ycltd

Right about e bay service, put in a complaint received an automatic response, immediate credit of auction fees but todate have heard nothing since ! However doesn't appear that there is a site that out there that serves us as well as Ebay classic cars classified. We tried alternative places to advertise like on "Autotrader" "Car and Classic" "Pistonheads" " Gumtree" , but " Ebay seems to have the edge as generates most interest and at end of day leads to conversions. Am I alone or does E Bay Classic Car classified have the edge, this was why we tried a classic on an auction listing, never again !!!

We recently put a classic car up on the classic car part of the Ebay auction site, not an expensive car looking for circa 6£. Anyway auction went ahead then in last couple of days sudden activity between 2 bidders and car went from £6500 to £8800 at close of auction. Sent off invoice bidder had 10 stars so thought ok, however we heard nothing, chased nothing !! advised ebay, cancelled sale and received refund. We then relisted and at same time gave second highest bidder second chance. Surprise surprise this bidder with 1100 stars, comes back and says even though on screen shows he bid £8700 and had not seen car quote says car not worth £7000 would pay £6000 !! to which we declined as last bidder before had bid £6800. We relisted, all ok until last few seconds and guess what this character snipes and wins at £6350. Too late to exclude his bid assuming he now wants car send of invoice and payment details. We here nothing and then have an obnoxious reply through e bay telling us he doesn't want car and to cancel. This time we have a phone number and get to speak to him, it turns out that he and a brother or associate not sure which run up the bids and then arrange to view collect and barter or harass down the price, but came unstuck with us as we threatened to take them to court. Has anyone else had this experience, pity the private guy who is not savvy and a couple of unpleasant characters turn up ! is it worth ebay auctioning classic cars, look forward to comments Robert

I agree totally with you and having read money laundering regulations, we do sell high value goods, i.e cars over 10000 euros circa £8500 and payment in total is often made by Bank transfer, having read the guide am under impression supposed to register, how do others interpret these regulations. Am sure it was not to include car dealers but as many cars are way in excess of limit and one off payments will often exceed 10000 euro's may exceed these limits !

We know all about cash up to and not above 10K but now been advised that if we accept bank transfers over 10k then we need to inform HMRC and register paying an annual fee, if we don't then we are breaking the law. Does this make sense have we been naive and should we have registered a while back.

There has to be someone and it's going to be me !!!!! I've heard and used "facebook" Facepalm ??

Listening around I thought Experian were a good company to deal with but it appears I have just been fortunate ! it seems CAP Hpi are more respected is this a true reflection of dealers when it comes to providence checks and guide valuations. I realise that in todays market local research is by far and away the right way to value but guide values have their use's

After many years with Experian, in December they wrote to me to advise as a "low user" they were asking me for a £1000 up front or terminate the contract, surprisingly I didn't reply and for many months continued as normal. June of this year account suspended with no prior advice. From that date with Experian lost ability to check CAP and Glass valuations and all usual Experian checks. I consider Experian to have been very heavy handed and have had a number of telephone conversations and e mails with them however all have been one sided as to date whilst I have had acknowledgement from within Experian that this has been heavy handed, have never received email replies to the email requests for reinstatement of account facilities ! . My question is have other car dealer members received similar letters and just changed allegiance to the likes of CAP Hpi and just accepted Experians contempt for the smaller dealer / light user of its products.