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The online sellers will probably bend over backwards at this stage to build reputation and retention those good online review's which are for anyone selling used cars in today's world essential. Perhaps they build in breakdown cover, not sure but we will be looking into their offerings closely going forward in order to react as far as we can. If there is an occasion whereby a customer local to us has an issue and the car purchased from cazawhatever under the supplier warranty is brought to us, we shall have a special labour rate to quote and it will not be cheap!

I'm thinking cheapies in your head and whats about now in my head may be two different levels of price band . my cheapies start at £3,295 to £4,995 retail £1,500 bangers are very few and far apart now if you want them to move by engine power anyway . Leave them to the face book brigade to play with , Though i do have a guy who buys those £200/£500 bangers off us and he kills them on face book . £995 almost anything he reckons , Here's the keys mate get on with it , I had a Kia Picanto the other day 05 plate battered thing , Guy drove it 200 miles to us , burning oil all the way like a BP oil spill it was . Gave him nothing for it as in Zero money . Just free ride down here to see us from Darlington near you some class Kia's up your way Called the scrap man and he gave me bloody £366 for it and collected it too , thought may god stock is going up in price

I think one need only drive around the main agents to see why there is a shortage of stock and the real elephant in the room. There are so many main agents getting cheaper and dirtier in an effort to keep heads above water.....usual pattern when things get tough. Plenty of older cars sitting on their fronts now, incredible as it seems I've seen 58 plate stock offered up this week. Some have started side shoot retail companies retailing much of what would of been traded on. Problem for main agents retailing that old shit is they completely lack the proper knowledge that goes with trying to make a living out of that older stock, which to most main agents are no more than retailing washing machines. It doesn't help with buyers expectations when it appears with their name over it. A couple of tame guys I know at main agents retailing older gear are starting to see just why these guys shouldn't be dabbling in this area. They are seeing the problems, headaches, 'interesting' punters, surprises, issues, ruckers, hatstands we see on a daily basis and, why you need to be choosy with whom you sell to, not just selling for sake of it. Also and, very importantly why just running the px 50 yards to the valeting bay is no substitute for an hours drive to check the quality of the chopper.....no 6th gear in a Focus made me laugh. Whilst waiting on invoices this last few weeks I've been taking a sideways glance at some of the MA older stock. Some of the lack of prep work is simply astounding.....such as going with 6 month tickets, questionable tyres, slaughterd discs, a bucket of soapy water across the bonnet as a PDI, proper amateur stuff and quite frankly atrocious and slippery behaviour. Ohh and...... marking sold as seen/spares or repairs on invoices, it's eye watering the complete lack of understanding here. I should add the guys I know aren't at all happy with the way things are going but, the bean counters have spoken. The turnover in MAs makes me dizzy nowadays and this won't help. Can't see things changing soon as many MA are hemorrhaging money, most of the profit is off the back of service and they are silly quiet.