Sold the car…

So – as the title suggests, we’ve sold the Focus that I mentioned before, in the attempt to go and buy a bus to cart the wife and child around in.

I had to drop the price a bit lower than I had originally hoped, as looking through the Auto Trader website, there are currently 10 Ford Focus for sale in a 10 mile radius of here, and all were about the same price that I had it on for originally, which was £4250, but all were about the same age or older, but all were a lesser specification than my car. I wanted to drop the price a little, to make it stand out from a group really.

Ironically, just as we’ve done ‘the deal’ for the chap to buy the car, a man from down the road knocks on the door, asking if the Focus is still for sale! Doh!

We’re going to go to Peterborough shopping to see what we can get for our money – we’ve spoken to lots of people now who have either recently bought a new car for themselves, or know someone who has, and the general feeling is that it’s a buyer’s market out there and that the garages are keen to strike a deal at whatever rate. We’ll see… and with money in the back-pocket, we’re in a much better position now to haggle on the price.

I’ll keep you posted.