C240Style

I have an '03 C240 6speed with 32,000 miles on it. It's covered on warranty until September 2008. I'm selling it and I have it listed at $20,500 and I have no bites. Is my price way too high? I mean, it's just $350 above NADA trade-in value. All opinions would be greatly appreciated.

Moviela

Perhaps because it has a manual transmission. The market is quite narrow for luxury sedans with a clutch.

You might take a look at autotrader.com to reach a wider audience, and if quoting a price in your ad, consider $19,999 to pick up people searching for under $20K.

Buellwinkle

It is tough selling a manual trans car, took me about 3 months to dump my c-coupe. But the price might be high as KBB is what most people go by and your car is worth, at best, in excellent condition, $16.8K trade-in or $20.5K for private party price in The O.C. and since I don't know where you car is, its just a guess. In Florida for example, expect to get $1K less. Also figure that unless you really prepped your car for sale like a dealer would (newish tires, brakes, perfectly detailed, excellent is not a realistic score) so most figure good and that's $1K less.

moosejaw

i'm on my fourth month trying to unlaod my c230 SS. A lot of inquiries and two prospective buyers but I have lowered my price to $18K . I can;t seem to get rid of it. Also there a lot of losers that have offered to take over my payments and a bunch of lowballers that offered $16K. If anyone is interested PM me, car's a six speed,nav, H&R springs and exhaust.

Ryanr317

Hey Moosejaw, i saw your c230 on autotrader when i was shopping for one. I ended up buying a c320 in Miami. Yours is a good deal, i'm not sure why you still have it. Do you have those other rims for sale?

moosejaw

yeah I still have the carlsson's for sale. I don't plan on putting it on my c32 as I feel they are too heavy. Pm me if youre interested. how much do you pay for your c320 if u don;t mind me asking?

Ryanr317

I paid 13,300 for an 02 c320 sport with 80k miles. I know they are high miles but thats why it was cheaper. How much do you wan for the carlssons? Do they come with tires?

yeuchau

miles are a bit high, but that's a good price.
I would be all over it, if i can find one at that price

Ryanr317

Yea, its in good shape, sport model, and runs great. It was the only one at that price with under 100k on the clock. GL

C240Style

The thing is, it does have brand new EBC green stuff brake pads ready to be installed, tires have 1,500 miles on them, car has been detailed and is as good as new. I desperately need to get rid of this car as I have another lined up. This is killing me!

FrankW

manual tranny on a MB is always a hard sell. Good luck on all of you trying to sell the car. On the other hand BMW with manual tranny are much much easier to sell.

Buellwinkle

The only way you will sell the car quick is to a) price it right, probably half-way between excellent trade-in and private party price or to shop dealers, bring it in and see what they'll give you for it but with a stick you would be doing good to get trade-in. I once got 14,500 from a dealer for a car that I couldn't sell in 3 month for 13,500. One guy low balled me at 12,900 and I said yes but he had to "think about it". Whilst he was thinking, called a few dealers and poof, had check in hand in 10 minutes. The guy was soo pissed. He won't be thinking about it too long next time. BTW, trade-in on that car was 16,500 but it was not a popular car.

Tangerine

yep, benz with clutch is hard to sell. i was just visiting my dealer today and i was just browsing their lots and the manual cars that was there a month ago are still there. price have been reduced twice already

Sanny

my personal opinion is that it is way too high.

i just picked up an automatic 02 white c240 for my dad at 14900. it is in excellent condition with 61k miles.

in retrospect i would jsut get rid of it at like 5k under bluebook retail. maybe less. my opinion.

C240Style

I'm sorry to say, but your "personal opinion" is way off, especially considering the region (North Jersey) which is one of the most expensive regions in the country. Go on Autotrader and look for an '03 6spd C240 with under 45,000 miles for less than the price I have.

Oh, not to mention I got an offer for trade-in at $18,000.

yeuchau

if you got an offer for 18k then I would just trade in if I were you.

Like what they said, benz with stick is hard to sell, but bmw is just the opposite, I am having hard time to sell my bimmer which is auto.

good luck

Ryanr317

Try Ebay.

Sanny

then take the 18k. u asked for peoples opinions, didnt you? good luck buddy!

Brunelleschi

The C240 is not a very "in demand" car...and it being a manual doesn't help. You might have to bite the bullet on this one...I am preparing to do the same in a few months on mine

C240Style

Thank you so much for that recommendation. I just changed my ads at 5am this morning and since then I have already received 2 e-mails and 2 phone calls and am booked for people coming to see the car for the next week. If the car sells this week, have your paypal account open I'll throw you $25 or something for the useful tip

Brunelleschi

Keep us updated! Good luck!

Blazinpin0i

Dang Andrew, your finally selling the C. Cant wait to see your next car I wish you luck on the sale, Im going to try and help out, because i know some people who want to buy a car and fortunately want a manual but are in the JDM, and are around that price range. but ill see what i can do

*hit me up when you get your new ride, photoshoot

C240Style

That'd be awesome. Thanks Darren. The next ride will haul ***, nothing is going to touch it and that'll be fun. We can do a photoshoot but it won't do much justice as I won't have the Torq Thrust rims until next summer