These days, a lot of information which has previously been charged for can be found free online. Sometimes, though, things online aren’t quite what they seem, and a ‘service’ which you think is free turns out not to be. Usually, you are alerted to this at a late stage when you are asked to enter card details. However, a CM reader recently alerted me to one which doesn’t work this way. The site is called carrate.co.uk and it provides car valuations.
To provide a bit of context here, a number of firms do this. Probably the best-known is Parkers, whose website provides a
