I sold my 993 private party and the buyer ran it thru a dealer so I was able to run my private party purchase thru the same dealer and take advantage of the tax benefit on a trade while getting private party pricing. First time I ever did that, never knew it was possible!

 

Trading in a big dollar car is not fun, ever. What is even less fun is listing your car for sale, getting all those Paypal offers from guys in secret military installations that can't call you, tire kickers and joy riders. Then waiting for the right buyer and working out payment, clearing titles, and worrying if something goes wrong and the buyer may know where you live. If you factor in the 6-9% sales tax savings, matching the dates of turn in of your trade to the pick up the new car, no worries about clearing existing loans and convenience, a 15-20% reduction to a private sale is not the end of the world. I'm sure there are many success stories of private sales, but they are tough to find.
The best thing you can do is know the values of your new car and trade separately. Then go for the best deal.

 

I don't know, I had a bunch of fun selling two classics on Bring a Trailer-- so much I wanted to sell some more!

 

 

Considering what I was offered a few months ago for my 2013 C2S with 33k miles and MSRP of $134k, this is a fair offer.

 

What was your offer?

 

I was offered between $59k - $63k from various dealerships. The local Porsche dealership offered $60k.

 

 

 

What were you planning to pay for the GT4? Those values are down now, so the dealer might give you a lot off of the ask price. I haven't followed the 991 market to close lately, but I thought early 991's were trading in the low 70''s high 60's for your year and mileage. If so, $65 seems fair for a dealer.

 

Actually seems like a strong trade offer to me... The Porsche dealer portal has 2013 C2S with under 40K miles with asking prices as low as $64K. $75K will get you a similar car with full CPO (again, retail asking)

If you are saving 6% or more on the $65K trade then you are definitely at full money IMHO unless your car is really some amazing gem that everyone wants.

But also remember that as mentioned above, dealers often give what looks like a great deal on a trade in, but in fact are artificially inflating it by not discounting the price of what you are buying as much as they would with a cash deal....

 

They offered 32K OTD. The Gt4 has MSRP 106K with less than 1000 miles.

 

Maybe I'm just too greedy. I thought the C2s can trade up to 70K.

 

I'm sure some do, but some of those would have lower miles and many C2S's have significantly higher MSRPs than $115k.

Many argue that you lose nearly all of the cost of additional features on a used-transaction. And I agree that the depreciation on those is markedly higher than the core car itself. But the features do have a notable impact on price in my experience, especially with some of the more desirable core features.

 

that's pretty decent

delearship offers are all over the place usually. i had a dealership offer me 25k on my 2010 987.2S with 40k miles while carmax offered me 27k....I ended up selling to a private party for almost 29k