I sell damage repairable cars as a hobby. The absolute worst part of it by far, are people! Massess of Virtual Tyre kickers. 90% are timewasters, lots of texts at night, unlimited amounts of "Best Price Mate" Navigating fraud attempts. So you are bang on about not wanting to sell privately. Unfortunately nowadays, it's the majority who are horrible to deal with.
This is rubbish. I sold my 911 privately. The best offer i had from online lot was 22k, the worst was 18k. I sold it to a lovely chap for 28.5k. Top value.
Just sold through Motorway and was very impressed. WBAC offered £7,500 and I’ve sold previously through them and been knocked down on the day. Motorway gave an offer of £8,450 which they then reduced to £8,400 when I went through some minor damage with them on the phone. It went to the dealer auction the following day and they confirmed the best price they had received was £9,650, which I accepted. Dealer then got in touch and sent a guy to pick the car up the following week, inspection consisted of a read of the paperwork, a 1 min walk around and the test drive involved me driving him from the station to my house. Money hit my account the moment the inspection was complete and he drove off, no fees and no hassle at all. Was very happy.
@@scottmackintosh7633 so motorway is highly recommended 👍... just going through my first lease and selling my mk8 golf gtd...I paid £30k for it and motorway are offering £3k above everybody else, but wasn't sure how the process worked.. not selling till Feb/march next year but want to be prepared 👍
I sold my car through Motorway, it was a great experience the best I’ve had for a long time hassle free no issues at all the collecting agent was spot on and the money was in my bank the next day before they even collected the car. We buy any car personally just look to beat you down and offer less when you turn up to have the inspection. I’d use them as a marker and get a better deal elsewhere.
Sold my BMW with Motorway and it went relatively well...dealer then sent a guy up by train and I picked him up at the station..nice guy...no price chip...saw it advertised at £2k more so reckon they made circa £1500..keep up the great content!
Very interesting, thank you. In May we sold my wife's 11 year old Subaru using Motorway. They were excellent from start to finish. We ended up getting £1200 more for it than we were offered in PX.
@@Cous1nJackSpeak for yourself. There are people who don't live the finance lifestyle, who want everything now and pay later. There are some people (believe it or not (like my dad)) who actually saves up the money for a car then buys it without paying interest. It's called saving.... people should try it sometime. If you constantly don't have cash then something is wrong, your not budgeting properly, or in a low paid job. If your in a low paid job and have to borrow or finance your car your holiday your kitchen your Ikea sofa etc etc the solution is not to borrow or finance, it's to educate or train yourself and get A BETTER PAID JOB
I found Motorway by far the best on two occaisions - their price is an estimate which was exceeded by over £1000 - dealer collects car and makes instant bank transfer.
Another vote for motorway. Although the inital estimate was just under £16k for my very tidy car. When quotes came in they were over £18k. Fords of Winsford were the winning dealer who organised a transport setup to check the car over. A quick look round, double check details, short test drive and money paid. Probably about 30 minutes to done. No messing around, very happy.
Used Motorway to sell a 10 year old Mondeo last year. Took all the photos they requested, using their app. Was offered minimum £4500 (WBAC was £3800). Car went to auction and sold for £5300. The lady who came to inspect and pick up must have taken 45 minutes going over the car, and listed 20-30 imperfections, many barely visible. Madness, but she assured me it wouldn't make any difference to the price I'd been offered - so why list them? The dealer knocked £650 off for cam belt not being done. At no time had I said the cam belt had been done, and had provided all service history. Having said all of that, we still got the best part of £1000 more than WBAC, and £1600 more than Big Motoring World offered us. Would use again.
Same good experience here with Cazoo. It was a little while back about 2,5years ago but exactly same. They offered me about 2k more on a 27k car then the rest. Came to collect it and before they left the money was on my account. Top service from Cazoo.
I used Motorway to sell a 92k 2013 auto 1.6 Ford Focus. It had basic countryside body work (hedge scratches that would buff out etc.), alloys in need of attention & a new near side wing. I had it serviced, MOT & £70 clean. Got £4,500 for it. WeBuyAnyCar were offering £2,700. Motorway were easy, polite & straight. WeBuy were pushy, overbearing & ultimately cheap…in every way.
I sold my outlander phev via cazoo today. Awesome experience and got £17,300 after all fees. This was £1.2k higher than webuyanycar and £2.2k higher than trade in price. They collected and no hint of knocking the price down.
I've sold two cars using Motorway and I would swear by them. I got more than I expected on both occasions and managed to talk the first car sold at the agreed price after the dealer tried to knock of £50. I told him he can keep the boot protector and that it had half a tank of fuel. The second car I got more than £2k more than the initial quote and there was no haggling when they picked the car up. On both occasions, I still had the option to decline the final offer so it was a win win for me. Just make sure you don't hide anything.
Dealer offered me £1100 in px for my 2009 Mitsubishi Colt. WBAC offered £1300 on their website but on inspection deducted approximately £100 for each chip and ding (there were a few, but nothing more than to be expected given the age of the car). I was finally offered just under £900! The WBAC agent was in genuine disbelief when I declined. But judging by the way the previous customer left their portacabin shaking her head, I shouldn't have been too surprised at the result.
Sold my Evoque through Cazoo a couple of years ago. Happy with price offered and the overall effortless selling experience which pretty much mirrored yours by the sounds of it.
I used motorway to sell my vw cc. The whole experience was excellent and I got a good price. On Motorway I got more than double what wbac offered. Motorway now just need a catchy song. Thank you for this video.
Sold mine and my wife's car with Carwow last month. One car went over the estimate by a £600. Another met the reserve. Easy collection and finance settled. No complaints! Agree on private selling too many tire kickers
I used Motorway in 2020 to sell a Zoe ZE40, good price and easy transaction despite the Covid hassle at the time. I got about £1k more than the best part exchange price offered. I'm sure a private sale would have been a bit better price wise but as you say there's a lot of hassle doing that. I've only found your channel recently - love it.
I used carwow in January and I have nothing but praise for them. The most important thing to do is be completely honest with your description, declaring any damage and include photos. I was given a very competitive minimum reserve. It met the reserve in the first auction and in fact sold for £300 over reserve so I was very happy. On the collection day, the chap inspected my car and rang the office to say the car was as described and there was no suggestion of reducing the price. Was notified by my bank of the funds transfer and notice from DVLA to say I had sold the vehicle into the motor trade before it was driven away on trade plates. Very happy with both carwow and the dealer who purchased my car.
Thanks for the video. I sold my car through Motorway last year, they were brilliant very quick and I got more than they quoted. Hassle free , money in the account as I passed him the keys.
When I sell a car/bike I state no offers. Otherwise, the implied message is that I'll negotiate on price. If it's an auction sale I insist on £100 immediately at the close of bidding. If the buyer for some reason messes me about he's lost his £100. I always put in a really long description in proper English, not chav speak like ... I done new bat tree this sort after car I never crashed it my mate nose how to fix it he done it for me ... nor do I use the ridiculous AI description. I've sold about ten cars and bikes like this over the years. No hassle, no tyre kickers or test pilots. Obviously car buyer firms will never pay what you'd get off ebay. They wouldn't make a profit otherwise.
Very interesting. I would have welcomed your comments 6 months ago. I part exchanged the two family cars then because I got much more than I expected and was happy with that. I was perhaps too sceptical of the car buying companies, one of which (Motorway) had offered £1k more on one of the cars. This was the wife's car (a 5 year old Suzuki Ignis) that she had owned for 18 months. We got the same price (in part ex) that we had paid for it. It seems to be a sellers market for some brands at the moment.
