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I had a customer on Sunday who came to see a beautiful Mazda MX5 I had for sale. I spent well over an hour with him, test driving the car for 20 mins and he seemed very happy with everything. Whilst out on the drive I found out he had been looking for about 3 months and had seen quite a few cars, I was confident he would buy mine. When we got back I asked him if he was happy with the car and he said yes so I motioned that we go and do some paperwork. I was amazed when he said that he didn't want to rush into something.....he had been looking for 3 months ffs. I reminded him he had been looking for a while and he had just told me he was happy with the car.....he was hardly rushing into it. As a parting shot I asked how bothered would you be if you went away and someone else came and bought it. He was confident that that was not going to happen as the car had been advertised for a while and he was going to make a decision "in the very near future". Well, you guessed it, a chap came yesterday and bought it within 20 mins and took it straight away. The best bit, the guy from Sunday has just been on the phone wanting to come and have another look....."I am sorry sir but the car has sold"...…..you could of heard a pin drop followed by"I really wanted that car"...…..I Love this job LOL

I had a customer on Sunday who came to see a beautiful Mazda MX5 I had for sale. I spent well over an hour with him, test driving the car for 20 mins and he seemed very happy with everything. Whilst out on the drive I found out he had been looking for about 3 months and had seen quite a few cars, I was confident he would buy mine. When we got back I asked him if he was happy with the car and he said yes so I motioned that we go and do some paperwork. I was amazed when he said that he didn't want to rush into something.....he had been looking for 3 months ffs. I reminded him he had been looking for a while and he had just told me he was happy with the car.....he was hardly rushing into it. As a parting shot I asked how bothered would you be if you went away and someone else came and bought it. He was confident that that was not going to happen as the car had been advertised for a while and he was going to make a decision "in the very near future". Well, you guessed it, a chap came yesterday and bought it within 20 mins and took it straight away. The best bit, the guy from Sunday has just been on the phone wanting to come and have another look....."I am sorry sir but the car has sold"...…..you could of heard a pin drop followed by"I really wanted that car"...…..I Love this job LOL

Some quality tyre slick will definitely transform your presentation, You have a look at same car with and without..................... it really does make the image "pop"

I agree with you on old Cars but the trouble with using Live Wire or Power Probe on more modern Cars (read post 2000's, anything with Immo), is unless you really know what you are doing you can fry Modules, for example Engine ECU, Electronic Ignition Switches, Immobilizer Components, Transmission ECU etc............... On various different Cars any one or a combination of those I listed have to "Authorise" an Engine Start, usually via the Starter Relay earth !! Believe me when I say most "Mechanics" do not understand how Vehicle Electrics / Electronics work Nick has already got it running by bridging the Starter relay, thus eliminating the Starter. At the stage they are at now my prime suspect would be Ignition Switch related

I sell three to four cars a month max so as of now autotrader pay as you go suits me. what doesn't suit me is damn layout of the advert.. My ads are a bit different from the norm and it works for me. Why the hell can't AT publish an ad in the way you construct it ie with spacing between paragraphs.The ad ends up looking like a jumbled up mess. I take it dealers with an account can format the ad to their liking? also the website needs some work to make it android browser friendly ...

Welcome. Stop listening to your friend, that's lesson number 1 here. Green fields look much better as a background. Zoom in on the car, less background more car. You've bought yourself two silver small cars to sell, there are literally hundreds available within a 50 mile radius of anyone on the planet. Improving your presentation will speed up your sales but if you're just looking to knock out a couple a month, don't make them silver small cars imo. Don't bother showing the engine bay, it looks rank. It's a car likely to be bought by a first time driver, old lady, single mum. None of those need reminding a car has an engine. Switch the ICE on when taking internal shots, these sorts of cars look uninspiring at the best of times never mind when a blanked out LCD screen is there to greet you upon arrival. As above, clean the pedals, not everyone will notice it but you only need one who's a buyer to notice and they will flick to the next low mileage silver small car. On a positive, your website looks not half bad aside from a few things I could pick on but you've got enough to be getting on with. You've got to seriously up your game with your presentation, you're selling minis from the door, you've got to be something that most others aren't and offering 9 months MOT and pretty average photos isn't going to help you sell cars and grow your business. Significantly better. That second picture is almost stimulating. Nothing to do with the car, I'd rather walk on broken glass than drive one but the photography is much better. Well done.

