This has 48k miles. It’s silver and in amazing condition.

 

try using KBB.COM and price it for private party sale. You can add in your options and see the "excellent condition" price. Their system is geography aware so you can price for your zip code. After that, I'd go shopping on Autotrader for other cars with similar year/mileage/condition. Your price should be slightly less than the full service dealers, probably a bit more than wholesalers.

 

I did. The dealer offered me 5k. Thats wacky.

 

yeah trading in a nice car is not always the best option. you really need to price the new car without trade in then see what you'd get for the trade in to see if its really a good deal. BTW, what year is the C30 and what market are you in (ie nearest big city)?

 

2011. Fort Lauderdale (South Florida market)

 

I'm not planning to sell my 2009 C30 any time soon, but I do keep an eye on its "value" from time to time. I usually go to cars.com and a couple of other sales sites to look for:

• Current sales, but more importantly,
• Recent closed sales.

It's an uncommon enough car that I'm not convinced that KBB and other similar appraisers have enough data to give accurate pricing. The last couple of times I looked, C30s were selling for $1,500 or more above what the appraisal sites were suggesting. Yours is a very low-mileage car, so that puts you even more outside the norm. My '09 has less than 75k on it, and it seems to put me outside the range of other typical '09 sales.

So, I would find the couple of most recent sales that reflect your model year and trim package (as best you can find), then give yourself a little bonus for low mileage.

 

I sold mine for 8950.00 the rip offs at the volvo dealer offered me 4k as did "we buy any cars"