Bought and sold with Carwow best price and easy process. Motorway wanted so many photos which didn’t work out took 3 days. Carwow all sorted in a day brilliant and way better than we buy any car who always knock you down when you turn up.
Sold myt KIA estate using Motorway on the recommendation of the KIA dealer, who told me I would probably get a couple of thousand more using them than I would get as a part exchange. Quite painless, and I ended up getting £2300 more than offered as PE. Dealer, from a couple of hundred miles away, came with a trailer, inspected it and immediately transferred money. Waited until it was visible in my bank account then loaded car and took it away. Absolutely would recommend them again.
just sold through motorway, took loads of pictures and after 48 hours was offered £ 800 more than the dealer offered in part ex. So that was £ 200 less than the book price. So I was pretty happy. They came and collected it within 3 days cash straight in bank. Wasnt to bad an experience. They kept saying the car had alloy wheels which it did not. Then they said it had scratches on the alloy wheels. I pointed out how can it have scratches when it does not have alloy wheels at all it had plastic wheel trims. Eventually they understood.
Also went with Motorway for 2018 Volvo XC60 inscription pro t8. Dealer offered £28550, Motorway was £32250. Dealer came with a paint meter, chipped 100 off. But insane difference. Car went no problem
A few years ago i purchaced a 10 plate Meriva from BCA for 1040 quid. It had some undisclosed sill damage which really hit me when trying to sell it on just over a year later. So what did i do? I got rid of it at WBAC for 1050 quid. They never noticed the sill damage.......or the knackered gearbox......well they should test drive them before purchase!!!! BCA own WBAC so they never lose with all the buyer and seller fees they get. Anyway on this occasion i had a years motoring and got a tenner back for my bus fare home
I just sold a car through Ebay. Yes, I got a lot of hassle, but ended up selling to a car trader, and got a few quid more than I would have via Motorway. Think it depends on the price bracket of the car you are selling. I sold a 69 plate car to Motorway a few years ago and couldn't recommend it enough.
I have had good experiences with We Buy Any Car and also had rubbish experience with them. My last car I sold with Car Wow and had a good experience and found them to be really helpful.
We also had a great experience with Cazoo. Described the car as honestly as we could, got a very decent online offer. The handing over experience at Cazoo in Chertsey was on a par with buying a car - really friendly, seamless and hassle-free. If only others could set this sort of standard!
I normally filter them out on the first phone call when doing private sales. Sold my B class Merc last year to a really nice Polish chap after I had about 6 calls from probable time wasters , can sniff them out a mile away , I just said someone was due to buy it that day and that got rid of them.
Motorway have given me the best price. Ebay buyers have accidentally clicked buy it now twice. has wasted weeks waiting to relist and ebay has taken 100 pounds nearly before I have even got any sale. I might just use one of these buy any car services!
We sold a Panda through Best Car Buyer for a good price and no problems, no silly fees and quick turnaround. We found WBAC always pretends to find something to reduce their offer, and Carwow was a pain - as well as the lowest offers. Yes, couldn't be ar*ed to sell privately these days.
First time seller of a VW Touran 2022 R-Line with Motorway and Carwow. Tried uploading pictures on the Carwow app on two phones, did not succeed. Finally had to use my laptop to upload. Then Carwow contacted the day after Motorway came to collect the car. Process was slow. Was offered £26.5 k from dealer, £28k from Carwow, £28.4 from Motorway. Easy Peazy
Just used Carwow. Offered best price from about 4 companies l tried. All in all took less than a week. No charge for service or collection. Prompt payment on the day. Pretty hassle free.
Selling privately at this price point would be time consuming to find a buyer cash ready also as a buyer you have no protection and no warranty . It’s the way to go this day and age. Great video as usual. Let’s not forget the vat man he will want his share therefore leaving Cazoo two grand profit which is not a lot for an eighteen grand plus car.
I was very pleased with Motorway as I got the same price from the dealer as I’d paid for the car a year earlier (I had to sell as could no longer drive much - temporarily until I had knee surgery). But they’re very exacting on the photos etc (which is probably no bad thing) and may be a better bet if you are selling something a little unusual that specialist dealers will compete for.
Great video and certainly food for thought. I sold many cars privately years ago when I lived in London, as being without a car for a while was no problem with trains, tubes etc. Lots of awful people of course, trying to knock you down on the phone before viewing, not turning up etc. and other daft stuff as you mentioned. The funniest/strangest one was a nice chap who had seen a car like mine (BMW 635csi) pass him on the motorway and asked if it would tow a caravan. I said of course it would with a tow bar and he proceeded to tell me all about his caravan and if I would like to buy it. I nearly did.
That's actually very useful. I have used WBAC before and it's been a bit love & hate. Looking to sell my wife's car next year so will give Cazoo a go. Like you, I have no patience for tyre kickers. Cheers.
I tried all those earlier this year my wife said try the BMW dealer you bought it from, I laughed, used there online system, not good, then they phoned me asked what was I looking then, I told them, following day they rang and bought the car back, I was well happy!
Sold my X5 via Motorway in September 2021, was due a set of tyres before winter (£1300) and got £1,500 more than webuyanycar, straight forward, pick up and payment went seamlessly, happy sale
My car is up for auction on CarWow today, been fairly smooth process so far, but I went ahead straight away, so not experienced the nagging. Remains to be seen if it actually sells though!
I sold mine through CarWow. The winner was a trader who was an utter pain in the butt. They sent two guys to collect the car who had some kind of good cop/bad cop routing going on. One guy telling me all the invisible things that were wrong with the car and the other telling me their reduced price was a great deal and I should take it. CarWow were good throughout but the dealer is on my blacklist.
@richard_ellis you should name the dealer as a heads-up to others so they can be on their guard. They will continue the practice as long as they are allowed to get away with it and no doubt con many shhpush unchallenged people in the process.
Nice one Jim I think this is the best way to go if you can't trade it in, you just never know who's going to knock on your door nowadays and the hassle you might get afterwards, I'm now off to the shop to get a bar of dairy milk chocolate yum yum 😅
Used MotorWay, offered £11080 for Suzuki Vitara 2017, easy process, dealer contacted me to arrange collection. Collection driver came a week later, inspected the car, transferred the money and drove away. Car appeared on the dealer's site two weeks later for £12700. Would use them again. Also sold a Citroen Berlingo, bought it for £16.5k, car market went crazy, used Cazoo price as the minimum I would accept, to sell it for cash to another Citroen dealer 12 months later for £18,250 who desperately needed stock.
Hi I recently purchased a model 3 LR RWD on the 0% deal. I did the same and used Carwow this time and it worked out well and a good price compared to others. Tesla certainly do not offer a decent p/ex in my case £5k difference.
What an interesting video. I have never seen one that follows the car all the way to going up for sale. In defence of Cazoo's 2.5K marrk up it should be noted that £500 of that will go in VAT and a massive part of their costs is marketing probably about 1K so that leaves 1K real gross profit before the valet at say £100 so down to £900. Then they are on the hook for warranty, which you do not have if you sell privately, who knows what that might be after the car is sold.
I’ve got zero issue with their markup, I’m just a bit shocked they didn’t fix the tiny imperfections that they knocked me down for. I was happy with the price I got though so good luck to them.
