Rich Michaels

You have always had to tread carefully when bidding on vehicles with D/A. Over the years we had weeded out the 'dodgy' dealers masquerading as 'main dealers' , these 'dodgy' dealers, if you searched them, were selling similar cars [age, screen price, makes & models] as ourselves. It goes without saying that the cars they were selling therefore were most likely 'lemons'. Indeed, we learnt of one 'main dealer' in the Suffolk area, who were selling cars on dealer auction, via a separate used car dealer and earning a drink. We learnt, sadly after buying, of another well known, established main dealer in the Kent area who had tried and failed to sell a part-ex of their own stand alone used car site, then failed to sell it from a live auction, before selling it of the D/A site [the car was a 'lemon'] At the end of the day, don't consider buying from anyone retailing cars which are similar to those you deal in, there's usually a reason they are selling their stock on D/A and those reasons are not always kosher !! The D/A site wasn't policed that well previously with regard to the sellers being only main dealers, under the present D/A regime, please do your homework gents and be selective on who you are actually buying from, you'll find that some main dealers selling on D/A are nothing of the kind, it's no good being wise after the event, as we had learnt to our expense...

Hi BHM, I read your comment with much interest. That said however, your experience is not that which reflects that of our own. Forget about emails, I'm referring to contracts and/or terms and conditions.

We have been advertising with ebay for a number of years, in October 2019 we were approached by Gumtree to 'piggy-back' on ebay and advertise them also. They, Gumtree, were offering a 'trial' period of a minimum 6 months to "see how good it would be". We resisted this offer of a 6 month [rolling contract] offer, however they came back to us with a 'special offer' of a 3 month trial. We accepted the offer, and due to the rolling contract and so to be on the safe side, we immediately gave Gumtree notification of the 30 day termination notice... Jump forward 3 months, the trial period proved unproductive and Gumtree notify us that the contract will roll-on, we in turn reminded them that we had notified them of termination in November 2019. Although Gumtree accepted the termination, we were then informed that we couldn't just terminate the Gumtree agreement alone and thatany attempt to cancel the payment would automatically terminate our ebay account also. I might add that there was no mention of this verbally, nor contractually, at the time of agreeing the trial period with Gumtree back in November 2019. We are taking legal advise for misrepresentation... Be aware !!!