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Post by RichieBarkerOut! on Jan 2, 2022 11:43:34 GMT
I'm looking to buy a car from a private seller and I don't want to sell my old car privately as it's got a couple of issues with it.
We Buy Any Car is an obvious place to go, but I know there are other places that offer a buying service and I wonder if anyone has tried a few of them and have any recommendations?
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Post by OldStokie on Jan 2, 2022 12:21:03 GMT
It depends on the car you're selling and the one you're buying. SH car sales are booming these days because new cars are becoming more difficult to get delivered for various reasons. Traders are paying over the odds for SH cars because they're at a premium. So, for the one you're selling, tell a trader what's wrong with your car and see what they offer you. My lad is in the bodywork trade and he says the price you get off Webuyanycar.com is a scam. If it's a reet shed then advertise it for spares or repairs on one of the online places like Autotrader and make the buyer sign a receipt that it's sold for spares.
Personally, I wouldn't sell any car I want to get rid of unless it's to the trade. There's nothing worse than selling a car and something goes wrong and the buyer is banging on your door telling you that you've stitched them up.
OS.
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Post by xchpotter on Jan 2, 2022 13:07:18 GMT
A lot of these car buying sites are owned by British Car Auctions and filter stuff through the market. If you really don't want the hassle it's an option, but expect several hundreds and depending on the car, thousands, below market value.
The price they offer on line is rarely met as unless its showroom condition with full provenance and main dealer service, they will use any excuse to knock you down.
You will probably get a better price by sticking it on Gumtree or Marketplace from a motor trader than from those sharks, but I do see how it suits some.
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Post by andystokey on Jan 2, 2022 13:11:37 GMT
I'm looking to buy a car from a private seller and I don't want to sell my old car privately as it's got a couple of issues with it. We Buy Any Car is an obvious place to go, but I know there are other places that offer a buying service and I wonder if anyone has tried a few of them and have any recommendations? Not a good experience with WBAC they tell you top price on the Internet then knock you down when you get to the office. Have you got two keys? (No -£50) full service history (No -£100) etc. I was offered £350 on the app then £50 after a clearly fake, "let me call my boss for the best deal" call. I refused and stuck it on gumtree when I got home with all the faults listed, "as seen" I got 30+ calls in 3hrs, mostly trade and someone gave me £500 cash for it within the day. You can specify if you only want trade calls. |
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Post by heworksardtho on Jan 2, 2022 15:36:02 GMT
I'm looking to buy a car from a private seller and I don't want to sell my old car privately as it's got a couple of issues with it. We Buy Any Car is an obvious place to go, but I know there are other places that offer a buying service and I wonder if anyone has tried a few of them and have any recommendations? Not a good experience with WBAC they tell you top price on the Internet then knock you down when you get to the office. Have you got two keys? (No -£50) full service history (No -£100) etc. I was offered £350 on the app then £50 after a clearly fake, "let me call my boss for the best deal" call. I refused and stuck it on gumtree when I got home with all the faults listed, "as seen" I got 30+ calls in 3hrs, mostly trade and someone gave me £500 cash for it within the day. You can specify if you only want trade calls. Don’t forget they’re paying I rent me bum out Schofield for doing all the ads |
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Post by heworksardtho on Jan 2, 2022 15:37:16 GMT
I'm looking to buy a car from a private seller and I don't want to sell my old car privately as it's got a couple of issues with it. We Buy Any Car is an obvious place to go, but I know there are other places that offer a buying service and I wonder if anyone has tried a few of them and have any recommendations? Have you tried a company called Motorway they offer more than WBAC |
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Post by franklin on Jan 2, 2022 15:51:48 GMT
We buy any car offer pretty much rock bottom prices what I did with my sons car was go to them with NO service history and they gave a low ball offer I then said oh he's got his service history and of course they then offered more. He wanted it gone as he was already living abroad it was a 7k Golf sold to WBAC for under 4k !!! I was furious but it was his.
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Post by staffordstokie on Jan 2, 2022 16:07:35 GMT
WBAC are an absolute disgrace. I was getting rid of an old Zafira, they offered a huge £115, less the selling fee fee so £58. He 'rang' a friend of his who said £150 tops. Listed privately to trade only and within 4 hours got £650.
A friend of mine fell for it and sold them a Ford Galaxy. He just wanted rid of it and after fees got £2/0 for it. We checked it on British Car Auctions, got £1700.
Would never go to them again out of principle now.
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Post by Huddysleftfoot on Jan 2, 2022 16:16:10 GMT
WBAC owned by BCA their staff are given bonuses based on how much under bottom book they can secure your p/x. Avoid and sell privately, Autotrader have a smartphone app that will value your car fairly.
I write with 5 years experience in car sales.
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Post by BuzzB on Jan 2, 2022 16:29:36 GMT
WBAC has upped its game. I have a Qashqui 2014, paid 9k for it privately 3 years ago. Did a quote over Christmas and was offered 7700, a week later they were back to me upping it to 8000.