I have just used Sell Car to buy my BMW I4 M50. They came to my home and did a very thorough inspection, videod .the car and then circulated the details to dealers for them to bid. They were struggling to offer more than the trade in price I already had available. Later in the day they were able to offer £45,000 which was £1,000 more than my trade in. The car will be collected tomorrow, I have received a £500 and the balance will be paid before the car leaves my home. There is no chance of the price changing which I understand can happen with Motorway. I have purchased a six month old Volvo C 40 plus with 193 miles on the clock from my local dealer for £44,950 . I intend to buy a Genisis GV 60 next when the Hyundia dealers start to sell them.
I sold a car to Peter vardy a couple of years ago. 10% more than all the others. I had full history, every invoice and they didn’t want it! Offered them another later and they were 20% lower than the others. Morale is try them all.
Should have used Motorway. The price they quote is a reserve ie the minimum you will get. Sold 2 Audis thro Motorway. First one …..reserve £8000 , price received £9250. Second one. Reserve £38,000. Price received £38,950. Wouldn’t use anybody else in future
Always bought second hand cars from a dealer and always part exchange my old car. Too much hassle trying to sell privately and lots of future problems if unlucky. A friend of mine had the police knock on his door about 6 months after he sold a van because it was involved in a robbery, the people paid cash and did not register it. Also heard of people getting parking tickets and speeding fines after selling their cars
Terrible service from Carwow. Vastly over priced my 520d , according to offers, at £12800 they advised a reserve of £12600. Offers I at £11000 and one st £11550. On arrival they found two new scratches one was photographed and submitted so not new the other was hard to spot but tiny and near a declared one in the sale. Fairway I missed it but was TINY and next to a larger one they already knew about. Tried to knock £300 off for what they no doubt will touch up and polish out in minutes. Just walked away with £11400 which was less than the skoda dealer. Don't buy the hype be prepared for less.
A very interesting video. I used Evan Halshaw once and got a good price for a Golf R, I used Wizzle once and got an excellent price for an Audi S3 and used We Buy any car to sell a Mini Cooper S but the price was adjusted due to a poor paint finish. I have a good contact in the trade and I let him have my car usually at the We Buy any car price offered.
Need to work out what’s best option an company to use for my non running evoque. (Requires new engine). hard when would need to drop off and pay for recovery from garage. Anyone sold a non runner to one of these car sale sites. Scared would get really dropped down on price offered. Help/advice anyone ?
@@DefinitelyNotAGuru yep the 2.0L Diesel. local garage as offered 2.5k and WBAC 4k so stuck in abit of bad spot. other problem is the with the car been at the garage it would not be possible to take photos for the motorway website so to do that would need to pay and recovery the vehicle again.
WBAC which belongs to British Car Auctions has now got competition,they have almost always paid well below trade prices for vehicles,I would always see what they would offer and then check out the competition,sometimes customers would be better trading in than accepting WBACs offer especially as vehicles went through the roof a couple of years ago,in some instance’s they were fleecing some people who fell for their advertising selling the vehicle on through the trade making 30/40 % what they paid for it. They stopped live auctions because of Covid but I think their going to have to rethink that decision as other auction houses come on the market where trade buyers can see what their buying instead of buying blind which is never a good idea,trader’s like to see and hear what their buying as any complaint to BCA falls on deaf ears, they couldn’t give a toss as long as they get their money.
I took my car to the most famous car buyer. Online offered £7500, then after seeing 2 small dents deducted £820. There is the £75 admin charge To make it worse their patter was insulting. I tried motorway and got an offer of £8295 with zero fees. So far so good.
I found Arnold Clark (Arnold buy my car) very good. Sold three cars to them in the past couple of years and one of them got paid £1000 more than we buy any car offered.
Motorway was the site we used, simple efficient and a better price than anyone else. Our car was, however, in mint condition and fully serviced, so no knockbacks. Well done Motorway
We’re looking at a newer car but our current car is 20 years old and creeping up on 130k miles. It’s our first car and it’s not wanted for anything. Just recently had a new condenser,Compressor aircon regas and aux belt, a set of new tyres last December and not a cheap set (£500) of Yokohama all season. I doubt we’d get much for it tbh. But it’s an honest car and we’ll miss it if we decide to buy a newer car. (Our car is a 2003 Honda CR-V mk2 auto petrol ULEZ too) We also never have less than half a tank of petrol and only use E5. Probably only get offered £600 😂
Thanks for that - really useful as are the comments others have added here - great to hear personal experience on the alternative to endless tyre-kickers….
WBAC offered more than their online estimate on inspection on my E class,were great to deal with and quick and easy,doubt that would happen now though…
I used Motorway for my daughters car and while the price they offered was the price I got, i didn't receive the money until 8 hours later, I had to watch someone drive off in the car with no payment, i will not put myself through that again, it took many emails before I received the money. Motorway did responded to my concerns and assured me that the dealer who bought the car would pay me, but i have to say it was a long 8 hours.
First of all thanks for all your great content I’m about to take out my first lease but can’t decide if it’s best to take out maintenance option or not. Do you have a comparison video on the subject Cheers Paul
Cheers Paul. No. It's really something to look at on a case by case basis as much depends on your mileage (how often the car will need servicing and tyres) and the cost which varies massively from lease to lease. Pricing varies massively, sometimes it's a no brainer and sometimes it's not far off extortion.
Last March my new car arrived 8 months early so I went to WBAC for a valuation - I also had a valuation as a part ex from the dealer supplying the new car and they offered £9000 more than WBAC despite it being the third week of March and they had a forecourt rammed with the same cars taken in as part ex/ end of PCP at the change of year numbers on registration plates. I got only £3k short of what I paid 3 years and 23000 miles ago from the dealership!
I had pretty much the identical experience, did you mention Cazoo will not pay outstanding finance off,so you have to pay that just prior to selling? That was the case for me last year.
I think Cazoo have dropped the price of your Citroën to £18,200 already! I sold my car to Motorpoint. This was hassle-free, and they didn’t beat me down on price. All you have to do is declare you are as ‘excellent’, ‘good’, ‘average’ or ‘poor’. CarWow was unsuccessful for me - got one offer, which was way below. Motorway wanted to know all the imperfections, which is very difficult on an older car. Didn’t use them for that reason.
We Buy Any Car offered me a price for my 2019 Picanto. When I went to the office was told quote was for showroom condition car. The guy then went over the car panel by panel knocking money off for minor stone chip damage and eventually offering £900 Less. Complete waste of my time!
Just went to sell my car and £299 pick up fee not to do sure if this is due t the cost of the car plus the £50 admin fee also ways great to watch you uploads thx
Solid advice again Jim. I commented on stock vehicles on your last video, telling you about my T-Roc on order. I’m buying my Volvo V40 R Design Pro for £7500 at the end of it’s PCP and I’ve been quoted £13,700 to sell to many of the dealers you mentioned. So hopefully this is a £5,200 profit towards my T-Roc lease which for 2 years will cost me £9,000. A new car ran for 2 years is only going to cost me net £3,800 🎉
Sounds like you were paying to much on the pcp. Sounds like you have no choice than to buy it at £7500 if its worth nearly £15k by the Sounds of it. My car at the end of the pcp was going to cost £19k to buy so I just returned it. Mind you the monthly payment was really low and the deposit was only £500
@@chrishart8548 I managed to secure it at 0% apr and the payment was £279pm. I think the dealer didn’t account for the dealer contribution, as this wasn’t shown in the financial statement. I believe they missed a £2750 advance somewhere.
