You said that "walk around knocking off £50 for every mark on the thing". That is talking out of your hat. Note, not lying, but by one definition "If someone is talking out of their hat, they're talking utter rubbish, especially if compounded with total ignorance of the subject on which they are pontificating." You've HEARD that's true, so you've repeated it. The rolly eyes are just SO witty.
You've been caught out by someone who's actually sold a car through webuyanycar, and you've turned in desperation to the "you should calm down" routine.
Vin
PS. Do make sure you get the last word in. Makes you more of a man.
Oh dear, here we go, the angry bus is in denial, I sense dollies flying, everyone stay calm, normal service will be resumed shortly
Having spent more than a few years in the trade I know how it works, and I'm well aware that werobanycar were taken to task by the OFT (office of fair trading) in 2011 for managing to reduce their online quotes given to 96% of customers when they arrived for valuations at their premises, and the company had a training policy where valuers were told to try and reduce the quote by 25%, I'm sure if you google there is plenty on the subject.
So, with that in mind let's look at your statement...
Their offer was pretty much OK and I was under no pressure to take it. The reason the offer was fair was that the auto gearbox needed a £2,500 repair and the central locking sender was shot (£1,200). Neither of those things came into the equation - they didn't even start it.
If the offer was okay due to those facts (facts which you state you disclosed online, despite there being nowhere on their webform for you to state such facts, I know, I've just done a valuation on my car), do you not think that they would go out of business very quickly?
webuyanycar is part of usedcarsupermarket ltd, Rochdale, the way it works is they buy cars from desperate people at a knock down price, and put what they can through the supermarkets, but even if they can't do that due to condition they slap them through BCA (British Car Auctions), having quoted the seller less than CAP price (very different to trade price), they're 99.9% guaranteed a profit by punting back into the trade.
BCA have terms and conditions, and condition reports, traders have to state any known faults, or the sale is invalid as far as BCA are concerned, and they do police their T&C's pretty well, as the biggest auction house in the UK they're trying to get rid of the old reputation of back street auctions, and will happy dump a volume trader if they're pumping rubbish through on a regular basis.
Let's then look at the prices quoted for the repairs, what model was the Jag?
A £2,500 gearbox repair doesn't exist in the trade, simple as that, all garages from main dealer down (even under warranty in some cases) use "transmission specialists", gearbox knackered, simple, slap a recon box in and tell the customer it's been rebuilt, most dealers don't even carry the tools to strip and rebuild them, a lot of the tools are specialised, with limited usage, why invest the money when they can farm the limited number of repairs out and still earn from them?
When you say "central locking sender", do you mean the transponder, electronic control unit, or a solonoid, or maybe even motor and mechanism, £1200 is a lot of money, are you sure on the price?
No rush in replying, simmer down first
