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mikemac84

banjobob wrote: »

that's not my experience on this one much to my surprise! As i mention at the end of my post they didn't offer too well for my current car when i enquired out of interest.

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mikemac84

anyone sold a car to webuyanycar.com please get in touch so we can both get £40 marks and spencers vouchers

JagDriver

From the vehicle mentioned in post 261 it seems WBAC offer the Glass's trade in value for cars below average condition (£1,100 as of this morning). From this assume they also know what the retail value is (also from glass's £3,030, or £2,145 for a private sale).

BIRCHY50

Do they ever waiver the fees?

doric_2

My car was valued at 3,200 so to to save hassle I took it along to sell. It's a nice one-owner, low-mileage BMW, new tyres, new MOT etc. Really nice. I suspected from the pushy email reminders that it was too good to be true, and of course it was.
I was told that they were doing lots of business and buying 30-40 cars a day. When I got there, on a Saturday, there was no one else there. It looked like they were doing 'no' business.
The buyer kept me waiting, a salesman's technique, and when he swaggered through to meet me proceeded to politely look for anything that could reduce the price - although I did not realise that initially. I was so confident the car was superb that I ignored his 'slight scuff on the bumper' until he came up with 'part service history'. I told him that the car was serviced last year and it's only done 2,000 miles since then, but this was the hook he needed. He then took me through a pathetic attempt at getting me to accept his price by showing me online how the price was recalculated and came to 2,500.
I got up to leave and he 'called his manager', what a surprise, and he raised his offer to 2,750. I was so annoyed that I'd been scammed that it was now personal and I was out of there.
He said 'if you re-enter your details with the part-service history you will see the valuation is 2,500'. I did this when I got home and it said 3,000.
Basically these guys are opportunists. They lure you in with a decent valuation, and the dream of an easy sale, and then start to play you when you get there. It reminded me of time-share sales techniques. I'd say that this is a scam and should be avoided unless you must sell your car because you cannot afford to keep it and no-one else will buy it. I suspect they rely on the seller deciding, 'well, it's better than nothing! At least it's off my hands..'
I was also wary about getting paid (in full and on time), but I never got to that stage obviously. I've sold dozens of my own cars to the trade previously and I never handed one over until it was paid in full.

Mallotum_X

At least they accept they offer rubbish value.

2spicy

mikemac84 wrote: »

Anyone who has sold a car to webuyanycar.com get in touch and we can both get £40 m&s vouchers.... btw i found them good to deal with, car had a lot of problems and would of felt bad selling it to someone other than these

Sold my Car with them, made a small profit too. Very happy

Enfieldian

2spicy wrote: »

Sold my Car with them, made a small profit too. Very happy

That's two firsts with them then.

1) Making a profit
2) Being happy

skivenov

We've moved a few cars for them. I'm not saying they always give a great price, just chucking another perspective in.

If you consider it from the angle of what they're going to do with the car, it kinda makes sense. They either prep them to go in a Carcraft shworoom, or send them straight to auction (normally the nearest BCA).

If a car's worth £1000-£2000 all day long on a private sale/backstreet forecourt, they're not going to put it in their showroom for a couple of reasons. One is it'll detract from the other cars they're selling there (you just need "a car", there's one for £8000 and one for £1000, which are you going to buy?). The other is, they've got to put right anything that's going to cause them a problem under guarantee.

So they send it to auction. A dealer buying it who's looking to sell a car for £1000-2000 isn't going to want to spend much at all to buy it.

Ballpark figures, based on a guess, pull em apart if you've got more accurate figures than me:

Retail "worth" of a vehicle on a dealer's forecourt: £2000
Customer haggles them down: £1850
Dealer has to MOT it and do a few jobs to prep it: £1700
Dealer has to pick it up from the auction of pay transport: £1650
BCA charge buyer fees and commission: £1500

So as a dealer, you can have an educated guess that to break even (not make any money) on a car you've got £2000 on the windscreen for, you don't want to bid more than £1500. You want to make a profit, pay for your pitch, cover any kippers you buy, you might bid a grand.

So WBAC are making a grand from selling the car?

Nope, they've still got to pay sellers commission/fee and transport it to auction. So they'll see £850 maybe.

They want to make a profit and cover their overheads (pitch, buyer's wages), so you can see how a car that's worth £2000 to the seller's not worth even near a grand to WBAC.

dacouch

Enfieldian wrote: »

That's two firsts with them then.

1) Making a profit
2) Being happy

Have you read their "reviews", it's quite amusing.

http://www.reviewcentre.com/reviews169436.html