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 due to unexpected change in size of family I am having to sell 3yr old motorhome which will be worth more than caravan I plan to buy . Dealer will buy moterhome then I can use cash to buy caravan. I am possibly too scared to try and sell privately has anyone any advise on how I should approach this

many thanks Lynda

 excellent advice tango.

 on a three year old m/h you are going to take a right bashing off a trader, i would definitely try and sell privately, there's still a lot of money out there for the right stuff, go on what the trader offers you , look in the right press and on ebay , gumtree, on here, anywhere to give you the price you should be hopefully looking for, on your m/h, take some time , the seaon for getting the best price has barely started, dont be over ambitious with your pricing, or like houses etc you wont get a good, quick sale, when you you do eventually decide to sell. good hunting..

Thank you steveiem for your comments.

Regarding selling privately I have never used Gumtree but I did use this site and Preloved which I had more response from when trying to sell my awning. The downside is that you can get a few timewasters and I got fed up with the nitpickers and tyre kickers that I eventually sold it on Ebay with 3 bidders. The couple who bought it did a 300 mile return journey to collect but you can usually tell the genuine buyers from the timewasters. I didn't include the awning with my old caravan part exchange deal because the dealer wouldn't offer any more and because the awning was too good to give away I decided to sell privately. It worked for me but we are only talking about hundreds not thousands which can make a huge difference. Selling on Ebay goes out to a wide audience nationwide which is ideal but you incurr insertion fees and sale costs for advertising with them. That's why I tried UKcampsite and Preloved first but I just needed to sell quickly as I hadn't got room to store my old awning plus my new one.