What is the best website to search if you are looking to buy a car privately?
I carried out a little bit of research – searching in a 30 mile radius for a Volkswagen Golf, here’s the results:
| Site | Trade | Private |
|---|---|---|
| AutoTrader | 293 | 23 |
| Exchange & Mart | 74 | 1 |
| Gumtree | 83 | 68 |
| eBay* | 51 | 10 |
| Motors.co.uk | 256 | 0 |
| Pistonheads | 92 | 5 |
Conclusion
I would have thought that sites like eBay and Pistonheads would have been popular with private sellers but this isn’t the case. Exchange & Mart are much cheaper than AutoTrader but obviously not as popular with private sellers. The most prominent site to go to is Gumtree.
* eBay didn’t allow a 30 mile search radius so I had to use 25 instead.