S60/V60 Buyers guide?

[Zebster]

Originally Posted by raimis05

Your story seems to be encouraging, well done. I am getting more and more interested in this path, likely I am not alone here. We need those stories here to encourage users to explore alternative routs.

To be honest, I'm not brave enough to bid online... I need to look around the car, hear it running and look for previous accident damage repairs.

I suspect that many buyers have to rely on traditional used car dealers because they need to offload their previous vehicle in PX and/or because they need to arrange some sort of HP/payment scheme?

Cheekily, I went to several local Volvo dealers to help decide which models I was interested in and what the various trim levels represented. Not only did I find the sales staff to be generally unhelpful (and a tad cocky) but the cars themselves were quite badly presented (kerbed wheels, scratched, etc) and significantly above the typical Autotrader dealer prices.