You can't.

Snooze and you loose.......

I had a similar thing many years ago. A couple came and looked at a Pink, yes Pink, Accent Auto, it was very clean, tidy, low mileage. Drove it, loved it, price was right. But wanted to think it over. Later that day another couple came in, bought straight away. The next morning the first couple ring up, and want it, sorry sold yesterday! WHAT!! WHY DIDNT YOU RING US TO SAY THERE WAS SOMEONE ELSE INTERESTED????? Er................. Unlucky!

Amazing. He’s what BHM would call a nearly man. I nearly went to the Caribbean. I nearly bought an MX5.

Your absolutely right, time to get it sorted this week!

Got to be the best feeling, like we chose cars that are not the best around!

... am I the only one who'd go and have it out with them in person? Go and get your money back and fuck their excuses right off. I think you're being seen as too nice. They have your money and your goods. Not okay in my book.

And more sheep. Sheep sell cars...

That's the problem

That is exactly how I got my fully loaded Supercharged S Class, one owner Car, it started out with a simple Transmission Fault, just out of Warranty at 34k miles, when it went to MB Stealer. Owner was a local old fella, didn't like MB's quote to change the Conductor Plate, (unbeknown to him that wasn't the fault anyways lol), it then went to another Garage who sent it back still with Limp Mode Trans, they had charged him to fit Conductor plate !! But now it had no Lights washers etc on Right Front, then it went to another Garage and came home on a Recovery Wagon, non starter !! The old guys health was failing, I wasn't running the Garage back then, hadn't long been up here, so he stuck it in a barn and there it sat for 6 years until he died. I had a quick look at it for him about a year before he died, lot's of no communication errors, I said yes I can fix it, but I wouldn't give a firm quote so he declined. His son was selling up the old boys Croft 2 years ago and asked my advice in the Bar one night ...................., he had been offered buttons for it by Dronsfield MB Breakers, but he had to get it to them I told him even if someone was good enough to lend him a recovery wagon, (no chance round here), it would still cost him at least £250 minimum in Diesel, so offered him even less and ended up with it !! At this time neither myself nor the son knew what the exact Mileage was, (Cluster was blank due to dead EIS), but I had guessed it was fairly low Used Trans ECU £16, Used Front Right SAM £35, ECU, Shifter EIS and Keys kit £195, bit of SDS Coding and she was alive and kicking And boy does this beast kick with 500+ bhp Full and Thorough Service and Full Brakes all round, MOT passed with no advisories Oh, and the son is now a good customer / buddy of mine, spends a lot of money on his own MB's here, and is also glad to see the old fellas old S Class back on the road again

I quite like Cazana as well. Overvalues the odd car by miles but on the whole its good . £35+ VAT a month is a good deal too.

Ironically my HQ was in Vegas and I agree, in the US, people are expected to have tried and fallen at least once. I don't think for a second I will ever get there or ever want to be, but how many times have the wealthiest fallen before they made it - risk can go both ways, however my failings weren't entirely down to risk (albeit if I hadn't risked things it wouldn't have happened) - it was 99% down to my stupidity and greed, wanting to buy the latest gadget, car or boat. I still want all these things, of course but now if I want to blow £50k on a car, I will have £100k to spend. I don't think TT expected the backlash and to be honest I didn't expect the support (and I certainly don't deserve it). I think perhaps TT saw a failure offering advice and made a quick remark without considering there may be a back story. I would rather have been able to say, I made £1m in my 1st year, £2m in my second, £3m in my third but lost £156k in my 4th. That to me would have been a much nicer tale but the truth is basically, I was a twat and lived beyond my means, over stretched, expanded too quickly and had no reserve funds - the end.

Can’t claim against you personally can’t lose house etc