Old cars can be an eyesore. They can upset your mood and your emotions. This can upset your life- even disrupt it. They can even cause relationship problems with your girlfriend or wife.
But what do you do with an old car you are no longer be able to drive – or use? They are so hard to get rid of these days. And when you advertise them on car sale websites, you don’t receive as much as a call.
Cash for Car Dealers Remove What No-one Else Will
Cash for Car dealers deal in old, abandoned cars that nobody else wants.
Before we explain how their business model works, let’s get one thing straight – they are never going to pay you what they say they will pay you – in their ads.
But do they serve a need? Yes, or they wouldn’t exist.
A Valuable Service
Car Wreckers provides a valuable service to society in that they take away cars no-one else, in their right mind, would.
Generally, all they will give you is a few hundred bucks for your car or a FREE Tow Service if it’s totally not roadworthy, has been written by insurance, is unregistered and where the cost of registration exceeds the commercial value of the vehicle.
A Small (Very Small) Profit Involved
Cash for Car dealers can afford to remove old cars for you because they strip them of whatever parts they can, and then sell these at a small profit to stores across Australia. The rest of the metal they sell as scrap to metal recycling plants – generally in the State in which they are located.
Prices of metal can vary form state to state. For example, since Perth is a mining state, the price of metal there can be as low as $5 per ton.
This means, a car located in Perth will always fetch you a lower price than if it were located in Sydney, Brisbane, Melbourne, Canberra or Darwin.
Old Cars Can Carry More Memories than a Photo Album
These memories are what we attach ourselves to. Not the car. It’s generally a piece of metal we are better off without.
Realising that its memories we are chasing, and that the old car we have parked in our garage just happens to represent them, makes it easier for us to do a ‘spring clean’ of the mind. Get rid of the car we have always wanted to.
Can Your Car Make You Cry?
Of course, it can. We create relationships with people as well as objects. Ever heard of the Japanese guy who married the character from his favorite video game?
He was finding it hard to get a date on Tinder, and OK Cupid, we understand.
Holly Robinson, Journalist, Novelist and Ghost-writer writes in the Huffington Post in her article titled ‘Why was It So Hard To Say Goodbye To A Car’ that she cried because, she says, “whenever I drove it, I felt like a French actress, able to live on croissants and love. It represented who I thought I might become someday: a woman of mystery with many lovers!”
Old Cars Don’t Have Feelings – Trouble Is, We Do
And that is our problem- that is why we find it so hard to let go, to move on- even though, we know, we must.
You have to get rid of an old car that isn’t running the way it once did. Old cars are like people, they get recycled too.
And this is where Cash for Car dealers demonstrate their value to society. They take old metal that no-one else will – recondition, refashion and transform it into an object the world is once again proud to behold.