New car disaster!

[BoldonLad]

They (webuyanycar) may be poor value but they are very efficient. The £350 they were offering was very simple and zero hassle so worth it to me. Just drove less than a mile there, gave them the keys, walked home, and the money was in my account within a couple of hours. ULEZ was about to come into force which would have meant paying each time I drove it.

exactly, it is hassle free, and simple. There is a cost implication to that service of course, but, personal choice.

 

[CXRAndy]

I'll shortly be advertising my car - I looked at marketplace and ebay for identical cars to mineand they were listed for between £3k - £4.5k. WBAC offered be £1850. I wouldn't use them unless I was desperate.

When it comes to service history, if someone has taken the time to document a load of service items then I assume they've done it. The sort of person to skip servicing I imagine is also the sort not to bother with made up paperwork

I've used Car-wow to sell a high performance Audi. Got a good price, equal to what mainline dealers were selling the same vehicle for at the time.

A database of dealers, independent and official bid on your car, the winner then sends a driver company to verify the car is as advertised- which it is, you have to send loads of photos of vehicle and documents to Car-Wow before hand.

Maybe because it was a rare vehicle it got a good price, but the process was easy with Car-Wow

 

[Dadam]

They (webuyanycar) may be poor value but they are very efficient. The £350 they were offering was very simple and zero hassle so worth it to me. Just drove less than a mile there, gave them the keys, walked home, and the money was in my account within a couple of hours. ULEZ was about to come into force which would have meant paying each time I drove it.

The auction place I used was pretty good (apart from the issue with not finding the service history!) and of course you're not guaranteed a sale or a good price. In my case webuyanycar offered £950 which was a good 300 below market value. I dropped the car off at Manheim auctions in Leeds and they put it into the Wednesday auction and it didn't meet the reserve. Then they put it into the Saturday auction and it sold for £1350 so I was happy. I'd taken some time to wash and polish it so it looked decent.

 

[Fastpedaller]

It's a bit of a lottery I think. When we bought our new car in 2016 we reluctantly traded in the 7 -year old Fiat Grande Punto. Because we live in rural Norfolk it's (even more) difficult to sell privately. We negotiated £400 off the ticket price of the new car but thought the offer for the Fiat was poor until we looked on Autotrader and saw similar advertised by dealers for a similar price. The main dealer said "They just go to auction", and I was curious to see what it realised but couldn't find it online. This was in October, and each month I looked online on the the .gov site to see if it was back on the road. It was re-taxed in March, so (although it was the first car we had ever traded in) I consider we made the right choice.