We buy any car!

[bluequattro]

They are part of Carcraft.
I joined their trade mailing lis a while back (before they started WBAC)
they were selling cheap part exchanges.
Prices for sale cars are of course lots more than they ve paid! Too much for what they re offering realy.
They offered me £50 for my 7a 90 quattro, but were charging £49.99 admin fee!

[Dan]

While I do think it takes the piss what they're offering for an S2, I also accept the point that it's only an offer - you don't have to take it.

I guess it's mostly about risk. Older car, more likely to have problems. Old Audi, parts possibly NLA. There's also a risk of getting stuck with it - if Carcraft is their retail arm, there's a good chance it won't sell there. AFAIK the kinda people who buy from Carcraft are a world apart from your typical S2 owner.

Their offers for newer cars seem a lot closer to reasonable - not so that I'd sell today, but if I had a newer car that I desperately needed to get rid of (ie. I needed sold tomorrow and am prepared to take a 20% cut to have 80% of the cash in my bank immediately), I'd have to consider it.

Fact is, this is a company that deals in popular, regular cars en-masse. The S2 is a niche car. The two don't go together.

[Ross]

I'm not sure if it's age related or their prices have just tanked, but I almost considered offloading my Gold TDi to them - figures suggested about £2200-£2500, their quote was £2000. A few months later, ran the same quote again, came out at £800

[dest]

Someone at work sold their 1 year old Hyundai to them and got a very good price.
Basically, they dont want old cars

[TimE-J]

I'm sure it's all about the resale potential of the car as a lad I used to work for bought a mk5 golf very cheep and sold it to WBAC for a profit. Even then the price he got was under value but was a 2 or 3 day turn around.