Wewantanycar.com...Test

[valhalla]

Just tried them out as a test. My 03 Tuscan with 33k on the clock in near mint condition is worth £21579.
(Subject to inspection that is). Whereas the other 'We buy a*y car' mob offer £17250.
Go on give em a go.
Dave

[ackbullchang]

The scam on these sites is that the highly trained salesmen always knock the price of the vehicle down at inspection.

Would anyone ever seriously consider giving one of the best pieces of iconic British sports car history over to these corporate beasts? I never would, and I suspect you are jesting?

[scotty_d]

Offered 9876 for my cerb cost about that in parts alone over the last 18 months.

[valhalla]

ackbullchang said:

The scam on these sites is that the highly trained salesmen always knock the price of the vehicle down at inspection.

Would anyone ever seriously consider giving one of the best pieces of iconic British sports car history over to these corporate beasts? I never would, and I suspect you are jesting?

Yes i was jesting. I don't need to sell it.Least of all to those "Corporate beasts"

[benny4x]

wow im amazed those sort of car buyers would even touch a tvr!!

[Laser Sag]

When I was selling the Sag I contacted them for a laugh, they certainly managed that though.Sub £20K for a £45K Sag, bloody hilarious I thought.

[lotus83]

they always offer terrible prices for specialist cars because they are all about turning over a quick profit which is hard to do on something like a tvr etc without offering you a silly price.

[m3coupe]

When I was selling my Tuscan a few years ago, I stuck the details in to see what they would offer. After filling out the form, I didn't get a price and was told they would contact me after a specialist reviews my details.

Never got a reply.

[irocfan]

nah - not all that TBH, seems what autotrader is using at the moment to give you a 'value' on your car

[BeillyNoy]

They're not all bad…

I recently sold a Saab 9-3 through WeWantAnyCar.com - not only did they offer £700 more than WeBuyAnyCar.com the price paid was actually MORE than the price quoted online!!!?!?!? I didn't complain. Although I did need to repeat about a half dozen times that some stone-chipping is to be expected on the front of the bonnet of a 3-year-old 280bhp car....

And a while back (2010 IIRC) I sold a Cayenne S to WeBuyAnyCar.com for around the same as a dealer told me he would have retailed it. That felt like a fair deal.

So just make sure you've done your research first and you'll be fine.
(i.e. in 2010 they offered me £12k (or was it 14?) for a 1 year old Honda S2000 GT100 with around 7k on the clock. Either way it was extracting the urine. Grrrrr)

Neil.

[macky17]

Just offered me £17600 for a 2003 S with 32k miles. Not too insulting I suppose. You'd still have to be desperate.

[irocfan]

macky17 said:

Just offered me £17600 for a 2003 S with 32k miles. Not too insulting I suppose. You'd still have to be desperate.

I guess the one thing it does do (and what they are counting on!) is it reduces the amount of s trotting round to see your PaJ/PoS (delete as applicable), offers to pay using pay-pal/western union whatever... still, no thanks!

[B17NNS]

2002 4.0 Tuscan 40k miles.

£18138

Very fair valuation IMO and £3k more than a specialist said the car was worth as a trade in last month.

[so called]

I've posted this before but just for comparison, I was considering an AM DB9 last year.
I called a dealer about a particular car and they said they needed to check with a specialist for the value of my 2006 Tuscan Convertible.
They came back with 15k !
They told me that it would have been 22k but that because "the engine MIGHT need a rebuild one day", they would need to hold 7k back "just in case".

ME: "Oh, OK, will you be putting the 7k in a special account and holding it for some future owner to fir when the rebuild time comes"?
Was I being unreasonable to decline the offer ?