Sold my wife’s car to we buy any car because I got a great price for mine - hers had quite a bit of damage and they chipped us £400 for that damage - Hyundai quoted £2850 just for the damage to the door so when you add on the scuffed rear dumper with damaged parking sensor plus all 4 wheels scuffed I think we did well
I got by far the best quote on Carwow. £1500 more than others, completely painless and paid within 15 minutes of car being approved by buyer. I guess it depends on how good your car is and therefore what calibre of buyer/dealer you are in a transaction with. I cam imagine the worse a car and lower value the worse your experiwnce is likely to be.
Hi Jim, another great video 🙂👍love your 'laid back' style. its a shame i didn't know you were so local or i'd have offered a lift back after a drop off to Cazoo (we're Hedge End). Also hear what you're saying about CarWow, inundated with emails and in my opinion their prices are nowhere near as good as they were before the acquired Wizzle.
Just like to give some feedback on my recent sale. Just sold my BMW M340d from which webuyanycar offered £24,500, Motorway £29,000 and Carwow £30,300. I decided to go through Carwow from which the car was sold through auction to traders for a reserve price of £31,500. As there was 13 bids on the car I managed to sell the car for £33,600 with no fees and the car was paid for and collected the same day. So from my experience its certainly worth exploring all options.
Hello everybody. I have sold many cars over the years ( not a trader by the way) and use EBay good description and photos. However some inane messaging, they have massively improved the messaging service, which is good. I have always qualified potential purchasers before they travel to view. As people take time and pay a lot of money to see the car, so it’s important not to be a time waster yourself. I have always met nice people and all the transactions have happened seamlessly. I can fully understand a lot of people not wanting to have the hassle. And with young people not always having the social skills to negotiate calmly and easily.
I got stung with repairing diamond alloys, £250 per wheel so 1K knocked off. Looked into and that is the going rate for repairing diamond alloys. Keep them safe folks, I park a good foot away from the curb now 😊
When i sold a car a few years ago i found some 'local' company in Nottingham offered me the best price. And they travelled the hour to me, to see the car. The moral of the story is also try local companies, they dont necessarily have the overheads and quick turnaround so can sometimes offer a better price
I used to live down the road from big motoring worlds “national vehicle prep centre” I’ve seen how they treat the cars, test drive racing down the roads, storing the cars on pavements and in public car parks etc I would never buy a car from them
Had the same pestering from WBAC. I thought if you are that desperate to buy it bump the price up 😄 Like you I would rather take a knock on the price than deal with the public.
Another good video, informative and interesting content which I’m sure will help your viewers , keep up the good work looking forward to the next video
I sold through SellCar, they spent an hour haggling with me steadfast no. Ended up giving them 20p I’d found on the pavement earlier 😂 Then they got a speeding fine on the way back to base!
Just out of curiosity what lead you to sell the C5? I'm hovering on buying one, same story as you. Have 2 small kids and we want a practical family car.
@@DefinitelyNotAGuru Nice! The other two I have on my shortlist are the enyaq and the xc40 don't suppose either of those pip it for you? I still need to do more research on practicality of an ev but our budget max is around 20k so it's tricky pickings.
@@DefinitelyNotAGuru yeah nail on the head really. They're a lot of money for marginal space gains for us, we have been riding a 09 prius into the ground and want space and comfort! I'm defo camp volvo and just trying to pitch it to my more sensible wife who can't get past the space differential in the shortlist 😂
Unfortunately my experience with Cazoo was not so good. I tried to sell them a 10 year old car with 130k miles. It has two areas of scuffs/scratches on the front which I clearly described on the website. The agent collecting was polite to begin with but then said he had to “call in” the damage and started looking at it and shaking his head like a typical tyre kicker. In the end he said “they won’t take it as it has accident damage”. The car hasn’t had an accident this was a minor parking scuff. The whole calling it in didn’t seem real. Anyway they wasted time and diesel although also my time……I’d have gladly sent them photos in advance and saved us both the hassle. They seem to think that just because they didn’t try and beat me down on the drive to take less cash that wasting time like this is OK. I literally repeated the damage on the phone to the driver when he called me 20 mins before arriving……
Very informative Jim. Sounds like Carwow have a good business model...so it might be the place to sell until they get a new MD, and the changes they make will screw it up 🤔😉 I've sold my cars privately, and I've never enjoyed the process...so knowing that there's a company that offers a reasonable deal is a bonus. I wonder what they're like with the cheaper end of the market?
Would be interesting to see; I think it’s generally easier to sell a cheap car privately but when the car is worth a few quid I think people are reluctant to buy privately
Thanks for the video. I've used WBAC and Carwow: WBAC - The agent knocked me down £300 for a scuffed undertray!!!!! I walked away. Be very careful with WBAC ..... If you get a quote from the office once they have looked around the car then go away because it's too low then don't go back a week or 2 later. They know you have shopped around and are getting desperate to sell and the price offered will have gone down significantly becuase of that - this happened to my daughter. Carwow: Good service, after sending pics of the car, all damage and the service book he still went over the car (Fair enough) and then phoned the dealer who had bidded on it and went through the same stuff plus looking at the levels etc so took a while. Collection guy was friendly and chatty and the money transferred at the agreed price. Hope this helps.
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I sell damage repairable cars as a hobby. The absolute worst part of it by far, are people! Massess of Virtual Tyre kickers. 90% are timewasters, lots of texts at night, unlimited amounts of "Best Price Mate" Navigating fraud attempts. So you are bang on about not wanting to sell privately. Unfortunately nowadays, it's the majority who are horrible to deal with.
100% mate, sad times really. I used to actually enjoy selling a car years ago.
This is rubbish. I sold my 911 privately. The best offer i had from online lot was 22k, the worst was 18k. I sold it to a lovely chap for 28.5k. Top value.
You deserve a medal mate for selling damage repairable, that can't be easy.
@crimsonpirate1710 where did you post it?
Just sold through Motorway and was very impressed. WBAC offered £7,500 and I’ve sold previously through them and been knocked down on the day. Motorway gave an offer of £8,450 which they then reduced to £8,400 when I went through some minor damage with them on the phone. It went to the dealer auction the following day and they confirmed the best price they had received was £9,650, which I accepted. Dealer then got in touch and sent a guy to pick the car up the following week, inspection consisted of a read of the paperwork, a 1 min walk around and the test drive involved me driving him from the station to my house. Money hit my account the moment the inspection was complete and he drove off, no fees and no hassle at all. Was very happy.
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@@scottmackintosh7633 so motorway is highly recommended 👍... just going through my first lease and selling my mk8 golf gtd...I paid £30k for it and motorway are offering £3k above everybody else, but wasn't sure how the process worked.. not selling till Feb/march next year but want to be prepared 👍
@@scottmackintosh7633 Hi what would happen if any issues with a car you sell to them arrise in future ? Is the seller held reliable ?
I sold my car through Motorway, it was a great experience the best I’ve had for a long time hassle free no issues at all the collecting agent was spot on and the money was in my bank the next day before they even collected the car. We buy any car personally just look to beat you down and offer less when you turn up to have the inspection. I’d use them as a marker and get a better deal elsewhere.
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Sold my BMW with Motorway and it went relatively well...dealer then sent a guy up by train and I picked him up at the station..nice guy...no price chip...saw it advertised at £2k more so reckon they made circa £1500..keep up the great content!
