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Yea they do but Bca assured covers less than you could test yourself buying private. If a car is cheap at auction I’ll buy it, but when I’m watching dealers bid £500 over cap clean + fee’s for an 8 year old focus that could be bought privately for a third of the price is stupid in my eyes.

If you only need to buy 2 or 3 per week ,you can always buy good stuff privately.If you ring up private sellers,tell them you are a dealer and are polite to them ,it works.Just give them a ball park figure,wish them luck with their sale etc and tell them to give you a call if they get stuck.In my experience,it may take 3 weeks,but 10% of them will probably get back.

Yep, it’s getting harder & harder to buy stock and the days of absolutely nicking something (rather than just getting it a couple of hundred quid cheaper) are long gone. The main dealers are giving strong p/x bids to get business, half of the older trade-ins are well & truly knackered and anything with vaguely nice miles makes an absolute fortune. Those of you wanting to know where the ‘secret’ places to buy half price, mint, ready to retail stock are located shouldn’t hold your breaths.