I'm selling my 04 MCS (already bought an 06 MCS with LSD last week).. Basically, what would you pay for my car? I'm getting very different numbers from appraisal sites (KBB/NADA) and Its listed on cars.com and I'm having a hard time trying to gage its actual value. I was offered $10k earlier today and I countered $11k (down from $12.5k).

When I initially posted it on cars.com, they had a "whats my car worth" function where it calculated a KBB value: It was around $10,000. I later calculated it's value on KBB without following a link from cars.com and it gave me $13,900 retail and 12,100 private party. I understand the difference between retail, trade, and private party, but don't understand why cars.com's KBB is so much lower vs. going to the KBB site independently.

Here's a link to my NAM listing: https://www.northamericanmotoring.com...k-miles&cat=12
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ll used car estimaters are largely based up recent sales and locations....so aslightly different database...different answer....but remember,it ismostly historical data, with a few calculations thrown in....the value is what a person is willing to pay....
Remember, the "dealer"price not only includes profit, but also a warrenty of some type (even as is often has a few thousand mile/feww days warrenty if not a week), usually a bitof a detail, a wash, and anbasic mantance check/oilchange by most dealers.....
Not really answering you question, but sounds like you lowered your price...guess it comes down to can you justify the $$...lets face it,buyer and seller usually BOTH look up the price...so it is a starting point...then add subtract for how bad you want to sell, options, condition, car history, mx...more of a fuzzy math than science....and readi g the buyer/seller.

 

thanks Zip. Just weird that when I look up the info through Cars.com's KBB its a few $K less than when I go directly to KBB.com and plug in the same exact numbers.

 

Here's my real life example for you. I just picked up my 04 MCS JCW two weeks ago and ran into a similar situation with real world vs KBB pricing. KBB suggested around 13-14k based on the condition and mileage of the car with the fact that its a JCW, premium, and sport package ticked (the car is fully loaded which made me super duper happy. Only thing missing really was the cold weather package, rather unnecessary in Arkansas...)

I told her straight up I wasn't paying more than 10k for it. The girl's grandparents insisted she not take less than 11.5k for it and I still wasn't going to go up any. What helped is I started finding things to nitpick at the car as potential things I was going to have to fix (minor cosmetic damage, potentially a supercharger in the short-term) and she eventually caved. I actually caught her at a time (girl is a distant friend) where she was actually strapped for cash and I wasn't necessarily in NEED of a new car, so it really just worked out for the best

So as previously stated, it just comes down to a matter of how badly you need to sell it now and if can you afford to wait it out for a little more if you think its worth more. =P