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Nice, when got money after test drive?
Very interesting, thank you.
In May we sold my wife's 11 year old Subaru using Motorway. They were excellent from start to finish. We ended up getting £1200 more for it than we were offered in PX.
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Agreed, private selling has become a hassle. Great video really helpful, thank you
Glad it was helpful!
No one has cash to spend everything is on finance
@@Cous1nJackSpeak for yourself. There are people who don't live the finance lifestyle, who want everything now and pay later. There are some people (believe it or not (like my dad)) who actually saves up the money for a car then buys it without paying interest. It's called saving.... people should try it sometime. If you constantly don't have cash then something is wrong, your not budgeting properly, or in a low paid job. If your in a low paid job and have to borrow or finance your car your holiday your kitchen your Ikea sofa etc etc the solution is not to borrow or finance, it's to educate or train yourself and get A BETTER PAID JOB
I found Motorway by far the best on two occaisions - their price is an estimate which was exceeded by over £1000 - dealer collects car and makes instant bank transfer.
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Another vote for motorway. Although the inital estimate was just under £16k for my very tidy car. When quotes came in they were over £18k. Fords of Winsford were the winning dealer who organised a transport setup to check the car over. A quick look round, double check details, short test drive and money paid. Probably about 30 minutes to done. No messing around, very happy.
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Used Motorway to sell a 10 year old Mondeo last year. Took all the photos they requested, using their app. Was offered minimum £4500 (WBAC was £3800). Car went to auction and sold for £5300. The lady who came to inspect and pick up must have taken 45 minutes going over the car, and listed 20-30 imperfections, many barely visible. Madness, but she assured me it wouldn't make any difference to the price I'd been offered - so why list them? The dealer knocked £650 off for cam belt not being done. At no time had I said the cam belt had been done, and had provided all service history. Having said all of that, we still got the best part of £1000 more than WBAC, and £1600 more than Big Motoring World offered us. Would use again.
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Same good experience here with Cazoo. It was a little while back about 2,5years ago but exactly same. They offered me about 2k more on a 27k car then the rest. Came to collect it and before they left the money was on my account. Top service from Cazoo.
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I used Motorway to sell a 92k 2013 auto 1.6 Ford Focus. It had basic countryside body work (hedge scratches that would buff out etc.), alloys in need of attention & a new near side wing. I had it serviced, MOT & £70 clean. Got £4,500 for it. WeBuyAnyCar were offering £2,700. Motorway were easy, polite & straight. WeBuy were pushy, overbearing & ultimately cheap…in every way.
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I sold my outlander phev via cazoo today. Awesome experience and got £17,300 after all fees. This was £1.2k higher than webuyanycar and £2.2k higher than trade in price. They collected and no hint of knocking the price down.
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I've sold two cars using Motorway and I would swear by them.
I got more than I expected on both occasions and managed to talk the first car sold at the agreed price after the dealer tried to knock of £50.
I told him he can keep the boot protector and that it had half a tank of fuel.
The second car I got more than £2k more than the initial quote and there was no haggling when they picked the car up.
On both occasions, I still had the option to decline the final offer so it was a win win for me.
Just make sure you don't hide anything.
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Dealer offered me £1100 in px for my 2009 Mitsubishi Colt. WBAC offered £1300 on their website but on inspection deducted approximately £100 for each chip and ding (there were a few, but nothing more than to be expected given the age of the car). I was finally offered just under £900! The WBAC agent was in genuine disbelief when I declined. But judging by the way the previous customer left their portacabin shaking her head, I shouldn't have been too surprised at the result.
Seems like a familiar story
Sold my Evoque through Cazoo a couple of years ago. Happy with price offered and the overall effortless selling experience which pretty much mirrored yours by the sounds of it.
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I did the same, got more than the rest and it was so simple (not sure how they made a profit on it mind)
I used motorway to sell my vw cc. The whole experience was excellent and I got a good price. On Motorway I got more than double what wbac offered. Motorway now just need a catchy song. Thank you for this video.
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Sold mine and my wife's car with Carwow last month. One car went over the estimate by a £600. Another met the reserve. Easy collection and finance settled. No complaints! Agree on private selling too many tire kickers
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I used Motorway in 2020 to sell a Zoe ZE40, good price and easy transaction despite the Covid hassle at the time. I got about £1k more than the best part exchange price offered. I'm sure a private sale would have been a bit better price wise but as you say there's a lot of hassle doing that. I've only found your channel recently - love it.
Lots of good feedback for Motorway in these comments. YOuTube likes to keep my channel under wraps I think - it makes it way more exclusive......😥
I used carwow in January and I have nothing but praise for them. The most important thing to do is be completely honest with your description, declaring any damage and include photos. I was given a very competitive minimum reserve. It met the reserve in the first auction and in fact sold for £300 over reserve so I was very happy. On the collection day, the chap inspected my car and rang the office to say the car was as described and there was no suggestion of reducing the price. Was notified by my bank of the funds transfer and notice from DVLA to say I had sold the vehicle into the motor trade before it was driven away on trade plates. Very happy with both carwow and the dealer who purchased my car.
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Thanks for the video. I sold my car through Motorway last year, they were brilliant very quick and I got more than they quoted. Hassle free , money in the account as I passed him the keys.
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When I sell a car/bike I state no offers. Otherwise, the implied message is that I'll negotiate on price. If it's an auction sale I insist on £100 immediately at the close of bidding. If the buyer for some reason messes me about he's lost his £100.
I always put in a really long description in proper English, not chav speak like ... I done new bat tree this sort after car I never crashed it my mate nose how to fix it he done it for me ... nor do I use the ridiculous AI description.
I've sold about ten cars and bikes like this over the years. No hassle, no tyre kickers or test pilots.
Obviously car buyer firms will never pay what you'd get off ebay. They wouldn't make a profit otherwise.
We sold our car a couple of months ago, the Motorway way, it was a brilliant experience. Five days start to finish.
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Very interesting. I would have welcomed your comments 6 months ago. I part exchanged the two family cars then because I got much more than I expected and was happy with that. I was perhaps too sceptical of the car buying companies, one of which (Motorway) had offered £1k more on one of the cars. This was the wife's car (a 5 year old Suzuki Ignis) that she had owned for 18 months. We got the same price (in part ex) that we had paid for it. It seems to be a sellers market for some brands at the moment.
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Bought and sold with Carwow best price and easy process. Motorway wanted so many photos which didn’t work out took 3 days. Carwow all sorted in a day brilliant and way better than we buy any car who always knock you down when you turn up.
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Sold myt KIA estate using Motorway on the recommendation of the KIA dealer, who told me I would probably get a couple of thousand more using them than I would get as a part exchange.
Quite painless, and I ended up getting £2300 more than offered as PE.
Dealer, from a couple of hundred miles away, came with a trailer, inspected it and immediately transferred money. Waited until it was visible in my bank account then loaded car and took it away.
Absolutely would recommend them again.
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Thanks for being honest and going through every step of the sale ..
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just sold through motorway, took loads of pictures and after 48 hours was offered £ 800 more than the dealer offered in part ex. So that was £ 200 less than the book price. So I was pretty happy. They came and collected it within 3 days cash straight in bank. Wasnt to bad an experience.
They kept saying the car had alloy wheels which it did not. Then they said it had scratches on the alloy wheels. I pointed out how can it have scratches when it does not have alloy wheels at all it had plastic wheel trims. Eventually they understood.
