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Umesh can you not put up here what it's all about ? Why your collecting that data?? What you going to do ? Hoping to achieve? Might help

'small independent dealers' Need some feedback from small independent dealers out there ! can you help ? Please send me an email with your contact details /weblink/Tel no etc. Thanks ,Appreciated . umesh@autochange.co.uk umesh

Yes you would be, and to be honest if I had to pay a few £100s to get become an accredited trader I would, if that meant Del Boy down the road is taken out of the picture

I still dont see how they can sell a car on "trade terms" ie "sold as seen" to a private buyer. If i started selling cars out of my place as trade sales to the general public i would be shut down surely.

I think its a little bit naiive to expect the auction houses to adopt a trade only position when they are making an "absolute fortune" out of those buying as private buiyers! And if they did, who would take up the slack, just watch the buyers premiums go through the roof. My young nephew has just started out as a plumber and spends an absolute fortune every year being "accredited" for this and "accredited" for that "Corgi" this and "Corgi" that, its all BS. Fact of the matter is, you are going to ask for help from the great minds that gave us "the scrappage scheme" come on! I can guarantee that in 5yrs time you will all be on here moaning about having to pay £600 a year for a tin plate to put outside your house that says you can sell cars?

We are on e-bay, motors.co.uk, AA cars, RAC cars, exchange and mart, and we pay for google ad words which seems to drive a lot of traffic direct to our website, we also operate from a main road showroom and have been here since 1981 so a lot of passing and repeat business. The annoying thing is trying to monitor response because people are blinkered into saying Autotrader when you ask where they have seen the car advertised, even though the car has never been advertised on autotrader, they then say that they spend all night doing a google search so unsure which site they came from. But all the other sites are no brainers compared to autotrader, combined they give us same response for a fraction of the cost, and are far nicer people to deal with.

The truth is you don't need premises, VAT, trade plates etc, insurance is a legal issue and is covered by existing laws, trading standards covers the quality of the vehicle. The issue is twofold that there is very little will to enforce the law and you can't stop stupid people from being stupid when it comes to vehicle's if it moves forward and backward that's all they care about. Would it be that hard for the police to organise a 'sting' operation with Trading Standards and VOSA outside an auction on a general sale day? Have they? The fact they haven't shows how much they care about the issue.

Yeah, there is that, if you want to smoke around in the swapper. But for a quick end to a long Cherished Transfer process, the online 'Pass to Trade' thingy seems like the way to go. And also to get cars into trade at month end so they don't keep hold of the next month's tax.

But then if you fill out the yellow slip online I'm guessing it updates the tax straight away. That means if it comes off the database straight away then you need to go everywhere with plates on.

And you don't even have to send the yellow slip away either- that can be done online too.

Yip, sent away recorded delivery, normally through within 5 working days, on day 4 log on to https://www.gov.uk/check-vehicle-tax and check to see if the description has changed to the car that has the personal number, if it has changed, you print off the screen, call up your customer get them to update their insurance and ask them to collect! Job sorted all you have to do is ask your customer to pass in the V5 for the car you have taken back as part exchange when they receive it ( normally within 3 days after number has went through) get them to sign the yellow slip , fill it in post it away and they get back their road tax remaining and it's transferred to trade, as Tommy Cooper would say " just like that"