Volkswagen ID.3 Forum

I wonder how many people have traded in their existing car when buying their ID? I guess most would have tried to sell privately or gone with Motorway(?) or, heaven help you, Webuyanycar. I traded in as they actually offered me the same as Motorway and I couldn't be bothered to sell privately and spend most of my time with "timewasters"
My question is that this VW dealer wanted to charge a fee:

"Your Part Exchange Vehicle is Subject to a Provenance Check fee of £40 + VAT"

Has anyone come across this before?

Never. That's a complete p-take.

They're usually grateful for having some used stock to sell. Last few cars I've got rid of to a specialist car buyer, as dealerships generally offer less- they want a higher margin on used cars.

We did for similar reasons but they didn't try anything like that (at least not in the agreed price to exchange in the contract.)

Was offered £12.4K p/x for our Toyota Yaris. Sold it via Motorway for £14.7K. No further comment needed.....Collecting our iD3 this morning, have already told salesperson that there'd be no p/x (on which they anticipated making an unhealthy profit) and you could almost hear their little heart sink....

Inchape Swindon offered 8k for my 2016 Leon FR, Motorway offered 8.2k but I couldn't be arsed with the faff so just let VW take it for 8k and they didn't take any admin costs etc.

VW sold it 2 weeks later for 10.5k