This is how it works...
1). Webuyanycar give you an over-inflated price online.
2). You say 'great' and hop in the car
3). You drive to Car Craft (hmmm)
4). They appraise the car and off something close to that as a deposit on one of their cars
5). You say "I want the money"
6). They evaluate the car further, the price for cash drops to something insulting, all the time you are fending off over-eager salesmen trying to flog you one of their cars (on credit).
Chance of leaving with any money at all? Slim.
Chance of wanting to shovel someone in the head within minutes of arriving? Very high.
Apparently they were originally part of Carcraft, now a sister company-I thought the above was what they would do, but was told on interview they just sell back to trade.
This is the system:
1/ You do online val
2/ You book an appointment to take the car to nearest office
3/ They inspect the car and revalue it around £300 less by any means possible (number of owners, paint thickness, tyres etc)
4/ You then:
a/ get angry and leave (common)
b/ accept and take a cheque
c/ accept and agree to pay £28 for CHAPS bank transfer
The guy had great pleasure in telling me how much they can get knoocked off and their pay is based on the profit for buy price to trade sale price. He did say that anyone ever mentioning emigrating got royally stitched up.
In any business there will always be lazy or desperate people who need to cash something in regardless of whether it is the best deal or not. This is just a company that has taken advantage of this gap in the market.
If you know this is how they work, you can either take a stupid price or go elsewhere
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