Does anyone have experience with valuations/sales through webuyanycar.com whether its good or bad??

Yes..... I wouldn't use them unless I was desperate to sell.....

 

Wife sold hers to them about six weeks ago.... we provided all the proof requested that finance wasn't outstanding, ownership etc, etc.... made the deal and sold the car that night.... we were told that the money would be transferred to her account the next working day (would have been a Monday as we sold on Friday night)..... Tuesday came and went, still no payment made..... Wednesday she rang them several times to get answer phones and 'not my responsibility, call this number' type responses and eventually a real person who seemed to have the answers.... we were promised it would be paid be Thursday evening..... surprisingly enough it wasn't paid in as promised......... Saturday morning, still no payment (no we couldn't get hold of anyone on Friday... just rang off the hook. When we were available to go on Saturday (8 days after sale) we went to the place where we sold the car to be met with similar attempts to brush us off and were eventually told that they had to follow up checks and searches to see if we were the owners and if finance was outstanding..... by the time we had sorted out the issues (theirs, not ours) it took nearly three weeks to get the money off them...... but I suppose they did at least pay up

Was it a decent price, better than expecting?

Would not touch them with the barge pole after undervaluing my sisters vehicle by a large margin.

I often "check" what price they would offer for both of our cars.........in fairness the price they offer is often somewhere smack-on what you would get offered to part-ex........

I helped my Mother in law sell her XC 70 Volvo ( 07 plate ) to webuyanycar. I first went to a Volvo dealer to get a price for a trade in or what is it worth private.

 

We got a quote from them not far off the private sale  price  ( York Depot )

 

we were more than happy

Quick way of getting the value of your car for free,up to you what you do next but if you are going to px you have a good starting point with the dealers and are not going in blind with what they offer you

The valuations depend on whether your car is what they want for retail stock for one of their forecourts, If its not they will give a low price rather than say "we don't want your car"

 

The prices they estimate for my 2013 vrs are fair i think.

Only reason I ask is they 'valued' mine at over £66k!!

Edited 12 March, 201511 yr by VRS_Dan

Then why are you messing about on here, sounds to me like you really need to be getting down to your local office!

Its tempting to see what they'll really offer me in person.

I've found they usually offer the lower end of the price range. They offered me 6.5k for my 2010 vrs tsi. Ended up getting 8k for a trade in with a seat dealer. Lowest was 7.5k from a dealer so webuyanycar were quite a bit off.

I've found they usually offer the lower end of the price range. They offered me 6.5k for my 2010 vrs tsi. Ended up getting 8k for a trade in with a seat dealer. Lowest was 7.5k from a dealer so webuyanycar were quite a bit off.

So £66k for my 2010 vrs tfsi is pretty good then?!!!

I sold a car to them a few weeks ago, got the same price as Arnold clark and motorpoint where gonna give me on a trade in.

they offer you trade/ bottom book price, then when you take the car into them they try to knock the price down further.

I asked the guy what they do with all the cars they buy, he said they all go to bca auction, even if there in top condition.

he said they don't retail any cars they buy and that bca owns webuyanycar so they pay next to nothing in auctioneers fees.

so they give you less than auction price for your car and send it straight to auction.

the thing is though, if you take your car to the auction yourself, you'll have to pay the auction entrance fees & there commission etc

so you wont be any better off.

A friend of mine sold a Mitsubishi warrior to them & got a very good price for it & had no problems dealing with them,he also sold them a troublesome honda accord diesel estate,he got a valuation online & parked up round the corner & reset all the fault codes & put out all the warning lights then drove it in,salesman did his checks & paid up,my mate asked what would happen to the car & was told it would stay where it is until a transporter arrives then its going straight to auction.

I didn't find them very good. I had a price for PX on my Fabia and then got an estimate on line but when I took the car in they 'discovered' so many paintwork chips they reduced the price to next to nothing.

 

Decided to just walk away and return to PX idea but they spent an hour 'negotiating' with their boss on the phone and I ended up at the original price I would have got PX.

 

I'm no worse off but I wasted a lot of time for no return. Couldn't recommend them.

They are a complete joke and preying a lot of those people who want cash now (although from Grumbee's experience, "now" means in around 3 weeks once!).

