Friday, April 1, 2011
We buy any car – for less than you thought
A recent news report we’ve come across illustrates perfectly how important it is for drivers, who may be looking for young person’s car insurance, to shop around on the internet for all car-related offers in order to get the best deal.
The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) has taken issue with Webuyanycar.com.
Here’s how the website works: after entering details of a car on the site, a motorist then receives a free valuation. Following this, one of the company’s inspectors comes to examine the vehicle to make sure that the details entered by the customer are correct.
However, during on-site inspections, customers have been shocked when the final offered buying price for their car is greatly reduced from the original appraisal.
The OFT think that the firm has been misleading people into thinking that if their car, upon inspection, matched the description entered online then they would receive the on-site valuation price.
Webuyanycar.com, known for its catchy, if slightly irritating, all-singing, all-dancing advert, has apparently been offering only 4% of its customers the price they were originally quoted for their vehicle online. Other customers have been receiving a significantly lower amount – up to 25% in some cases!
The company are now making changes to the website so that no one else is caught off guard.
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