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  1. 3 points
    Be careful with trade centre. They have their own trade disposal centre so cherry pick the good stuff for themselves. Only send the shite through BCA, I made that mistake.
  2. 2 points
    I’ve bought out of BB a few times, but it’s notoriously expensive. Cheap though if you are inside the m25 London factor. As I’ve said always worth waiting till the end for taking a punt. You need to gain the Auction experience to get balanced approach to buying. Auctions in my book are the foundations. I thought you might go back with something, that’s how you learn to take a punt... you’ll either win or regret it..
  3. 2 points
    + 1 on Trade Centre, avoid
  4. 2 points
    DON'T bid online in that section unless you need it for parts of course. If you do you are far braver than me.
  5. 1 point
    Really?? We sustained it for 15 years!! Its a market I understand and its where I choose to ply my trade, and if its done right it very profitable and very sustainable.
  6. 1 point
    Sorry I must have missed the point. You said all part ex’s are cast offs. Cast off is a derogatory term.
  7. 1 point
    TWERP. Why haven't you responded to Trade-Vet ? You have confirmed you wouldn't lower himself to sell other people's casts offs, why can't you be respectful and simply reply ?
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    Hit and miss mate. The miss was that I had a list of 13, that went down to 8 when I saw them, none of which I won because despite being prepared to pay cap clean for cap average cars, everything went a few hundred above cap clean. I can’t make money at those prices so I kept my powder dry. The hit was meeting Nick from Lovely cars and what a lovely chap. Really good bloke. Was very interesting watching how he does things and I learned a lot in a short space of time from him. In the end, after walking up the line in the last sale waiting for yet another car of mine to go over cap clean, I saw a nice bright looking Skoda Octavia Estate. I didn’t see it the night before because I was just looking at petrols and this is a diesel but i’m confident it will be desirable and it’s a good mop and polish away from being a grade 2 car. Engine started and sounded fine, no smoke, no eml and assured report looks accurate for a change. Paid cap clean for it which was £200 more than I wanted but it should make up into a nice bit of stock. So I didn’t get what I went for (everyone else wanted the same cars) but I found something worthwhile to buy and should pull a good ROI out of it. I can’t see myself going back to Blackbushe frequently. It’s expensive for the stuff I seem to look at and it’s an absolute cunt to get to. I’ll be off to Bedford next time out I think. Sorry that was meant for Arfur.
  9. 1 point
    Good Mentoring Nik great pictures, love the first one, looks like one of mine
  10. 1 point
    I was there with him and it was nice to meet in person. I bought one in the afternoon and bid on a dozen others with no luck, James stayed another couple of hours and bought a very late bargain. He is probably still on the M25 on the way back. Mine seemed a decent buy at just over £7K, we'll see: https://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/201810011052642
  11. 1 point
    Thats correct i think Brave man buying online in that range of prices with those vendors . Unless you have a large parts bin . Most of them aren't worth the £50 online extra fee never mind the actual bid and fees .
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  13. 1 point
    Its about time Ford admitted the 1.0 litre engine is shite Should follow on with that god damn awful power shift auto box as well .
  14. 1 point
    You can't really be quite active in a public forum where everyone knows your website and keep the market to yourself :-)
  15. 1 point
    Retail back to work out what I can afford to pay. Autotrader for checking Retail prices unless its a young vehicle then I check the Manufacturer used sites. I dont bother with any other guides any more.
  16. 1 point
    years ago the auctions had a massive wagon battery on a sack barrow .. would start anything ,, be great for a unit or pitch