You can easily find cars for sale by owners online. Autotrader, Hertz Car Sales, Craigslist, CarDaddy, Edmunds, eBay and Cars.com are some popular websites selling used cars.

The wholesale value of a vehicle is the value that a dealer would pay to purchase it from a car manufacturer. In the case of trade-in vehicles, the wholesale price might also be the price a dealer would pay to purchase the vehicle from a dealer auction.

A dealer value indicates the price you could reasonably expect to pay to purchase a vehicle from a professional vehicle dealer. Dealers will often bring cars up to a marketable standard, both mechanically and aesthetically, as well as provide warranty coverage post-sale. These inclusions are not generally provided by private sellers.