Closing up Shop

I leave town tomorrow and I'm just about ready to go. One amazing thing about living in a furnished apartment is how easy it is to shut the door and head out without trying to sell or store everything. I've slowly been purging clothes (donated to a local hospice [http://www.hospicewits.co.za/] who will come to pick up your donation; so convenient) and canceling memberships and whatnot, but one major item I do...or did own...was my car.

Selling my car, and hopefully not losing a bunch of money on it, was the biggest source of worry for me as I prepared to move. I tried to sell my car privately within my network and on autotrader.co.za, but when that didn't work I called around to dealerships to get quotes. Luckily, I also had a friend tell me about webuycars.co.za. This was the quickest, easiest process and I was able to keep my car right until my departure.

If you're looking to sell your car, you just go to the website, enter in the car specs, add a picture and ask for a quote. Almost immediately I was sent a quoted range and asked if I was happy with this, if I would set up an appointment. This quote was higher by far than any of the dealerships so I sent up an appointment for the day before I left so I could still use the car as long as I needed it.

The Webuycars rep showed up this morning, took a look around the car, checked out the paperwork, we took a test drive around the block and then he gave me an offer, staying within the range I had been quoted. We then took about five minutes where he entered in all my information in his tablet, sent me a sales agreement electronically and called his office to do an EFT to my bank account. We then waited another five minutes for the payment to show up in my account and voila - he left with the vehicle registration docs and the car. It could not have been easier.

Now the only thing left will be for me to transfer money from my bank account here into my Canadian account...I will have pay a Forex fee and I'll lose money on the conversion from Rand to Dollars but hopefully I'll still have a nice chunk of savings left when all is said and done.

Okay, now back to packing...