Most car checks were built for a different era of risk. The used car market moved online. The risks moved with it. We're building the check that keeps up.
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In 2015, buying a used car still largely meant visiting forecourts. The physical act of turning up told you a lot — whether there was a real business behind the name above the gate. That visit was doing due diligence that nobody called due diligence.
Then AutoTrader became the market. Then Facebook Marketplace arrived. By 2025, buyers were shortlisting cars they'd never seen, from sellers they'd never met, based entirely on photographs, a description, and a mobile number.
The visit — the instinctive check — moved to the end of the process, or disappeared entirely. Car buying moved online. The risks moved with it. The checks didn't.
We looked at fifty listings. Four in ten sellers couldn't be found on Companies House at all. Several had director histories that included recently dissolved companies with similar names. None of this showed up on an HPI check. None of it was about the car.
No agenda. No product to sell yet. Just the things you'd know if you'd done this a hundred times before.
Eight tactics. All documented from real listings.
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