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Reviews 419
Mr Jim Mollison
Mar 11,2019I used to use this site regularly as a Sole Trader to get a quick price for any potential car. Just noticed recently that they appear to have removed the ability to enter a registration number, this greatly reduces the ability to get a semi accurate valuation for your car, and yes they are still charging the same. I agree with previous comments with regard to advertising and annoying pop-ups, especially when you pay them £10 per month for thw privilege. Customer service is non existent. Come on Parkers, get a grip !!
MadAlicesDad
Jan 17,2019Used to be the first port of call when buying or selling cars. Now it's just an atrocious collection of badly placed intrusive slow loading ads, interspersed with a few pictures and details of what you may be looking for. More likely though is you are looking at something different due to a wrongly placed or ill-timed click due to the speed at which the parasitic ads load. Also the services you used to get as a paid subscriber (even 12 months ago) are not there any more but prices are higher.
Roy T
Jan 08,2019I paid Parkers for a valuation of my car before advertising it for sale. When I accessed the relevant section of their website, there were no additional model specific options for me to select regarding my vehicle that were not already available without paying. So, I had basically been charged for a service which was available free of charge. Obviously, I complained, however, Parkers were very unhelpful, stating that there were no problems with the site. I will not use their service again and others should do the same. My experience with them has been a complete rip-off.
Vince
Aug 05,2018Just wanted a quick price guide on my car..... they take you through all the questions then want you to pay. Because of the clearly surreptitious way they seem to run their website I would not trust them in any other aspect of business.
Dan Hack
Jul 21,2018Totally wrong prices undervalue cars for sale massively and over value part exchanges you may aswell pick a figure out of a hat not approved prices, autotrader real time valuation and insurance approved only like glasses guide etc
M DAWS
Jun 16,2018Prior to selling our VW Beetle, we obtained 'valuations' from 5 sites. These were Autotrader, Whatcar, Confused.com, RAC and Parkers. The first four companies estimated a private sale between £2510 to £2990. PARKERS GUIDE on the other hand came up with £1325-£1835 for a private sale. Now, the first two calls were from people who were clearly dealers (but not identifying themselves as such) and time wasters as when it came to discussing the price they only wanted to discuss the PARKERS valuation. PARKERS seem way off the mark and for some reason want to keep private sale prices low, yet keep trade sellers prices full. Like other contributors you can not even phone them. I WOULD NOT ever recommend them or ever use PARKERS again. They could have cost us several hundred pounds. We advertised it for £2550, had half a dozen calls and found a buyer for £2450.
Davestout
Dec 31,2017Paid for the extra to get a more accurate valuation and it didn't make any difference. Also site is still full of adverts. These used to be the bible for car valuation, not anymore better off looking on autotrader to see what they are selling for.
Tony
Aug 21,2017Untrustworthy. Barely contactable. Not responsive to their mistakes I am selling my estate car. DVLA and Honest John agree its an estate car. Parkers and Autotrader say its a hatchback and worth at least £870 less than the estate version. Autotrader have been responsive if unhelpful ('....looking into it.'). Parkers have not even responded. There is no phone number for them. I used to like Parkers but now realise how damaging they are when the get their data wrong and will not fix instantly. You need to be very careful before relying on Parkers data.
Barry
Nov 23,2016i got very poor valuation from them. won't use them again
KEITH BOND
Nov 23,2016Finding that basic information often missing, and price guide totally out of sync with other sites. Website awful to use, and not at all user friendly. Adverts obscure you looking at cars (the whole purpose of the site) and half the page mostly freezes with an add or just white, so you can't see anything. Have reported to Parker's, but clearly not bothered.
John H
Nov 12,2016I took the time to compose and submit a genuine, honest and accurate review of my car as encouraged by the site. Given a 72hr response promise which didn't happen. Contacted Parkers by email to be fobbed off Here we are 2months later, still no response Don't waste your time trying to help / add to the site Poor experience
MANISH SHARMA
Nov 20,2015I am writing this to complain about how unprofessionally we were dealt on 14.11.15 morning. We were supposed to meet one of the car dealers in Renault Bradford (Thornton Road Bradford BD1 2EP) to talk about Dacia Sandero at 11 am. My wife and I were there and we were told that the dealer whom we were supposed to talk with will be with us shortly but after 25 minutes waiting for the dealer or someone else to come and talk with us NO ONE CAME. We finally left. We would have bought the car on the same day but the experience what we had with your company has left a bitter taste in our mouth and we will not be dealing with this company any more and wont recommend them to anyone. I hope they will make the customer satisfaction as one of their main priority. I have already emailed the same to their manager and got an email of apology but I still like to share the incident with people. I bought the car the next day. if they would have dealt with us in a professional way they would not have lost ££££ .
Luqman Qadir
Sep 17,2014I called these fellas to buy car parts for my Audi. I had to repeat the car registration number at least 5 times and trust I was spelling the registration number in very basic, sophisticated manner in order to them to understand it first time - And there's been no issues with telephone line. It just took over a 5 minutes of my life to get the registration number across - The guy on the telephone had that bad ghetto attitude, so I can tell the kind of company they are. And then the car parts I was trying to find are basic parts and they not even had a single one of these. A complete waste of 15 minutes of my life!
Steven Stacey
Apr 18,2012useful website with a lot of information and good clear reviews of cars to help when looking to buy new or used. good stuuf
david lucas
Jul 17,2011I think parkers are perhaps drunk when they create their valuation guide. I wish Parkers actually offered you the price they give you.
Dave Samson
Jun 21,2011Not so great when your looking to buy a car after reading the review
Geoff in Bolton
Mar 06,2011I tried to use Parkers guide, but was virtually laughed at when I tried to quote it when I was looking for a car. When I mentioned it to a friend of mine who works in publishing, he said "Do you believe everything you read in OK magazine ?....if you do, then Parkers guide is for you ! "
Mike Brown
Jan 11,2011all you need to know about the carmarket
fc525
Jul 26,2019Paid for one-month's access to 'Parkers adjusted valuations' but after a few days the login didn't work. Neither did the 'Contact Us' page. Emailing them has, so far, drawn a blank. I'd certainly advise to avoid this company.