BT63 wrote:redsturgeon wrote:webuyanycar will honour the price as long as all is OK with the car as you have described it. They will take off about £90 for any panel that has a mark that needs fixing, so as long as you have no scrapes or scratches then you are fine. They are a fair outfit and not rip off merchants, I have use them and was very satisfied with the service.
Those people who suggest they offer about 50% of the true value are talking rubbish.
John
A while back I got three quotes for a car I was thinking of selling/part-ex-ing. In the end I kept the car.
WBAC were the lowest, at £6.3k.
Evans Halshaw offered £7.0k but hinted they might be able to go higher.
County Motor Works offered £7.6k.
The cars I was thinking of buying from EH and CMW were both very sensibly priced so I don't think either would have moved much on price, making WBAC's offer by far the worst.
Clearly the offers from WBAC will vary in their competitiveness against other companies depending on the car concerned but the good thing about WBAC is that by typing in your reg number you can get an almost instant offer. I have no doubt that for some cars WBAC will not offer as much as you might get elsewhere but talks of 50% of your expected price, unless your expectations are unrealistic are unfounded IME.
When I upgraded my last car WBAC offered me about the same price as similar cars were being sold by the dealers at that time so I could not see how I could beat the price by trying to sell privately. The fact that the price was over £20k for this vehicle may have affected my decision since many people will not pay that sort of money to a private individual and I was offered about £1k less in part ex. or directly contacting the main dealer who originally sold me the car. So in my case for that car WBAC was the highest bidder.
Two weeks ago I got a quote for my five year old Lexus from WBAC, it was for £8000. Similar cars were for sale on Autotrader for prices from £8000 to £8900. I advertised at £8500 with Autotrader and received several offers ranging from £7200 to £7500 over the phone. I eventually sold, after a hard haggling session, for £8100. If I had held out I "may" have got as much as £8200 or even £8300 but not a million miles away from the WBAC offer.
If you look at the car in question here, the Suzuki, similar cars with somewhat higher mileage (but there comes a point where a "really" low mileage might not always be a benefit) are for sale at prices from £4000 to £5000 from both private individuals and dealers. In that case it seems to me that the £4415 is a very fair offer and given the circumstances of the OP likely to be the least hassle free way of achieving her realistic expectations of between £4-5K.
I have also used the WBAC instant quote system as a sense check on prices being asked for cars on Autotrader and they do indeed offer significantly lower prices than are being asked for some vehicles, but I see that as a reflection of unrealistic prices being asked rather than WBAC trying to lowball. Their system is based on following up to date auction prices actually being achieved and I have had situations where one price offered has been raised a week later. Of course they need to make money to survive so in many/most cases they will not offer the highest price achievable otherwise they could not make money but as a simple method of getting a realistic price on your car it does what it says on the tin.
John
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Fingers crossed it all goes smoothly 
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