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.
