If you’ve ever listed an item on Facebook Marketplace before, you may have noticed that as you move through the ‘Create Listing’ process, you are asked whether you’re selling an item, a vehicle, or a property.
To sell a car on Facebook Marketplace, the first step is to select ‘Vehicles’ from this choice menu, thereby tailoring the information that you are asked to provide and placing your listing in the right category for interested buyers.
Information You Need to Sell a Car on Marketplace
When you start a vehicle listing on Facebook Marketplace, like with any product you need to provide as much information as you can alongside photos and videos.
The vehicle make and model, year of manufacturing, and how many owners it has had are all requested as part of the listing creation journey. From there, you can set the price and input your own details in the Description field – backing up all the information you share with photos that show the condition and quality of the vehicle.
How Buyers Will Contact You
Once your listing is live on Facebook Marketplace, the experience as a seller is much the same as when selling any other item.
Prospective buyers will be able to message you, with these messages sent to a Marketplace Inbox in your Messenger app for ease of organisation and monitoring.
If a buyer is interested in completing their purchase, we tend to recommend to both parties that an in-person inspection is carried out prior to the exchange of funds in order to ensure that both the seller and buyer are happy to proceed. Deposits or part-payments may be requested, followed by a final transfer of funds on pick-up.
How to Maximise the Chance of Sale
In order to make sure that you not only sell your car but get a good price for it, our advice is to make the description as detailed as possible and include lots of photos and videos. As well as this, set the vehicle price at a competitive rate, and invite prospective buyers for inspections and test drives if they are local.
The benefit of completing a sale through Facebook Marketplace is that you have full control over every stage of the sale and do not have to pay any fees – however, this also leaves you open to potential scams, which is why it is crucial to proceed with caution.
Good luck!
