Selling Your Van
Selling a van requires special skills it is always better to contact a selling agent as they can manage the customer queries and other paperwork. But if are trying to do it by yourself keep in mind that when you advertise the van sale, you must have completed the survey and know the actual worth of your vehicle.
Don’t base the price on any type of guesswork. Advertising the van in a proper manner is the first, vital step to an effective sale. Choose the best way of advertising from many ways some are paid and some free, mostly dependent on how needy you are.
Online Selling:
Pictures are very essential for online selling. Take a few good photographs from diverse angles. Advertising and selling a used van online has numerous benefits and difficulties:
- Gives you entrance to much broader onlookers.
- Specific online sites provide safe payment systems eradicating the scenarios of being scammed.
- Permits a seller to provide much greater details and photos of the van
- Selling on an auction site might not get as decent a price as you wanted
- Likely purchasers will be able to ask direct questions about the van
While it can be irritating to answer to all of them, it also offers you the opportunity to intermingle with concerned customers. Numerous queries can be eluded by covering as many features as possible in the explanation.
Ensuring Safe Payment:
After negotiating the price and decided the sale with the buyer, the next step will be the agreement on the mode of payment, how the funds will be transferred to you.
Listed below are the key options accessible to you, with some guidelines to aid confirm safe payments.
Cash In Full:
Count the money surely. If possible, try to fix the meeting at it’s a good idea to take payment, so the deposit of money directly and the cashier will check the notes are genuine.
Immediate Bank Transfer:
It always better to transfer the possession of the van after the money have been transferred. Also, remember that you will be disclosing your bank account particulars to the buyer so be cautious.
Cheque Or Banker’s Draft:
Make sure you have proof of the buyer’s name and address – perhaps a copy of a utility bill – so you can follow them up if you don’t receive payment.
In case of any uncertainties about the buyer, it’s better to hand over the car keys after the bank has cleared the complete payment into your account.
It happens that most banks indicate the cheque received in your account by the following working day, but till now the cheque is not cleared yet. Some buyers present the cheque and ask the bank to approve it the amount has been paid.
Asking the seller to discharge the merchandises, but when the cheque goes for clearance it bounces back. By then the seller has already released their merchandises. This is one prevailing way of fraud.
If the customer desires to buy the van but can’t pay instantly, take a non-refundable payment of £100 is the standard amount.
This will help cover your costs if they pull out and you have to re-advertise.
Essential Paperwork:
After you receive the payment of the van, you requisite to through the following needed paperwork:
- Make a receipt preferably two copies – one for yourself and one for the customer. It should comprise the date, price, registration number, make and model, also the names and addresses of buyer and seller.
- Enter and directs the V5C to the DVLA.
- Provide the fresh titleholder the handbook of the van, the keys (plus any duplicate sets), the service logbook including any receipts you have plus any other certificates and repair history logbook, also provide the complete papers of prior registration etc. The buyer should be informed about each and every detail regarding the van.
- Last but not the least; retain a discrete note of the buyer’s name and address.
Popular Ways Of Advertising:
You can place for sale sign on windows of shops in the vicinity or on the van itself, Different websites like We Buy Vans provides vans auction and sales facilities, or you can put an ad in the local newspaper.
Choose an option most suitable for you but it’s a requirement by law to describe van precisely and include the following details:
- Color
- Distance
- State
- Contact particulars
- List of apparatus/taxes
- Full-service history
- The precise make and model
- The year of assembly and registration identifier