I highly recommend that you place an ad in an online site.  By posting to both, you pretty much have the internet covered.

FACT: Your strategy is to blitz the media and let the world know you have a great car for sale.You'll almost always get more for your used car by selling it yourself privately, than trading it to a car dealer.  If your car is 4 years or younger, the dealer will give you $3000 less than fair market value for it, because they have to dump it on the wholesale market.  If your car is over 4 years old, banks won't finance it, so it's worthless to dealers, they will only give you a heart breaking 25% of fair market value!

TIP: Give yourself a budget of $75 -$100 to sell your car.  The world is not beating a path to your car so you have to beat a path to the world. Spend more than just the usual one week $35 newspaper ad to sell it. Very few frustrated people sell their car using a one week newspaper ad.  Like a key in a lock, if the ad for your green 1997 Camry does not appear during the one week time that a buyer is looking for a green 1997 Camry, you're out $35.  Your budget will get you into 3 different classified ad venues like a newspaper for about $35 for a 1-2 week run, and at least 2 popular internet classified ad websites, usually $20 for a 30 day run.  Newspapers are not a scam, but that $35 classified ad fee they advertise is a farce, as they are stingy on the number of words.  In order to really give any useable info in your newspaper classified ad, you'll most likely end up spending $40-$50 for a one week run.  My friend Steve got dismal newspaper response on his Corvette newspaper ad, yet he got 2 calls from his web ad the first day.  He sold the car 2 weeks later to a LOCAL buyer who saw his ad on the web, not the newspaper!  Auto classifieds on the web are much more cost effective than newspapers because they are cheaper, and run 4 times as long or longer.  Why limit your ad to maybe 5 local people who might be interested in your model year car, when you can put it on the web where there are millions of people interested in your model.  For half the price you get 1000 times the exposure!  A coworker of mine sold his Jaguar on a web based ad to the first person that emailed him. Web based classified ads have the advantage of your car appearing in a buyer's search of cars within hundreds of miles of their house.  But by contrast, newspapers usually cover a small metropolitan area. Look for online classified sites where your ad stays until the car sells.  Don't even think about parking you car on the side of the road to sell it, it could get vandalized, ticketed, towed, or all of the above.
 

Free CARFAX Record Check Don't Buy A Used Lemon The CARFAX Vehicle History Report is the best tool for used car buyers.  Enter the VIN# of the car and they search over 550 million vehicle records for rolled back odometers, junked cars and accidents. They get data from auctions, DMV records, car rental agencies, leases & inspection stations where odometer readings are collected. If my car had 70,000 miles on my last inspection, and I sell it to you with 20,000 miles, the CARFAX report alerts you about the rollback, saving you from my scam.  Searching title records can tell if the car was totaled in a wreck, returned as a lemon, flooded, or if the title was laundered from "junk" back to "used" status.  Even without a VIN# you can search cars in your state that are odometer fraud vehicles or salvaged.  When we checked, Florida had over 700,000 problem vehicles, California had 548,000, New York had 709,000 and Texas had 1.7 million!  Dateline NBC did a report in 8/98 using CARFAX on Hurricane Andrew cars in Florida with junked titles being laundered back to "used car" status in other states. Here in Broward County, the DMV approves 350 cars every month to be reinstated from junk to "used car". In 1999 Hurricane Floyd flooded or totaled 15,000 cars in the Carolinas.  That's really scary. Don't rely on dealers or private owners, they just want to sell you the car. Verify their claims with CARFAX.  Credit unions and dealers use them religiously, so should you and I. Enter the VIN#, the report appears online, with title and registration data, certified odometer readings, liens, more.    Some features we liked best about CARFAX: * The free lemon check. * Works in Canada too, except for Quebec, who is not setup yet.  * In some states, they can tell you if the car has been in an accident.  New states are adding all the time. * If you pay for a full report, you can get additional reports free for 30 days.  It's like an all you can eat buffet.

Jump to any chapter.  I suggest you read each chapter in order.
Chapter 1 Get your credit report, how to get a  car loan, scams, online car loans, first time car loans,  budget & loan excel spreadsheets, credit repair.	Chapter 2 Reviews of internet discount car buying sites, new car prices,  find dealer's invoice cost.  Get a new car quote.	Chapter 3 What to bring  to a dealership, what to say, how to act, what not to do, what to look for at the dealership, and a glossary of all dealer fees.	Chapter 4 How to read dealer invoices, finding dealer's cost, how much to offer the dealer, buyers offer spreadsheet, examples, trade-ins.
Chapter 5 Negotiating tips, dealer scams & tricks to watch out for, dealing with aggressive salespeople, choosing between rebates or low APR loans.	Chapter 6 Close the deal, avoid needless extras, scams in the business office, extended warranty scams,  options, buying warranties online.	Chapter 7 Actual misleading dealer ads, and what to do when you've been ripped off, customer satisfaction surveys, how I bought my Lexus.
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