BCA British Car Auction preferential buyer fees

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Hope someone can help,

What saving on the 'Standard Buyers Fee' do you get as you move up through the different tiers of BCA Card membership? Just trying to work out whether its worth applying.

E.g. I know that a Silver BCA Card entitles you to 'Intermediate Fees' and the Gold BCA Card entitles you to 'Business Fees', but what are these in comparison to the Standard Buyer Fee? Are we talking £10 pounds, or 10% or more?

Thanks in advance for any help!

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Small Car said:

Very generally, Silver and Gold cards are there or there abouts the same for buyers premium. Something like £200 on a £6k car I recall. You need to buy something like 4 cars to get silver and 12 to get gold in any one year. There is a black or platinum card as well, and it might be something bigger like 40 or 100 cars on that. And since I have never had one of those I don't know the premium costs. With gold you also get cheaper transport. Hope that helps?

Very useful, thank you!
So basically, for the £3000 ish cars I'm buying with approx £320 buyer fees, the buyer fees should drop to around £180 ish per car once I'm on the Gold tier. That's useful to know, thanks for the insight

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An article on the subject of buying at auction as an individual...
http://www.wiselysold.com/news/003-buying-a-car-at...

A £14,200 hammer price ends up being £15,000 all in.

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AdamIndy said:

I understand that but why would bca have a problem with that? The company makes more money, the vendor makes more money, purchaser pays less than forecourt(and will likely tell there friends meaning possibly more business and money for BCA) so it's a win win win. Private buyers won't buy everything so there is still plenty to fight over.

Because private buyers are generally more hassle and don't have any place in a wholesale environment. Mistakes are made, problems are found, complaints are made. They don't want or need that