webuyanycar.com

munchmel

Have just used this company to sell our 2007 family car and felt I had to post as we had such a positive experience and not all branches are total rip off merchants, but like any dealer out to make money.

Our online quote was £8035, I took the tactic of not declaring anything (scratches, dents etc) as I thought whatever quote comes back they will ruthlessly knock us down. Well to say we have 4 kids, 3 dogs and never maintain our car apart from servicing. We dont spend Sunday afternoons cleaning and waxing it, it was in a very dirty condition (although we did our best to clean it up) with more than a few exterior scratches and dents. We put the true condition into the wewillbuyyourcar.com, and they valued at £6800. After a tense 15minute car check, WBAC offered £7600, we managed to negotiate an extra £75 + £25, so we didnt have to pay out the admin fee and fast chaps payment fee, so ended up with £7600, no hassles, no test drives, no annoying timewasters through private selling. Of course they'll make money out of us, but we're more than happy with the service, and the Ipswich guy was very professional, no hard sell slime ball, just very pleasant and unassuming. Would definately recommend to anyone to give it a try, its worth 15 mins of anyones time if you have a branch not too far from home. They're not all bad,and no I don't work for them. Sometimes new posters do have a genuine comment to make, despite all you cynics.

taffys259

Just left We buy any Car depot-they offered £700 less than web price-Their people work on commission as to how low they can get the car cheaper than web price-BE AWARE !!!
Why less-said the all tyres needed replaced-but car just passes an MOT two days earlier-and one service stamp missing ???
Just try to rip off vulnerable people

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dacouch

lol at munchmel's post...

To MSE readers have a read of the link Jonj gave in post 71 so you understand how this company work.

Play them at their own game, the assessors earn commission on paying you less than the website valuation. So the answer is to get as high a valuation as possible from the website eg don't declare any scratches etc etc so the staff can get their commission for knocking you down by the percentage that gets them their bonuses.

Obviously the best situation is to avoid them totally.

If the assessors were fully qualified in valuing cars the obvious thing would for them to not know the value the website had given so they give an impartial valuation on the car without being influenced but that's never going to happen when WBAC have a business model based on screwing the lowest possible price out of you...

INT1

I think they are a bit too successful for their own good, in 2 months my offer for my BMW has dropped almost £2k!
I was pleased with the first offer they gave me beginning of year but now a £2k drop, don't think I will be going there!

Planet_Zog

RE: webuyanycar.com

Got an internet valuation for my car of £11,120. Took my car over, they looked at it, then offered me just over £9000. All sorts of problems with it ... yeh right ......... Several days later I met some other people who had also been to this company and would you believe it, they had been told at another branch that their car had more or less the same 'faults' as mine,
Odd or what ??
Take a word of advice from me and give them a very wide berth.
An OAP with a walking stick I might be, but guillible and stupid I am not.

cyberbob

I wouldn't use them as their advert is so bloody annoying.

missile

tali wrote: »

anyone used webuyanycar.com?

My son is looking for a new car and their quote was better than Arnold Clark offered to trade-in his 57 plate Toyota Auris 2.0 diesel against a new car.:beer:

daveboy

I had a brief look for my car....they quoted just over £4k for it.

Having read elsewhere on the net about their tactics, I'd immediately take a good £800 off that before I got there.

A pretty expensive charge to hear a load of crap come out of a guys mouth about the non-existent faults it's meant to have.

Total cowboys and only for the totally desperate.

chrisw

cyberbob wrote: »

I wouldn't use them as their advert is so bloody annoying.

Think the adverts have been pulled for a while as misleading so you might get a bit of a break:-

http://www.asa.org.uk/Complaints-and-ASA-action/Adjudications/2010/6/We-Buy-Any-Car-Ltd/TF_ADJ_48594.aspx

desthemoaner

After first getting a price around a month ago Ive periodically revisited the site to update my original valuation. Those valuations have been arbitrary, to say the least. With one month's MOT left my Vauxhall Meriva 1.6, 2004 Enjoy Easytronic, 30000 miles on the clock, was, according to the first valuation, worth £2960. A month later and now with a year's MOT on it, its apparently worth £2200. Its lost seven hundred quid in value with the passing of a month, but more confusingly, with the passing of an MOT. My son's 2003 Rover 25, a model which Ive seen on for sale on Autotrader around the 1500 quid mark, was valued by Weslagoffanycar at £700. Yes--Whatcar and Parkers are probably over-generous with their valuations but at least theyre consistent. Weslagoff are not, and that sets alarm bells ringing.
Given that I was offered a pathetic trade in last time I took my car to an independent garage I was originally tempted to use this service, but as soon as I found out they were linked to Carcraft and observed the crazy lurches in value accompanying each successive valuation, that idea soon went down the tube.
Think I'll run it into the ground instead.