Looking at an XF tomorrow - alarm bells might be ringing...

[JohnStitch]

Going to look at an XF 3.0d tomorrow at a main dealer, ticks all the boxes as far as the advert goes. However, I put the number plate into Google and it seems that only 2000 miles ago (and at £2k more) the car was on sale at another main dealer, and also listed at a car supermarket type place. Is it normal for Jaguar to pick up their cars from a car supermarket? And why would it be being sold again with just 2k more miles and at £2k less? Surely they don't depreciate that quickly.

Maybe I'm being concerned unreasonably and there is nothing untoward (after all a reputable main dealer is now selling it), but there's something niggling at me. I'll ask about it when I'm there, but what do you lot think? Steer clear of it?

[V40TC]

Steer clear, there will be another along with no issues
Just keep looking.
This is what I would do personally.

[JohnStitch]

Went and had a look at it, and strange thing is that they showed me the whole history of the car, and the car supermarket wasn't in there.

Whilst in the dealership, we put in the number plate of a car that they had sold from new, and once again, a car supermarket listed it in google search. So I'm wondering if these car supermarkets somehow make sure they are listed in and numberplate searches on the off chance that the person searching will have a browse around their site and potentially buy something? Anyone know if that is normal practice of those type of places?

[t400ble]

Why not ask the main dealer?

[barryrs]

Perhaps the car supermarket had it in stock via WBAC then sent it to auction as it didnt sell on the forecourt within a couple of months?

Did the dealer tell you where they sourced the car?

[Newro]

Interesting. Not sure how the car supermarket's operate. Lot's of dodge ideas known from online retail come to mind - for example on Amazon you might see the same item from multiple sellers. Though only one actually has it, and the others list it with a markup - so if somebody buys it from them, they first buy it from the other seller.

What I can tell you is that bigger dealers rotate their stock between locations. Multiple reasons for this, one is that a car who is sitting at one location for a couple of weeks might shift at another if the right punter sees it. Another being that it simulates high turn around. So don't be surprised to see it listed on two main dealers websites.

[JohnStitch]

barryrs said:

Perhaps the car supermarket had it in stock via WBAC then sent it to auction as it didnt sell on the forecourt within a couple of months?

Did the dealer tell you where they sourced the car?

We looked at the paperwork whilst in the dealer and it only had 2 owners, one which was Jaguar, the other some bloke who bought it over a year ago (it's only 2 years old) and he traded it back with Jaguar. So doesn't look like the car supermarket ever had it. Same goes for the other numberplate that we googled whilst in there ( and they originally sold that one)....strange, but having spoken to them I don't think there's anything untoward....

[Jon1967x]

When you say it came up against a car supermarket was it shown it the google search results but not on their web site when you clicked the link? If so, you can click on the cached page from google search and see what they saw when they hit the results- should show you the car details etc - might help see if it's just a way of grabbing web traffic or was genuinely fir sale there