Where Did the cash for cars market come from

[Phil H 124]

There's no doubt about it but the cash for cars market has certainly changed the way that members of the public sell their car, and IMHO not always for the best, but my question to you is where do you think this market came from and is the cash for cars market severely harming your business or have you embraced it and it's improved your business?

Many of you will say WBAC created the market but I disagree I think It started here http://web.archive.org/web/20070609085343/http://www.cellyourcar.com/index.asp most of the industry's biggest players registered to buy cars from the public via this site before going on to set up there own websites that dominate the market today http://web.archive.org/web/20070617094733/http://www.cellyourcar.com/public/public_about_us.htm including the big one. 

Also where do you see the cash for cars market heading in the next 2 years are the big going to get bigger or is a backlash from the independents just around the corner. 

Would love to hear you're views. If you want to hear mine listen to Friday's podcast on motortraderadio.com 

 

 

[Webuycars 4]

http://web.archive.org/web/*/webuycars.co.uk

[Phil H 124]

I would have to disagree and here's why.

If you go by date alone then you could argue that the cash for cars market was created by the very first newspaper advert many years ago by a dealer simply saying in his advert "we buy cars for cash". Now in 2001 your website did advertise that you where the UK's number 1 buyer of quality used cars and that you had clients waiting from all over the UK. Correct me if I'm wrong but that sounds to me like you were buying off the public and selling to the trade therefore being a middleman. 

IMO for the cash for cars market to be truly created there came a moment when something happened that was a game changer and that was when the concept of cellyourcar, a concept that your own website chose to adopt in 2013 when you went from the UK's number 1 buyer of quality used cars to helping members of the public find a trade buyer for their car, something cellyourcar was doing back in 2005. Cellyourcar had the vision of the market for us all to have a piece of the cake but sadly it introduced the big boys to it who were not happy with a piece of the cake they wanted it all for themselves and had the huge budgets to start up their own cash for cars websites and make it the unfair place that it is today by creating even bigger middlemen than ever before. 

The next game changer in the cash for cars market is just around the corner I wonder how many more will try and copy the concept? 

[Webuycars 4]

15 hours ago, Phil H said:

I would have to disagree and here's why.

If you go by date alone then you could argue that the cash for cars market was created by the very first newspaper advert many years ago by a dealer simply saying in his advert "we buy cars for cash". Now in 2001 your website did advertise that you where the UK's number 1 buyer of quality used cars and that you had clients waiting from all over the UK. Correct me if I'm wrong but that sounds to me like you were buying off the public and selling to the trade therefore being a middleman. 

IMO for the cash for cars market to be truly created there came a moment when something happened that was a game changer and that was when the concept of cellyourcar, a concept that your own website chose to adopt in 2013 when you went from the UK's number 1 buyer of quality used cars to helping members of the public find a trade buyer for their car, something cellyourcar was doing back in 2005. Cellyourcar had the vision of the market for us all to have a piece of the cake but sadly it introduced the big boys to it who were not happy with a piece of the cake they wanted it all for themselves and had the huge budgets to start up their own cash for cars websites and make it the unfair place that it is today by creating even bigger middlemen than ever before. 

The next game changer in the cash for cars market is just around the corner I wonder how many more will try and copy the concept? 

Disagree with what ? 

I simply pointed out that we were around before the example you quoted. In fact we were the original online car buyers .......unless you know different of course 

Good luck with your new venture . 

[Phil H 124]

These people claim to of been doing it since 1999 on their website but this indicates differently. http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://sellyourjamjar.co.uk but not every page on every website is captured by wayback time machine depending on whether robots are switched on or off on the website settings. 

Good luck with yours the more of us who can help stop the greedy middlemen from ripping off the public and pushing up stock prices the better. Are you still owned by the same man who has had it since the start I think his name was Charles?

 

 

[Webuycars 4]

On 16 March 2016 at 11:22 PM, Phil H said:

These people claim to of been doing it since 1999 on their website but this indicates differently. http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://sellyourjamjar.co.uk but not every page on every website is captured by wayback time machine depending on whether robots are switched on or off on the website settings. 

Good luck with yours the more of us who can help stop the greedy middlemen from ripping off the public and pushing up stock prices the better. Are you still owned by the same man who has had it since the start I think his name was Charles?

 

 

Yep thats me .