How to get rid of your dead motor...

As I explained in my other post, my car decided to die on New Years Eve, The engine failure was fatal and is not worth us repairing, So now what do you do?

Scrap it.. Well yes that's the easy option, call your local scrap metal man who is some cases will charge you to take it away if you are crafty you can do a deal that he will actually pay, you are looking at between £50 to £150, depending on the weight of your car.

Or..

You can sell it on ebay!
Yes there is a market for broken dead car's especially prestige makes.
however it can also have major pitfalls!

Listed our car on ebay with a fee of £10 with a 5 day listing ( this was actually a bad idea and you should aways do maximum 10 day listing on expensive items)

From the moment it was listed we had endless calls mostly from foreign descent
offering half the listed asking price, these are easy to deal with - The answer is 'NO' this is my asking price ££££, however several did come back with increased offers but no where near the asking price.
We did have a really nice local guy come look at it who offered the asking price all was sorted he would come back in the morning with his transporter then vanished into thin air..
The listing ended with no bids and that's when the phone really started ringing
finally we were getting proper bids too!
A guy rang up with a strong accent he was located about 20 minutes down the road could he come look at it first thing in the morning will pay full asking price, Sure look forward to seeing you, blah blah..

2pm he called again we are round the corner we are coming now..
3 massive scary looking men got out a white Skoda.. they looked rough and ready!!
RUSSIAN MAFIOSO!
They went over the car with a fine tooth comb picking up everything,
so he started with offering a lot less, again he was reminded of the lowest price we would take, the asking price!
Seriously pooping one's pants these guys were intimidating but sticking to our guns
and on the verge of him walking a way they finally agreed to pay the asking price.

So they insisted in coming in the house to do the paper work and count the money, So we have 3 massive Russian men in our house, we are going to be killed or kidnapped at any moment, really did all Three HAVE to come in?
I am thinking like a sweet shop only one aloud in at a time!!
Money counted trying to check as best we could that they weren't fake and documents sign.
Expecting that they would call a transporter to remove the vehicle, no they tow it away behind the Skoda!

It was only after they left I realised he hadn't filled out his full address on the V5, dodgy!

We battened the hatches and double locked the doors thinking they would be back to do us over, thankfully so far nothing but we still twitch a bit when we here a car door slam outside!