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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.

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..

+ 1 on Trade Centre, avoid

DON'T bid online in that section unless you need it for parts of course. If you do you are far braver than me.

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.

Sorry I must have missed the point. You said all part ex’s are cast offs. Cast off is a derogatory term.

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 ?

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.

Good Mentoring Nik great pictures, love the first one, looks like one of mine

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

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 .

i hate privates

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 .

You can't really be quite active in a public forum where everyone knows your website and keep the market to yourself :-)

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.

years ago the auctions had a massive wagon battery on a sack barrow .. would start anything ,, be great for a unit or pitch