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[dubinwest]

I went into a local car dealer recently to enquirer about trading up my 2010 car. When I asked the sales person for a value on my trade in she said she couldn’t give me one because she had to put car up on a car appraisal website to find out value.? Every time I traded cars in before the garage took out their little secret bible and got the value there and then, is this a new th8ng garages are doing or is it a sales person who. Hasn’t a clue.

 

[dub_nerd]

I dunno, but can you get the name of the website so we can all have a l

k?

 

[Nordkapp]

Its all done on the web these days, I would say there is no more little book of prices

 

[David1234]

Happened to me when I was buying my last car. Was offered an amount that I thought was low and then the dealer opened up an industry website to show how much comparable cars were being bought for. Oddly satisfying having a some transparency when buying and selling second hand cars

 

[Páid]

It's called the .

 

[mathepac]

As I said already "Only in America or on Judge Judy:- https://www.kbb.com/" and no it's not a mis-post by me.

Ireland's only Blue Book is for hotel & restaurant bookings:- https://www.irelands-blue-book.ie/index.html

 

[RedOnion]

SIMI used to publish a blue book. Banks used to use it in car finance to double check values of cars people were financing. I believe SIMI run beepbeep.ie - just type in your ref to get a value.

If it was a straight forward 3 or even 5 year old trade in, they'd have no problem valuing. But with a 2010 they don't have enough data to do it automatically. So your garage probably meant they'll have a look at donedeal to gauge what they could charge for it. They'd also scan recent auction results to see what the trade value would be if they just shipped it off to auction.

 

[Leo]

The Blue Book term was used in many countries and industries, and has been in use since at least the 1800's in the recording of fisheries trade data.