BCA car auction delivery charges

[Benji55]

Hi. Has anyone had much experience with bca’s deliver services? I am registered with them and bought a couple of cars over last few years but only from the most local site at Blackbush. I’m looking for a Vauxhall Corsa E for my daughter but nothing suitable locally but plenty at other locations. Just wondering if their delivery service is any good and how much should I factor in for delivery.

[GeniusOfLove]

They're usually as cheap as you'll get it anywhere but they turn up whenever they feel like it often with no warning. The website has nonsense dates on it and the first you know is when the man turns up or if you're lucky calls to say he's 5 minutes away.

That aside it's fine. Their pricing seems plucked from the air but I've only ever got decent 3rd parties to match it, not better it.

[Benji55]

Thanks for that. I had seen a few post on here complaining about their delivery customer services / communication. How do you estimate what to allow when bidding? Is there a rule of thumb like £1 a mile type of thing. I live in Berkshire and only ever bought from blackbush auction so always got someone to drop me off and i drive the car back. Im only looking for a Corsa maybe £4-5k so didn’t want to pay hundreds in delivery on top if that makes sense.

[GeniusOfLove]

It's about £1 a mile for the round trip, roughly I think

[wicksta]

How weird, I just Google searched this because I wanted to know roughly how much it would be from Manchester to Berks/Bucks M4 area as I'm new to BCA.

This week I won a car from Bedford and it unfortunately wasn't a pound a mile to deliver it, it was 146 quid. But maybe it gets better the further away you get.

Also a bit worrying hearing about the lack of comms around delivery, as I'm getting it delivered to a friends unit who wasn't listed in the address picker, so I just put a business in the same road. I did put in the info to call me first and that it wasn't the actual address, so hopefully they will call me.

[SuperPav]

I’ve had a handful delivered. Works out approximately £2 a mile (one way). Suspect it might be minimum of £150 or so if close, but mine always worked out roughly as above.

Some other trade sources are cheaper for delivery of their stock but I’ve never found 3rd party delivery companies that significantly undercut BCA delivery.

[wicksta]

SuperPav said:

I ve had a handful delivered. Works out approximately £2 a mile (one way). Suspect it might be minimum of £150 or so if close, but mine always worked out roughly as above.

Some other trade sources are cheaper for delivery of their stock but I ve never found 3rd party delivery companies that significantly undercut BCA delivery.

Did BCA turn up on the right day? I can't see how they'd be able to run an effective delivery service if they just turned up willy nilly on the wrong day without calling and expecting someone to be there. A car isn't exactly something they'd want to have to come back again for if they came on the wrong date, it's not an Amazon parcel they can just lob back in the van.