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Re: A Day At The Auctions
« Reply #15 on: 18 September 2018, 08:25:24 »

Newsflash: This just in! Business out to make money!

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« Reply #16 on: 18 September 2018, 09:37:47 »


Theiving vermin bastids.

They offered me £50 for my MoT failure Omega. Scrapped it with a firm in Preston for £183 collected.

Its just a(nother) tax on the lazy and the breakless.
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« Reply #17 on: 18 September 2018, 09:45:25 »

At the couple of auctions I've been to, the only potential bargains have been in the highest risk, completely undocumented / unknown history / condition category.

One made me laugh. Complete shed of a Renault 5, blowing blue smoke out of the exhaust with about 2 weeks MOT.

" Come on, lads, this is cheaper than a taxi home!" ;D
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« Reply #18 on: 18 September 2018, 10:11:26 »

FWIW, WBAC offered me £17k on the Skoda.

It failed to sell at £18.5k, privately, earlier this year.

That doesn't seem like an awful deal, really.. they just aren't interested in cars only fit for the crusher ;)
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« Reply #19 on: 18 September 2018, 11:01:33 »

FWIW, WBAC offered me £17k on the Skoda.

It failed to sell at £18.5k, privately, earlier this year.

That doesn't seem like an awful deal, really.. they just aren't interested in cars only fit for the crusher ;)

Evans Halshaw matched WBAC for my VW when I traded it, as you say they just don't do bargin bangers.
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« Reply #20 on: 18 September 2018, 11:19:18 »

FWIW, WBAC offered me £17k on the Skoda.

It failed to sell at £18.5k, privately, earlier this year.

That doesn't seem like an awful deal, really.. they just aren't interested in cars only fit for the crusher ;)

Evans Halshaw matched WBAC for my VW when I traded it, as you say they just don't do bargin bangers.

No there's no profit in them.

Take Dr G's £50 scrapper Omega.  They'd have to transport it to the nearest auction centre and then have all the costs of storage and putting through auction to get what? £200 max?  ???

The money is obviously in nice motors like the Disco I was after and I have seen some very nice cars go through BCA that have come from WBAC.com.  :)

I think I'll start up www.webuyanycarforabitmore.com  :)
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« Reply #21 on: 18 September 2018, 11:25:00 »

FWIW, WBAC offered me £17k on the Skoda.

It failed to sell at £18.5k, privately, earlier this year.

That doesn't seem like an awful deal, really.. they just aren't interested in cars only fit for the crusher ;)

£17000 for a derv Skoda?............has the world gone mad? :)
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« Reply #22 on: 18 September 2018, 11:31:10 »

FWIW, WBAC offered me £17k on the Skoda.

It failed to sell at £18.5k, privately, earlier this year.

That doesn't seem like an awful deal, really.. they just aren't interested in cars only fit for the crusher ;)

Evans Halshaw matched WBAC for my VW when I traded it, as you say they just don't do bargin bangers.
That's exactly what happened with the captur. I told EH what WBAC  had offered, he went away and, when he came back, said ok, we'll match it.
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« Reply #23 on: 18 September 2018, 11:46:43 »

FWIW, WBAC offered me £17k on the Skoda.

It failed to sell at £18.5k, privately, earlier this year.

That doesn't seem like an awful deal, really.. they just aren't interested in cars only fit for the crusher ;)

Evans Halshaw matched WBAC for my VW when I traded it, as you say they just don't do bargin bangers.
That's exactly what happened with the captur. I told EH what WBAC  had offered, he went away and, when he came back, said ok, we'll match it.

Given the very low prices WBAC offer, shouldn't you have wanted more for a P/X rather than just letting them match it?  :-\
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« Reply #24 on: 18 September 2018, 11:57:26 »

FWIW, WBAC offered me £17k on the Skoda.

It failed to sell at £18.5k, privately, earlier this year.

That doesn't seem like an awful deal, really.. they just aren't interested in cars only fit for the crusher ;)

Evans Halshaw matched WBAC for my VW when I traded it, as you say they just don't do bargin bangers.
That's exactly what happened with the captur. I told EH what WBAC  had offered, he went away and, when he came back, said ok, we'll match it.

Given the very low prices WBAC offer, shouldn't you have wanted more for a P/X rather than just letting them match it?  :-\

From my experience WBAC offered a quite reasonable price, not far off retail. Maybe could have squeezed £500 more on trader, but given the hassle, not really worth it.

I actually used we buy any bike to sell my old BMW GS, not that they are linked. They offered near retail for it, mind you, the chap did read the wrong number on the sheet apparently and transferred me more than original email offer.  :D
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« Reply #25 on: 18 September 2018, 12:27:27 »

FWIW, WBAC offered me £17k on the Skoda.

