Online Car Sales
- Thread starter Merlyn
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Not personally but have heard some very poor feedback.
I think that buyer beware is always best policy. The other "scam" I read about is this. People sell a car privately or through one of the internet advertised volume buying sites but retain a spare key and fob. They have hidden a Apple Tracker in the car. Then some time later they use the tracker to locate the car and its new owner's address and turn up with that spare key and fob and drive it away then it either gets cloned and sold again or broken for parts.
FISH BOY
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Yes - be careful of service history - insist to see it up front!
Bought my wife’s car and the advert said full service history - they said as it’s a VW it’s all online. When I got it serviced the next year there was no history.
It was just over a year old when purchased, so should have had a 12 month service.
Otherwise a relatively good experience - traded my old car with them at sensible money and they dropped off the new car and took away the old.
Note that they will only register the car in the person who is paying for it - was fun transferring money to my wife and the anti money laundering process involved at her bank.
I bought a car with Cazoo. They have a 7 day return policy. I drove the car immediately to a garage who spotted that the brakes were worn, the battery was weak and there was only one key. Cazoo fixed the first two issues but wouldn't provide another key. I can live with that.
Beware, a replacement key is multiple hundreds of ££
What car is it you are looking at Merlyn ?
Yes. Mazda 2 was quoted as £200 when I bought mine back in 2014 or so.
cost Halfauds £400 to replace the key card for a 2016 Renault. (they left it sitting on the wiper. Car obviously started, I flicked the wiped on the way home not realising it was there and it got run over - they thankfully accepted full liability)
BenBhoy
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Yes mate we've had 2 cars from them, one pcp & one bought outright.
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