Where to Find Cheap Used Cars For Sale

Where to Find Cheap Used Cars For Sale

Let's face it, the cost of everything is going up. The gas prices are crazy, food has gone up by as much as 20% and credit is getting harder and harder to obtain. No wonder more and more people are wondering where they can find cheap used cars for sale. You're probably one of them, since you took the time to read this article. Well, you've come to the right place because I'm going to show you a couple of places you can get a cheap used car in you city.

The first and most obvious way to find a cheap used car is to look in the newspaper and free classified sales papers they put out in front of the grocery store. Out here in Los Angeles, they have publications such as the Penny Saver, Auto Mercado and the Recycler. They have plenty of good, cheap cars for sale from both dealerships and private owners. If you look hard enough, you can usually walk away with a steal.

If you're not into flipping pages, you can surf the web by visiting such sites as Craigslist, AutoTrader and eBay Motors. The good thing about sites like these is that they allow you to really narrow your search down to the specifics. You can tailor your search to suit the price, make, model, color, mileage, etc. of the car you're looking for. Most listing also have plenty of interior and exterior pictures of the car, so you can get a pretty good idea of what you're dealing with before you waste your time going over to see it.

If you really want a cheap car, you best bet is to head on over to a car auction. You'll be able to get cars from the last 2-3 years for hundreds and usually thousands less than what you would pay at a dealership. Especially, since the decline of the economy has caused more and more people to fall behind on their car payments and ultimately end up having it repossessed. This means you can get good, well maintained cars, trucks and SUVs for dirt cheap. Shoot, you can even turn around and sell a couple on the side for a nice profit.

So, now you should even have to wonder where to find cheap used cars for sale because you know where to look. Just to refresh your memory, you should be looking in the papers, on the internet or at a car auction. But you'll save the most money by getting into the wonderful world of auctioning.