Since the passing of Arthur Daley connoisseurs of shady car
salesmen have had to look elsewhere for shining entrepreneurship within the
motor trade …so step forward webuyanycar.com … with whom I have had a lot of
fun reverse engineering their sales system by putting in pointless speculative
bids for my own motor which I have no intention of selling as its still on a 100000 miler warranty… Well, it’s a hobby…
… now I know there is a market for instant gratification out
there on the internet and I know that sometimes one might need to sell a car
quickly to avoid a huge MOT bill but surely webuyanycar.com ‘s business model
is faintly ridiculous to even the mildly perceptive.
After offering to buy your motor at a rock
bottom price webuyanycar.com bombards you with emails telling you their offer
will expire imminently. When you don’t respond to these they then write to inform
you that they’ve mysteriously discovered that your motor is actually more
expensive than they thought before…
Should you be silly enough to actually sell your car through
them you will then discover that this new price (£115 more than their first
bid) is a load of nonsense because they conceal a load of hidden transaction
fees. In my case £49.99 making their
offer actually only £65.01 more than before…. What the transaction fee covers
your guess is as good as mine.... as is the mysterious question of why the transaction fee changes with car price as presumably the DVLA admin on a Vauxhall Corsa and an Aston Martin is the same?
And of course should you be foolish enough to part with your
motor for this bargain basement price you still have to take it to one of their
outlets for the buyer to knock the price down again by verbally haggling… or so
one presumes.
And even then you have to wait 4 days for your money or pay £24.75
British Car Auctions with these offers you are really
spoiling us…
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