found a great deal on a mint 1.8T 2002 audi TT with 50000 miles and had to grab it. unfortunatly i cant keep my 2005 cooper too so i am looking to sell it. i LOVE the mini but the tt is a really nice drive. so anyway i wanted to say its been a pleasure reading and posting on these forums. when i get more room (a garage) i will get another mini and will return. also i was wondering for those of you that sold your minis. mine has been on the web for a few days now and i have not heard from anybody. its in perfect contition bla bla bla and nothing.... are minis still selling well? i would hate to not be able to sell it. i thought these little cars sold well and for a good resale but im starting to get alittle worried. the dealer here basicly told me they dont even want it and offered me HORRIBLE, HORRIBLE $$ for it (not because it is in bad shape, they didnt even ask me to bring it in to look at it). any comments or tips, thanks again.

 

Pricing is SO dependent on the part of the country. Consider calling a dealer in SoCal and see if he would buy it for his used lot . . . TTs are great cars, the real spiritual successor to the 356. Real - timeless design. Enjoy!

 

Maybe post a link to your ad and perhaps people here might be able to give you some constructive advise about it?

 

i would love to but im pretty sure the moderators here would kill this thread if i did that.

 

post it in the marketplace.

 

oh ok, good idea! here you go

https://www.northamericanmotoring.co...ad.php?t=62086

 

Been trying to sell my 02 MC for 2 1/2 months now. Good luck.

 

please dont tell me that!! anybody else having success selling a Cooper? anybody else have any tips that helped them sell theirs. anybody else having problems selling theirs?

 

Read here http://on.miniusa.com/thread.jsp?for...read=600005590
took two months, never was sold, traded it in.

You also got 35K miles on a one year old car that might not appeal to some ppl. Just a thought.

 

what he said ..you will take a hit somewhere. You also seem to be rushing into this, which may not be the ideal move. I hope you know what you are doing. Good luck.

 

take it to carmax.

 

I had my 2003 Cooper listed for what I believe was a very very good price (and this was confirmed by other people). It was listed for 2 months on multiple forums, autotrader AND craigslist. I didnt get a single response to it... not one

I eventually sold it to a dealer for a very low price. So sad :(

 

are we all under the false impression that our cars sell very well and also have a very high resale. i am hearing nothing but bad news from all of you that tried to sell your MINI. it shouldnt be that hard. its a MINI and we all take very good care of our cars. i just dont get it. i mean how can a dealer say how well these cars resell but then turn around in the same breath and offer me next to nothing on mine (and that was for trade in). whats going on here?

 

I think one of the big issues at the moment is that there are ALOT of new cars on dealers' lots as the plant has been pushing up production prior to the shut down for the model change over. Alot of folks that had been looking for used and were paying top dollar were doing so b/c they didn't want to have to wait on ordering a car and right now they don't have to, so they're buying new. Good luck

 

Reality check....MINI's just aren't as rare as they used to be and dealers are even beginning to discount. Production is ramping up and some of the novelty is wearing off. Resale will soon be no different than other finer cars on the market. Just the law of supply and demand kicking in, same thing happened to Harley's over the last couple of years. Why buy used when new ones are readily available for just a little more?

 

I never sold a car faster.

 

Part of the problem is that the resale value is so high that many (a): buyers would rather buy new for nearly the same money. Dealers don't want them because: see (a) or casual buyers looking at used cars don't get a 20+k used small car. When I used to sell Honda's, the Odyssey was the hottest minivan out there, couldn't keep them in stock. When we got a lease back on the lot, they sold for nearly the price of a new one (even w/50k miles).

Good luck. Someone else posted take it to Carmax. I agree, I would give it a shot.

 

I second the Craig's List suggestion, flav. But I also want to mention that a number of TT owners have sold them to get MINIs, so think about this carefully. Best wishes to you!

 

Oh no, I am going to put my 03 up for sale, sounds like it won't be easy, guess I better start now.

 

Be careful of Craigslist, there's a lot of scammers (and scams) out there. I would only do Craigslist if the buyer agreed to do the transaction face-to-face.

-Paul!

 

that much mileage on a car thats one years old, makes it look like a 3 year old car. you drove the heck out of it, cant expect to get 95 % of your money back if you drove it that hard in a year, if you were in a lease youd be paying through the nose on high mileage. reality check time

 

My husband and his brother sold their mother's vintage 1955 Jaguar XK140 in TWELVE HOURS. It worked out great.