of honest reviews for cars in the Auto.ru online community.

And in the Auto.ru application there is a very convenient search. Check it out for yourself - search it for your car and find out how much it costs.

The most important thing is the service free and it has a huge amount of traffic. Nothing stays here for long. Check it out for yourself - download it, try to find your dream car or finally sell yours.

By the way, where do you sell?

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: check money for authenticity

How to do it? Look for any branch of Sberbank nearby. Just check - there will be a commission. Therefore, we take and open a passbook (for free) and put the amount received there. Cashiers will definitely check the entire amount, moreover, for free. Only after that we give the keys and documents. You can withdraw money from any branch. And the seller has two pluses at once: he checked the money, and there is no need to go with a large amount.

: Carry out vehicle inspections at independent, audited locations

If the buyer asks you to go to his service station and make a diagnosis, then only at his expense. It’s also worth being careful, because there may be a friend of the buyer at that same service station, and he can tell you that you have an oil seal leaking here (by spraying oil with a syringe into that place), and other simple tricks. Also, you should not tell the buyer that the car is “not a bit not painted”, now there are a lot of advertisements for renting a micrometer, and you can easily check the thickness of the paintwork.

: what to do not to buy a loan car

Advice to the buyer: in order to avoid the risk of buying a credit car, for which gentlemen bailiffs will arrive in 3 months, check it on VIN- y is not a collateral item in the relevant registry (Google will prompt “collateral registry” upon request). If the car is on credit, you will find it there. But if the search did not give anything - do not be lazy, go to a notary and get a certified extract.

This paper, in the event of a sudden interest from the authorized authorities, will testify in court that when buying, you did not know and could not know about the presence of a pledge. And, therefore, in accordance with the current version of the Civil Code, debt obligations do not apply to you and your property. The budget of the event, depending on the notary, is from 150 to 2000 rubles.

In this regard, banks themselves are interested in keeping the register up to date - this is important. But more importantly, they are absolutely not motivated by the fact of early repayment of the loan to notify the notary chamber of the need to delete this entry.

From this follows advice to sellers: upon closing the loan, in addition to receiving a certificate of repayment, write a statement about the exclusion of your vehicle from pledge registry. The entry will be deleted within 1-4 weeks, depending on the bank.

: force to sign a receipt for registration

You should also sell only with a receipt for registration within 3 days. Indicate in the receipt that if the buyer does not succeed, then the money will not be returned, and you will deregister the car for scrap! You can do this without documents on hand, as long as you are listed as the owner in the traffic police database.

Usually the car is put on the same day or the next. Everyone is afraid of losing money and a car.

PS: do not forget to enter the passport data of yourself and the new owner in the receipt. And a couple of witnesses! Then if anything, the money will remain with you and the car will be on a new account.
Money can be checked already upon receipt at the branch of Sberbank. You insert your card, and the buyer inserts his cash! Savings on bank verification services.