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emmell

My nephews email quote was £900 for an 03 Laguna estate. Never went to see them to see what the real offer was. He got £1400 off a used car dealer.
ML.

xycom1

As said, they are CarCraft

Yogibear

jw2003 wrote: »

hiya, sorry, I did go and look back about 10 pages and couldn't see anything and not a lot came up in the search first. I can be flexible coz there's no finance outstanding but wouldn't go below the emailed price regardless - doesn't help that it's a Toyota lol

I have a toyota,rather have it than most of the junk on the roads today:D

jw2003

I meant with the current headlines

Well I went, I sold, I was happy with the price - it was inline with the emailed quote Got less than I would have done privately but I wanted a quick sale and it needed new tyres and a major service plus some git dinked it with their car door just this week

Shirt

Thought I'd add my thoughts here, I sold a Mondeo today through WBAC. It was 52 plate, 118k miles (of which 28k had been done in a not particularly gentle manner in the last 12 months) run fairly OK and reasonable appearance.

Put it in online, got offer of £1,550. Had paid 2,100 just over a year ago, so thought that was fair enough - I figure I've added 30% to the mileage, so knocking 30% off what I paid was OK. Took it down to their place, where after half an hour of waiting (he was running late, and to be fair, there were lots of people there) I met Declan, who runs their purchasing side. He had a look at the car, made lots of notes about scratches, scuffs, etc and found a near-invisible dent in the boot which got lots of written notes. I'd never seen this dent, and it was a sod to see when you knew where it was, so I thought he was taking the !!!! a bit. Ran the paint depth tester over it, which apparently came back OK, and then we went back to the office.

He spent fifteen minutes filling in stuff on the computer, and finally comes back with 1,365. (So 160 down on what we started with). A minor bit of haggling got me to 1,450 and then we agreed to "go halves" on the admin fee - so it went up to 1,465 and he took off their 30 quid fee. This was apparently because what I'd put on the website was more or less the same as what it was; he says most people describe it as "good" when it's dinged and stuff and actually very average. I'd put good for the outside and average for the inside, and he said that was about right as there were no major dents and the inside was dirty but not ripped... (lots of mud, mainly). This may be why it came in fairly close to what the website said, as opposed to most people who seem to get considerably different answers between website and human.

So what seems to go on Autotrader for around 1,600 - 1,800 if I was lucky, I sold for 1,435 but it took me a total of an hour and a half and was really really painless.

Do I feel ripped off? No. I could have got more, but convenience always comes at a cost, Declan was happy enough to acknowledge that, and it is in fact one of the points on their advert.
Do I want to spend a day or so tarting up the inside so people can come over, sniff around, take it for a test drive, try and argue with me over it... or do I want to do it very fast and get about 150 quid less, which was still close enough to what I wanted to get out of it?

I'm happy enough

987654

Sold mine through Autotrader so didn't have to test WBAC.

ACID

interesting post

emmell

It just show's, if webuyanycar.com, buy's all these rubbish car's that people want to offload.
What do they sell at Carcraft? all the rubbish that people have been glad to get rid of.
People keep posting about what a good deal they've got for their less than average car but someone further down the chain is gonna buy this rubbish. So buyer beware!
ML.

plane_boy2000

Shirt wrote: »

Thought I'd add my thoughts here, I sold a Mondeo today through WBAC. It was 52 plate, 118k miles (of which 28k had been done in a not particularly gentle manner in the last 12 months) run fairly OK and reasonable appearance.

Put it in online, got offer of £1,550. Had paid 2,100 just over a year ago, so thought that was fair enough - I figure I've added 30% to the mileage, so knocking 30% off what I paid was OK. Took it down to their place, where after half an hour of waiting (he was running late, and to be fair, there were lots of people there) I met Declan, who runs their purchasing side. He had a look at the car, made lots of notes about scratches, scuffs, etc and found a near-invisible dent in the boot which got lots of written notes. I'd never seen this dent, and it was a sod to see when you knew where it was, so I thought he was taking the !!!! a bit. Ran the paint depth tester over it, which apparently came back OK, and then we went back to the office.

He spent fifteen minutes filling in stuff on the computer, and finally comes back with 1,365. (So 160 down on what we started with). A minor bit of haggling got me to 1,450 and then we agreed to "go halves" on the admin fee - so it went up to 1,465 and he took off their 30 quid fee. This was apparently because what I'd put on the website was more or less the same as what it was; he says most people describe it as "good" when it's dinged and stuff and actually very average. I'd put good for the outside and average for the inside, and he said that was about right as there were no major dents and the inside was dirty but not ripped... (lots of mud, mainly). This may be why it came in fairly close to what the website said, as opposed to most people who seem to get considerably different answers between website and human.

So what seems to go on Autotrader for around 1,600 - 1,800 if I was lucky, I sold for 1,435 but it took me a total of an hour and a half and was really really painless.

Do I feel ripped off? No. I could have got more, but convenience always comes at a cost, Declan was happy enough to acknowledge that, and it is in fact one of the points on their advert.
Do I want to spend a day or so tarting up the inside so people can come over, sniff around, take it for a test drive, try and argue with me over it... or do I want to do it very fast and get about 150 quid less, which was still close enough to what I wanted to get out of it?

I'm happy enough

oh look - another new poster telling us how well they did and how reasonable they were!

mountainair

Hi, I used them to sell a car as they gave me a better price by £1000 than the dealer I was hoping to p-x with. I didn't want to risk selling privately - heard too many scary stories!

One caveat, the dealer who I had discussed part-exchanging with (unethically) invoiced my car in to their stock (thereby releasing capital for the dealership to buy new cars). When webuyanycar.com checked on HPI it showed finance outstanding. Despite an email and a fax from the finance house (Lombard) to webuyanycar.com to say they had no further financial interest in it, wbac took a long time to pay us the money and it is almost impossible to talk to anyone who can help.

Overall, if it had been a straight forward sale, it would have been a very good experience.

Oh, and it makes interesting reading, getting an HPI check before you buy a used car!

Hope this helps!