Buying at "Car-Supermarket"

sheslookinhot

all cars are overpriced, people only realise by how much when they ask for a valuation on their own car.

DaveF327

happywarmgun wrote: »

Will probably buy privately now - but would like to know for future reference.

You could have shot yourself in the foot here. Buying privately may well cost you more and you'll have no comeback to the seller if it breaks down the minute you drive it away.

To be honest, I don't really like all the haggling malarkey, so I'm glad of a place where the price you see is the price you pay providing the deal is a bargain in the first place.

I bought my car from Fords of Winsford many years ago and they operated the same policy. I still felt I got a good deal.

soulsaver

Inactive wrote: »

More likely a quid each, I can buy them for £2 each legally.

A link would be useful so others could make the same saving and help the competitive seller?

soulsaver

Kilty wrote: »

I've bought about 6 pairs in the past year, all for ~£8 a pair delivered.

Fully legal Euro GB plates.

A link would be useful so others could make the same saving and help the competitive seller as well?

Kilty_2

soulsaver wrote: »

A link would be useful so others could make the same saving and help the competitive seller as well?

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/NUMBER-PLATES-DESPATCHED-SAME-DAY-GB-Non-GB-/180501662207?pt=UK_CarsParts_Vehicles_CarParts_SM&hash=item2a06bcc9ff

Used this seller a good few times now.

Inactive

soulsaver wrote: »

A link would be useful so others could make the same saving and help the competitive seller?

Mine are " mates rates " so sorry no link available, I was only pointing out the real cost of number plates.

bigjl

To buy privately because a car supermarket wouldn't negotiate is madness.

Car supermarkets, as previously mentioned, stack 'em high and sell 'em cheap, they have smaller profit margins than franchised dealers, and due to their buying power they have the pick of the premium ex lease stock.

You also have the full back-up of consumer law, making it a no brainer.

But feel free to be indignant then but an overpriced private sale with no legal recourse.

Just because we are coming out of recession doesn't mean these places will give cars away, and the reason they won't negotiate is because they have a tight profit margin, the stock is also selected by experienced buyers, nationwide, this makes any cars selected for stock a much better proposition than any private sale.

If I need a newer car, on finance, then I will use car supermarkets.

Imp

I looked at these car supermarkets about 4 years ago when I was replacing my car. The place seemed full of fairly new, but high mileage cars, and all at a high price. The discounts they advertised were discounts from a new car at list price, so for something that was 2 years old and had 60k on the clock, I'd expect a hefty discount from the new list price. In the end I went to a small dealer, saw a car which fitted my needs, told him the price I wanted, the warrantee I wanted and the tax/MOT I wanted and he agreed. I drove the car away three days later.

bigjl

You have to be wary about which car supermarkets you use, carcraft are sometimes termed a carsupermarket but they sell overpriced crap most of the time.

Also a lot of delboy types have renamed their businesses carsupermarkets.

The only ones i would buy from are CarGiant, Fords of Winsford and Motorpoint.

These are the ones that have been going for years, Trade sales in slough have been going for a few years but then they also got fined by trading standards for selling parallel import Opels as Vauxhalls, all they did was change the badge on the airbag, not exactly james bond style, but then again somebody was fooled by it.

I think Imp has come across one of the Delboy types, my wife got a low mileage Clio Dci, 5 dr Expression, in silver with FSH under 30k miles and a years MOT for £5700 including indemnity, I checked several main dealers and some independant dealers and they were priced up for between £6500 and £7650 with similiar miles.

I could have got it for about £4500/4700 if I had gone to the auction, but we wanted to finance it, we also had a choice of almost every make around, everybody will have a bad experience, and I suppose I could have negotiated a few hundred off the other cars, but why travel all over the place, wasting your days off work, I consider my time to be valuable, a no haggle deal is perfect for me, looked at 10 different cars and found the one we wanted paid a deposit, all sorted in 2 hours.

misterspivvy

I was just going to say, carcraft do the pile 'em high bit, but havent managed to get round to selling 'em cheap yet. I was stunned at the prices they were asking for what looked like crap to me.
Don't forget these are the same people who own "webuyanycar" so don't expect any bargains.