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Sell Your Jamjar is a UK-based purchaser of used cars and was the first online car buying service to be established in the United Kingdom in 1999. The company's headquarters is in Nottingham.

History
Andrew King founded sellyourjamjar.co.uk in 1999 after coming up with the idea while working as Group Used Car Manager for AFN (Porsche GB) Ltd, who has since changed their trading name to Porsche Retail Group. King developed a scheme called Loyalty Buy Back at AFN which promised to buy back any vehicle, whatever the mileage or age, as long as it had originally been bought at AFN. These vehicles were then re-sold by AFN or sold to trade or auction houses.

King came up with the programme after discovering that customers wanted to sell their old vehicles quickly as they were usually highly-successful business people who had little time or no interest in selling their vehicles privately themselves. As AFN only bought a fraction of used cars for a certain number of makes and models from a limited number of customers in a specific area of the country, King decided to start his own online company in 1999. He set up Sell Your Jamjar to purchase any make, model, mileage of vehicle and expanded it to include collection from anywhere in the UK which started the online car buying boom of the Noughties.

Concept
The purpose is to allow individuals to sell their car for cash. All users to the website have to do is enter the registration number of the car they want to sell and follow the three steps to identify their vehicle. The value of the car is then calculated based on age, model and current condition and a purchase offer is made by Sell Your Jamjar.

If the offer is accepted, the seller chooses the date and time for the car to be collected anywhere in the UK. Once the agreed purchase price has been agreed, the money is transferred into the seller’s bank account before it is collected.

The Name
King decided to call the name of his business Sell Your Jamjar based on ‘jam-jar’ which is rhyming slang for car in London. It is not in anyway connected to sellthejamjar.co.uk or jamjarscars which closed its doors to business in September, 2009.

Branches
Sell Your Jamjar has eight branches across the country including South & South West, London & South East, East Midlands, West Midlands, Wales, North East, North West and Scotland.