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British Car Auction is "Auction View" Worth it?
I am looking at possibly buying a car from The British Car Auctions,
But to use the "AuctionView" facility online - it cost £10 for 40 searches, £15 for 100 ....
All I want to do is search for future car lists, and a couple of individual car searches.
Is the Auction view worth it, and beneficial, or should i just turn up to the auction and hope that there is something there???
Any help will be thanked!!!
Cheers
JH
But to use the "AuctionView" facility online - it cost £10 for 40 searches, £15 for 100 ....
All I want to do is search for future car lists, and a couple of individual car searches.
Is the Auction view worth it, and beneficial, or should i just turn up to the auction and hope that there is something there???
Any help will be thanked!!!
Cheers
JH
Learn from the mistakes of others - you won't live long enough to make them all yourself.
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It seems rediculous to me that they should charge so much to tell you what they have for sale!
I personally wouldn't pay it. Especially as the £10 only lasts for 2 weeks and I would be unlikely to use 40 searches in that time, even if I was looking for a car at the moment.
Do you have a particular site or car in mind? It might be worth ringing your local auction house and asking them.
An alternative might be their dial-a-fax service (which I also think is extortionate at 60p/min) that might work out cheaper.
Anyway, best of luck.
Nick.Fortuna caeca est - Fortune is Blind. It's certainly not looking in my direction! (how do you say that in Latin?
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The attraction for these searches are that it'll save lots ringing around ALL the auction centres & subsequent miles/fuel wasted on journeys.
Plus it'll maybe find the car you want at a centre you probably wouldn't have considered. Saying that, unless it is a VERY specific model, you'll usually be spoilt for choice at more or less any of the larger centres, on their fleet days.
& I'll also mention that it seems that every time I go to a sale after an already identified vehicle, I pay too much - yet if I'm just standing in the hall & something that had caught my eye, in the line up of entries, there's a good chance I'd get it at a more sensible price!!
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Where abouts are you.
I use an auction house in Leeds. https://www.motorauctions.co.uk
They are very friendly to private buyers.
The website has a stock list of the more expensive cars, cheaper end isn't always listed.
They also have a section for the prices cars made last month in the auction so you can see the possible savings over dealers.
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