We buy any car shock.....

[tyeo86]

Just put in the details of a 996 c4 '02 car which someone has for sale at just shy of £20k and they offered £9.8k.

I was shocked! Is that the car's true value?

[Jim1556]

NO! That's WBAC's crap trade valuation so they can make £000s off the back of it!

I bought a brand new car with a Forces discount at £19k, typed in the details to WBAC and it came back with £14k...

Utter ste, wouldn't use them unless an absolute emergency!

[monthefish]

A "we buy any car" offer will never be a true reflection of a cars value.

Is that really a surprise to you?

[rb5er]

Nope that is the value they have given it so when they send it to auction and it goes for £13K or so they still make some money.

You think they would pay top money and not look at making a profit?

By contrast i had a focus st for sale for 4 months, wanted 12.5k but novody seemed interested, they ended up giving me that exact amount (-50 quid admin charge) as it was 100% mint and they could make a couple of grand on it.

Edited by rb5er on Wednesday 22 February 10:50

[caymanred]

is that factoring in that they will knock off at least 500quid for any minor marks on the car when they see it?

[Durzel]

WBAC is for people desperate to sell really, or for cars that have a trivial value anyway. Noone in their right mind would sell a Porsche on there... would they?

[tyeo86]

monthefish said:

A "we buy any car" offer will never be a true reflection of a cars value.

Is that really a surprise to you?

i understand the value will be low so they can make some money but how much. 2-3k even if they make that it still means the car's true value is circu. £13-14k

[rb5er]

caymanred said:

is that factoring in that they will knock off at least 500quid for any minor marks on the car when they see it?

Only if you fail to put it in your description of the car, describe it accurately and this is not an issue.

[Shadow62]

I have found their bids good in the past. Not Porsche. Land rover discovery and a mini cooper S.

[monthefish]

tyeo86 said:

monthefish said:

A "we buy any car" offer will never be a true reflection of a cars value.

Is that really a surprise to you?

i understand the value will be low so they can make some money but how much. 2-3k even if they make that it still means the car's true value is circu. £13-14k

Yes, a 996 c4 '02 car could easily be worth £13-14k.
It could also be worth "just shy of £20k".

All comes down to spec/condition/mileage etc (which you haven't told us), so I don't really understand the point of this thread.

[gibbon]

What a pointless thread, you really should find something more interesting to troll OP.

[Daggerpie]

I was on a course the other week and it happened to be on the same Trading Est as WBAC offices where customers drop off their car.

I couldn't believe the cars that were being loaded onto transporter, nearly new Mercs, an X5, even a tasty T5 van. I thought it would just be older sh!tters that went through them.

[MadMark911]

Daggerpie said:

I was on a course the other week and it happened to be on the same Trading Est as WBAC offices where customers drop off their car.

I couldn't believe the cars that were being loaded onto transporter, nearly new Mercs, an X5, even a tasty T5 van. I thought it would just be older sh!tters that went through them.

I'm sure they have plenty of that those too - but given the state of our economy - I'm really not surprised that there are a lot of people who are desperate enough to use them (but personally I find their business model / tactics abhorrent).

[franki68]

tyeo86 said:

Just put in the details of a 996 c4 '02 car which someone has for sale at just shy of £20k and they offered £9.8k.

I was shocked! Is that the car's true value?

I think they work using the cap bottom price as their guide.

[Robsti]

I got a quote from WBAC and Parkers guide and WBAC was £4k higher!

[Stu R]

This again, really?

If they're bidding you in the balls they don't want your car, it's just that simple. I can put my daily driver in there and get pretty much exactly the same quote I'm getting from dealers to p/ex it against a new one, perhaps even a touch more. Why? Because it's a car that's in demand on the used market, so they'll pay strong money for it.

Last time I checked, 10 year old 996 C4s weren't getting people climbing over each other and beating down doors to buy them. They'll flip it on to an auction where it'll probably take an age to sell and make only a little more than they paid for it, and it might take them months.

In other news, insurers who quote £20,000/yr don't really want your business either.

[nsm3]

Daggerpie said:

I thought it would just be older sh!tters that went through them.

"....from fifty quid to a hundred grand, we buy any car dot commmm......."

That shoite advert is stuck in my head now !!

They offered me £5k for an A3 - traded it for £7.5k and the market was showing about £9k, albeit rather slow at the time, hence the trade-in (2010).

[TOV!E]

gibbon said:

What a pointless thread, you really should find something more interesting to troll OP.

Leave him alone, we all know that it is only worth 8_9 grand

[tyeo86]

gibbon said:

What a pointless thread, you really should find something more interesting to troll OP.

your name says it all

[Chris71]

A while back I put my daily driver's details in for fun (with a few scratches declared) and actually got a pretty respectable quote. It's only a slightly tatty Focus - most definitely not a Porsche - but I'm tempted to give them a go when I get rid of it. Do they look at things like cambelt intervals?

I hasten to add my less than perfect shed will be accurately described if it goes up as a private advert. If it's the company responsible for the world's most annoying advert on the other hand I'm happy to go with caveat emptor.