So I was swapping my car (6 year old immaculate Volvo XC40 with full service history, low mileage and piles of extras), and thought I’d check We buy any car against the dealer trade in price. Was pleasantly surprised that their offer price was £1,500 more. I was expecting to be chipped down a bit but the new price once they checked the car was only £300 more than the dealer but I’d also have to pay £150 ‘transaction fee’ and a fee to get the money in the bank within 2 hrs. No rhyme or reason or explanation, just take it or leave it and a really poor attitude. I left it. Motorway were ‘offering’ more but you would have to wait up to 10 days for the dealer who bids on it to inspect the car and agree a ‘final’ price. In the end I couldn’t be arsed as my new car was ready to collect and I would have been insuring two cars for a week or so. The dealer offered a little bit more after I agreed to take out a service plan. The whole experience left me with a bad taste… just rubbish, never again.
Car dealers, stealers from the top to the bottom. I never try and sell on a car anymore, the utter arseholes that come out of the woodwork are intolerable - run it into the ground and then scrap it.
The only dealings I've had with wbac is when I sold my truck, and to be fair they were 10k more than the dealer I bought it off.
Mate, I once broke a Monster for parts to sell on eBay and it almost gave me a nervous breakdown. It honestly left me scarred. If the CIA or ISIS ever needed to come up with a process for converting someone with the sweet and sunny disposition of a Mary Poppins into a Charles Manson type figure who was capable of committing any form of atrocity on account of their deep and abiding hatred for humanity, then that would be it. Imagine the sort of chiseling moneygrubbing chancers who spam you with "wOtS uR bEsT pRicE m8" messages when selling a car, assign that sensation an integer between 1 and Infinity, square it and then multiply that result by the number of parts I listed.
Remember just after the plandemic when used vehicle prices went through the roof? I was sat in the kitchen waiting for my Mrs to get ready one night (you know the score) so just for shits and giggles I priced my car on WBAC… and it nearly went!! Glad I kept it though
This , but then imagine the item you are selling is an mx bike aimed at late teenagers ......... Ive now just accepted that i'll only part x any bike i have with a dealer against the newer one im buying and factor that in the cost of running it . My nerves and temper just wont stand it otherwise
I sold my trackbike recently, and yeah made me remember why I usually just do the trade in thing and dont deal with the general public. Within a day, 3 breakers offering my 2-3k under the price saying "cash in hand now" so once got over those chancers some of the stupid questions were unreal. Almost gave up as had someone spend an hour looking at it, to then offer me 1k less than I turned down from them on Ebay previously! Never again, just ran my transit into the ground (It blew up this week), wife said put it up for spares or repair but I have got a scrap price and that will do me fine to save arguing over 20quid
I had a really positive experience when selling my daughters car via Motorway. A chap came, looked at the car, agreed it was worth what they’d bid on it, called the gaffer and I got paid. No hassle, no quibble.
A mate of mine passed away last year and his wife wanted his car sold quickly and easily, they were actually better than I thought they'd be, price was OK and they didn't knock us down at all - though the car was in decent condition. 'We Buy' are owned by the same company that own British Car Auctions (& Cinch), so I'd imagine the prices are more aligned with auction values than dealer trade-in.
again to be fair, WBAC offered me more than anyone else when i sold an expensive Porsche 991 a couple of years back and very easy
Used one these ‘buyers’ last year for my parents car. Good experience tbh and the price was very close to forecourt prices. It was though a low miles super mini type Kia and a popular used car. Like others, I wont entertain the ‘private’ buyer route, space is becoming limited in prisons…
For some reason dirt bikes seem to attract imbeciles (a bit like Gixxers) but to then compound that by them either being teenagers with little mechanical knowledge and even worse social and language skills or, even more insufferable, their dads, who once rode a C90 around a field in 1989 which he thinks makes him an expert and, to cap it all, he also puts on an obnoxious alpha male act in order to impress his offspring.
