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HI we bought our caravan earlier this year - it is very similar to yours a 2003 swift signature 17/4 (special of the swift 530) with all the extras for 6850 - we thought we had a real bargain and were - and still are very pleased with the purchase - so I dont think you are a million miles away with the price at all.

Pam  

Forgot to say in my earlier post that we advertised our van for 6 weeks before we got a sale, we did start it off at a higher price and gradually bought the price down until we started to get interest in it.

Joty

A bit of advice from the "other" side of the fence.  After much debate about whether to buy new or second hand for our first van, we are now looking to buy a second hand 5 berth caravan around the £4K mark.  I would advise any sellers to place lots and lots of photos (at least 10 good quality) to accompany the advert along with a detailed description of what is included.

Buyers generally (with a few exceptions) have to travel a fair way to look at certain caravans and so a detailed selling description certainly helps to attract interest and "sell" your product.  You are wanting yours to look much better than the rest...

Also, caravans have many uses: from the careful owner that uses it for two long weekends a month to the builder that lives in it 5 days a week Mon-Fri (sorry builders out there!).  It might be worth stating in the advert what the caravan has been used for (I know that may sound stupid, but it could make a difference).  I'm also been made aware by a couple of dealers that have warned me against vans that have been used by families in the recent floods - just because of the hammering they have received.

Well, hopefully there are a couple of useful tips for you...

(P.S. On the builder front, we lived in a caravan for two years while we had a house built and the builders that lived on the same site as us were great!)

Thanks all, no, haven't a clue about ebay so any help would be much appreciated. Adding photos is a bit hit and miss as well!

Anne

Hi Val, yes I know, not a good time to sell. We just happened to see the very van we wanted at a good price so went for it.

Anne

Anne,

Putting an ad on e-bay as a classified ad isn't too difficult. You would need to register with them first.

I do think it's really important to be able to put lots of good photos on though. You are able to use up to 12 pictures, included in the price of the classified ad, and they are definatley worth doing. I was amazed at how far people were willing to travel to look at our van, but several of them commented that being able to see lots of pictures gave them confidence in what they were coming to look at. We ended up with several people wanting to look at it last weekend, and the first person to come bought it.

Joty

Thanks Joty, will have to take some more pictures and then try and attach to the ad. Not good at this, I am a technophobe, only had a digital camrea since last Christmas! I have registered with ebay btw.

Anne

Hi Anne,

The way I found the Classified ad section was to go to e-bay's home page, at the top righthand side click on 'help' then go down to help topics, open that up and then click on Selling. Go to 'Different Types of selling, advertising in classified ads.'

Choose 'list in car or other veichle' You will then get a box of various veichle types come up, one of which is for caravans. From there it will take you step by step through the process of placing the ad.

When you get to the 'downloading your pictures' bit. Click on 'browse' you should then be able to chose pictures stored on your own pc, when you find the picture you want, you then click on 'open' and then 'download'. When I have done it I seem to do one picture at a time, there may be a way of doing them all together but I don't know how! I just click on download another picture to do the next one and so on. Hope that makes sence!

Good luck Joty