Half of motorists in the UK (49%) say that they wouldn’t expect to get a fair price when selling their car, while one in five worry they’ll get scammed or ripped off, according to research from carwow.
carwow surveyed 2,000 people via its online research panel and one in three (31%) respondents admitted that when they sold their last car, they had either little or no idea what it was worth before selling. Almost half (46%) said they think they could have got more for it than they did. One in four (23%) say selling a car always takes ‘longer than it should’, rating the process worse than visiting the in-laws in terms of time dragging on.
Overall, most respondents (73%) said they had concerns about selling their car. The top five concerns are:
