ok its 13 years old now, but its worth more than the £400 they wanted to give me. i wouldn't
I'm looking to sell my Cherokee. It spends most of it's life sat outside the house so it needs to go.
I tried to sell it on Ebay a few months ago but it never got to anywhere near the reserve but there was still a lot of concern over the new
'supertax' on 4x4s. My car is two months short of the expensive tax!
I saw the advert for we buy any car.com so to try and get some idea of what the Jeep is worth, I filled in their online thingy and got a valuation of
£5635. That was way more than the car reached on Ebay!! I thought they were like those 'we guarantee to buy your house' places and that they
paid you £2.50 for a twelve bedroomed coutry house!
The we buy any car folks charge an admin fe of £49.99 but it's still odd that they are offering a comparatively good deal!
What do they do with these cars? Anyone had any experience with them?
Shoukld I give the Cherokee one last dip in the 'Bay or go for the Autotrader?
an old work colleague sold his honda accord 2.4 petrol with all the trimmings for 8k to them. it was an 05 plate with low mileage. this was end of last year
they only wanted to give me pennies for mine ok its 13 years old now, but its worth more than the £400 they wanted to give me. i wouldn't
They will value your car at trade price pretty much. My bet would be that the decent ones end up in the used car supermarkets and the tatty ones in
the auctions.
David
If it's a scam I'd expect they offer a good price to get you into the process and then ding it massively based on "poor condition"
when someone inspects it - at which point you lose your £50 when you pull out or they get the car for a song.
Don't know for sure if that's what they do, but I'm certain they aren't a charity and that's a cynics view of what could
happen.
Is there a bunch of small print around their offer allowing them to revise it at will?
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Originally posted by iank
If it's a scam I'd expect they offer a good price to get you into the process and then ding it massively based on "poor condition" when someone inspects it - at which point you lose your £50 when you pull out or they get the car for a song.
I enquired how much they'd give me for my elise on their site - £3k. 
Needless to say, I still have my elise...
a friend of mine works for them. they are part of the car craft group so i guess if they think they can sell it on ata showroom they will offer a
better price if not they will flog it on to one of their contacts so mhence a lower price.
will be a bit here today and gone tommorow if you ask me.
a way to make money out of sourcing cars.
I had two of my car valued by them about a year ago.
1997 3.2 Jaguar XJ6, Stunning condition, 100k, valued at £695
1998 1.6 Vx Astra Estate, Good Condition, 35k, valued at £750
Ex gf sold her Ka to them. Fair price - about trade and actually a bit more than PAtrker's guide. Very easy and convenient so have a look at their quote. They'll give you less than the quote if there's something you don't mention, otherwise seem fair
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Originally posted by blakep82
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Originally posted by iank
If it's a scam I'd expect they offer a good price to get you into the process and then ding it massively based on "poor condition" when someone inspects it - at which point you lose your £50 when you pull out or they get the car for a song.
i wouldn't say thats a scam, just business. i expect thats how it works too
my mate soldd his freelander to them, got trade price for it, they knocked £100 off when he got there as he hadn't mentioned some dings, but he
was more than happy with the deal. They didn't even drive the car or give it a mechanical check over, which was a good job as it was a freelander
. My mate actually made money on it compared to what he bought it for 6 months ago off ebay!
So if you are happy with the quote, go for it.
If they're gonna knock the price off it then use carcraft to sell it on they're due to make a fortune. I nearly bought a car off them, I say
nearly because the repayments went up 5 times in half an hour and I hadn't even got the test drive I asked for!
They did offer a better price on my mondeo than any part ex was giving me though. Also they didn't give me an offer on "my" spanking
new Maybach 
I used them to get a "market value" for my old pug - which was very useful in the PX negotiations at the garage for my 'new' car
thats a lot of car for 5600 owelly If only the twonks at HMRC would hurry up my rebate
You can have it now and pay later if you want it Joel!!
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Originally posted by owelly
You can have it now and pay later if you want it Joel!!
If they dont hurry up and give me my money i may well be stuffed!