What to write on a car for sale sign
How to Write a Car "For Sale" Ad!
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how's it going everyone today I'm going
to be doing a video discussing how to
properly write an ad for Craigslist or
offer up or Facebook marketplace or
wherever you happen to be selling your
cars because while I'm young I have had
quite a bit experience in the last few
years looking at different cars online
and and now and it's finally come time
for me to post one of my own cars for
sale unfortunately this shirt kind of
gives away what it is but I'll be
showing you my specific ad that I wrote
in this video and I'll kind of talk
about some do's and don'ts and some
certain things that you'll want to
include and maybe some other things that
you might not necessarily need to
include in your ad if you're a returning
subscriber and you watch most of my
videos will know that I am unfortunately
having to sell my 1995 Mazda Miata with
my Saab 9-3 are coming back not only to
the channel but my garage having three
cars just doesn't really make sense so
it's either the Miata the arc or the
turbo X and I've already explained why
I'm gonna choose to sell the Miata over
the other two you guys can check out
that video up here in one of these
corners but the Miata has to go and I've
loved this car I'm debating on whether
or not I'll do one final video with it
or not but that's not what today's topic
is about so I'm gonna go ahead and share
my screen with you all and talk about or
just read through my ad and point out
certain things that I've included offer
up I chose to offer up I was probably
going to end up posting on other sites
if I didn't get such like good responses
from offer up a Craigslist would have
been the obvious choice but now
Craigslist charges for ads I just
decided to not even bother with them so
offer up is what I went with
it's a great site I've actually bought
this Miata off of offer up and I've
bought a couple other things off the
site it is a really good site so here
you can see pretty clearly this is just
kind of offer UPS format but $3,000 and
it says the year 1995 Mazda mx-5 Miata
one hundred thirty six thousand miles
right off the bat as well as my location
so before I get into the actual ad
itself I want to talk about the pictures
because pictures are incredibly
important all the pictures that I'm
going to show you are actually old not
old pictures of the car but I didn't
taking these pictures just for the for
sale ad so when you're taking pictures
at your car you want to make sure that
you have more than one first off and you
want to make sure that you're getting
every angle so maybe one from the front
quarter the rear quarter maybe the front
the back at least one shot of the
interior and ideally like a shot of the
engine bay too so you'll see that I have
all these included here here I have a
shot of the driver's side and like the
front quarter of the car I guess if you
say second pictures a rear quarter third
picture here is just of the side
driver-side fourth picture is a good
shot of the engine bay the fifth picture
is kind of similar than the other ones
but I figured out include it as well the
sixth one I talked about you'll see the
reason for including this picture in a
little bit and then the seventh picture
is just a generic shot of the interior
so you really don't need a million
pictures well a lot of people like to
post 20 pictures which is great you
don't necessarily need to post that many
I did just realize that I didn't show
any pictures of the passenger side so if
you're someone who wants to point that
out to me or someone who's selling a car
that you're interested that person
should be more than willing to send you
a picture of that side of the car but
I'm not trying to hide anything by not
showing that side of the car so I
started off the ad I honestly just kind
of wrote this up really quick yesterday
and I solely added a couple things to it
throughout the day but really I just
started off by saying this is my 1995
Miata I've had the car for two years now
and I've put around 15,000 miles on it
I have maintenance records since my
ownership and that includes things like
a recent oil change gauge cluster swap
master and slave cylinder and more and
that the cars never let me down so right
off the bat just kind of state general
information about it you could also
include the mileage here as well but
since the ad already has that I said not
to include it again the next section of
my ad is really the section that I think
car sellers should do much more often is
a pros and cons list because I've seen
this on a very very few amount of ads
but it's just I think it's a great tool
to use because it shows that you're not
trying to sell them something that's
perfect and you're not trying to lie to
them and say oh this car is amazing and
then they show up in it's a total hunk
of you know so pointing out flaws
with the car maybe not
Sara Lee with a coms list but pointing
out some flaws in the car will
definitely help you look more honest and
not like the stereotypical used-car
dealer so in my pros I just mentioned
some generic stuff like it's got clean
title its unmolested meaning that if
you've ever looked for a used Miata
online you'll know that about 90% of
them aren't coilover shitty wheels or
stamp stout or completely beat to trash
so I'm basically just saying that this
car well has a couple modifications
isn't like a ricer you know fart can't
exhaust me out of like a lot of those
out there
I also mentioned cold air conditioning
because here in Phoenix Arizona that is
critically important during the summer
months I recently did the water pumping
