Motorhub Shipley

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Yex GTR

4,583 posts

221 months

Tuesday 13th June 2023
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70proof said:
new lambo's come now with a 4 year warranty and service pack as standard, this car was registered may 22 so has 3 years left. you can only extend the manufacturers warranty on a lambo by 1 year, and only at time of purchase. If purchased from a main dealer after year 4, it will come with a factory approved 1 year warranty. this paint is also factory, not a wrap, just saying
Every day a school day as they say, possibly following the Ferrari multi year warranty and service package they have had on new cars for a while now.

I assume that before completing the purchase the dealer here would allow you to have the car inspected by a Main Dealer as they would surely have nothing to hide with factory warranty still in place...............

Bunty Killa

518 posts

200 months

Tuesday 13th June 2023
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murphyaj said:


Well Zory, Zoemarie, Ziomara, Zoe, Zoraida F and Zoraida V were all so impressed that they all felt the need to write a glowing review within the same week. These a consecutive reviews listed in time order, so I can only presume there was a convention nearby for people whose name starts with Z and a big group all decided to head out and buy a car during lunch.
This is absolutely gold!! rofl

70proof

6,051 posts

156 months

Tuesday 13th June 2023
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Yex GTR said:
I assume that before completing the purchase the dealer here would allow you to have the car inspected by a Main Dealer as they would surely have nothing to hide with factory warranty still in place...............
agreed, would be a condition of the sale and if honored, nothing else really matters, and a thorough finance check.

WCZ

10,537 posts

195 months

Sunday 18th June 2023
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PH protects motorhub etc

the worst was Verdi where several people here lost large amounts of money, thankfully ferrarichat has a more open policy and helped spread the word (it was pretty much too late at that point though)

Driver101

14,376 posts

122 months

Sunday 18th June 2023
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I've had posts removed from this thread, but I haven't been sent an email to say why.

Is reporting what was the findings of a court breaking the rules?


pork911

7,165 posts

184 months

Sunday 18th June 2023
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WCZ said:
PH protects motorhub etc

the worst was Verdi where several people here lost large amounts of money, thankfully ferrarichat has a more open policy and helped spread the word (it was pretty much too late at that point though)
I think PH protects PH, and rightly so.

You are welcome to put your business on the line to support chat.

irfan1712

1,243 posts

154 months

Sunday 3rd December 2023
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hqraaa-Ucuc

popped up on my YouTube home page today and Instantly thought of the various threads and online reviews of Motorhub.

regardless of the reviews and history... its hard to deny that their stock is at least on occasion, impressive.

Genuinely keen to know how anyone gets past their online reviews and actually proceeds with a purchase!

ratrod 2

997 posts

10 months

Sunday 3rd December 2023
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pork911 said:
WCZ said:
PH protects motorhub etc

the worst was Verdi where several people here lost large amounts of money, thankfully ferrarichat has a more open policy and helped spread the word (it was pretty much too late at that point though)
I think PH protects PH, and rightly so.

You are welcome to put your business on the line to support chat.
Thanks for bringing up Verdi and ruining my Sunday ,now where it i put my shotgun banghead

was8v

1,937 posts

196 months

Sunday 3rd December 2023
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All these cars and many other nice rarities are in one ex multistorey car park, looks like a fun afternoon browse.

All I can think of is a family of car nuts owns it, and they just buy cars they like, and they stick a price tag in the window with a profit in it for them - if it sells, it sells.

I guess the run of the mill sales cover the overheads and it's somewhere to keep some cool metal.

Lot of money tied up in a veyron sitting there though.

SydneyBridge

8,631 posts

159 months

Sunday 3rd December 2023
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Think the reviews on Trustpilot, average 1.5, are probably more representative

Edited by SydneyBridge on Sunday 3rd December 16:51

harrycovert

424 posts

177 months

Sunday 3rd December 2023
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I think someone alleged they were a money laundering outfit!

was8v

1,937 posts

196 months

Sunday 3rd December 2023
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harrycovert said:
I think someone alleged they were a money laundering outfit!
So hypothetically obviously, how would that work?

If they never actually manage to sell any cars, how does the money get laundered? Imaginary cars...?

