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Nick-St



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United Kingdom 2013 Defender 110 Puma 2.2 USW Corris Grey
Selling cars
We needed to sell our existing VW Tiguan as the Defender is due the first week of next month. The LR dealer offered £34k trade in, WBAC offered £37,545, and Motorway set a minimum price of £37,878. Ended up getting £42,915 from Motorway!

Motorway was a simple process - so definitely worth a look if you need to sell something!
Post #983310 22nd Feb 2023 12:01pm
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pjm-84



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That's interesting. Used Motorway once and a low value was offered.

BMW Dealer offered £1100 more and Carwow offered £1500 more. Ended up going to the BMW dealer as in the scheme of things the £400 wasn't worth the additional time involved.

Just to add that they "offered" £70,400 for the Defender which I subsequently sold to a Dealer for £76,000


Funny world.
Post #983314 22nd Feb 2023 12:21pm
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Nick-St



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The Motorway offer is the minimum, so you don't know what you'll actually get until the end of the day when they tout it out to their network. They did say we didn't need to accept the offer if we didn't want to as well...
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pjm-84



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Agree. Their offer on the CH-R was 21k but it came in at 18.4k and 18.9k and they were a little pushy for me to accept.

Carwow came in at 20.15k and when I said I couldn't be bothered for £140 or for matter of fact £500 they came back and offered £20.4k (which was £400 more than BMW)

Rolling with laughter
Post #983322 22nd Feb 2023 12:53pm
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SteveG



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As explained, Motorway don’t provide an offer as they are not buying your vehicle. They set a reserve price for the auction and dealers bid above this price if they want to buy it. If your vehicle sells, Motorway put you in touch directly with buying dealer to arrange a pick up date, whereby all the details like condition etc. are agreed in person and they transfer funds. Simple but effective digital auction business.

The price you achieve is very much driven by demand at that moment of the auction and can naturally vary, I know from personal experience this can vary, by 7% in my case with an auction just 10 days apart.
Post #983323 22nd Feb 2023 12:57pm
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Nick-St



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Also helps us that we're in this weird time where used cars haven't dropped the normal amount in their first few years of life!!
Post #983324 22nd Feb 2023 1:01pm
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Moo



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I sold my XC90 via Motorway. I got over £4k more than WBAC and £6k more than Carbase. Interestingly it actually went to a Volvo dealer.
Post #983336 22nd Feb 2023 2:17pm
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Nick-St



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Same - ours is going to a VW dealer!
Post #983337 22nd Feb 2023 2:31pm
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DonH2000



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Has anyone sold their Defender on Motorway??? Cheers Don.
Post #983465 23rd Feb 2023 7:35pm
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