It failed to sell at £18.5k, privately, earlier this year.

That doesn't seem like an awful deal, really.. they just aren't interested in cars only fit for the crusher ;)

Evans Halshaw matched WBAC for my VW when I traded it, as you say they just don't do bargin bangers.
That's exactly what happened with the captur. I told EH what WBAC  had offered, he went away and, when he came back, said ok, we'll match it.

Given the very low prices WBAC offer, shouldn't you have wanted more for a P/X rather than just letting them match it?  :-\

From my experience WBAC offered a quite reasonable price, not far off retail. Maybe could have squeezed £500 more on trader, but given the hassle, not really worth it.

I actually used we buy any bike to sell my old BMW GS, not that they are linked. They offered near retail for it, mind you, the chap did read the wrong number on the sheet apparently and transferred me more than original email offer.  :D

Which of course you returned. :)
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Re: A Day At The Auctions
« Reply #26 on: 18 September 2018, 12:42:37 »

FWIW, WBAC offered me £17k on the Skoda.

It failed to sell at £18.5k, privately, earlier this year.

That doesn't seem like an awful deal, really.. they just aren't interested in cars only fit for the crusher ;)

£17000 for a derv Skoda?............has the world gone mad? :)
Someone bought it new...  So yes, madness :D ::)
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« Reply #27 on: 18 September 2018, 12:44:18 »

FWIW, WBAC offered me £17k on the Skoda.

It failed to sell at £18.5k, privately, earlier this year.

That doesn't seem like an awful deal, really.. they just aren't interested in cars only fit for the crusher ;)

Evans Halshaw matched WBAC for my VW when I traded it, as you say they just don't do bargin bangers.
That's exactly what happened with the captur. I told EH what WBAC  had offered, he went away and, when he came back, said ok, we'll match it.

Given the very low prices WBAC offer, shouldn't you have wanted more for a P/X rather than just letting them match it?  :-\
WBAC prices, more or less, match the trade in price given on Parkers.

The figures:
Renault captur 1.5dci nav. List price ~£17500. We got ours pre reg, 2 months old, 7 miles on the clock for ~£12250.
Two years on, captur now done 18,000 miles, we got £8500 against the astra.
Vauxhall astra 1.6 cdti auto. List price ~£18000. 12 months old, 9000 miles, we got it for £10,120.

So, we gave EH our captur and £1620 for the astra which, as I explained at the time, we needed because the wife was having trouble with her left leg and needed an auto.

We were very happy with the prices paid for both cars and the trade in we got, and that's what matters.
Cue the maths teachers.
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« Reply #28 on: 18 September 2018, 12:55:14 »

FWIW, WBAC offered me £17k on the Skoda.

It failed to sell at £18.5k, privately, earlier this year.

That doesn't seem like an awful deal, really.. they just aren't interested in cars only fit for the crusher ;)

Evans Halshaw matched WBAC for my VW when I traded it, as you say they just don't do bargin bangers.
That's exactly what happened with the captur. I told EH what WBAC  had offered, he went away and, when he came back, said ok, we'll match it.

Given the very low prices WBAC offer, shouldn't you have wanted more for a P/X rather than just letting them match it?  :-\

From my experience WBAC offered a quite reasonable price, not far off retail. Maybe could have squeezed £500 more on trader, but given the hassle, not really worth it.

I actually used we buy any bike to sell my old BMW GS, not that they are linked. They offered near retail for it, mind you, the chap did read the wrong number on the sheet apparently and transferred me more than original email offer.  :D

Which of course you returned. :)

Errrrr.  ::)  :)
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« Reply #29 on: 18 September 2018, 13:40:57 »



Given the very low prices WBAC offer, shouldn't you have wanted more for a P/X rather than just letting them match it?  :-\
WBAC prices, more or less, match the trade in price given on Parkers.

The figures:
Renault captur 1.5dci nav. List price ~£17500. We got ours pre reg, 2 months old, 7 miles on the clock for ~£12250.
Two years on, captur now done 18,000 miles, we got £8500 against the astra.
Vauxhall astra 1.6 cdti auto. List price ~£18000. 12 months old, 9000 miles, we got it for £10,120.

So, we gave EH our captur and £1620 for the astra which, as I explained at the time, we needed because the wife was having trouble with her left leg and needed an auto.

We were very happy with the prices paid for both cars and the trade in we got, and that's what matters.
Cue the maths teachers.

This is of course what matters and I'm not having a go Uncle STEMO.  :-*

I'm just surprised and am now wondering if WBAC has become the benchmark for trade prices.  :-\

 
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