I think they tried to canvass the advert for my old Fiesta.
I think the conversation went something like this:
"We would like to sell your car for you, we have buyers waiting."
"How much?"
"£80"
"So how come I can't pay AFTER you have sold my car"
"You just can't"
"Goodbye"
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A couple of years ago I was trying to sell a Carlton in some of the local papers. Shortly after I recieved phone calls from all over the country from people wanting to buy my Calibra Turbo! Many didn't believe me when I said I was selling a Carlton and though I was taking the mick!.
A couple of days after that i received a letter from Car Data telling me about Calibras that were for sale in my area!?! A quick phone call to them asking them what they were playing at eventualy put a stop to it.
Rather strange considering I had never heard of them previously.
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Thank you, Blue Oval, for saving me the problem of having to convey the same sentiments between the lines.
HJ
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I really wouldn't bother with them.
They told me (for £75) that they could virtually guarantee a sale of my audi coupe. They also said that they had literally hundreds of people on their books looking for my car. I was a bit desperate to get rid at that time so I took their offer.
Not one phone call!
Autotrader or the local rag is probably the best way.
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Autotrader has a larger share of this market than all the others put together (exchange & mart included). They run some good deals on website only advertising. Their other publication www.adtrader.co.uk (formally free-ads) is worth trying -it's free.
Forget car-data ,you have'nt heard of them so who else has ??
Just out of interest what are you selling ?
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This very thread has come up elsewhere on the net with bargepole being mentioned often.
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The easy answer is has anyone actually used Cardata to *buy* a car? Makes me wonder who all their waiting buyers are.
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I read some while ago that Trading Standards officers have investigated this type of operation. (Not of course Car Data!!!).
Their conclusion was that the schemes were worthless but they could only take action if they could prove the telephone salesperson made untrue claims. For instance 'waiting buyers' could be lists of 'car wanted' ads in the freebie newspapers.
Even if they did take action the people behind the firm simply could set up another identical scam using another name. They don't exactly have a reputation to guard, and their overheads consist of a telephone and someone without scruples to operate it.
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I'm afraid I was a victim of this organisation. Recently trying to sell me AX. It had been for Sale for a long while. I was called on numerous occasions by their sales people trying to get me to sign up to your service and saying they had buyers interested in purchasing my vehicle for the full amount advertised. I had had the car for sale for several weeks and decided that if they had people interested in the car it would be worth advertising with you. So I handed over my £80 and two weeks passed and I heard nothing from these prospective buyers they said they had, or any other buyers with regard to the advert placed with them. The car has now sold through a free ad. I tryed e mailing them saying how crap their service was basically, but have heard nothing. Do I have a leg to stand on trying to get a refund?
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There are some fine sounding but greedy + unscrupulous people out there Steve. I wish I was only down £80 after some friendly guys working in my street said they could solve all the issues with my roof. :-(
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I get them about every 6 months. Transit van or pickup, mobile phone, no address.
"Can we tar yer drive for a good price?"
"No"
"Why?"
"'cos I need the roof fascias doing first"
"ah, begorrah, we can do that too, can we?"
"no"
"why"
"'cos the flat roof needs doing first"
"ah, 'dis is yure lucky day"
"why"
"'cos we do those too, can we?"
"no"
"if oi says £200 for the lot, what would you say?"
"no"
"is the car for sale...............?"
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Just a correction to Phil I who stated earlier that Experian were the people behind car data. They are not behind Car Data. Experian are the company who sell all the data to other companies. Experian are not directly involved in the selling of cars. Just thought I would put this in to stop law suits etc ;0
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I think the Experian car data is actually like an Hpi check. As you say, it has nothing at all to do with the car data that we're on about!
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