I brought myself a new Peugeot car, had a Honda Insight, only £20 a year road tax. So like before, I put my car on Autotrader, however this time I was failing to understand most people that rang up. Many of these people had strong accents I found really hard to follow, I am not sure if I had even spoke to a native British person!

So having over 20 phone calls for the two weeks, I arranged six of them to come and visit.

Not one person turned up! Times arranged, I waited, there was no, “no I can’t make it.” text or phone call. They just all became no shows. Wasting my time. I am curious why it’s come to this. No courtesy from anyone. There were even people that rang up, many of them offer what I call offensive offers. I had my car on the website for £4125.00 I had it serviced and MOTed. Two people asked me over the phone if will I accept £1500 for the car!! I just politely said that’s far too low for them to hang up on me. I was struggling to understand why these people can’t be nice over the phone.

In the end after the two weeks I took the car to WeBuyAnyCar who brought it off of me for just over £3,000 Maybe a lower rate, maybe next time I will just stick to trade-ins. Maybe Autotrader isn’t the same like it use to be. In just an hour I had sold the car, compared to the two weeks from earlier.

All in all, not the greatest of experiences, but at least I shouldn’t need to worry now it’s gone.