Has any used this cash for car websites?

felixjones12

Hi all,

I will like to sell my car to one of this sites , I have gone than the private ad route and online classifird ads route with no serious buyer. has any one got any experience using this online cash for car buyers which offer a fair price.

opinions4u

You get less than you would expect to get from a private buyer, but it removes a lot of the hassle.

That said, when I struggled to find a private buyer for my car I got a better offer from the local dealer than from we buy anything at all dot com.

pvt

Which? did a survey on them a short while back and found they fairly consistently represented poorer value than going to an independant dealer.

The wheeze to watch out for is that they will give you a price on the phone/internet, but when you take the car in to drop it off and collect the dosh, they find lots of dubious reasons to reduce the offered amount - in some cases quite considerably.

If I recall correctly there was only one instance in about 12 quotes where wepaysodalldotcom would actually have paid more than an independant offered.

mullin2001

I did sell my car to a cash for car buyer after using the comparism site bravocardeals.com. They compared offers/quotes from online buyers , franchise dealers and local dealers too . It turns out a local dealer 3 miles away could pay more and i sold the car to them.
Most local dealers don't advertise online the fact that they buy cars for cash, so i was surprised they paid me just above what i got else where.

Guifre

The 'webuywhateverlumpofmetal.com' type of place are building bad reputations for:

1. paying below market value (if they were buying houses they would have to warn the customer of this fact, but for cars apparently not).
2. altering the amount they might be willing to pay once you arrive at their premises, i.e. you enter details about your vehicle online, get a valuation, and then when you arrive they highlight things that mean it's worth less (a bit like the 'time-wasters' and 'tyre-kickers' that they are trying to replace).
3. making people worry, perhaps unnecessarily, about the process of selling a car via a tried and tested route like private advertising (which, admittedly, can be a hassle but isn't anything like as bad as they would have you believe) - they use the image of strangers at your house/test-driving your car as a kind of menace to achieve this aim.

I would never, in a million years, use one of these companies. Try local dealers - they don't spend millions on bad adverts, tend to rely on customer loyalty, and there's enough of them to easily shop around too.

rageagainstessays

I find the best way to sell anything, although I've never to sold a car, but I've posted ad's on gumtree selling stuff for my dad and I always find.. that if you write the advert with a friendly but serious tone, and write something like I will not reply to any of your emails unless you include a phone number- it works pretty well.

felixjones12

mullin2001 wrote: »

I did sell my car to a cash for car buyer after using the comparism site bravocardeals.com. They compared offers/quotes from online buyers , franchise dealers and local dealers too . It turns out a local dealer 3 miles away could pay more and i sold the car to them.
Most local dealers don't advertise online the fact that they buy cars for cash, so i was surprised they paid me just above what i got else where.

Thanks for the site , I will give it a go .

PhishFood_2

I got £3k from a dealer for mine when webuyanycar was quoting £1.6k! So my experience was not great!