Have been browsing Carlist.com for a month and I noticed, whatever model of car you search, there will be a 10-20x longer lists of “Dealer” compared to “Private”? Same thing on Carousell or any other platform, it’s always full of dealerships than direct car owners wanting to sell their used cars.

Since dealers are notorious for tempering with mileage/odometer, lying about accident/flood/ownership history and such, why do people still sell to them instead of selling to end users interested in used cars?

The logic is, since dealers will always want to buy at the lowest price (understandably since it’s their biz nature), why don’t ppl just sell directly to interested buyers? Do dealers save you so much time that buying/selling with them make it more worthwhile than buying/selling with individuals?