Anonymous

AVOID! If you go ahead, be forewarned.

My 19 year old son was looking for his first car with his summer wages. Wondervalue advertised a car on autotrader. We drive 2.5 hours to get there (Paul refused to hold it while we drove) and discovered he works from a van on the site of a road in London, under a railway arch. We did end up buying the car and it has proven to be OK (the issues we have found have been relatively easy to sort) but I think this is our good luck rather than the honesty of the salesman! Paul wouldn't have cared if it had been a total lemon. His tricks to look out for: - Saying "someone was just here and offered cash but I turned them down" as soon as you arrive (i guess this is just a classic sales tactic!) - Increasing the price on autotrader before you arrive to make it £100 more than the advert you've seen, which makes negotiating hard as you're starting from £100 higher than you should have been (I'd suggest taking a screenshot advert before you go). - Giving you the service paperwork while you're standing at the car, but then continuing to talk at you incessantly so you can't actually take it in. He then whips it away from you. - Mentioning a few 'things' that he can't guarantee are ok (in our case the radio and aircon) and then writing on the sales paperwork "radio not working, air con not working, buyer aware". This is despite both of these things being listed in the advert as working (they were not). - Hiding the above writing on the sales paperwork from you when sign the agreement to buy (in our case he had his fingers over it, whilst highlighting the section about it with 'date and time of sale' making a big deal of the fact that he'd written the time of sale in case it had any speeding tickets prior to that exact time) so that you have no come back - Not giving all of the service history paperwork to you after purchase that he'd previously shown you whilst viewing (I didn't realise this until we got home and all of the previous service invoices were missing) - Not giving an opportunity to listen to the engine running whilst out of the car, only when sitting inside it for a test drive. If you can buy a car elsewhere then I would! This guy is dodgy. I feel that we got off lightly.