Buying Car at BCA Live Online?
Discussion
Hi, I'm new here and interested on getting your opinion.
I'm looking at bidding on a car at a BCA Live Online auction soon and was wondering about a few things.
1. To start with, if the car I am bidding on is "Reserve Not Met" and on one else bids and I really want the car, can I keep bidding myself higher or what do I do exactly?
2. If I win the car provisionally then do I need to call up BCA or exactly what happens next?
3. I noticed a car that I am interested in, BCA says it has no service history. However, I called up the manufacturer's main dealer and asked them and they told me it has full service history on their records. How can this be? If the car has full manufacturers service history why would BCA say it doesn't have any?
I'm looking at bidding on a car at a BCA Live Online auction soon and was wondering about a few things.
1. To start with, if the car I am bidding on is "Reserve Not Met" and on one else bids and I really want the car, can I keep bidding myself higher or what do I do exactly?
2. If I win the car provisionally then do I need to call up BCA or exactly what happens next?
3. I noticed a car that I am interested in, BCA says it has no service history. However, I called up the manufacturer's main dealer and asked them and they told me it has full service history on their records. How can this be? If the car has full manufacturers service history why would BCA say it doesn't have any?
It's a newer Audi and yes I have access to a trade account on BCA but my first time using it.
Just to my other question, if bidding goes to "Reserve Not Met" and no one else bids, how can I bid it up? Do I just keep bidding or is there somewhere I can place a maximum value?
One other thing I noticed, one of the vehicles I am interested in has a perfect AA inspection report but when I look at the dashboard pics it looks like the airbag light is on, check this:
http://imgur.com/a/xqKc6
I contacted BCA and they told me if the AA report doesn't show it then the airbag light is just showing as they started up the car. I've never owned a Audi before but that yellow/orange bar across the centre seems to suggest otherwise that there is a real fault with the airbag and the engine is already turned on at 900 rpm. What do you guys think? Does the BCA AA report let you know if there is a fault with air bags? (I don't think they check for that do they?).
Just to my other question, if bidding goes to "Reserve Not Met" and no one else bids, how can I bid it up? Do I just keep bidding or is there somewhere I can place a maximum value?
One other thing I noticed, one of the vehicles I am interested in has a perfect AA inspection report but when I look at the dashboard pics it looks like the airbag light is on, check this:
http://imgur.com/a/xqKc6
I contacted BCA and they told me if the AA report doesn't show it then the airbag light is just showing as they started up the car. I've never owned a Audi before but that yellow/orange bar across the centre seems to suggest otherwise that there is a real fault with the airbag and the engine is already turned on at 900 rpm. What do you guys think? Does the BCA AA report let you know if there is a fault with air bags? (I don't think they check for that do they?).
Just go in person if you are inexperienced. For what its worth at the moment you can problem find a car at a dealers somewhere for less than it will cost you out of the door at bca and then prepped.
I buy on live online every day of the week. I buy my own personal cars online from bca and manheim, but you need to tread carefully.
I buy on live online every day of the week. I buy my own personal cars online from bca and manheim, but you need to tread carefully.
JimmyConwayNW said:
Just go in person if you are inexperienced. For what its worth at the moment you can problem find a car at a dealers somewhere for less than it will cost you out of the door at bca and then prepped.
I buy on live online every day of the week. I buy my own personal cars online from bca and manheim, but you need to tread carefully.
I would go in person but this one is quite far away. From what I have seen you are right, some of these cars go more expensive than I can find at AutoTrader, it makes me wonder, who is going to actually be bidding on these cars. Since if it is traders then they will hardly make any profit or potentially even a loss sometimes.I buy on live online every day of the week. I buy my own personal cars online from bca and manheim, but you need to tread carefully.
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