 

They are owned by BCA and make their profits from the difference between their buy price and the auction sale price, which is typically around 15-20%. Seve, remember that they will have to pay fees etc anyway, albeit at reduced rates as they are selling through their parent company.

 

The buyers of these cars from auction are typically (although not exclusively) dealers, hence if you were able to sell to a dealer directly, using simple maths, you and the dealer could split that 15-20% markup that WBAC are making. Obviously, it depends on finding the right dealer who wants your car etc etc.

 

Note that WBAC reps are targeted on the amount of money they can chip off the online valuation given for the car, so don't go to your appointment expecting to get what was quoted.

 

Finally, to those who say they quote similar to trade-in prices, its actually the other way round. Dealers are likely to be checking the WBAC price first and offering the same or slightly more as they know that's the best alternative for someone who can't be bothered with the hassle of selling their car themselves.

 

Essentially, WBAC have introduced yet another 'middleman' in the process of buying and selling cars, and ultimately its the consumer who suffers as its the price they get which is being driven down...

 

I would recommend that if you are not PX-ing, and can't wait to sell a car privately, put it into the next auction - whether its BCA, Manheim or an independent (if any still exist!) - at least then you are letting the market decide what your car is worth rather than trusting a middleman...

 

Z

 

P.S. I'm not a fan, in case you were wondering!

Edited 17 March, 201511 yr by zeddicus

When I was selling an R-reg Corsa their valuation was lower than the admin fee (i.e. they wanted me to pay them to take it).

Not for me, i would rather just rock up to a series of used car dealers (not main dealers) and get their trade/buy it now price, i can bet is similar to these con merchants and at least you get the money straight away.

I currently am not the owner of a car, cold my octavia vrs yesterday nice and early in preparation for getting a new focus st3 which i have on order

 

I actually sold it to webuyanycar which surprised me to be honest as i thought i would never uses such a company. I had stuck my car into their site a few weeks ago to get a rough value however they emailed me on Frida saying the price had risen for the weekend.

 

I had the car advertised and 13,295 privately and would have took 12,800 for it al day long in a private sale. Even after webuyanycar had knocked a little off their price for a couple of stone chips and taken their fee I am getting £13,005 in my bank. Maybe its not top dollar for the car but i got a cracking deal when i bought the car so worth taking it to avoid the hassle of tyre kickers etc.

 

Doesn't work out too bad, I had the octavia 25 months and paid £18500 for it, the depreciation means it cost me £220 a month in the time i have it including servicing.  this is good even in comparison to the great lease deals that are sometimes on offer, and a lot of car for that level of cash really.

When I was genuinely looking to sell my car I did a quote through them, through talking to the wife we decided to keep it. They sent me an email about 2 days ago asking if I was still thinking of selling as they have increased demand for Skoda Octavia's. Went online for a new valuation and they offered me £443, for a mk2 Elegance with fssh? For that I'd rather run it into the ground until its worthless.

 

Its also £500 more than my local ford dealer offered me for the car about 5 weeks ago against an st3 they were offering no discount on. I have ordered via drive the deal and my cost to change into a new st3 diesel with options will be approx £8800 when the ford dealer was quoting me £14k plus with the part exchange !!!!!

Got a quote on line on a specific day. Took the car three weeks later as it had no MOT and needed my mechanic mate to drive it on his commercial insurance when he was around. The no plate had changed during this period too. Ultimately they knocked about £600 off but I got the money and it was quick and painless. Don't believe the "you must have an appointment, Sir" cobblers. The franchise I used in Rochdale was a back of a mill unit, badly signposted and nobody about, so no need for the "allocated time slot". 

When I was genuinely looking to sell my car I did a quote through them, through talking to the wife we decided to keep it. They sent me an email about 2 days ago asking if I was still thinking of selling as they have increased demand for Skoda Octavia's. Went online for a new valuation and they offered me £443, for a mk2 Elegance with fssh? For that I'd rather run it into the ground until its worthless.

At £443 it pretty much is worthless!

At £443 it pretty much is worthless!

Apparently so. But if that's all its worth then I may as well use it till it stops