Online salvage auction

[warren t claim]

http://www.bluecycle.com/

 

Does anyone have any recent experience of dealing with these people? Good or bad.

 

I have used them before about 7 years ago and I was thinking of re-registering.

[Cavcraft]

Can't you just nip to Queensferry and have your pants pulled down in front of the cars rather than over the net?

[Pillock]

Bluecycle are the online agents for a few different salvage yards... f'rexample, I used to use Mark Hill at the end of my street, and if you went on their website it was trader12.bluecycle.com or whatever.As such, the quality/description/value will differ depending on which breaker is actually offering the car. The only one I've dealt with was that Mark Hill place who used to be excellent, however they got taken over by Charles Trent who doubled the prices and started nicking parts from salvage cars....

[Station]

I'd rather use ebay. Can't think of anything more dodgy than a scrapyard + auctioneer + internet.

[pompei]

Isn't Mark Hill a celebrity haircutter?

[Pillock]

Yes, there is a Mark Hill hairdresser - I'm going to wager a bet that it isn't the same guy that sold me an Audi 90 though. It used to be a really good place - go into the office, give them your carkeys as security and you're pretty much free to go and poke around all the salvage, see what takes your fancy. It was all up for a set price too, with a bit of haggle room. Now Charles Trent have taken over, their stuff is a lot more expensive (with plenty of evidence of strange bids to bump the price up) and it's an auction which just annoys me, you have to wait 3-4 days to see if you're going to ge a bargain, but you can't really bid on anything else in that time in case you win both.They're also quite happy to flog bits and pieces from a salvage car, which means you might find completely unrelated issues if you buy that car - a rear-ended car missing an alternator or something.Bluecycle themselves have a lot better website than they used to, the descriptions are better too. But there's still some iffy prices - £5k for a M3 with all the suspension, wheels, floor smashed in? Basically the lower 6" of the car missing which I'd imagine includes sump and gearbox.

[Minimad5]

Warren i dont know if you are aware but a new auction place has opened up quite local to you, station and myself Birkenhead Car AuctionsI went tonight and it had a grand total of 4 cars '04 Laguna'02 Mondeoand 2 Vectra's But the rather shifty looking chap who ownes the place (and the porche cayenne out-front)Said that business should pick up soon as he has not long opened.Its every tuesday and thursday from 7pm onwards.If you plan on going give me a shout as it would be good to put a face to the name.Its on price street if i recall, afew seconds away from Birkenhead Park Station

[Cavcraft]

LOL at Lagunas, Mundanos and Vectras, they're standard auction fodder and all he needs then is some Rovers to complete the set.I hop he does well though as I've had some not so great experiences with Ellesmere Port auction and hope that this Birkenhead one nicks his trade.

[Minimad5]

He has apparently found a "loop-hole" with lookers and is some other place.He is apparently getting non sold stock in too (from other auctions)Wouldn't surprise me if it will be taxi's and mostly bodged cat C and DsWould be good if it it did pick up though, as we have not had a decent local Car Auction for years (Think the last one was in new ferry in about 1992 / 94 - i could be wrong)

[Cavcraft]

Actually I bet the auctions have dipped a bit since the scrappage scheme.Any decent auction will HPi before they go through to stop people buying cat c/d cars etc.DMA used to anyhow.

[Pillock]

The internet has basically killed the good old auction.... bodging together a car just long enough for it to drive through the arena without losing all its fluids or anything noticable dropping off. For the price you paid, you assumed the car WAS an ex-cat C with a digit knocked off the odo' and badged up to be a few models further up on the scale.

[warren t claim]

Warren i dont know if you are aware but a new auction place has opened up quite local to you, station and myself Birkenhead Car AuctionsI went tonight and it had a grand total of 4 cars '04 Laguna'02 Mondeoand 2 Vectra's But the rather shifty looking chap who ownes the place (and the porche cayenne out-front)Said that business should pick up soon as he has not long opened.Its every tuesday and thursday from 7pm onwards.If you plan on going give me a shout as it would be good to put a face to the name.Its on price street if i recall, afew seconds away from Birkenhead Park Station

I might just turn up on thursday.

[Station]

(Think the last one was in new ferry in about 1992 / 94 - i could be wrong)

Was that the one next to Bedford Road in that big white building (next to where all the houses have been demolished)? That was open for years, and I went with my mum and dad to bid on a Peugeot 104 (£50) in about 1987. Think it shut around 1993. It still has the auction livery painted on the roof.linkageI'll have to check out this new place, there's a scrapyard opened recently on Pasture Road in Moreton, and I think he owns it, he doesn't come across as an arsehole thankfully.

[Minimad5]

Yeah the guy seems alrightWill have a little look at that new scrappy you mention station, thanks for the tip.And warren i shall hopefully see you thereLook out for a little dude with full facial hair and big eye brows - Tiz me (It is me)I don't expect it to have a good flow of cars untill a good few weeks but will keep popping downAnd thursdays are supposed to be "busy days" he said.As for when the auction closed i didn't exactly know as i was just a child back then.But its good to see small changes in the townImprovements i would say "no" But it does seem to be picking itself up slowly.

[Minimad5]

Warren did you go the auction tonight ?I couldn't make it If so - was there more than 4 cars ?haha