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anyone gone on the website and looked in detail yet?
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>> At what?>>
You beat me to it...:-)
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Thousands of links from their main front page, give us a clue?
As this is in Motoring I've scoured the Tesco Cars bit, but can't see anything untoward so far.
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I've now presumed you mean this:
www.car4play.com/forum/post/index.htm?f=2&t=5835
Last edited by: Stuartli on Mon 25 Apr 11 at 23:54
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tesco cars of course
what did you guys think ? the price of tinned italian tomatoes?
you pick your car and wait a month and then you get a video
how can the wife walk round the pc screen viewing the video tesco sent in a months time with her arms folded and pointing to every miniscule dent and look at that mark on the dash
she cant can she unless you freeze frame every screen blip and blow it up to 400%
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Seems a great idea to me.
Buy a car in a long distance sale, where the vendor has covered their backsides from just about all affordable legal challenges (video, professional road test report, photos, very brief info description giving nothing away - you're going to have to work hard to make anything stick).
Kind of jumped a point there, why would you worry about legal chances? Tesco don't exactly fill me with confidence. If your query fits their process for dealing with issues, you'll have no bother. Ask them something they haven't thought of... might as well talk to the wall.
They're not even cheap. Can't say i can predict a fail, because i can imagine many being duped and although generating plenty of complaints, still making this a success for tesco.
Last edited by: Skoda on Tue 26 Apr 11 at 12:21
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>>tesco cars of course
what did you guys think ? the price of tinned italian tomatoes?>>
Because tesco.dotty.com is the gateway into Tesco's website, so the choice was hardly limited...:-)
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Interesting how they have a minimum (and fairly low) standard for the cars, but if a defect exceeds these standards, they merely report it. However, nowhere on any of the cars I viewed were any reports at all. I guess they were all perfect cars eh?
The photos were awful too, just one angle and they're all squashed. I wouldn't bother viewing a car with such limited pictures, let alone buy one!
Last edited by: oilburner on Tue 26 Apr 11 at 12:55
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I switched off interest when Tesco clarified they have no responsibilty in law for the car. The only Tesco responsibility is for the "Services" they offer: reserving, getting an inspection, minor chages and handover. The car sale contract is between the seller (various trade sources and Car Site Ltd) and buyer. The Tesco Cars website is run by Carsite Ltd trading as Tesco Cars. Tesco part own this company. Seems like a lot of bother, if the car has a major problem. Unless you save enough? Maybe thats the case, but they seem quite pricy.
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I was quite excited about this at launch, but cant really see its any better than buying off ebay. Prices are high so I guess all the reduction in overheads has been used to fatten margins.
Think they risk damaging their reputation if this all goes wrong - few duds get out and before you know it Anne Robinson and the watchdog team will happily create a story.
Think they would have been better off sticking to nearly new / pre reg stuff like motorpoint - still under warranty
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tesco dotty com - smokie