timing belt which is a big maintenance
thing that you gotta do on these Miatas
and then I talked about the modification
so it's got a mission mode a three row
radiator Mishimoto fan shroud Mishimoto
radiator radiator hoses and B wheels
which is second gen Miata wheels with
good Toyo tires Jeep headlights which is
why I included this picture up here a
clean interior and no major dents or
dings on the body so that's just a few
of the pros that I thought of off the
top of my head I coalesce and Marv I
figured I would keep it shorter rather
than making it super super long so now
moving on to the cons and really to be
truthful about the Miata of my Miata
mechanically it's a very sound car
except for the couple things I'm going
to point out in the cons list but really
the big problem with that car is the
cosmetic so I said to the paint on the
hood and fender as the peeling clear
coat it really doesn't look the best the
front bumper is actually cracked down at
the bottom I figured I'd mention that
that's important there's some scratches
here and there so being a 24 year old
car it's it's gonna have some scratches
although really nothing super
significant front suspension does make a
noise from time to time and it has a
lifter tick every now and then which is
the common Miata issue as I'm reading
through my ad I feel like I'm just
advertising it to you guys I mean like I
said by the time you see this video the
car 99% chance will be gone from my hand
so this was kind of just like a spur of
the moment thing I said alright I'm
finally gonna list it for sale so I
didn't really I put it on my Instagram I
didn't roll
shove it up to you guys on YouTube so if
you're interested in it and it's gone
which it mostly will be I am sorry so
then I just kind of reiterate again that
it's not the prettiest car but it's
mechanically sound and has been a great
car for me a little bit of cosmetic love
and paint could really make this car
something special and then I've
mentioned that you know Miatas are known
for being such a fun car to drive so I
just figured I would throw that in there
and it really pains me to sell it kind
of showing that I really do like this
car and I wish I didn't have to sell it
I care about it and showing that I care
about it shows that I have taken care of
it and I haven't beaten it to crap over
the last couple of years so I throw in
there again at the end that's hard to
find
unmolested Miatas and this is pretty
much one of them and not it can be a
possible template for a project car a
track car drift car resto de lis
whatever you want to do this car you
know that's a great thing about me on as
I've talked about before you can do
anything with them so I figured I'd
throw that in there and I figured that
people reading the ad would look at the
car and see oh yeah I want to do that to
it and maybe give them some ideas and
make them want to buy it so that the end
I mentioned 3,000 or best reason will
offer message me with any more questions
and of course I added no trades cash
only
I don't want to deal with people trying
to offer me their shitty pickup truck
and five hundred bucks for that car
because actually like literally ten
minutes after I posted ad someone
offered me a trade so then I threw that
in there at the bottom and then some of
those wanted to offer me a check so I
just figured I'd put that in there at
the bottom just that way it's clear that
I don't want whatever crappy car you're
trying to sell me I just want to sell my
car and I just want cash for it but
there are some other things that you can
add to your advertisement whether that
be like including the VIN or a CARFAX I
didn't have anyone asked me for the
CARFAX surprisingly you could also
include how many owners the car has had
just just some more generic information
about it and really you learned how to
write an ad not necessarily from copying
what exactly what I did but just from
when you're looking for cars online you
can see oh this was a good advertisement
and this this one wasn't so good because
it just said clean title and then here's
a number to text me at and it had one
picture like what am I supposed to do
with that so I would say really the
biggest thing to do so I would say
really the biggest couple things when
writing an ad for your car whether it be
on Craigslist offer up or even a paid
site like bring a trailer is make sure
that you're including make sure you're
including as much relevant information
as possible anything major or semi major
I may turn to include in both the pros
and cons list or in the rest of the ad I
also major include all the major
information like what year it is how
many miles clean title etc all those
major information pieces about the car
and then of course your pictures are
huge
having good pictures is what's gonna
make people click on the ad in the first
place most of the time because you know
if I see a blurry picture or some
picture of like one little specific spot
of the car versus a nicely taken nicely
photographed picture of the whole car
maybe even in a nice background or
setting I'm gonna click on that one that
looks a lot nicer first because your
mind just kind of automatically thinks
oh that's going to be a nicer car even
if it isn't necessarily so pictures are
huge too I don't really have a whole lot
else to say guys if you have any more
questions or want any sort of help
writing an ad for your car
go ahead and email me DM me on Instagram
those are both down in the description
box with that being said that's it for
today guys make you all so much for
watching if you enjoyed the video give
it a thumbs up okay all next time
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