Dealerbid - www.dealerbid.co.uk

have had plenty of views, 4 companies asking what price i'm looking for, or they can take the hassle of selling giving fair trade price less collection, less perpetration... no offers what so ever just generic emails from the same 4 companies every 4 weeks or so.

Don't even bother asking customer support for changes or anything no one is ever there to answer the phones, when you submit changes by emails , what a surprise nothing happens.

spend a bit more time looking for other ways of selling, unless your prepared to do all the chasing

Just sold our car to motor market through the dealerbid website after just a week of listing it on the website.

We had a kid of interest in the car the same day it was listed but motor market offered a much better price than anyone else and we're happy to come a pick the car up.

It costl us £9 to advertise and after spending over £60 on Autotrader with zero response this is a superb price point.

The phone application definitely makes communication easier but it would be nice to view previous messages without the dealer you're chatting with being on line.

Other than that more than happy

Did my homework and visited a number of different websites for prices for my car and used the site to see if could find a better price.

Started receiving enquiries within an hour all of which were companies I hadn't come across previously and would certainly had not found of my own accord.

Most were around the same figures I had already found but all did make clear they are making firm offers not prices to change so I'm guessing all were probably better offers if you factor in the car sites I had previously researched were probably going to change their offer at the end of the day.

Finally I agreed to a deal with Sellacar who offered £300 more than webuyanycar etc. Factoring in the fact that they did pay what was agreed and didn't reduce the initial offer, they collected my car from my home and there was no admin fee other than the £10 to list my car on the site I would hazard a guess I've probably gained £500ish .

Sellacar were extremely proficient with everything from initial contact through to making sure payment was cleared in my account before collection. Would certainly recommend them.

With regard to the site, some of the enquiries I missed as they ended up in my junk folder so some research my be required to make sure this is fixed other than that great concept.

I had tried selling my car privately on eBay with little success and had been messed about with a car buying company who after making their initial offer and confirming everything on the phone decided "due to market changes" they were going to change the price by the best part of £600 when they came to my house to collect the car, and if I didn't accept the new price they would charge me a fee if I later changed my mind! - I don't think so.

I decided to give the dealerbid website a go as an alternative I route and was pleasantly surprised with the interest the car generated. I must admit I was expecting to simply compare prices but it's a little more involved in that nearly all the dealers that contacted me wanted further info about the car first.

This Actually I didn't mind as I got to get a feel for who I was dealing with and decided to accept an offer from Cleverautomotive who offered more than anyone else and above all were polite and quick to sort everything out.

They collected my car for free and not only did they offer more than the car buying company I had used they didn't then try to line their pockets by changing the price.

Much cheaper than eBay, much quicker and relatively easy to use although some problems navigating the site and struggled to remove my listing after sold to leave feedback so had to contact support.

This aside I would highly recommend, especially if you are being forced to accept a reduced price on collection day like I was. Don't let them mess you about because you can quite easily get more.

Would like to say a big thank you to your dealer bid buyers  from Lincoln who have today collected my car and made everything really easy with the sale.

Listed my car on Friday and had a few enquiries for more info, an idea on prices etc. Explained my situation and the guys were great, very understanding and advised best way to deal with my circumstances (had private plate which wanted to keep still).

Didn't get as much as I would have liked selling privately but just didn't have the time as moving to France but a better price than the usual sites online, nice people, quick sale, quick collection and certainly wouldn't have found mpn cars without using your site so very worthwhile.

Nice one.

Probably should have listened to some of the other reviews on more trustworthy websites but I thought I'd give dealer-bid a chance. My advice is save your money. It's not a scam, but it just isn't worth it.

Dealer-bid's proposition is that they have the end dealers on their site, looking at your car with a view to retail it to the public. Logically, such a dealer will pay more than WBAC as WBAC (and all other car buying sites) are middlemen - they buy from you and sell to these same dealers.

I signed up yesterday and have had nothing but offers from other car buying companies that can't even compete with WBAC and other big car buyers on line. None of them were the end dealers that would sell my car - just more middlemen.

As soon as your ad goes live, you will get a number of 'enquiries' but these are not enquiries at all, they are auto-response messages from companies that have set up alerts on dealer-bid. The auto-response will usually ask what your lowest price is.

If you respond with a price that is higher than WBAC you will get replies telling you "that's too much, no dealer will pay that". When you tell them that you have been offered only slightly less by WBAC or similar, they will tell you: "WBAC will knock you down as soon as you get there so their quotes are worthless. Our price is less than their quote but more than they'll actually give you". Most just won't reply at all proving that the initial auto-responses you got mean nothing as they are not interested at all. I assume the whole auto-response thing is part of the lure to get people to pay the £10 fee, because you can advertise without paying the fee and then get an email saying 'you have 6 enquiries already'. You then get the chance to pay the £10 to see the enquiries.

My problem isn't with the buyers that offer bottom dollar for the car - that's what you expect from the industry - it's with dealer-bid promoting themselves as an alternative to the normal industry tactics by (as they say) putting you in touch with the end dealers who will pay more than WBAC, when in reality, you have paid £10 to have 10 more WBAC wannabe's trying to offer you less than WBAC and the other big car buyers. Their 'buyers' all seem to have standard car buying sites and can be found easily via google. If I wanted to accept the WBAC type price, I didn't need to pay £10 to do it.

Having struggled to navigate the website and to actually submit the advert I had a couple of responses from companies that asked me what price I was looking for rather than making any offers and none of them got back to me after I explained to them how the website was meant to work. I had a bout 40 clicks on an ad with plenty of photos and after a week without a single offer I decided to put the car an Autotrader where it had >1000 clicks within a week, plenty of interest and a happy buyer who paid the asking price without any haggling. I don't know how many genuine dealers they actually have on there list, what the success rate for sales is and whether some cars do better than others. I can't recommend it at all.

Simply put this has worked a treat! Gained nearly £1,000 for my Audi A7, and am very pleased.

I'm not an expert when it comes to cars, but I've had a few and I've found selling them hard work an expensive until using the dealerbid site.

A slight misunderstanding about why the price could change If I waited until the last week of August but quickly and totally satisfactorily dealt with.

Much easier than waiting for a private buyer and better prices than the car buying sites online.

Having just sold our car to a dealer through the site for the first time I have been impressed with how quickly everything was dealt with and how nice the communication with our buyer was as well as the obvious being price. However this could have been made a lot easier if the site was easier to use. It is very hard to use on a tablet and I had to manually resize my car images to get them to upload. An A for the selling experience and a C for ease of use.

I have just sold my Audi TT through the site to motormarket who have been great to deal with. Had a number of queries regarding the specification which were quickly confirmed and motormarket were offering somewhat more than other dealers.

Agreed a final price and the car was collected two days later from work.

Paperwork etc took 20 mins and the money for the car was paid directly into my account.

Certainly gained a few hundred pounds using the site compared to usual sites but it is quite a tricky site to use on a tablet as for some reason the pages weren't loading correctly but on laptop seemed to work fine.