WeBuyCars under siege

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die_koos said:
They have incurred a lot of reputational damage by selling people lemons. Their whole model is based on getting stock in at prices under market value from people desperate to sell, or too lazy or unable to drive around to multiple dealerships to get the best price on a trade in.

Those desperate to sell were either in financial distress - or had a car with issues they could not get rid of otherwise.

So if you buy from them you don't know which of the above you are getting - so they added the Dekra report as a way of trying to make the possible lemons visible - problem is they never marketed it like that and individual sales people still kept quite when an unsuspecting buyer thought they were being clever by buying a car under retail value from them. And the Dekra reports were way wrong in some cases anyway.

What they should do is find a way to give customers the same sense of security they would get from buying a new Chinese car.
A new car might have issues, but at least the customer knows that there is a warranty in place and recourse should it be a complete dud.
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Not quite. It's pretty common knowledge that if you don't want to sell privately, WBC's is a very good option for top price compared to a trade-in.
 
Splinter said:
Got any legitimate source for this?
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Refer to the speech made by the then head of the IMF at the University of Cape Town where he specifically stated this, or the plethora of online 'truth reports' trying to debunk his statement. What you personally believe is neither here nor there, and doesn't hold any more water than mine own.
 
Pegging said:
It shifts responsibility to WBC now, hopefully a good thing for clients.
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100%

I'm surprised to poop hasn't hit the fan earlier tbh.

Like when you buy a 5 year old car second hand with like 100 000km on it you expect there to potentially be some stuff to fix up/sort out... but I've heard a number of "I bought a car from WBC with a perfect inspection sheet and X months later this major thing broke".

Their hello peter reviews are "mostly positive" but I wonder if that is potentially because they buy your car quickly (and many people are unloading lemons so they are super happy to unload them).
 
Bad Ballie said:
Refer to the speech made by the then head of the IMF at the University of Cape Town where he specifically stated this, or the plethora of online 'truth reports' trying to debunk his statement. What you personally believe is neither here nor there, and doesn't hold any more water than mine own.
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Umm, until you can back up what you are saying, it's irrelevant to even consider you having any water at all.

I haven't even told you what I personally believe, btw.
 
Pegging said:
They are quitting DEKRA and doing their own report now.
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Bra, DEKRA means fokkol.

WE tried our luck in the second-hand car dealership business, and DEKRA means nothing.

Thank fsck we pulled the plug after 1 year and got out.
 
Splinter said:
Umm, until you can back up what you are saying, it's irrelevant to even consider you having any water at all.

I haven't even told you what I personally believe, btw.
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Either way, what you think is irrelevant to me, moving on.
 
W@P said:
Bra, DEKRA means fokkol.

WE tried our luck in the second-hand car dealership business, and DEKRA means nothing.

Thank fsck we pulled the plug after 1 year and got out.
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To be fair, DEKRA in Montague Gardens wouldn't even look at the car DEKRA at WeBuyCars said only had one minor "roadworthy" relevant issue wrong with it. They saw multiple problems before I even drove over the testing bed.
 
Splinter said:
Sure :)

But clearly you cannot back up what you said. Good to know.
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But clearly you have the impression that what you think matters to anyone but yourself, you have no power and no rights just like me, you may not agree with what I say, others do and know what I am referring to. Your personal point scoring attempts are infantile and time wasting. Have a nice life.
 
Bad Ballie said:
But clearly you have the impression that what you think matters to anyone but yourself, you have no power and no rights just like me, you may not agree with what I say, others do and know what I am referring to. Your personal point scoring attempts are infantile and time wasting. Have a nice life.
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Ok :)
 
xrapidx said:
To be fair, DEKRA in Montague Gardens wouldn't even look at the car DEKRA at WeBuyCars said only had one minor "roadworthy" relevant issue wrong with it. They saw multiple problems before I even drove over the testing bed.
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with magic x-ray eyes they saw problems before inspecting the car....

impressive 🤡 🤡 🤡 🤡
 
Wrath of Khan MD said:
with magic x-ray eyes they saw problems before inspecting the car....

impressive 🤡 🤡 🤡 🤡
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Yeh, it was pissing oil and water. Something I saw before I took it to them - but took it anyway with the WBC Dekra report that was 4 or so days before. (because I wanted it in writing from a 3rd party what a **** state the vehicle was actually in)

🤡 🤡 🤡 🤡
 
xrapidx said:
Yeh, it was pissing oil and water. Something I saw before I took it to them - but took it anyway with the WBC Dekra report that was 4 or so days before. (because I wanted it in writing from a 3rd party what a **** state the vehicle was actually in)

🤡 🤡 🤡 🤡
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can you possibly post the Dekra report, you can block out the VIN and licence plate etc
 
Wrath of Khan MD said:
can you possibly post the Dekra report, you can block out the VIN and licence plate etc
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I'll try find it again - I've posted it before, as well as the repair invoice.

It was comedy of disasters. (the replacement suspension came from Amazon - and they sent something like four back shocks) - so the vehicle was out of action for quite some time waiting for parts
 
Close mate of mine bought a 4x4 from them for what seemed a fair price. When he took it in for its first service the mechanic was surprised to realize it had the wrong engine in. Figured out they sold the car as say a 2017 model but it had a 2014 engine with higher milage and from a lower down model of the same manufacturer. He went back to WBC and said you clearly misrepresented what you sold me and I would like to either return the car for a full refund, or get a fair difference in value paid out to me. They refused to do anything. Will never deal with that company.
 
Cius said:
Close mate of mine bought a 4x4 from them for what seemed a fair price. When he took it in for its first service the mechanic was surprised to realize it had the wrong engine in. Figured out they sold the car as say a 2017 model but it had a 2014 engine with higher milage and from a lower down model of the same manufacturer. He went back to WBC and said you clearly misrepresented what you sold me and I would like to either return the car for a full refund, or get a fair difference in value paid out to me. They refused to do anything. Will never deal with that company.
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Hmmm a bit weird... how would they know the new "engine" had higher mileage? how did the mechanic pick this up?
On an engine change one would have to look into the records on who did it and where and was it recorded.
A bit of a tricky one from both parties side, you blame WBC (who knows how long after the sale this was) and WBC blames you. How do you know the owner didn't swop the engine out?

In all your second hand cars which you've bought, have you checked the engine number to what's on the registration papers and correlated that to the original from when it was made? .....I would bet you my ex wife, no...and no one does....
 
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