Nice wee scam ...........

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teamemmenracing

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 West of edinburgh
Was thinking about selling my wrangler jeep as 3 cars is a bit much, so went to webuyanycar dot com ....... :D

According to the national mileage register (NMR) everything is kosher apart from an entry in 2008 that says 123,000 miles (exactly) when all the service records and MOTs show that it was around 12,000 miles.
Obviously a clerical error hmmmmmmm what do you have to do to get this error adjusted, pay around 30 quid ...........

Quick google and it turns out the NMR is a private company, and the internet is full off complaints of inserted 100,000 mile discepency entries ..... all costing 30 quid to fix ........ oh and the company is registered in Ireland.

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Even if it was a genuine service, I wouldn't bother paying £30 to get an obvious error corrected.
 
indeed they are ...........
and if you dig into it, even though they are reistered in England, HPI is an Irish Private company ..........

Some good news .............. less than 30 minutes after my wife started tweeting about this, I got a phone call from NMR ......... telling me that the "problem" had been sorted and that I should go back to webuyanycar dot com ...... :rofl:

Does it not just wiff a wee bitty that NMR pays people to sit behind computers all day , scanning twitter to see who is commenting about them, then dig out my phone number from somewhere ....... just saying like.

When things don't add up, it's generally because you do not have all the pieces ........... :thumbsup:
 
mmm-five said:
Even if it was a genuine service, I wouldn't bother paying £30 to get an obvious error corrected.
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you might find you do not have a choice ........ just reading on a consumer forum about a bloke who was trying to sell his Seat with 46K on it ........ he got a phone call from a punter calling him a liar, saying that it actually had 146K on it ...... ie car was unsellable.

........ and that is just one example, internet is full of it
 
Not sure I understand the benefits of these on-line services to the buyer or the seller. I can see the benefit to the service provider though. :thumbsdown:
 
Anyone can enter NMR mileage as well. When you do a cap valuation, Im sure its recorded on the NMR so as you say likely to be susceptible to clerical errors.
 
bluestreak56 said:
Anyone can enter NMR mileage as well. When you do a cap valuation, Im sure its recorded on the NMR so as you say likely to be susceptible to clerical errors.
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aye ....... but ......... :rofl: entering a mileage that is exactly 100,000 miles greater than the previous line ...... means you have to know what was on the previous line and the date it was put there, ........ proper stinks :cry:
 
teamemmenracing said:
ronk said:
Doesn't your MOT certificate show the mileage?
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aye got copies of all the MOT certs with mileages ......... :thumbsup:
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The latest mot also shows the previous miles :thumbsup:
That's the doc I would trust over a commercially available version where there likelihood of interference.
 
ronk said:
teamemmenracing said:
ronk said:
Doesn't your MOT certificate show the mileage?
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aye got copies of all the MOT certs with mileages ......... :thumbsup:
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The latest mot also shows the previous miles :thumbsup:
That's the doc I would trust over a commercially available version where there likelihood of interference.
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............. but there are loads who do an HPI check (HPI own NMR) before they buy, in fact we are all advised to do so ..... and if that check shows the car has been clocked to the tune of 100,000 miles ........ you would walk away ...... and the seller has no choice but to give NMR 30 quid to "clear" the error ......
with in excess of 6 million second hand cars sold in the UK each year ........, slip a wee 100,000 mile error onto just 1% and that nets 1.8 million pounds a year .........nice bit of income for a few minutes work.
 
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