What was the most successful way you sold your camper trailer

[flemtina]

I have an Aluminium Robust Camper trailer I am trying to sell. It made me wonder where most people have had the most success in selling their last camper, when they upgraded. It might be an interesting Poll. In case you were going to suggest - I will advertise mine on the Forum as soon I take some picky's.


Flem

[Ranger07]

We sold our first camper on ebay we got the price we wanted and the buyer got a very well set up camper.  Everyone happy!!

[Travln]

Hi Flem,

We advertised on the My Swag Classifieds, The Trading Post, and a local online classifieds.

The only nibble we got was from the Trading Post and they ended up buying it.

But we also got a few scammers trying to get to us from the Trading Post as well - so watch out for that - basically we ended up not replying to any SMS or emails. 

Good luck with the sale

Travln

[flemtina]

Thanks Travin,
                    I have mine on trading post and went through the scamming thing as well. It seems quite common practise at the moment.

Flem

[poidda]

Thanks Travin,
                    I have mine on trading post and went through the scamming thing as well. It seems quite common practise at the moment.

Flem

What's the scam off the Trading Post?  How are they trying it on?

[D4D]

http://campertrailers.org/camper_trader.htm

[Travln]

The Trading Post Scam

First you get an email or an SMS that just says something like "Is your Camper Trail still for sale?" or "how much is the Camper Trailer" (even thought the price is on the listing)

Then if you reply to this you get this type of email:

"Thanks for the mailing back...I am buying this for my sister.so am willing to offer you the amount you required,and also will want you to get back to me with some pics,would be willing to make the payment for it but i am making the payment via PayPal cos am not around for now cos of my wedding preparation and would want you to get back to me with the PayPal email address for me to make the payment and if you don't have a PayPal account yet, you can set one up at www.paypal.com.au it can"t take you less than 3 mins to do that.I hope you understand and get back to me with the required info for me to effect the payment asap.Many thanks.  Tim."

You can read about this here:

http://helpcentre.carsales.com.au/scam-defence/buyer-articles/february-2010/false-paypal-payment-scam/

and here:

http://www.tradingpost.com.au/GM/Articles/Phishing/LandingPage?referrer=edmtp896

[Mitch59]

sold our camper on ebay, got the price we wanted, paid for in cash within 24hrs of auction end.

[Tim - Stratford]

When we were selling our KK I advertised it on this forum, CaravanCampingSales and another 'exploring' forum - even amount of enq's from My Swag and CCS (heaps) and the final buyer finding it on the CaravanCampingSale site.

Took ten weeks.

[Prado BB]

Trading Post, less than 24hrs

[GS]

Trading post for me about 5 weeks ago.

First to see bought it and got my price as well.

Must have sold too quick to get a scam contact.

GS

[singo-26]

Trading post for me about 5 weeks ago.

First to see bought it and got my price as well.

Must have sold too quick to get a scam contact.

GS

nope they're all coming to me at the moment. I think I've had contact from half the worlds seamen and most of the oil rig workers.

[MarkGU]

for us i sold our soft floor camper trailer by doing a detailed video on the in's & out's of all inside and out of the camper. uploaded it to you tube and prospective buyers were just emailed the link and it was just like them actually being there.

my vids on our camper we sold...................

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBpnyJ4MFrA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dJtMjM1ZRU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=83lKScjjsQs

these videos ended up convincing a buyer to come all the way from Melbourne to the Northern Rivers of NSW.

[Silvo]

Trading post for us.. Sold in 4 days

[GS]

YouTube vids are fast becoming a great idea.

Sold a line trimmer on eBay for a good price that was helped by a vid that the thing worked.

[rodsswag]

Hi Flem, I sold mine on facebook, it only took 1 day before I had a reply. SOLD to them money in the bank the next week.


Rod

[flemtina]

Thanks Guys,
It's given me some fresh idea's and has been interesting to see the different ways that work with today's technology

Flem

[HEM19X]

Hmm, $240 $$'s to advertise for 3 days in 3 newspapers in northern NSW = NOTHING no calls etc

3 days in the myswag classified = SOLD

You have sold me

Hem

[Silvo]

The trading post sold mine, as mentioned, but I also tried;

Exploreoz, myswag, camper trailers.org, eBay, Pradopoint, 4wd action, caravan sales website as well

[Macleod]

Trading post for us - took 5 days.  Will advertise the current one there as well with hopefully the same result.

[envee]

Had ours in the trading post for a week or so.

Also had it on the front lawn with a "For Sale" sign on it and a guy knocked on the front door and bought it 

[Mel87]

Nice topic Flem, I also have to sell my old camper and not sure which way to go as it is expensive to place an add in the paper.