We Buy Any Car-Warning

spike7451

After reading a thread on here about those cowboys & how much they under value a car for I,stupidly,decided to see how much my motor was worth.My intention was just for research,I have no intention of selling.

The are cars advertised online,the same model,age ect but with more milage than mine, for around £1500 up to £1700.WBAC offered me £475.

Needless to say I declined &,the is a pop up button that says 'Not ready to sell,do not contact' which I pressed.

Now,whenever I go onto Photo Bucket or other sites that have adverts on them,I'm now seeing adverts from these cowboys with 'my' car on it with the value they offered me on a viral advert.

darkwarrior

Do you not have anti-virus installed with ad-blocker? That should remove that kind of stuff.

Also clear out your cookies.

Kilty_2

WBAC undervalued my car by about £300. A Fiat main dealer undervalued it by more than that as part ex :rotfl:

spike7451

darkwarrior wrote: »

Do you not have anti-virus installed with ad-blocker? That should remove that kind of stuff.

Also clear out your cookies.

I do all that on a daily basis,I know enough about PC security for that.Run AV every week (quick scan) & a full one every month,also I delete the pc history,cookies ect daily & CCCleaner every other day.

No my point was beware if you use these creeps to get a quote as even tho they say they wont contact you,they are contacting yo in the form of adverts offering to buy your motor.

nw_mum

Same thing happened to me last year. I didnt want to go ahead then received pop up ads but soon stopped after about 4 months then I'd get the old email from them with the same cheap offer for my car.

darkwarrior

spike7451 wrote: »

I do all that on a daily basis,I know enough about PC security for that.Run AV every week (quick scan) & a full one every month,also I delete the pc history,cookies ect daily & CCCleaner every other day.

No my point was beware if you use these creeps to get a quote as even tho they say they wont contact you,they are contacting yo in the form of adverts offering to buy your motor.

Yeah but I don't think they'd be able to show up in your adverts without some way to track your page movements which I think would mean something is on your computer.

papasmurf54

Hi all,
I too last year (after my car was written of by another motorist) enquired as to what they would buy my car for, (out of curiosity) and was offerd £400, (the insurance did offer me £1600), but when I declined WBAC's offer they popped up saying if I took it to my local Stonacre then they would offer me another £75 cash on top.
Like it has been said they are rip offs

Incyder

tracking cookies.

spike7451

darkwarrior wrote: »

Yeah but I don't think they'd be able to show up in your adverts without some way to track your page movements which I think would mean something is on your computer.

Found it,delete all cookies was unchecked.

darkwarrior

spike7451 wrote: »

Found it,delete all cookies was unchecked.

Good riddance, a site of a registered company like that shouldn't be allowed to do stuff like that.

Keith

What a stupid moan this entire thread is.

If people look at the adverts that they see on websites they will notice that they are usually linked to sites that they've visited.