DodgeT

Seeing as my car is in trader 4 sale, Ive been contacted by cardata saying that for £99 they will sell my car for me & when its sold will give me £80 back.
Sounds good, but is it a load of ballcocks??
Has anyone actually used them??
Im always a bit scepticle about htese sorts of things.

Rog.

T-uk

it's bollox.

Ed

They are useless, they make more calls to people selling cars than get calls from propective buyers, in truth they wouldn't sell your car and so you would be £99 quid down!

Mickle

Actually Cardata sold our last car for us. I think the deal is if they sell your car and the buyers use their finance you get the money back. They are said to advertise your car until sold. I found the autotrader useless but different people will have different experiences

Mike

RS Pilot

Don't use those lying w##kers - and I'm talking first hand experience.

Back then it was 'only' £60 and the oik on the phone told me he had people waiting for Ducati 888's.

I asked him several direct questions about the number of people, locations etc before parting with my money. Not one enquiry

Take a look on the web site - the refernce numbers will give you an idea how long the vehicles have been up for sale. If you don't contact them after a month, your advert dissappears too making their website listing look like they do actually sell something.

DON'T USE THEM

Mark

bob gray

iTrader: (1)

DONT DO IT!! they told me they had people wanting my car, never had 1 call. sold it privately in the end..complete waste of money.

DodgeT

Thanks for the replys, pretty much confirmed what I was thinking.
Guess I'll just have to hope the trader comes up good!!

& soon.

Rog.

MattN

bunch of crimianls if you ask me.

I had just moved and had two cars so was eager to sell one as quickly as possible. A 95 MR2. wanted 8k for it (2 years ago). They said they had people in my area on their lists that wanted a similar car.

After about 2 weeks I called for a 'status check'

Turns out they had given my details to 16 prospective buyers.

It works by a buyer phoning up and saying I want a 95 MR2 for about 8k in this area - and they pass on my details.

So 16 people wanted MR2's in my area, not a single phone call. I find it hard to beleive that you's contact cardata give them the details of the car price and area then not follow it up.

They were also on watchdog for being so crap.

SPEN555

I used them trying to sell my pug 106GTi 18month ago.

Unfortunately this bulletin board blanks out swear words and so my thread would just look like a pebble dashing if I put down what I thought of them!!!

WHATEVER YOU DO DON'T GIVE THEM ANY MONEY.

Damian.

DavidBrown

I tried selling a Jag Sovereign via CarData and only received one call (which I suspect was Cardata themselves pretending their service was useful)

Seamus300

Same with me when selling a Renault Laguna in 98. Handed over my money and never heard a thing, chased 2 weeks later and my details had been passed to "loads" of purchasers.

How many of you have registered with them saying you were looking for a particulat car??

Mo

I sold a 200SX through them two years ago. Didn't get the money back offer though, just opted for £40 until it was sold. Yes you do have to contact them once a month to keep it registered but what's the problem? You know this - it's only a phone call.

RobinSherwood

Same with me, not a single call and when I called they hadn't evven got the details of my car right. A right bunch of.......

Luckily I made a nuisnace of myself and got my money back.

Don't us them!

Robin

Dales

Nooooo!!

DodgeT

Im glad I asked now!!
Thanks again everyone, needless to say, Ill chuck everything from them in the bin.
Cant wait till they ring me again next week, whos in for a sh1tload of complaining at them I wonder??

Rog.

tonybooth

Notice how nobody has actually BOUGHT a car using Car-Data. Funny that.

TONY

chrisyd

cardata, lied to me big time, told me they had a list of buyers wanting to inspect my for sale vehicle over the next few days, still waiting, 1 week later.

tell them where to go.

carl

Instead of doing the '£40 until sold' (which gives them no incentive to do so) try telling them you'll pay them the 40 quid after they sell it.

Richard Askew

Guys - there are now 18 replies on this thread and I think we all know what the general concensus is I have given it long enough for someone to defend this system but no-one has so I'm gonna lock the thread
Cheers
Rich