Sometimes you need to think out of the box when trying to sell your old car. Photo / Supplied
Buying and selling cars is easy - any idiot can happily turn cars over one after the other. But making money, or not losing it -- that's the rub.
Like many other impatient Kiwi bloke/blokettes, at one point I had elevated dropping loads of cash on ill-conceived automotive trading to
an art-form.
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Buying a car based on emotion doesn't work. If that's how you're going to approach it, you're likely to cop a financial beating. You're not going to fork over a pile of money for a classic or muscle car, for instance, without the old heartstrings playing a fairly major part.
When it comes to selling cars, it's all about emotion - and this week a fantastic used car ad caught our attention. An Aussie chap, admittedly with access to some pretty cool digital trickery and a big background in marketing and advertising, wanted to get rid of his lousy Holden Barina.