SydneyBridge

8,631 posts

159 months

Sunday 3rd December 2023
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Could you, hypethetically obviously, buy the cars with dirty money (I understand lots are from abroad), so you have an asset instead of cssh and then clean money if and when the car is sold

ghost83

5,479 posts

191 months

Sunday 3rd December 2023
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I know they get a ton of hate but I know of ppl ri have bought cars and be happy,

When they used to be keighley car trade centre friends bought a r33 gtr and a lancer evo 4 from there and I know someone who bought a e46 m3 csl from motorhub,

In all honesty they said the reviews were all crap yet they had an ok experience


was8v

1,937 posts

196 months

Sunday 3rd December 2023
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SydneyBridge said:
Could you, hypethetically obviously, buy the cars with dirty money (I understand lots are from abroad), so you have an asset instead of cssh and then clean money if and when the car is sold
Its not like a car wash though is it, you have to actually buy a car to sell it you can't make it up and say 200x cars came through today when in reality 50 did.

i suppose you could buy a car for £5k clean and £5k dirty cash, put in the books you paid £5k then sell for £10k.

It would make it an easier process and more throughput if you sold the car for £9k

But then you'd think they would be the worlds nicest salesmen and the reviews would rave about the prices.

james6546

988 posts

52 months

Sunday 3rd December 2023
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I’ve been reading a few reviews on trustpilot after reading this thread.

I particularly like the one that claims they said

“fkoff with your car or I’ll knock you out”

biggrin

NRG1976

985 posts

11 months

Sunday 3rd December 2023
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was8v said:
SydneyBridge said:
Could you, hypethetically obviously, buy the cars with dirty money (I understand lots are from abroad), so you have an asset instead of cssh and then clean money if and when the car is sold
Its not like a car wash though is it, you have to actually buy a car to sell it you can't make it up and say 200x cars came through today when in reality 50 did.

i suppose you could buy a car for £5k clean and £5k dirty cash, put in the books you paid £5k then sell for £10k.

It would make it an easier process and more throughput if you sold the car for £9k

But then you'd think they would be the worlds nicest salesmen and the reviews would rave about the prices.
You buy any car.

You give your friend the £200k of dirty cash.

You sell the car to your friend for £200k.

You have just cleaned £200k.



murphyaj

648 posts

76 months

Monday 4th December 2023
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NRG1976 said:
You buy any car.

You give your friend the £200k of dirty cash.

You sell the car to your friend for £200k.

You have just cleaned £200k.
Still not sure how that works. Money laundering means you take dirty money and end up with a similar amount of clean money or clean fungible assets (like stock or bonds)


In your example I have £200k of dirty cash
I buy an expensive car for, let's say 150k
I give my friend £200k.
I sell the car to my friend for £200k.
I now have £200k of clean money.

Except I don't because I had to buy the car in the first place, I have £50k and my friend has £150k car that I have essentially given him. Plus I had to buy the expensive car with my dirty money; if it's clean enough to go around buying expensive luxury goods why am I laundering it? If they were doing this with very cheap cars and selling them for 10 times their value that might work, but the stock we're talking about is pretty high end. They might be doing this with their cheap cars, but that doesn't explain the ten Aventadors they currently have for sale.

Edited by murphyaj on Monday 4th December 11:00

NRG1976

985 posts

11 months

Monday 4th December 2023
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In your example above you would buy a car for £150k using criminal proceeds, perhaps importing it in from Dubai. You then sell this car for the same value (or even less, laundering is just a cost of doing business after all) to a genuine customer. £150k laundered.

Alternatively you buy a car for £150k, but in reality you haven’t really brought it for that much, you bought one for £5k as it was an accident wreck, but overinflated the figure, you lend your friend £200k to buy it. £195k Money laundered.

There are many ways, below is a real life case:

“In the UK, the 2017 McMenamy report discovered that the Spanish Kinahan cartel set up entire networks of garages that sold cars acquired through criminal proceeds to launder drug money. Criminal dealerships also occasionally exchange vehicles to launder money, falsifying sales documents or even failing to deliver the vehicles to camouflage illicit funds. “



murphyaj

648 posts

76 months

Monday 4th December 2023
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makes more sense now, thanks
I get how car dealerships could be useful for money laundering, but something about the example as it was worded didn't stack up.
I'd need a lot more to conclude that this place is doing that though, simply because it is very high profile and does appear to actually have the cars. I'd assume that such an operation would probably want to fly under the radar.