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Also went with Motorway for 2018 Volvo XC60 inscription pro t8. Dealer offered £28550, Motorway was £32250. Dealer came with a paint meter, chipped 100 off. But insane difference. Car went no problem
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Amazing the difference a few months make in value of used cars.
I sold a 2022 XC60 2 weeks back for same price as your one.
A few years ago i purchaced a 10 plate Meriva from BCA for 1040 quid. It had some undisclosed sill damage which really hit me when trying to sell it on just over a year later. So what did i do?
I got rid of it at WBAC for 1050 quid.
They never noticed the sill damage.......or the knackered gearbox......well they should test drive them before purchase!!!!
BCA own WBAC so they never lose with all the buyer and seller fees they get.
Anyway on this occasion i had a years motoring and got a tenner back for my bus fare home
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I just sold a car through Ebay. Yes, I got a lot of hassle, but ended up selling to a car trader, and got a few quid more than I would have via Motorway. Think it depends on the price bracket of the car you are selling. I sold a 69 plate car to Motorway a few years ago and couldn't recommend it enough.
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@@Oli-l5m how was it with the fees? I'm thinking of selling my car on there
I have had good experiences with We Buy Any Car and also had rubbish experience with them. My last car I sold with Car Wow and had a good experience and found them to be really helpful.
Thanks for sharing
We also had a great experience with Cazoo. Described the car as honestly as we could, got a very decent online offer. The handing over experience at Cazoo in Chertsey was on a par with buying a car - really friendly, seamless and hassle-free. If only others could set this sort of standard!
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I normally filter them out on the first phone call when doing private sales.
Sold my B class Merc last year to a really nice Polish chap after I had about 6 calls from probable time wasters , can sniff them out a mile away , I just said someone was due to buy it that day and that got rid of them.
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Motorway have given me the best price. Ebay buyers have accidentally clicked buy it now twice. has wasted weeks waiting to relist and ebay has taken 100 pounds nearly before I have even got any sale. I might just use one of these buy any car services!
It can be a frustrating process selling privately these days
We sold a Panda through Best Car Buyer for a good price and no problems, no silly fees and quick turnaround. We found WBAC always pretends to find something to reduce their offer, and Carwow was a pain - as well as the lowest offers.
Yes, couldn't be ar*ed to sell privately these days.
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First time seller of a VW Touran 2022 R-Line with Motorway and Carwow. Tried uploading pictures on the Carwow app on two phones, did not succeed. Finally had to use my laptop to upload. Then Carwow contacted the day after Motorway came to collect the car. Process was slow. Was offered £26.5 k from dealer, £28k from Carwow, £28.4 from Motorway. Easy Peazy
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Just used Carwow. Offered best price from about 4 companies l tried. All in all took less than a week. No charge for service or collection. Prompt payment on the day. Pretty hassle free.
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Selling privately at this price point would be time consuming to find a buyer cash ready also as a buyer you have no protection and no warranty .
It’s the way to go this day and age. Great video as usual.
Let’s not forget the vat man he will want his share therefore
leaving Cazoo two grand profit which is not a lot for an eighteen grand plus car.
Oh yes I know; no issue with their margin, just felt it was a shame that they didn’t fix the small bits of damage.
I was very pleased with Motorway as I got the same price from the dealer as I’d paid for the car a year earlier (I had to sell as could no longer drive much - temporarily until I had knee surgery). But they’re very exacting on the photos etc (which is probably no bad thing) and may be a better bet if you are selling something a little unusual that specialist dealers will compete for.
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Great video and certainly food for thought. I sold many cars privately years ago when I lived in London, as being without a car for a while was no problem with trains, tubes etc. Lots of awful people of course, trying to knock you down on the phone before viewing, not turning up etc. and other daft stuff as you mentioned. The funniest/strangest one was a nice chap who had seen a car like mine (BMW 635csi) pass him on the motorway and asked if it would tow a caravan. I said of course it would with a tow bar and he proceeded to tell me all about his caravan and if I would like to buy it. I nearly did.
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That's actually very useful. I have used WBAC before and it's been a bit love & hate. Looking to sell my wife's car next year so will give Cazoo a go. Like you, I have no patience for tyre kickers. Cheers.
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Spot on video thanks. So useful to know who will be giving nuisance calls and who will just do the job correctly. 👍
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I tried all those earlier this year my wife said try the BMW dealer you bought it from, I laughed, used there online system, not good, then they phoned me asked what was I looking then, I told them, following day they rang and bought the car back, I was well happy!
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Sold my X5 via Motorway in September 2021, was due a set of tyres before winter (£1300) and got £1,500 more than webuyanycar, straight forward, pick up and payment went seamlessly, happy sale
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My car is up for auction on CarWow today, been fairly smooth process so far, but I went ahead straight away, so not experienced the nagging. Remains to be seen if it actually sells though!
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I sold mine through CarWow. The winner was a trader who was an utter pain in the butt. They sent two guys to collect the car who had some kind of good cop/bad cop routing going on. One guy telling me all the invisible things that were wrong with the car and the other telling me their reduced price was a great deal and I should take it. CarWow were good throughout but the dealer is on my blacklist.
@richard_ellis you should name the dealer as a heads-up to others so they can be on their guard.
They will continue the practice as long as they are allowed to get away with it and no doubt con many shhpush unchallenged people in the process.
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Nice one Jim I think this is the best way to go if you can't trade it in, you just never know who's going to knock on your door nowadays and the hassle you might get afterwards, I'm now off to the shop to get a bar of dairy milk chocolate yum yum 😅
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Thanks for the video. Cazoo worked for you but it seems that Motorway has worked for most.
It does!
Used MotorWay, offered £11080 for Suzuki Vitara 2017, easy process, dealer contacted me to arrange collection. Collection driver came a week later, inspected the car, transferred the money and drove away. Car appeared on the dealer's site two weeks later for £12700. Would use them again. Also sold a Citroen Berlingo, bought it for £16.5k, car market went crazy, used Cazoo price as the minimum I would accept, to sell it for cash to another Citroen dealer 12 months later for £18,250 who desperately needed stock.
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Hi I recently purchased a model 3 LR RWD on the 0% deal. I did the same and used Carwow this time and it worked out well and a good price compared to others. Tesla certainly do not offer a decent p/ex in my case £5k difference.
Yes, about £3/4K difference for me I think.
What an interesting video. I have never seen one that follows the car all the way to going up for sale. In defence of Cazoo's 2.5K marrk up it should be noted that £500 of that will go in VAT and a massive part of their costs is marketing probably about 1K so that leaves 1K real gross profit before the valet at say £100 so down to £900. Then they are on the hook for warranty, which you do not have if you sell privately, who knows what that might be after the car is sold.
I’ve got zero issue with their markup, I’m just a bit shocked they didn’t fix the tiny imperfections that they knocked me down for. I was happy with the price I got though so good luck to them.
I have just used Sell Car to buy my BMW I4 M50. They came to my home and did a very thorough inspection, videod .the car and then circulated the details to dealers for them to bid. They were struggling to offer more than the trade in price I already had available. Later in the day they were able to offer £45,000 which was £1,000 more than my trade in. The car will be collected tomorrow, I have received a £500 and the balance will be paid before the car leaves my home. There is no chance of the price changing which I understand can happen with Motorway.
