On Eccasion you can bid on second-hand electric cars from the lease. The idea: you keep the garage’s profit margin in your own pocket. And you get 14 days to think about it. We looked at someone who bought a car via this site.
Two of the creators of Swapfiets have switched to electric cars. Their new project is called Eccasion.com. There you can choose from a number of models in which the site specializes, after which you will bid together on used cars that come on the market. You could also do that on Marktplaats, but the interesting thing is that Eccasion has a license to bid on a normally closed market. That is the same market where car dealers can buy second-hand lease cars. The advantage of this: you compete at the lowest possible price and in general lease cars have been properly maintained according to the rules.
Ard had a Nissan Leaf with a 40 kWh battery. A car that was not ideal for his situation and the mileage and minor defects gave him reason to look for a new car. The most interesting for his situation (3 children, a dog, a job 61 kilometers away and a hatred of Elon Musk); the first generation Kia Niro with a 64 kWh battery. Price indication on the website: around €20,000. He had already been to a few dealers, where he got a nice amount back for his Leaf (haters in the YouTube comments, are you reading along?). But then he had to negotiate the price of the Niro in the showroom. Eccasion felt more transparent and potentially cheaper, but is it?
No clapping, still exciting
From the moment the order was placed, Ard regularly received a car by email, asking whether he should bid on it and the maximum amount. The first Niro passed him by, but he already had a prize in the 2nd. He got a 2019 Kia e-Niro Executiveline for €17,500 including all costs. A top deal. But it turned out: the seller can still get out of the deal within two days. That happened and so he made a mistake. The same thing happened to the third car. Ard was already done with it. Because you don’t have to negotiate, you don’t have this emotional rollercoaster in the showroom.
But car number four already presented itself and they went in with the same offer. They won and after two days it turned out that the bid had been accepted. For €17,500 Ard had his new Niro with all the options including seat cooling. But now the Leaf still had to go. Eccasion had guaranteed him an amount of €5,300 based on bids via We buy cars. But when trading in the car at Wijkopenautos.nl, things turned out differently than shown in the company’s advertisements. There was some complaining about a light that started to burn and the bid was adjusted to €2000. After plugging the plug back in, the light disappeared and the bid went back to the original price. All’s well that ends well. Ard had a second-hand Niro, had gotten rid of his Leaf and had paid less than at a dealer.
Experience is good, but N=1
Eccasion always gives you a 12-month warranty and a trial period of 14 days. The conditions do state that it must be a defect. If you don’t like the color of the interior, don’t return it. But if the car stops working it does. Ard also arranged another one Power Check Control to have the battery checked. All cells are measured individually. It was still practically at 100% capacity. Quite impressive after 147,000 kilometers.
Of course, we don’t know how representative Ard’s story is. Perhaps others have their cars all at once. Perhaps some people give up after bidding twelve times. But buying a car through Eccasion is a refreshing alternative to a dealer visit.
There is also competition for Eccasion. Because no BPM was levied on electric cars, importing a recent German EV has also become particularly attractive. But then you have to arrange the paperwork and transport yourself.
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Source: www.bright.nl
