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Don't worry guy's you are not alone. Everyone knows this and everyone's going through this harassment: http://7days.ae/way-sell-car-uae-without-aggravation.

Just for the record and everyone FYI, I sold my car through Carnity classifieds two months ago with right price (not under-value, nor over-value) to private buyer in a week time. As here members and exposure are less so I only received three calls in one week, but all from private guys no dealer call of "how much last cash price". Not bragging this, but bottom line is to display your car ad to lesser exposed places but in front of real people like here, or local spinneys news bulletin board or in your office Intranet etc. It works all the time.

@mankool, What a great reply man: Honest and absolutely to-the-point. IMHO: Anyone who buy the car and drive it should bear the depreciation whether it's for a month or a year as that's how the market should take it as: you use it, you pay for it. Sadly and unfortunately there is no legally transparent documented sale price and odometer reading here which leave quite a big ambiguity and plus fair people try to inflate the price on dubizzle as a cushion to get the decent selling price while getting sloshed with bargain hunter. In last few years, I have seen private dealer as much as five times than prior to 2010 in UAE. All thanks to online age and easy part-time second source of money generation. Maybe car market is doing bad because of this only as anyone want to buy a car, see's a rocketed inflated price and anyone want to sell the car they see filthy cheap offers and in end no one buy and sell :-(.

Hi guys, I would like to share the flip side of the story. I am a n Engineer by profession but I buy and sell cars as a hobby. I mostly look for luxury sedans and sports cars so once in two months I buy my 'weekend' car. The reality is that your best bet is to sell to end users and you will hardly find a dealer paying decent money. Their margin is some where like 10% for a car below 50k and 15-20k for a car touching the 100k mark and above. But the important thing that I wanted to get across is that some time our expectation is too high and when we get a quote from a dealer we feel they are paying half the value, which may be true in some cases as some people highlighted. For example, recently a friend's buddy was selling his BMW 530, 2013 with 45,000km for 141k and Iif I were to buy this car in order to resell it then I would pay him just 100k because i have to resell thr car back in the market and grt my money rolling. This also means my price should be attractive or else i woll be stuxk with the car. So thats how things work at our end The second point is that today's car market, like any other business, is doing real bad .. Things are hardly moving so the dealers try to play it safe by offering such ridiculous prices.

The best way to sell a car is here is to advertise it and sell it to a Private Buyer. When I had to sell my Ford Focus, I went to Al Futtaim Automall and after evaluation they offered me just AED 11K. I sold it to a Private buyer for AED 23K, So all dealers just want to rip you off and then make a profit by selling it for an inflated Price.

Dealers everywhere here try to rip the crap out of you, i think the reason is because there are lots of people who leave the country, it became a habit for them to rip off people!

Dubizzle, Newspapers, Gulf News, Al Khaleej are great sources to sell your car at.. I had a very bad experience with selling my Jeep 2013 model that i've used 5 months with desert driving from Al Futtaim, bought it for 114,000 & had to sell the car, they payed me 55,000 for it! Sold it for 90,000 !

Same here. You'll get better value from the end buyer. I sold my Kia Sportage 2012 for 52K last year and even the dealer told me that I was lucky to have it sold at that price.