I have purchased a six month old Volvo C 40 plus with 193 miles on the clock from my local dealer for £44,950 . I intend to buy a Genisis GV 60 next when the Hyundia dealers start to sell them.
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I sold a car to Peter vardy a couple of years ago. 10% more than all the others. I had full history, every invoice and they didn’t want it! Offered them another later and they were 20% lower than the others. Morale is try them all.
Great advice
Should have used Motorway. The price they quote is a reserve ie the minimum you will get. Sold 2 Audis thro Motorway. First one …..reserve £8000 , price received £9250. Second one. Reserve £38,000. Price received £38,950. Wouldn’t use anybody else in future
I'm more than happy with what I got in terms of price and service to be honest.
Always bought second hand cars from a dealer and always part exchange my old car.
Too much hassle trying to sell privately and lots of future problems if unlucky.
A friend of mine had the police knock on his door about 6 months after he sold a van
because it was involved in a robbery, the people paid cash and did not register it.
Also heard of people getting parking tickets and speeding fines after selling their cars
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Terrible service from Carwow. Vastly over priced my 520d , according to offers, at £12800 they advised a reserve of £12600. Offers I at £11000 and one st £11550. On arrival they found two new scratches one was photographed and submitted so not new the other was hard to spot but tiny and near a declared one in the sale. Fairway I missed it but was TINY and next to a larger one they already knew about. Tried to knock £300 off for what they no doubt will touch up and polish out in minutes. Just walked away with £11400 which was less than the skoda dealer.
Don't buy the hype be prepared for less.
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A very interesting video. I used Evan Halshaw once and got a good price for a Golf R, I used Wizzle once and got an excellent price for an Audi S3 and used We Buy any car to sell a Mini Cooper S but the price was adjusted due to a poor paint finish. I have a good contact in the trade and I let him have my car usually at the We Buy any car price offered.
Seems like WBAC knock cars down a lot for any cosmetic damage but, from what I’ve heard, seem clueless about mechanical issues.
Need to work out what’s best option an company to use for my non running evoque. (Requires new engine). hard when would need to drop off and pay for recovery from garage. Anyone sold a non runner to one of these car sale sites. Scared would get really dropped down on price offered. Help/advice anyone ?
Forget WBAC, maybe try Motorway but realistically the value is going to be very low. I assume it’s the 2,0 diesel?
@@DefinitelyNotAGuru yep the 2.0L Diesel. local garage as offered 2.5k and WBAC 4k so stuck in abit of bad spot.
other problem is the with the car been at the garage it would not be possible to take photos for the motorway website so to do that would need to pay and recovery the vehicle again.
WBAC which belongs to British Car Auctions has now got competition,they have almost always paid well below trade prices for vehicles,I would always see what they would offer and then check out the competition,sometimes customers would be better trading in than accepting WBACs offer especially as vehicles went through the roof a couple of years ago,in some instance’s they were fleecing some people who fell for their advertising selling the vehicle on through the trade making 30/40 % what they paid for it. They stopped live auctions because of Covid but I think their going to have to rethink that decision as other auction houses come on the market where trade buyers can see what their buying instead of buying blind which is never a good idea,trader’s like to see and hear what their buying as any complaint to BCA falls on deaf ears, they couldn’t give a toss as long as they get their money.
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Best car buyer also a great shout used many times...
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I took my car to the most famous car buyer. Online offered £7500, then after seeing 2 small dents deducted £820. There is the £75 admin charge To make it worse their patter was insulting. I tried motorway and got an offer of £8295 with zero fees. So far so good.
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I found Arnold Clark (Arnold buy my car) very good. Sold three cars to them in the past couple of years and one of them got paid £1000 more than we buy any car offered.
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Sold mine through motorway. Simple procedure similar to yours. The secret to getting the value is be honest in your description
Yes!
Motorway was the site we used, simple efficient and a better price than anyone else.
Our car was, however, in mint condition and fully serviced, so no knockbacks.
Well done Motorway
Lots of decent feedback on Motorway in the comments here
We’re looking at a newer car but our current car is 20 years old and creeping up on 130k miles. It’s our first car and it’s not wanted for anything. Just recently had a new condenser,Compressor aircon regas and aux belt, a set of new tyres last December and not a cheap set (£500) of Yokohama all season. I doubt we’d get much for it tbh. But it’s an honest car and we’ll miss it if we decide to buy a newer car. (Our car is a 2003 Honda CR-V mk2 auto petrol ULEZ too) We also never have less than half a tank of petrol and only use E5. Probably only get offered £600 😂
That’s one that you’ll probably sell privately with not too much drama
Thanks for that - really useful as are the comments others have added here - great to hear personal experience on the alternative to endless tyre-kickers….
Cheers Ian
WBAC offered more than their online estimate on inspection on my E class,were great to deal with and quick and easy,doubt that would happen now though…
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You can haggle with them. Tell them you want more and they’ll ‘phone the manager’
I used Motorway for my daughters car and while the price they offered was the price I got, i didn't receive the money until 8 hours later, I had to watch someone drive off in the car with no payment, i will not put myself through that again, it took many emails before I received the money. Motorway did responded to my concerns and assured me that the dealer who bought the car would pay me, but i have to say it was a long 8 hours.
That’s awful
Why did you let it go?
Why didn't you insist on payment before handing it over?
First of all thanks for all your great content
I’m about to take out my first lease but can’t decide if it’s best to take out maintenance option or not.
Do you have a comparison video on the subject
Cheers Paul
Cheers Paul. No. It's really something to look at on a case by case basis as much depends on your mileage (how often the car will need servicing and tyres) and the cost which varies massively from lease to lease. Pricing varies massively, sometimes it's a no brainer and sometimes it's not far off extortion.
Great insight into these companies, thank you.
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Last March my new car arrived 8 months early so I went to WBAC for a valuation - I also had a valuation as a part ex from the dealer supplying the new car and they offered £9000 more than WBAC despite it being the third week of March and they had a forecourt rammed with the same cars taken in as part ex/ end of PCP at the change of year numbers on registration plates. I got only £3k short of what I paid 3 years and 23000 miles ago from the dealership!
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Wow, that must've been a special, even rare, model!
I had pretty much the identical experience, did you mention Cazoo will not pay outstanding finance off,so you have to pay that just prior to selling? That was the case for me last year.
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Nice work sir.
Bigs want my car are okay. Sold my audi tt for a good price and didn't try to knock me down on arrival
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Great info Jim, will be giving them a go when i sell the wife"s Vauxhall Mokka, great videos, they are electric!.👍
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I think Cazoo have dropped the price of your Citroën to £18,200 already!
I sold my car to Motorpoint. This was hassle-free, and they didn’t beat me down on price.
All you have to do is declare you are as ‘excellent’, ‘good’, ‘average’ or ‘poor’.
CarWow was unsuccessful for me - got one offer, which was way below.
Motorway wanted to know all the imperfections, which is very difficult on an older car. Didn’t use them for that reason.
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I used Arnold Clark to sell my Late Mothers Car. Smooth process and offered a great price which left £0000's in positive equity to pay for funeral.
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We Buy Any Car offered me a price for my 2019 Picanto. When I went to the office was told quote was for showroom condition car. The guy then went over the car panel by panel knocking money off for minor stone chip damage and eventually offering £900 Less. Complete waste of my time!
