I selected my car from a list of half a dozen offers from local dealers, and picked up my brand new vehicle today. I have to say I'm rather disappointed to find the the dealer added £350 to my invoice for carwow. (At least no VAT on it) Perhaps I'm a bit naive, but I had assumed that the dealers would absorb this charge in return for wider circulation of their offers and potentially more sales. All carwow does is save you from trudging around various dealerships. Does anyone else feel aggrieved like me?

I tried carwow as I was looking at purchasing a new Volvo. Maybe it was just the car that I chose, but it was only an OK experience and did not make me want to use their dealers. Anyway, they agree to get you "up to" 5 offers. The majority of offers I got back were at the carwow RRP (i.e no discount), therefore not a lot of point in this excercise. Some did offer a discount on the carwow RRP, however it would be nice to know if others would but it would appear once you get 5 offers they stop looking. As far as I can see if the first 5 back are carwow RRP then not a lot you can do except go back to phoning dealers yourself or try the search again. Note I say the "carwow" RPP, because after adding on the options that I wanted on the car it was magically a bigger RRP than from the official Volvo site, I guess a problem with their system somewhere, but be careful as your discount of RRP might not be as big as you think! Also when configuring your car it would be nice to include notes with the enquiry so that you could tell dealers that you would consider slightly different spec cars if they had them available from new car stock rather than factory order. Anyway, I would try it again but think it still needs refining as a service.