Best places to search for private party used car listings?

Birdie2000

Birdie2000

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Been using all the usual suspects... Cars.com, Autotrader, Car Gurus. Most of the listings are dealers and priced accordingly. It is very rare to find a private party listing their vehicle there.

Where else should I look? I'm primarily searching non-local as the used car market up here is slim pickins for anything that is interesting, rust-free, and not a truck/SUV. Where are people listing their cars online? Is it really mostly just Craigslist? Even with Search Tempest it's a PITA as everyone throws in so many irrelevant keywords and/or the listing has always expired.

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ebay for random vehicle searching. Although, if you have in-depth details to give, word of mouth has proven to work well. Anything specific that you're after? PM me with more info if you would like.
 
I was searching for a 94-95 Mustang for the last couple months and I was finding the most cars by far on Craigslist...
You have to keep clicking around though and searching different cities/areas.

I heard that these Facebook "groups" have taken over as well for enthusiast car stuff.
Corral.net used to be my go-to website for all things Mustang, but that website has seemingly died over the last 5 years. The ones who remain there say that the Mustang FB groups have killed the site.

What kind of vehicle are you looking for?
 
Just buy a vehicle already, there are lots full of vehicles all over the place....New, Used, Certified Used, Crapboxes...Non-certified crap boxes... Heaps...piles... ..projects... Trades... Repos...

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Not trying to hijack but mine might be for sale soon. I will let you know.

Golden said:
I searched daily for months on end for an SLP bowtie grill for my car using this. Definitely the fastest way to hit a 500 mile radius from here. Never did buy one, a guy from New York wouldn't ship it with me paying over item cost plus shipping cost just for his time.
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