Frustrating
Just went to sell my car and £299 pick up fee not to do sure if this is due t the cost of the car plus the £50 admin fee also ways great to watch you uploads thx
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Solid advice again Jim. I commented on stock vehicles on your last video, telling you about my T-Roc on order. I’m buying my Volvo V40 R Design Pro for £7500 at the end of it’s PCP and I’ve been quoted £13,700 to sell to many of the dealers you mentioned. So hopefully this is a £5,200 profit towards my T-Roc lease which for 2 years will cost me £9,000.
A new car ran for 2 years is only going to cost me net £3,800 🎉
That is awesome!
Sounds like you were paying to much on the pcp. Sounds like you have no choice than to buy it at £7500 if its worth nearly £15k by the Sounds of it. My car at the end of the pcp was going to cost £19k to buy so I just returned it. Mind you the monthly payment was really low and the deposit was only £500
@@chrishart8548 I managed to secure it at 0% apr and the payment was £279pm.
I think the dealer didn’t account for the dealer contribution, as this wasn’t shown in the financial statement. I believe they missed a £2750 advance somewhere.
Sold my wife’s car to we buy any car because I got a great price for mine - hers had quite a bit of damage and they chipped us £400 for that damage - Hyundai quoted £2850 just for the damage to the door so when you add on the scuffed rear dumper with damaged parking sensor plus all 4 wheels scuffed I think we did well
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I got by far the best quote on Carwow. £1500 more than others, completely painless and paid within 15 minutes of car being approved by buyer.
I guess it depends on how good your car is and therefore what calibre of buyer/dealer you are in a transaction with.
I cam imagine the worse a car and lower value the worse your experiwnce is likely to be.
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Hi Jim, another great video 🙂👍love your 'laid back' style. its a shame i didn't know you were so local or i'd have offered a lift back after a drop off to Cazoo (we're Hedge End). Also hear what you're saying about CarWow, inundated with emails and in my opinion their prices are nowhere near as good as they were before the acquired Wizzle.
Thanks Nick, next time eh!
It’s no fun selling your car privately but satisfying when it goes right, car buying sites I have found robbing bastards but each to there own
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Totally agree with you
We Buy Any Car go over the car to find the smallest defect ,to bring the price down from what you were told online.
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Great vid Jim ! Love these sort of videos.
Cheers Nath! 👍👍👍👍
Sold two cars through Motorway , no hassle at all and prices £000`s better than WBAC!
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Just like to give some feedback on my recent sale. Just sold my BMW M340d from which webuyanycar offered £24,500, Motorway £29,000 and Carwow £30,300. I decided to go through Carwow from which the car was sold through auction to traders for a reserve price of £31,500. As there was 13 bids on the car I managed to sell the car for £33,600 with no fees and the car was paid for and collected the same day. So from my experience its certainly worth exploring all options.
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Hello everybody. I have sold many cars over the years ( not a trader by the way) and use EBay good description and photos. However some inane messaging, they have massively improved the messaging service, which is good. I have always qualified potential purchasers before they travel to view. As people take time and pay a lot of money to see the car, so it’s important not to be a time waster yourself. I have always met nice people and all the transactions have happened seamlessly. I can fully understand a lot of people not wanting to have the hassle. And with young people not always having the social skills to negotiate calmly and easily.
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I got stung with repairing diamond alloys, £250 per wheel so 1K knocked off. Looked into and that is the going rate for repairing diamond alloys. Keep them safe folks, I park a good foot away from the curb now 😊
Oh no!
When i sold a car a few years ago i found some 'local' company in Nottingham offered me the best price. And they travelled the hour to me, to see the car.
The moral of the story is also try local companies, they dont necessarily have the overheads and quick turnaround so can sometimes offer a better price
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I used to live down the road from big motoring worlds “national vehicle prep centre” I’ve seen how they treat the cars, test drive racing down the roads, storing the cars on pavements and in public car parks etc I would never buy a car from them
I’ve never seen anything to suggest any kind of reason to deal with them.
Had the same pestering from WBAC.
I thought if you are that desperate to buy it bump the price up 😄
Like you I would rather take a knock on the price than deal with the public.
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Just like to add how much I enjoyed your video, great presentation and communication.
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@@TheChukklebunny thanks very much
Another good video, informative and interesting content which I’m sure will help your viewers , keep up the good work looking forward to the next video
Much appreciated
Just for the record, Webuyanycar and Cinch are owned by British Car Auction BCA - Not Good.
Yes, as are Marshall motor group, British Motor Show……….
I sold through SellCar, they spent an hour haggling with me steadfast no. Ended up giving them 20p I’d found on the pavement earlier 😂 Then they got a speeding fine on the way back to base!
Oh no 😂
Just out of curiosity what lead you to sell the C5? I'm hovering on buying one, same story as you. Have 2 small kids and we want a practical family car.
A big tax write off on a new EV. The C5 was great.
@@DefinitelyNotAGuru Nice! The other two I have on my shortlist are the enyaq and the xc40 don't suppose either of those pip it for you? I still need to do more research on practicality of an ev but our budget max is around 20k so it's tricky pickings.
As much as I like the C5 Aircross the XC40 would be my pick of the 3, followed by the Enyaq - XC40 is noticably smaller than both others though.
@@DefinitelyNotAGuru yeah nail on the head really. They're a lot of money for marginal space gains for us, we have been riding a 09 prius into the ground and want space and comfort! I'm defo camp volvo and just trying to pitch it to my more sensible wife who can't get past the space differential in the shortlist 😂
@@DefinitelyNotAGuru Just wanted to say thank you, your words helped me make my choice and my family are loving driving around in our XC40. 😁
Unfortunately my experience with Cazoo was not so good. I tried to sell them a 10 year old car with 130k miles. It has two areas of scuffs/scratches on the front which I clearly described on the website. The agent collecting was polite to begin with but then said he had to “call in” the damage and started looking at it and shaking his head like a typical tyre kicker. In the end he said “they won’t take it as it has accident damage”. The car hasn’t had an accident this was a minor parking scuff. The whole calling it in didn’t seem real. Anyway they wasted time and diesel although also my time……I’d have gladly sent them photos in advance and saved us both the hassle. They seem to think that just because they didn’t try and beat me down on the drive to take less cash that wasting time like this is OK. I literally repeated the damage on the phone to the driver when he called me 20 mins before arriving……
Oh no, sounds like you may have encountered a jobsworth!
Very informative Jim. Sounds like Carwow have a good business model...so it might be the place to sell until they get a new MD, and the changes they make will screw it up 🤔😉
I've sold my cars privately, and I've never enjoyed the process...so knowing that there's a company that offers a reasonable deal is a bonus.
I wonder what they're like with the cheaper end of the market?
Would be interesting to see; I think it’s generally easier to sell a cheap car privately but when the car is worth a few quid I think people are reluctant to buy privately
Makes sense.
Available car are worth a mention mate they give decent prices and have no admin fee's
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Thanks for the video. I've used WBAC and Carwow:
WBAC - The agent knocked me down £300 for a scuffed undertray!!!!! I walked away.
Be very careful with WBAC ..... If you get a quote from the office once they have looked around the car then go away because it's too low then don't go back a week or 2 later. They know you have shopped around and are getting desperate to sell and the price offered will have gone down significantly becuase of that - this happened to my daughter.
Carwow: Good service, after sending pics of the car, all damage and the service book he still went over the car (Fair enough) and then phoned the dealer who had bidded on it and went through the same stuff plus looking at the levels etc so took a while. Collection guy was friendly and chatty and the money transferred at the agreed price.
Hope this helps.
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