webuyanycar

BD10NNF · 8 May 2013 at 13:01

Hi people

Has anyone ever used webuyanycar.com?

I'm looking to sell my car as quickly as possible really but don't want to lose out on much money. Now the car is I would say fair condition. Inside is near perfect but exterior wise its got the usual stone chips and a lot light scratches due to the car doing over 125k. The car is mechanically sound as well.

Now I know they will knock me down from the price they have shown me and was wondering what peoples experience of using them is like?

Cheers.

wingman · 8 May 2013 at 13:06

I've never used them, but I am getting annoyed by the constant adverts I encounter online since doing a quote or two recently.

I've found their prices to be laughably insulting.

panthro · 8 May 2013 at 13:10

Once you get a quote, they will send someone over to evaluate the car and try and knock as much as they possibly can off the quote. I can guarantee one thing; you won't get the price that they quote you on the website.
If you're not in a hurry to sell it would be better to put it up for sale via the usual route of autotrader/ebay/pistonheads etc.

SB118 · 8 May 2013 at 13:18

Not forgetting that the quote they give you will be 1/2 - 2/3 the actual value of your car to start off with.

wingman · 8 May 2013 at 13:34

They offered me 40% of what I sold my car for privately. Granted, it took awhile longer, but so worth it.

snitcher · 8 May 2013 at 13:34

not that great to be honest. those guys take massive chunks off their online quoted price.
my suggestion put it on ebay or autotrader.

p1RATE · 8 May 2013 at 14:03

Stick it on ebay at the right price and it should sell quickly. You will have to sift through the time wasters a bit but i would say its the quickest way to get a car sold for close to its actual value.

ChocolateStarfishRammer · 8 May 2013 at 14:07

Would never use it unless it was for a piece of junk that I couldn't move off my drive.

BD10NNF · 8 May 2013 at 15:15

Looks like eBay it is then. Need to clean the car this weekend and take some pictures.

Thanks everyone.

pingwing · 8 May 2013 at 15:40

They offered me a 3rd of the scrap value of my polo, minus admin fees meant I got £4.99 for it...

(makes getting a new windscreen for it seem almost worth while)

Haggisman · 8 May 2013 at 15:47

They offered me £105 for a car which sold a few weeks later for ~£1700.

Waste of time imo

GeX · 8 May 2013 at 16:16

I sold my Xsara VTS to them. They offered me around £200 less than the PX values I'd been offered at various garages - however, they let you keep the tax disc and cash it in. On the VTS that was £260, the drop off point was also only 10 minutes walk from where the next car was being bought from, so it worked out quite well.

wrt stonechips / damage, the guy who inspected my car said he looks for damage that's visible from car_age_in_years feet away.

S@njay · 8 May 2013 at 16:26

I had a Auris a while back, when I was part exchanging it I was getting around £4000 for it. By using webuyanycar I did get just under £5000.

They did knock down their evaluation a little, however this was due to a few scuffs which looking back now I could have just buffed them out. So I would try and get the car in as good condition as you can.

Yes it was less than what I could get for it I sold privately, however it was more than a PX deal.

I found then nice and friendly, not dodgy at all, not even pushy.

It was the Milton Keynes branch I used.

B@Th*nG · 8 May 2013 at 16:27

ChocolateStarfishRammer said:
Would never use it unless it was for a piece of junk that I couldn't move off my drive.

it doesn't even work for that, they only take it if it has 6 months tax on it, then they offer you a bit less than the equivalent of them cashing it in. you're better of scraping it and getting a rebate on the tax

B@

Rotty · 8 May 2013 at 19:26

one problem is that car dealers are now using their prices as guides / excuses for crap p/ex offers

dangermouse425 · 8 May 2013 at 20:08

I briefly considered it, but having received a quote that was disappointingly low, I'm going to sell mine privately.

Maccapacca · 8 May 2013 at 20:19

A shooting buddy sold his bought new focus st to them after a year god knows how much he threw down the drain

TheVoice · 8 May 2013 at 20:48

My parents used them a few years back to sell their '05 Astra, they got crap money for it but they had to take it as they were leaving the country fairly on fairly short notice.

From what they said, the guy basically walked round, pointed out every tiny niggle possible, knocked a ridiculous amount off for each one, then gave them a final price which wasn't much more than I'd paid for an '02 Astra the year before.

davido_labido · 8 May 2013 at 21:03

i used them, i had a car with really dodgy electrics (renault obv) that i didnt want to sell privately, it also had a few other problems that would effectively cost more to fix than the car was worth.... managed to sell it to we buy any car for far more than i was expecting (£1500 if i remember rightly) all they did was take it from 1 car park space to another on the same car park, about 200 yards in total, so no faults were found!

plus if they then sell it on, any faults are their fault not mine

Greebo · 8 May 2013 at 21:27

They normally pay well under the real value of your car. A guy working for them once admitted that they sell them on either in auction or to local car dealers at trade price so in order to make a profit they don't pay much. Also he was on commission for every £100 he could buy your car for less than the system said it was worth so even stone chips on a 10 year old car gives them the excuse to knock you done in price.

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