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I deal with majority of warranty companies through the workshop, I think the Rac seem to be the least hassle.

Anywhere between 0.1-0.5% of the people bidding? Of course they're happy for people to never visit and bid online, it saves so much in not needing to deal with customers in person. It was (broadly) demonstrated a decade ago when eBay took off, people are happy to offset the convenience of shopping/transacting remotely even with the downsides of lower quality, no opportunity to inspect, etc etc. Strategically I bet all the auction houses have been wanting to do this for ages and it was something of a case of "1st one to jump might lose out". Covid has changed all that, they've advanced years ahead in their plans and I doubt if there's any momentum in going back. It seems there's plenty of traders happy to transact online and take the negatives too.

If it works they will probably charge.

Just an excuse to half open and keep selling online , whos going to travel to LOOK at a car then bid online day after or later in the day .

I noticed that Manheim are going to offer pre booked slots to inspect cars prior to purchase. They've nicked that idea from Copart. But I wonder how that's going to work, I wonder how many 'slots' they'll have available in a day?

retail figure back is the way to think forward in simple terms Look at a car , find its retail value from various sites like ebay or autotrader , take off fuel costs , service costs , warranty costs , advertising costs , valet costs , MOT Costs , Your intended profit margin and the figure left is your Buying price . Pay more and you earn less its that simple really .

yes 10k

@Marian TDM Last year I had to pay 2400£ with bollington as part time trader from home and 10k max value. This year DNA insuance quoted me 1400£ when bollington is asking 2k. ============= That £1400 sounds like a nice reduction, is the max value still £10k ? The problem I get is that I store most of the cars in the unit we prep them in and bring them back to my home for viewing once they're ready, mostly now 'by appointment' viewings when any buyer unknown to me asks to see/buy a car. I'm currently with Aston Lark, who started out very competitive, but last year made a lot of fuss saying that cars were only insured at my business premises, so the cost took quite a hike. Unfortunately I'd left it too late to start speaking to others, but in when my renewal comes up in January, I'll certainly spend more time shopping around.

Last year I had to pay 2400£ with bollington as part time trader from home and 10k max value. This year DNA insuance quoted me 1400£ when bollington is asking 2k.

Bollingtons are winning the race at the As we enter the last furlong! Last year I was still ‘negotiating’ on the day the policy expired at 12 noon!

Ashley @UKGLOBAL, done my renewal last month. Was a good chunk less than everyone else. His numbers are 01244 257829 and 07593137984