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Thankfully still ticking along nicely. I can't get my head around the prices. I mean I've been picking up a few golden gems luckily enough over the past 2 weeks and have gone to the halls to collect them only to find... GU17 - quiet, EN1 - quiet, MK43 - quiet. Sat and watched the hall to see what was going on and on at least 3 occasions out of 10 vehicles the auctioneer had his moment of glory. Typical running start is this:- (Caps at 12,000) Car enters hall - WOW! Oversells it like he's selling condoms to a sex addict Starts at 10 Miraculously 7 people bid at the same time in the hall and it's at 11,100 within 2 seconds. P/Wood are notorious for this, I refuse to go there now. Another trick they do is the double hall bid. It's at 11,100 - No bids for a good few seconds... You bid, then amazingly it's spurred another 2 hall bidders on and now you're at 11,500. It's a simple enough strategy to do as so many fall for it and they catch you when you're spam clicking. They go back and say "Sorry Hall Bid", `Yes Mr Auctioneer, you saw 2 bids while you were starring at the monitor watching for my next bid`... You know what ones do it, just bid the once, they'll learn not to do it to you. Last thing I've noticed. They don't take your first bid. Hall doesn't seem interested at 10 for example, auctioneer is begging for a bid. You bid, then here come the woodworms with their several bids. At the moment, I'll say if you're in need of stock get down the halls and off the internet. It's a running fest. I can't remember a time when they have run prices so much. Maybe the vendors are holding out as reserves seem high but is that down to them or BCA? Who knows. Hope that makes you smile and reflect on your month or if it helps anyone.

02 5 door recognisable automatic with decent miles and a clean last couple of MOTs...be £1495 all day long for me. Prime bit of stock that. Any part ex auto under 3k and under 100k miles is like gold dust to me.

Yep, people have been paying far too much and plenty of it is shite too. One thing’s for sure, at the lower end of the market these chancers won’t be prepping their cars to a safe standard.

Keep following the T5 dream ! I’ve just taken a T4 camper day van as a PX, it’s s smart looking thing.

All those crazy price auction purchases are finally finding there way onto the market. There are some real chancers down this way trying to make money on some old shitters