Sell It Yourself Car Seller's Guide

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Online Car Selling Benefits Selling your car online provides many unique benefits. These benefits can help you generate qualified leads, sell your car faster and facilitate an easier sale closing.

Advertise Nationally

Expand your reach beyond your local area and advertise your vehicle to prospects you can't reach through other advertising options. Reach the over 10 million unique visitors to the Cars.com network every month. Plus, have your ad appear on Cars.com, Yahoo! Autos and the Web sites of our 175 newspaper and television affiliates.

Sell Locally

Even though your reach is expanded, an online ad will still reach a large number of local prospects. And whether your eventual buyer is local or from out of town, you are still able to close the sale face to face, ensuring a smooth transaction.

Earn More

Not only may you be able to earn more than a dealer trade-in, but also because of the reach of an online ad, your ad may be seen by buyers outside your local area who may be willing to pay more than your local market will bear.

Include More Information

With an online ad, you can provide as much information as you wish. Cars.com allows sellers to include up to 12 photos of your vehicle, extensive vehicle descriptions, and a free CARFAX Vehicle History Report. This allows you to better advertise your vehicle and attract more serious leads.

Measure Your Ad's Results

Our ad traffic reporting allows you to see the number of times your ad has appeared in the cars.com search results and has been viewed by potential buyers. This indicates the number of shoppers who are looking for a vehicle similar to the one you are selling.

Additional Selling Tools

In addition to your online ad, we provide selling tools to help you sell your car faster. These tools include Fliers, Window Signs and Bill of Sales with information from your ad prefilled. Just print them out and benefit from an easier selling process.

Advertise Until Sold

Online ads can run for as long as it takes to sell your vehicle. This ensures your ad is available when the right buyer is conducting their search. And when you find your buyer, you can easily remove your ad to stop further inquiries.

Modify Your Ad - Any Time, Anywhere

As long as you have access to the Internet, you can edit your ad. Correct a mistake in your description, change your asking price or add more photos. All modifications are live within minutes of submitting your changes

Outstanding Value

Online ads are relatively inexpensive compared to other alternatives. With all the benefits of an online ad, this adds up to tremendous value for your advertising dollar.

Multiple Contact Methods

If you want to sell your vehicle fast, you need to be available to prospective buyers. An online ad on the cars.com network allows you to provide both an e-mail address and phone number for prospects to contact you.

List Your Car with Confidence

Cars.com connects thousands of car sellers with car buyers every day. That is why we have made advertising your car with a cars.com Premium Ad risk free. Your Premium Ad offers free renewals so you may run your ad until you sell your car. If you have not sold or traded in your car after 90 days, you may be eligible to obtain a refund for your cars.com Premium Ad with our 90-Day Money Back Guarantee. Read the full 90-Day Money Back Guarantee Terms and Conditions here.

CARFAX Vehicle History Report

The CARFAX Vehicle History Report will help you sell your car more quickly by providing potential buyers added confidence in your car's history. The CARFAX Report provides a detailed history of your car that may be displayed with your ad and viewable free of charge to cars.com shoppers.