wwac/wbac

[jamie128]

Do these car buying companies let you take your car in, get the valuation and give you 7 days to take it back and get the money or do you have to do a deal there and then? Im buying a new car but dont want to trade in but i will need a car all the time for work and to go round the car garages.

[va1o]

Sold my car to WBAC last weekend, they valued it on site but said that valuation is only valid for the day as can change daily. Basically just drove home to take out my stuff then back there again to sell it.

[Motorrad]

va1o said:

Sold my car to WBAC last weekend, they valued it on site but said that valuation is only valid for the day as can change daily.

Yes it goes up if you get an online valuation and then don't respond for a week or two- in my case at least.

[smashie]

Motorrad said:

Yes it goes up if you get an online valuation and then don't respond for a week or two- in my case at least.

I found that as well. Get it valued on-line. Be honest with ALL stone chips and other damage and then wait a week. You may find it would pay you to get the damage fixed first (especially alloys) as they do charge quite a bit. WBAC charge £70 per alloy if they are curbed. I managed to get a good deal on mine when I got rid of it to WBAC.

[Gruber]

jamie128 said:

Do these car buying companies let you take your car in, get the valuation and give you 7 days to take it back and get the money or do you have to do a deal there and then? Im buying a new car but dont want to trade in but i will need a car all the time for work and to go round the car garages.

Out of interest, why don't you want to trade in?

I've always managed to better WBAC by about 10-20% through a normal trade in.

[Siscar]

Gruber said:

Out of interest, why don't you want to trade in?

I've always managed to better WBAC by about 10-20% through a normal trade in.

And I've had the opposite, late last year I got £4k more from WBAC than the offered trade in.

[jamie128]

Gruber said:

Out of interest, why don't you want to trade in?

I've always managed to better WBAC by about 10-20% through a normal trade in.

Trade in on my car is 2000 wbac online offered 2300, what do people mean wait a week and itll go up?

[smashie]

jamie128 said:

Trade in on my car is 2000 wbac online offered 2300, what do people mean wait a week and itll go up?

If you put in your correct email address, in about a week it will go up by about £100. However be warned they do look closely at the bodywork and will knock down quite a bit. Make sure you detail every little scratch on the quote and then see if it is still worth it. For me it was. I was about £400 better in the end, despite them knocking 3400 off for a few scratches and a damaged alloy. I got what the quote said as I was honest in my appraisal of my car. They originally offered me what their system said, however when queried, they checked the online quote and honoured it.