« Reply #10 on: 06 June 2018, 16:05 »
I asked my local Carwow guy how the system worked a couple of years ago.
Some of the quotes are from random dealers picked by their system plus you’ll always get your nearest Carwow dealer and the cheapest quote sent through.
The delivery drivers are usually retired guys and they are told to drive very carefully as the last thing the dealer wants is a load of complaints and having to come back and collect the car again.
Obviously the delivery is a significant cost to the dealer so there will quite likely be incentives to collect the car.
Carwow quotes are usually through the retail part of the dealer unlike a lot of brokers that use the fleet side to offer cars at the maximum discount.
It’s always when you have a part Ex that the waters get muddied as this will impact the deal.
A cheap headline offer might result in a low P/X offer and vice versa so it’s always the cost to change that’s significant.
When you have no part Ex then it’ll be hard to beat the likes of Broadspeed when buying a VW but when I got quotes for my son buying a newly released Ibiza FR earlier this year with no P/X, I found Carwow undercut Broadspeed and the cheapest quote was for an actual car that had been built and was in stock.
The sands shift all the time though so it pays to do a decent amount of research on the current best deals.
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