Bad experience on Collecting Cars, anyone else?

[tarek307]

Hello everyone- Has anyone here dealt with buying on collectingcars? especially classic Air cooled 911's? I've bought and sold cars on BaT and pcar never had issues. Had a bad experience on collectingcars with a car from Germany, I know these are 30 year old cars and "buyer beware" and you should get a ppi, but you'd expect something blatent and obvious to be disclosed- The car in question had a previous bad repair that you couldn't see in the photos but in real life was very obvious and had to be pointed out if the seller was being forthcoming (again many of these cars have had some sort of body repair, thats not the problem,the problem is not disclosing it)

I tried to contact the seller but he was unresponsive so i thougth collecting cars would step in and at least try to do something about the large 6% buyer fee they collect in some form of help since they procured the auction...really crappy experience overall...

Anyone else have an issue buying through them and getting basically no help after when a problem arises?

[PoorCarCollector]

Yes, you'll get no help from them, once they have their fee, you're on your own. They'll hide behind their t+c's and see similar experiences on Trustpilot

Sadly with auctions especially, you really do need to inspect a car before bidding

I appreciate thats no use to you now, put it down to a bad experience and learn for next time

[The Moose]

Collecting Cars was really good for me over several car purchases and pretty poor over the last one. The reality is that those auctions were only as good as the person on the other side of the transaction - and Collecting Cars don't have any way to control the seller. Same as PCarMarket, BaT and all the others.

That being said, I had a truly awful experience with Watch Collecting...and am have now been banned on both Watch Collecting and Collecting Cars.