So, I'm thinking of selling my 2005 BMW 318 Ci coupe with Msport trim, 54k, some history and in good condition.

In general a very good example.

I thought I'd give myself a laugh and try "the nations favourite car buyer" and see if their self promoted "nice prices" were actually that nice.

I was fully expecting £4500, even though a more realistice resale value is around £5750..

We steal any car returned a "nice price" of £3390!!!!

I don't believe there is anyone who has ever had a satifactory transaction with these shysters...

So anyone want a BMW...?

EDIT: There is then a £49.99 transaction fee, and if I do want the money the next day there's another fee of £24.75.

Seriously, you've got to be thick to use these ultimate arseholes...

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Deepak Gohil

Best bit is you dont even get that. you take the car to one of their places and they go over it with a fine tooth comb! They just pray on people who dont know what there car is worth

Thats shocking but to be fair business is business and they need to make a good profit. Think of the people out there that just want to get rid of their car asap and they dont have time for anything else, say because they are leaving the country or something.

Wonder how much they take a 6/Rallye for. £400 is my guess.

I tried them once for my old fiesta that i sold in september 2010
Twas a S reg granted.
But my fiesta was OBSCENE in condition, Barely any rust, perfect bodywork
Very nice condition thoughout and 70k on the clock.
They offered me something like £350
Put it on autotrader and it was sold for 1.1k within a day

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Ex- Phase 3 China GTi-6 T-Reg

Think they offered £320 for my old p1

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cherry p1.....SOLD (regreting this)
blaze p2.....why did i buy this SOLD
Black p3

Heard a good report for "we want any car".

A guy on the audi club wanted around £40k for he C6 RS6 and couldn't sell it so contacted them and they gave him £37k

Horses for courses.

A down and out may want more than 40p for Cher's greatest hits, but if he needs smack..

Not all businesses are out to do people a favour. You make your own choice after all.

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Senior Test Automation Engineer for the 306GTi6 Owners Club Forum

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In fairness to them, at £3390, they will then move it onto one of the subsiduary car supermarket places for a small mark up, say £100, so the supermarket will pay £3490.

Add the prep it'll more than likely need, say £150, to cover a Valet and workshop check, it then owes £3640.00.

A typical 12m warranty will be £300, taking it to £3940.00, assuming they do sell it for £5750, that leaves £1810.00 in the deal, salesman earns £50 leaving £1760, take the VAT out leaves less than £1500 profit.

Plus the overheads, advertsing etc etc, is that an unrealistic profit for a dealer to earn. I dont think so, as if he has it in stock for 3 months, and has to reduce it to shift it, he could be earning less than a £1000 after VAT.

Webuyanycar.com is a successful business, and most of what they offer people is bang on trade guide money, yet folks get in a flap about it. Why?

As for folks being bid pennies for old cars, thats what they are worth in the trade, scrap money more often than not.

Look at the GTI6, more often than not a 15 yr old 2.0 petrol french hatch. To most dealers thats as desirable as Aids of the face, and worth banger money at Auction. To us geeks its a different story though.

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1999 Astor Grey GTi-6 OEM+ (now gone...)
2004 Aegean Blue 206 GTi 180 (also gone...)
2006 Skoda Fabia vRS in Sprint Yellow

Its the easy way out for a lot of people though, and that has to be paid for somehow,

Stick a classified add up in here - second thoughts, thats rubbish as well LOL

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1999 Astor Grey GTi-6 OEM+ (now gone...)
2004 Aegean Blue 206 GTi 180 (also gone...)
2006 Skoda Fabia vRS in Sprint Yellow

Anyone tried Autotraders "Quick sale" http://www.autotrader.co.uk/cars/selling/quick-sale?atcidi=ilc-cars-QCS008

Might be worth a try if you are in a hurry?

Dan I'm not arguing with you. If you need to sell your car you need to sell it. It really is an owners own decision.

I jsut personally wouldn't use them and don't like them.

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Deepak Gohil

I'M NOT f**kING ARGUING!!!



He was a police officer so I remained calm.

Although I did speed on the test drive to see if he'd notice and then went on to physically assault him with a manila envelope stuffed with significantly less than he had anticipated.

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Senior Test Automation Engineer for the 306GTi6 Owners Club Forum

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As Dan said, it's a simple case of convienience.

There is the same thing available for houses. You can call certain companies who will buy your house no question and you will have the sale go through with the money in your account within 48 hours. It'll be for significantly less than market value, but if you need to shift the house it's a guaranteed way of doing it.

Today's society is a "want it now" one, therefore these places exist so you can have "everything now" but it will cost you. If you have patience (like people used to in generations past) then you can sell things to the right people at the right prices if you *wait* long enough.

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"Supercharged - 454.1bhp/317.5lb/ft"
Peugeot 306 GTi-6
2000 (X), Moonstone