Why some people think CarGiant are overpriced rubbish

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Flyboy152

bigjl wrote: »

You mate are confusing Trade Sales and CarGiant, the reason they changed the name was just to stop uninformed people like yourself from thinking that are the same company,

I know full well that they are not the same company, I have never implied they were.

how many times do I have to say that I would never ercommend buying a car from Trade Sales, they have been fined by trading standards before and I wouldn't ever buy from them.

So why do you keep recommending CarGiant? They have fined been several times by Trading Standards.

And obviously a sacked member of staff is a very reliable witness to how a company works.

What? :huh:

At the end of the day they have been going for about 25 years, they have survived more than one economic down turn.

So have many companies, I still wouldn't use that as a reason for assuming their integrity is intact.

Funnily enough the people I know that have relative that work there have never seen any of the practices that you talk about, but lets not forget that people buy the wrong car all the time, or they break it through ingorance, and every time the dealer is too blame.

Then they are not telling you the whole truth.

When you consider the simple numbers a dealer that sells as many cars as CarGaint is going to deal with more than its fair share of knobs, numpties and customers that make up for any lack of mechanical knowledge and mechanical sympathy with an ability to be a pain in the !!!! that posts revoews on various uninformed webpages.

Tesco sell goods worth billions every year, they end up at trading standards as well (except they are able to pay someone else to make it go away ).

You are free to disagree with my opinion, but where is your recommendation, where is your better choice?

Anywhere but a supermarket.

It is fine to disagree, but if your disagreement has no foundation then it is pointless.

Have you been reading my posts.....seeing as you have made many errors in quoting me, I'd take that as a no.

Opinion without experience is not worth anything.

My "experience" is sufficient, thank you very much.

Is it my fault that myself and loads of my mates and various work colleagues over the years have bought many, many cars from CarGiant, then put huge mileages on them with little if any mechanical problems?

You have either been extremely lucky, or perhaps a little confused.

I can only comment on what I have seen and experienced.

Or encouraged to.

mikey72

bigjl wrote: »

Go and buy one then that is pretty cheap, you won't get the wifes for that price, though I suspect that the ones at that price are a bit on the ropey side, the wifes' is still minty, mint condition. And even with the wifes high mileage use it is still only an average mileage car, not bad though, 26k with nothing but consumables, don't you think?...............

Not really.
We've a diesel 106 that's had 50K miles on it in the last 3 and a half years.
Saying as it cost £475 in the first place, and I reckon it's depriciated by £25, it's had nothing but consumables, and it's extra minty with the tic-tacs in the door pocket.

BillTrac

Lot of first time poster trolls here...CG staff must be having a quiet time...:rotfl:

Inactive

BillTrac wrote: »

Lot of first time poster trolls here...CG staff must be having a quiet time...:rotfl:

Almost as many as the old AutoQuake threads.

( Look how they have ended up ..:D ).

Kilty_2

Just shows you that peddling ex-fleet crap isn't as profitable as you'd think

Leave it to the professionals - Arnold Clark are pretty good at decieving people as to the origins of a car :whistle:

Angelic

Angelic wrote: »

I don't understand.....do you work for them?
I'm a car novice and like to think MSE is an impartial site.

You didn't answer so I guess you do work for them and this thread should be deleted as spam:cool:

bigjl

Angelic wrote: »

You didn't answer so I guess you do work for them and this thread should be deleted as spam:cool:

No, I don't and never have worked for CarGiant.

Though going by the spurious comments I think that some people that post here have been sacked by them.

They certainly don't think anybody should be saving money.

I did work for Addison Lee about 12 years ago, but that isn't why i put up a link to the place where they dispose of their fleet at decent prices.

As I have bought from CarGiant and got decent vehicles that have been reliable then I will recommend them.

If you think this makes me an employee or a spammer then I think you need to do some more reading of this thread and others that are quickly turned into a slagging match by the usual unhelpful suspects. Funny how they never come up wit any other suggestions and have never bought from CarGiant.

I have, and we currently own a car bought from them in late 2009, this car has been trouble free.

I started this thread to see what would happen after my advice to use CarGiant met with a similar responses from the certain people, these same people responded in the same way in this thread.

Perhaps instead of trying to infer that I am a spammer due to not answering your post, perhaps you should read the drivel posted by these persons that never post any advice to help anybody and are trying to ruin the forum with negativety and abuse.

They seem to get some jollies from antagonising people into putting them on ignore, as if this is some kind of victory for them.


And mikey72 if you check the link that I put up after you said you could buy a car like my wifes for about £3999 in Autotrader, then you will see a car that is almost certainly from the same fleet as my wifes car, as it is not only the exact same spec and model but the first part of the reg no, FN56, is the same as the wifes, since the only bit that is specific to a car registered in the same area at the same time is the last three letters.

If you think buying an identical car to that in my link in Nov 2009 for £5790 is a bad deal then up to you, I think it was a good deal.

You can now continue to slag off CarGiant.:rotfl:

mikey72

bigjl wrote: »

And mikey72 if you check the link that I put up after you said you could buy a car like my wifes for about £3999 in Autotrader, then you will see a car that is almost certainly from the same fleet as my wifes car, as it is not only the exact same spec and model but the first part of the reg no, FN56, is the same as the wifes, since the only bit that is specific to a car registered in the same area at the same time is the last three letters.

If you think buying an identical car to that in my link in Nov 2009 for £5790 is a bad deal then up to you, I think it was a good deal.

You can now continue to slag off CarGiant.:rotfl:

So long as you're happy.
All cars have a price range.
Your model starts to sell ay £3995.
The maximum price a dealer lists it at may well be £5299.
If that's what you'd pay now, fair enough.

INT1

Stack em high, sell em cheap.