Reply to: car supermarkets

[Tensai]

It's not bollocks I've got the key in my pocket and the car parked outside.

I did say they were impressively stupid, but they never tried to remove it from sale so I bought it.

In that case you definitely want to try the same trick for this tidy little motor....

[MPwannadecentincome]

Bit of a mixed opinion actually.

Didn't like Trade Sales in Slough as you could not even drive the car around the car park before hand. Was not convinced with their 'guarantee' that if anything was wrong within a day or two of driving off that they would fix it.

Car Giant in London - well its been about 12 years since I bought a car from there and it was called something different then. I got a bargain car - high mileage vgc 1 company owner fully serviced with the full printout of every tyre change, wiper blade change etc etc. I was allowed to drive the car within their compound. Everything was good except the extreme grilling when I refused to take their warranty.

All in all if I was buying again I would look to see what they had.

[grey_lady]

I bought my car recently from cargiant, OH bought his a few years back from them and i've known two other people buy from them as well.

Id go back, biggest choice around in the same place and they are very different price-wise from other car supermarkets eg carcraft which is much closer to me but way overpriced. Cargiant have a website listing their stock so you can compare prices to those in parkers and see if you think they're fair.

My car was coming up to a service when i bought it, i had it serviced straight away and was told that a seal needed replacing and an engine sensor was giving a warning - phoned cargiant and they replaced both with no hassle.
I think you have a month to go back with any problems and they dont argue.

Wouldnt take the warrenty or the gap insurance from them though and that caused a bit of grief - high pressure sale tactics but if i'd have wanted them they're available far cheaper through companies like warrentiesdirect.

[ASB]

This is utter bollocks. Sorry.

Any item with a price on it is only 'offerred' for sale at that price. There is absolutely no legal right to buy at a ticketed price. The seller can refuse to sell and there aint a thing in law you can do to force a sale.

True, but it is possible for the bid and offer to both be completed under some [unusual] situations and then it does become binding. A fairly recent example was a web retailer who had the price of a telly badly wrong. Their T+Cs were not good and contracts were established.

[BolshieBastard]

It's not bollocks I've got the key in my pocket and the car parked outside.

I did say they were impressively stupid, but they never tried to remove it from sale so I bought it.

Well, you havent read my comments have you?

I said you may have browbeaten them into agreeing to a sale but its a legal fact that a price tag is only an 'offer' to sell. You cant make the seller sell to you at any price. That bit aint bollocks.

Good luck to you for getting the car at the price. Anyone who screws money out of a car dealer cant be all bad!

[TykeMerc]

This is utter bollocks. Sorry.

Any item with a price on it is only 'offerred' for sale at that price. There is absolutely no legal right to buy at a ticketed price. The seller can refuse to sell and there aint a thing in law you can do to force a sale.

There's even an thing called 'errors and ommission excepted' often seen as 'e&oe' in adverts that lets a seller off the hook if something is labelled with the wrong price in error.

You perhaps got lucky by browbeating the seller into accepting your offer but as I said, there's nothing you could legally have done if they'd turned round and said 'we're not selling it even if you gave us £x hundreds more.'

It's not bollocks I've got the key in my pocket and the car parked outside.

I did say they were impressively stupid, but they never tried to remove it from sale so I bought it.

[DiscoStu]

You bought a car from them and it went worng after 3 months, very impressive!

It was a single split suspension bush, hardly a major issue!

[BolshieBastard]

I have once as they advertised the car I have now on Auto Trader with what was obviously the wrong pricetag on the advert, fortunately the branch was in easy reach so I printed out the ad wandered in and caught them firmly over a barrel.
They weren't at all happy at having to sell me the car at well over £3k less than they had on the screen but they did eventually.

Unless you can catch them out their screen prices are absurdly high as they tend to specialise in the poor credit market with weekly payments.

I'm quite happy with the car, their service was lousy, but that was irrelevant once I had driven away as obviously I have no reason to ever go back.

This is utter bollocks. Sorry.

Any item with a price on it is only 'offerred' for sale at that price. There is absolutely no legal right to buy at a ticketed price. The seller can refuse to sell and there aint a thing in law you can do to force a sale.

There's even an thing called 'errors and ommission excepted' often seen as 'e&oe' in adverts that lets a seller off the hook if something is labelled with the wrong price in error.

You perhaps got lucky by browbeating the seller into accepting your offer but as I said, there's nothing you could legally have done if they'd turned round and said 'we're not selling it even if you gave us £x hundreds more.'

[Board Game Geek]

My current car is from cargiant and my wifes is from trade-sales in slough.

Never had any problems with either company or car..

I read that a bit too quick.

Here's what I thought you said.

My current car is from cargiant and my wife is from trade-sales in slough.

Never had any problems with either company or car..but the wife ? omg...

It does bring a new spin on the story doesn't it ?

[Chugnut]

true (I thought that as I typed it tbh)

I hate buying cars

I know what you mean - it's a bloody lottery though so you can't make a wrong or right decision really.

I've had more hassles with expensive cars than cheap ones but that's just how the cards fell for me.

A friend of mine bought a 3 year old Audi A6, full dealer history, one owner, all the boxes ticked. Once month later, numerous electronic niggles start, passenger door won't open, then the cam belt goes. He couldn't wait to get shot of it but lost a fortune.

Another mate bought a Yaris for about £1500 just for going to the station. He had it for 4 years and the only thing it needed (apart from regular servicing like any other car) was an indicator bulb.

Just spin the bottle and pick the one it points to.

[Ruprect]

It shouldn't. You're just as likely to get a turkey from a main dealer IMO.

true (I thought that as I typed it tbh)

I hate buying cars

[Chugnut]

hmm this might influence the decision!

It shouldn't. You're just as likely to get a turkey from a main dealer IMO.

[Fred Bloggs]

My strategy recently has been to get the best prices from internet brokers then ring round the franchised dealers till I found one who got (very) close to the broker price. Most recent purchase for daughter was Peugeot 107 that came very close to the best broker price I could find and was within 20 miles of home

[Ruprect]

You bought a car from them and it went worng after 3 months, very impressive!

hmm this might influence the decision!

[Iron Condor]

My current car is from cargiant and my wifes is from trade-sales in slough.

Never had any problems with either company or car..