{"id":13736,"date":"2021-11-16T17:08:30","date_gmt":"2021-11-16T07:08:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/?p=13736"},"modified":"2023-08-22T16:57:26","modified_gmt":"2023-08-22T06:57:26","slug":"selling-your-car-concierge-style","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/car-sales\/selling-your-car-concierge-style\/","title":{"rendered":"Selling your car concierge-style&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re <a href=\"https:\/\/privatefleet.com.au\">buying a new car<\/a>, you know where to go.&nbsp; In fact you&#8217;re already here &#8211; drop a request on Private Fleet and the expert consultants will do the rest for you, pain-free, stress-free and at the best financial result.<\/p>\n<p>However when it comes to just selling a car, there&#8217;s the age old dilemma &#8211; should you sell it privately to eventually maximise your financial return or sell it to the trade (wholesale) to minimise the hassle.<\/p>\n<p>If you have a prestige car and are located on the East coast of Australia, there&#8217;s now a third option that we highly recommend checking out.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/summon.com.au\">Summon<\/a> are a new concierge-style prestige car selling service.&nbsp; They take away all the hassle and put your car out to the public market to maximise your return.&nbsp; But not only that, they&#8217;ll likely do it better.<\/p>\n<p>Quality photos, knowing where to place the ads (and how to write them), pricing it correctly all mean you&#8217;re better set up to get a result and that&#8217;s before they take over all the hard yards of preparing for sale, inspections, haggling and getting the all important deposit.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13737\" src=\"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/summon.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"295\" height=\"275\"><\/p>\n<p>It comes at a cost, of course &#8211;&nbsp;they have two options both involving a initial listing fee (no doubt some sort of a commitment&nbsp; involved there so they aren&#8217;t wasting their time with unrealistic sellers) and % of the eventual sales price.&nbsp; From their site:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Premium Package: $450 upfront and 4%&nbsp;commission<\/li>\n<li>All Inclusive Package: $950 upfront and 6% commission<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Clearly for a $10K runabout, this probably isn&#8217;t going to stack up &#8211; in fact they start at a market price of $50K. But if you&#8217;ve got a prestige car, it wouldn&#8217;t take much of an upside to more than pay for itself.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve got no affiliation with Summon other than having spoken to them at length they seem the real deal.&nbsp; Professional people, genuinely out there to make a different and try to help solve one of the car industry&#8217;s age-old problems and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.summon.com.au\/reviews\/\">their reviews<\/a> look pretty damn good too.&nbsp; Drop a comment below if you give them a go, we&#8217;d love to know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re buying a new car, you know where to go.&nbsp; In fact you&#8217;re already here &#8211; drop a request on Private Fleet and the expert consultants will do the rest for you, pain-free, stress-free and at the best financial result. 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