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Mon 26 Dec 2022 22:49
Buying & Sellling companies - sargan

There are a number of adverts for companies such as CarWow. etc., that will buy your car and sell you another.
All at agreed prices.
What is the considered opinion of these companies, ant recommended ones.

It would be good to browse their website, and when I find a car …. Get them to agree purchase of mine and Pat difference.

Welcome views on these.

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Tue 27 Dec 2022 07:59
Buying & Sellling companies - Will deBeast

I was very happy with the process and sale price when I sold to Cazoo.

I saw my car up on their website about 6 weeks later. They'd done a cheap refurbish of the alloys (were diamond cut, now just powder coated). And someone had helped themselves to the SIM for the satnav. But the description and declared faults looked about right.

(5 year old Kia Sorento 2.2 Euro 6 compliant without adblue).

I think I sold for just over £19k, and they sold for £22k. But it was a time of rising prices (June 2020).

Edited to add: the money was in my bank account before the car was at the end of my road. I took a slight reduction (£25?) to have them come and collect. Mine was the first collection the chap had made.

Edited by Will deBeast on 27/12/2022 at 08:03

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Tue 27 Dec 2022 09:09
Buying & Sellling companies - Adampr

I certainly have no objection to them. In terms of value, you'd be better off negotiating with a dealer, but you need to be good at it....You'd be even better off buying and selling privately if you can be bothered.

I have considered using Cazoo, Cinch and Carwow. Ultimately, though, I don't want to buy a car that I've never driven. If it's brand new, you could test drive the equivalent at a dealer but I personally find that a bit rude with no intention of buying. When it comes down to it, I have found myself reverting to buying from a dealership. Most will match the Carwow offer.

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Tue 27 Dec 2022 16:21
Buying & Sellling companies - skidpan

In terms of value, you'd be better off negotiating with a dealer

Not every time.

When we bought the Seat Leon we visited 2 local Seat dealers, the first simply ignored us, far to busy drinking coffee in the office to mix with customers and the 2nd after asking several times "what will it take to get you to sign today" could not understand the phrase "you need to get the amount to swap down". Each time after disappearing to visit the sales manager for about 20 minutes the sales chappy came back with exactly the same figures and asked "is that any better". After 4 hours we gave up and went home. Placed a web enquiry to Carfile.net when we got home, they rang me first thing Monday morning then passed my details onto their Seat dealer. By 10 am a deal was done for £2000 less than the local dealer and car was collected Friday morning.

Pretty much the same when we bought the first Superb and the Fabia, Carfile's dealer was better than others by far.

The exceptions were the Note where Carfile's dealer claimed they could not get the car we wanted yet the local dealer located us one 130 miles away and beat Carfiles price (without asking what we wanted to pay) and the Superb PHEV where the local dealer had a quantity of pre-reg cars available (3 weeks old) that were about £2000 less than Carfile's equivalent which also had a 5 month lead in.

I will continue to check all avenues whenever we swap and buy from the cheapest.

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Wed 28 Dec 2022 19:32
Buying & Sellling companies - sargan

I did use CarWow to buy my currecnt car (new) went to dealer first, after loads of discussion I got the 'we are not making any money on this line'

Went to Car Wow .... they got me a number of dealers ,,, including the one local, went back to them, showed them the other deals ...had comments 'would I risk buying from a dealer 50 miles away' or similar .... went throughto last printed out quote ...... and showed a price over £1500 less than what they offered, They advised they can't sell at that price etc.

Then the bit I enjoyed, uncoverred the address - it was them ..... had a bit of a flurry of activiry saying can't do that price etc., then I pointed out that it say price guaranteed (think it was for 14 days)

They brought in branch manager - he agreed they would honour that, as it seems guy who reponds to CarWow quotes was in Head office not local dealer.

Then added if I bought form them, they woulkd nmatch CarWow price, and throw in £1000 cash back and 3 yr servicing - deal done :-)

Shows how much margin they really have when they want to get the deal.

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