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They are going to sell that information on - why not ask them for a fee and give it to charity if you don't want it yourself?
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AS - what information is so valuable that it has a resale value? They can get it all from DVLA except the true mileage at resale, which DVLA may also have already.
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Or just pass the information on. You'd be grateful if someone had done the same for a car you were about to buy.
And since HPI have gone to the effort of collecting and holding teh information, it wouldn't bother me paying for it either.
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They are probably carrying out a NMR investigation on your old car.
There might be mileage 'flag' after a NMR request so there contacting all the previous keepers to verify mileage when each keeper sold the vehicle.
Costs the motortrade £5 for a check and then £5 for a investigation (if the check shows a problem),then a further £5 for each keeper is charged.
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The information that is so valuable is whatever it is that they charge the public £40 for! I would happily give information to an individual who approached me about the history of a car I had owned but why give it to a firm, for nothing, when they sell it on?
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why not ? what were you going to do with it ?
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If somebody can sell something it has a value. If I give an unused ham radio rig to another in the hobby who is going to use it, fine; but I would not give it away to someone whom I knew was just going to sell it.
Tomo
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This is pathetic.
We all rely on HPI checks. So, why on earth would we not want to assist them? Yes, they charge for their services, but that's because they incur costs in setting-up and maintaining the database, processing enquiries etc.
The radio rig is not the same thing, Tomo. There is no need for a third party to get involved to facilitate a sale (you could, if you wished, do this yourself). However HPI information obviously requires some kind of central "clearing house".
Is this just another version of the "evil corporation" mentality from the Rover/BMW thread? Businesses *do* make profits, from the bloke who sells flowers outside Iceland to BP. Profit is necessary to encourage people or bodies to provide risk capital. Organisations that do not make profits do not necessarily provide a better deal than those who do not (check out some parts of the public sector).
Some peterb postings come with an implied frown
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Before you all get so steamed up you might look at my original post in which I said that, if a commersial profit making firm wanted something from you, for nothing, and were going to sell it on then you could charge them a fee and give it to charity! I would rather that my sponsored kid in Senegal saw some good out of it rather than just giving it away!
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If you've got time to post about it you've probably got time to do it.
Just do it and forget about it... or don't do it and forget about it!
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Armitage,
Sorry for steamed-ness, no offense intended. However I suspect the information has very little commercial value until HPI have there paws on it.
Also, if they were to make donations for information, this would put their costs up (by more than the amount they pay, due to admin) and they would pass the cost on to customers. Hence, end-users would pay more for the service than they do now in order to fund Senegalese kids.
Of course, funding Senegalese kids is a good thing, but I prefer charity to be optional rather than compulsory (on which note, bless you for sponsoring the kid).
Peter
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Steam condensed, temperatures lowered, other viewpoints considered and I am not a Communist! Mind you I don't vote for Tiny Blur either!
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