Quite tempted actually
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Post by Gods on Jan 2, 2022 16:32:49 GMT
Agreed you typically get a rock bottom price with WBAC but the upside is you don't finish up with some dodgy geezer counting out £20 notes on your breakfast bar which you have a nasty feeling he printed that morning!
I must admit selling a car is not my favourite pass time, it has a devil and the deep blue sea feeling to it all, there must be a better way!
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Post by RichieBarkerOut! on Jan 2, 2022 17:13:45 GMT
Well the power of The Oatcake has convinced me to sell it at car auction or do a warts and all advert on Autotrader.
thanks for the advice!
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Post by xchpotter on Jan 2, 2022 18:50:43 GMT
Well the power of The Oatcake has convinced me to sell it at car auction or do a warts and all advert on Autotrader. thanks for the advice! Good luck and I feel your pain about selling a car, but i’ve found buying even worse 😂😂. I bought my lad his first car a while back, it was his money and he had a budget of around a grand. I knew you’d get very little from a garage for that price so decided to look privately on marketplace and gumtree. Loads of cars, but my God how dishonest so many people were in advertising them. I must have spent about a hundred quid on vehicle checks finding many had been involved in accidents and yet the sellers said they hadn’t. Cars were described in good condition but when you got to see them in person there were huge dents, major oil and water leaks. It just seemed so many normal people were out trying to sell something they knew wasn’t right. I kept at it and eventually found a 16 year old Mazda with 60,000 miles and 12 months MOT, but it was being sold by an older couple who needed an automatic. Anyway, they lived in a nice area, the mileage was consistent with DVLA, lots of service history and it just felt genuine. It’s recently sailed through an MOT and touch wood no problems so far. I guess what I’m trying to say is just be honest with the car sale description and hopefully you get interest from someone half decent and you get a fair price and no grief. |
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Post by OldStokie on Jan 2, 2022 19:54:26 GMT
WBAC has upped its game. I have a Qashqui 2014, paid 9k for it privately 3 years ago. Did a quote over Christmas and was offered 7700, a week later they were back to me upping it to 8000. Quite tempted actually That's possibly because that (and later models) are the type of car dealers are struggling to get hold of at a price that will enable them to make a profit after taking a cheaper car in part exchange. I'd try and punt it direct to a dealer if I were you. OS. |
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Post by Vadiation_Ribe on Jan 3, 2022 19:34:23 GMT
I'm looking to buy a car from a private seller and I don't want to sell my old car privately as it's got a couple of issues with it. We Buy Any Car is an obvious place to go, but I know there are other places that offer a buying service and I wonder if anyone has tried a few of them and have any recommendations? Not a good experience with WBAC they tell you top price on the Internet then knock you down when you get to the office. Have you got two keys? (No -£50) full service history (No -£100) etc. I was offered £350 on the app then £50 after a clearly fake, "let me call my boss for the best deal" call. I refused and stuck it on gumtree when I got home with all the faults listed, "as seen" I got 30+ calls in 3hrs, mostly trade and someone gave me £500 cash for it within the day. You can specify if you only want trade calls. People pay way over the odds for convenience these days. Convenience often equals rip-off. I've been quite lucky with bangernomics the past 10-15 years - picking up bargain cars from a scrap dealer who puts them through an MOT. A £500 Corsa lasted me 5 years (including two long Scotland road trips) without too much trouble. The scrapyard didn't have anything available earlier this year, but I seem to be doing okay out of a dealer's £650 Punto, which has already been on one Scotland trip. I think car dealers generally want to keep a good reputation these days. |
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Post by OldStokie on Jan 3, 2022 20:27:24 GMT
Not a good experience with WBAC they tell you top price on the Internet then knock you down when you get to the office. Have you got two keys? (No -£50) full service history (No -£100) etc. I was offered £350 on the app then £50 after a clearly fake, "let me call my boss for the best deal" call. I refused and stuck it on gumtree when I got home with all the faults listed, "as seen" I got 30+ calls in 3hrs, mostly trade and someone gave me £500 cash for it within the day. You can specify if you only want trade calls. People pay way over the odds for convenience these days. Convenience often equals rip-off. I've been quite lucky with bangernomics the past 10-15 years - picking up bargain cars from a scrap dealer who puts them through an MOT. A £500 Corsa lasted me 5 years (including two long Scotland road trips) without too much trouble. The scrapyard didn't have anything available earlier this year, but I seem to be doing okay out of a dealer's £650 Punto, which has already been on one Scotland trip. I think car dealers generally want to keep a good reputation these days. You sound like my sorta car guy RV. I'm running an X reg Suzuki Wagon-R Auto (done 50,000 miles) that my bro gave me 12 months ago before he died. It's in superb condition all round and cost me nowt. Before that I had a £500 Clio that I gave to my grandson and which is sound as a pound and flies through the MOT each year. Before that I had a Cat C damaged Punto that I bought for £700 12 years ago and which never let me down once. The best thing about all these bangers is that if they go wrong you can always weigh them in at a scrapyard for about a hundred quid.  OS. |
