webuyanycar experience..
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It's not two days work to flog a nail with an mot an ebay
Except that it doesnt cost day's of work. It would take a few hours of admin, for which you would simply make time for between other things.
HAHA.
I take it that you don't work for a living then?
Some people have well paid jobs, plus I'm far too lazy to be faffing around trying to sell a really tired motor... life is too short.
I only posted to share experience on WBAC, they are a ok place to deal with if you want a quick and easy disposal of a car
Err, what do you think WBAC are going to do?
Fix it? Dismantle it for parts and safely dispose of it?
No, They are going to bung it directly into the nearest ***** auction house with no reserve and laugh all the way to the bank, just like I would have done. At least I'd have had a go at trying to fix it
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TBH I wouldnt even want the car associated with my ebay account.....
Like I've said, no-one can comment on a car they have never seen. I could have made a couple of hundred more with some effort, but I don't have the time / willpower or energy to be playing arthur daily with a old car.
Some of you here would try to get every penny, fair play... I didn't and went the WBAC route, jobs a good'un
Err, what do you think WBAC are going to do?
Fix it? Dismantle it for parts and safely dispose of it?
No, They are going to bung it directly into the nearest ***** auction house with no reserve and laugh all the way to the bank, just like I would have done. At least I'd have had a go at trying to fix it
I don't care what they do with it, I don't have any interest in playing 'get a good deal' which a old pile of tat... it's gone, I have a little cash for a nice meal or something. It's win win (and zero effort)
You get paid £250+ per hour (15 minutes taking pictures, 15 minutes writing an ebay add and around 30 minutes for dealing with potential buyers on the phone and sorting out the paperwork when a buyer turns up)?
I'm impressed.
I bought a 2 year old hyundai on finance yeah... a new hyundai on finance would have been more money though.
It's amazing how people fail to compare like for like... I get a buy 1 free 1 on a bunch of bananas at tesco today, maybe today was a day to try the same deal on a car
What I earn a hour is not up for discussion, however... I have a very busy life and don't want to mess about on ebay with motors.
Not only does it not interest me, the small amount extra I could get does not justify the tedium of the extra work involved.
People run their lives different ways... I'm currently working over 80hrs a week and I don't want to worry about squeezing extra money from a bag of bolts and the work involved in doing so.
Maybe you have free time to devote on these things... I don't, though I enjoy abit of banter here on my day off
You seem to bring it up in quite a lot of threads though.
I am always amazed at how wasteful people are when they justify car sale decisions with lines like "only a couple of hundred".
That car (if we use this sale as an example of this) could have sold for at least £300-400 more than it went for. For a few hours of admin, from home.
Fukester, i do not know your situation. This is more a general observation, but these same people will usually be employed staff working for a salary, of which figures like this can often equate to an entire weeks worth of work for them.
I will never understand the logic. People are so strange with the way that they are happy to trudge through directed employed work for little reward, but any form of self profit is completely beyond their comprehension.
That car (if we use this sale as an example of this) could have sold for at least £300-400 more than it went for. For a few hours of admin, from home.
Fukester, i do not know your situation. This is more a general observation, but these same people will usually be employed staff working for a salary, of which figures like this can often equate to an entire weeks worth of work for them.
I will never understand the logic. People are so strange with the way that they are happy to trudge through directed employed work for little reward, but any form of self profit is completely beyond their comprehension.
You brought it up? But anyway, that is irrelevant as we're going to assume that you're not lucky enough to be earning well into six figures per annum meaning that pulling your finger out was almost certainly worth the little bit of time you would have lost.
I have a very busy life and don't want to mess about on ebay with motors.
Not only does it not interest me, the small amount extra I could get does not justify the tedium of the extra work involved.
People run their lives different ways... I'm currently working over 80hrs a week and I don't want to worry about squeezing extra money from a bag of bolts and the work involved in doing so.
Maybe you have free time to devote on these things... I don't, though I enjoy abit of banter here on my day off
Am I the only person who is seeing remnants of the I10 fail thread here? Flukester throws money down the drain because he "Couldn't be bothered" looking for a better deal. Stop trying to justify the fail.
Yep, as everyone harps on with figures of cash in some delusion that it's the crown jewels or something.
Money though having a set value means different things to different people, £250 is not something I'm going to faff about with, and with no guarantee of reward.
You guys crack me up
, but thats why I love the motors forum. Full of 'if I was you' comments, without knowing either the facts, or my situation.Advice is good don't get me wrong, but nothing said here makes me think differently about my choices with the car.
Maybe the guys here who so want my car with it's fake steering problem can find a local auction in this area and buy it like you said you would... good luck with corners though
I find your situation to be strange.
a) You cannot be bothered with this deal. That is fair enough, if your situation is as i imagine it to be to not care about figures like this.
b) You buy a hyundai, and not even a new one.
It just doesnt make sense to me? Why are you buying such an awful nasty cheap car for your partner, if you clearly are above caring about small amounts of money?
This mimics loads of real life situations i have come across (see above post), so its not just you. But it doesnt make it any easier to understand.
a) You cannot be bothered with this deal. That is fair enough, if your situation is as i imagine it to be to not care about figures like this.
b) You buy a hyundai, and not even a new one.
It just doesnt make sense to me? Why are you buying such an awful nasty cheap car for your partner, if you clearly are above caring about small amounts of money?
This mimics loads of real life situations i have come across (see above post), so its not just you. But it doesnt make it any easier to understand.
Fail can only truly be judged when you know the facts. No-one except me know them.
I have money for no effort, I certainly dont have to justify it to anyone here, but it's fun trying to
There is no fail in this thread really, except for some of the comments like
'I would have bought it for that'
or
'your steering problem doesnt exist' (I mean wtf)
I know this is meant to be a jibe, but I can't help but think that given your seemingly poor judgement with money this is a sort of business practice you'd participate in - "Buy high, sell high"
You guys crack me up
Actually you crack me up with your fail threads.
I loved your typical style in the OP of saying "I got £300 minus £50 admin fee". You got £250 mate. Then the usual willy waving of "Oh I can afford to lose hundreds because I'm loaded", it's like reading the same book again.
Selling a car to We Buy Any Car would actually cost me more time and money that selling a car on eBay, I'd have to take it somewhere and then wait for some guy to have a look around it rather than someone just turning up at my home and handing some cash over.
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Damn, i would have given you £250. It amazes me how stupid some people are.