cars with no reserve reading -- any others with this modus
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ChocolateFrog said:
They also shill bid almost every car and those they don't or forget to they won't sell to you.
I've been watching a lot of their listings and the same bidders bid on them all, if they win, they reappear in a day or two.
They must be one of the bigger car sellers on Ebay and yet ebay does nothing about their fraudulent activities. I guess they're a good fee payer.
100%I've been watching a lot of their listings and the same bidders bid on them all, if they win, they reappear in a day or two.
They must be one of the bigger car sellers on Ebay and yet ebay does nothing about their fraudulent activities. I guess they're a good fee payer.
You always know its them shill bidding because they have no higher than say 4 feedbacks.
Then when they win their own car, pound to a pinch of s
t, its back on the next day or two.I bought a V70 T5 from them a few years ago. It had high mileage, but was very cheap. When I turned up to collect it, it had an EML. The lad in the office came out and cleared it and told me to take as long as I wanted on a test drive. The EML stayed off, despite my best efforts to get it back on. I had to put petrol in the thing, and did about 70 miles on the test drive. I got back, and he gave me some flannel about I was paying less than they'd paid at the auction. I told him I suspected that wasn't true, and he showed me the invoice from BCA. There was about £25 difference in my favour. I owned it for about four years, and it cost me an absolute fortune. Huge fun, though.
I've won 2 auctions with them over the last 5 years or so, the first Was a Merc E320D Estate, took for a test drive had a good look round & took it home, it was a good car in the 3 years we owned it.
Second was an MX-5 again took it for a test drive, it drove well but on inspection the rear arches were pretty grotty, they were quite happy for me to walk away from it with no hassle.
So have others have said go in with your eyes open.
Second was an MX-5 again took it for a test drive, it drove well but on inspection the rear arches were pretty grotty, they were quite happy for me to walk away from it with no hassle.
So have others have said go in with your eyes open.
Just to add to this thread my experiences;
1st car bought from them in 2009 - Fiat Stilo Abarth. Paid a lowly £1,800 with 50,000 miles on it, did 55,000 miles in 2 years, a year and a half into ownership I spent £800 on a new Selespeed pump, and eventually sold it for £800. Had some minor issues, but otherwise a good car.
2nd car bought from them in 2016 - Peugeot 407 GT Coupe. Paid a lowly £1,800 with about 60,000 miles, did 20,000 miles in a year, spent £600 on replacing a water inlet, and sold it for £1,200. Again, some issues, but otherwise a good car.
3rd car won in 2019 - Porsche Cayenne Turbo. Won for just over £20k, which was the lowest available anywhere at the time by about £5k. The day after the auction ended the guy rang me to tell me they were really embarrassed as there was an issue with the head on the engine, that they had been trying to sort, but were unable to, so if they sold it to me it could be up to £10k to fix. He said that auctions don't take returns, but they would try to as the car was fundamentally not as described in BCA's condition report. Based on my understanding of their operation and evidently shill bidding .... I didn't believe him .... although the car never came up for sale again, so it may of been the truth.
However, with the two cars I did buy, I test drove them and was told I didn't have to proceed if I wasn't happy, could see there were issues that needed to be sorted, but wasn't overly bothered and they both did me well. Just buy from them with your eyes open and it doesn't take a Mastermind to work out they are all shill bidded up, although that seems to be the same as any No Reserve auction seller these days.
1st car bought from them in 2009 - Fiat Stilo Abarth. Paid a lowly £1,800 with 50,000 miles on it, did 55,000 miles in 2 years, a year and a half into ownership I spent £800 on a new Selespeed pump, and eventually sold it for £800. Had some minor issues, but otherwise a good car.
2nd car bought from them in 2016 - Peugeot 407 GT Coupe. Paid a lowly £1,800 with about 60,000 miles, did 20,000 miles in a year, spent £600 on replacing a water inlet, and sold it for £1,200. Again, some issues, but otherwise a good car.
3rd car won in 2019 - Porsche Cayenne Turbo. Won for just over £20k, which was the lowest available anywhere at the time by about £5k. The day after the auction ended the guy rang me to tell me they were really embarrassed as there was an issue with the head on the engine, that they had been trying to sort, but were unable to, so if they sold it to me it could be up to £10k to fix. He said that auctions don't take returns, but they would try to as the car was fundamentally not as described in BCA's condition report. Based on my understanding of their operation and evidently shill bidding .... I didn't believe him .... although the car never came up for sale again, so it may of been the truth.
However, with the two cars I did buy, I test drove them and was told I didn't have to proceed if I wasn't happy, could see there were issues that needed to be sorted, but wasn't overly bothered and they both did me well. Just buy from them with your eyes open and it doesn't take a Mastermind to work out they are all shill bidded up, although that seems to be the same as any No Reserve auction seller these days.
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