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Post by innocentbystander on Jan 3, 2022 22:22:24 GMT
People pay way over the odds for convenience these days. Convenience often equals rip-off. I've been quite lucky with bangernomics the past 10-15 years - picking up bargain cars from a scrap dealer who puts them through an MOT. A £500 Corsa lasted me 5 years (including two long Scotland road trips) without too much trouble. The scrapyard didn't have anything available earlier this year, but I seem to be doing okay out of a dealer's £650 Punto, which has already been on one Scotland trip. I think car dealers generally want to keep a good reputation these days. You sound like my sorta car guy RV. I'm running an X reg Suzuki Wagon-R Auto (done 50,000 miles) that my bro gave me 12 months ago before he died. It's in superb condition all round and cost me nowt. Before that I had a £500 Clio that I gave to my grandson and which is sound as a pound and flies through the MOT each year. Before that I had a Cat C damaged Punto that I bought for £700 12 years ago and which never let me down once. The best thing about all these bangers is that if they go wrong you can always weigh them in at a scrapyard for about a hundred quid. OS. That's the way to do it as cheaply as possible- people worry that they're going to be judged by the car they drive, in practice not many people notice or remember who has got what. The real mugs are the ones buying a new car every couple of years because of what the neighbours think. And re- use is the most efficient form of re-cycling. |
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Post by Vadiation_Ribe on Jan 3, 2022 22:31:40 GMT
People pay way over the odds for convenience these days. Convenience often equals rip-off. I've been quite lucky with bangernomics the past 10-15 years - picking up bargain cars from a scrap dealer who puts them through an MOT. A £500 Corsa lasted me 5 years (including two long Scotland road trips) without too much trouble. The scrapyard didn't have anything available earlier this year, but I seem to be doing okay out of a dealer's £650 Punto, which has already been on one Scotland trip. I think car dealers generally want to keep a good reputation these days. You sound like my sorta car guy RV. I'm running an X reg Suzuki Wagon-R Auto (done 50,000 miles) that my bro gave me 12 months ago before he died. It's in superb condition all round and cost me nowt. Before that I had a £500 Clio that I gave to my grandson and which is sound as a pound and flies through the MOT each year. Before that I had a Cat C damaged Punto that I bought for £700 12 years ago and which never let me down once. The best thing about all these bangers is that if they go wrong you can always weigh them in at a scrapyard for about a hundred quid. OS. I sold my Corsa for £100 to a breakdown recovery company for its registration plate which creatively read "SOS LOTS." By the end, the water leaks were so bad into my Corsa that it had its own microclimate. I wish I knew enough about cars to look after them better, like fixing stuff up myself. I'd like to buy a small van as a camper too, but I don't trust my judgement on buying used cars enough to include something I'd occasionally rely on for accommodation too. I also had a Mark 2 Golf that cost me £250 and now would've been worth nearly ten times that. My favourite was a 1989 Mazda 626 for £250, although it only did about 25mpg, it was fast and luxurious (heated seats!). A cold winter killed that one off when I didn't use it for about a month. |
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Post by OldStokie on Jan 4, 2022 20:04:23 GMT
You sound like my sorta car guy RV. I'm running an X reg Suzuki Wagon-R Auto (done 50,000 miles) that my bro gave me 12 months ago before he died. It's in superb condition all round and cost me nowt. Before that I had a £500 Clio that I gave to my grandson and which is sound as a pound and flies through the MOT each year. Before that I had a Cat C damaged Punto that I bought for £700 12 years ago and which never let me down once. The best thing about all these bangers is that if they go wrong you can always weigh them in at a scrapyard for about a hundred quid. OS. I sold my Corsa for £100 to a breakdown recovery company for its registration plate which creatively read "SOS LOTS." By the end, the water leaks were so bad into my Corsa that it had its own microclimate.I wish I knew enough about cars to look after them better, like fixing stuff up myself. I'd like to buy a small van as a camper too, but I don't trust my judgement on buying used cars enough to include something I'd occasionally rely on for accommodation too. I also had a Mark 2 Golf that cost me £250 and now would've been worth nearly ten times that. My favourite was a 1989 Mazda 626 for £250, although it only did about 25mpg, it was fast and luxurious (heated seats!). A cold winter killed that one off when I didn't use it for about a month.  I used to be okay on the repair side. I ran a couple of artics of my own for a while and did all my own maintenance. I also ran a small garage in Longton for a few years. I'm lucky. I'm self-taught in most things and I'll give anything a go. Having said that, I wouldn't touch a modern car for a state pension. 90% of the problems require a computer diagnosis to put 'em right. My daughter has a battery parasitic drain on one of her cars, a Nissan X-Trail T31 Aventura diesel. I've dropped it off at the auto electricians today. It wouldn't surprise me if it costs as much (or more) than I pay for a car to put it right. OS. |
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