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emmell wrote: »

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.

They will weed out the stuff they dont want to resell and sell it on to the motor trade.

I'd say they get lots of quite decent cars that people just want rid of and dont know any better.

emmell

pgilc1 wrote: »

They will weed out the stuff they dont want to resell and sell it on to the motor trade.

I've seen them at Auction, I've never seen as much rubbish in my life, but as it will cost them nothing to enter cars at Auction we get a nice car park full of stuff that a scrapyard would probably turn their nose up at.
ML.

plane_boy2000

emmell wrote: »

pgilc1 wrote: »

They will weed out the stuff they dont want to resell and sell it on to the motor trade.

I've seen them at Auction, I've never seen as much rubbish in my life, but as it will cost them nothing to enter cars at Auction we get a nice car park full of stuff that a scrapyard would probably turn their nose up at.
ML.

They still have to pay the auction fees

LandyAndy

mountainair wrote: »

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!

So.

Selling privately = scary.

Selling to a dealer = watch out for dodgy dealers.

Selling to WBAC = gets the job done.

First post.

How stupid do these people think we are?

rushhour

yes problem with webuyanycar is they are not independent. it is carcraft behind the scene. they prob buy cars off you to put in carcraft showrooms or auction to gamble?

terryya

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

Morning, Declan.

kirkwisebeard

wbac.... bonus!!!! Took em a really crappy Kia that we couldn't get rid of, (been trying for six months, and the dealers wouldn't even take it in part ex...) and got 600 quid.... and a chap I know who collects old cars for scrap takes em dogs with a days tax/mot etc, and gets at least fifty quid for them... at a cost of less than a tenner... and they always buy them!!

Sidmon

kirkwisebeard wrote: »

wbac.... bonus!!!! Took em a really crappy Kia that we couldn't get rid of, (been trying for six months, and the dealers wouldn't even take it in part ex...) and got 600 quid.... and a chap I know who collects old cars for scrap takes em dogs with a days tax/mot etc, and gets at least fifty quid for them... at a cost of less than a tenner... and they always buy them!!

If he's buying them for a tenner, and selling them for £50 when scrap price is as high as it is then he's either a fool or a liar!

emmell

plane_boy2000 wrote: »

emmell wrote: »

They still have to pay the auction fees

Depends what deal they have with the Auction house, usually entered for free, offer them in succession (CC Trade), then pay a commission on the whole lot (as opposed to individual commission).
ML.

Microstar_2

I have a few decades in the motor trade (run my own business since 1989). CarCraft/WBAC are real bottom feeders. I would neither buy from them nor sell to them.