NickGCS

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/223780611085 we got these a few years back

We use Evolution Funding as our broker & can’t recommend highly enough. Dealt with us a a doorstepper but that was a few years ago! Once you are big enough obviously you will get better comms going direct to a few lenders

We use it successfully, it’s about building your audience before boosting posts of individual cars IMO. Promote your page first with a boosted post & keep it interesting, not just repeat posts of your cars for sale, engage the audience & build a following interaction posts are good, competitions, and we quite like before and after photos - if you were getting wheels refurbed for example a slow process but well worth it

It must be worth it when you look at the likes of the Holdcroft set up, literally a purpose built set up for the whole groups stock! They do it right as well, cars washed to appraise properly and fairly in our experience

Supposed to be only franchised dealers that sell, we turned up at one a couple months ago that was more of a prestige specialist though! Car was spot on though so we were happy!

We buy the bulk of our stock from DA, and Sytner. It’s a case of feeling out which sellers are good in our experience! I find both sites much of a much in terms of poor appraisals, probably 1 or 2 in every 10 has been miss-appraised depends what kind of stock you buy as well I’d imagine!

We phoned last week to try and get the £227 deal. No chance the rep said. £460 something! Tried contacting Benjamin salter as trade vet mentioned him but he’s never gotten back to us

We only have data from the last 2 months but from that it was £360 per unit. I was in the same mindset as you, as I thought it was far too dear. however I then looked at the “extra” sales we accumulated from AT, and the profit that brought it, not just net profit but finance comm, good swappers and any profit we gained from them, and while it seemed expensive on a per car basis ( and it is in comparison to other platforms) without it we wouldn’t have made the extra profit from those extra AT sales! I hate to admit it but it more than paid for itself, ROI I believe is the important thing

Thanks Nick I’ll def look into that, certainly worth a go if nothing else! I tried gumtree for nearly a year and it just attracted complete idiots, plus they started advertising Zuto and the likes on my ads which was the final straw!

I do now Nick yes (only since mid March), I know we have had 2 direct sales this month pre match data already thanks to this! Interesting to hear you mention the £175 for eBay motors pro? It’s probably the only platform I’ve never tried tbh. We operate fixed pricing and I just feel it’s inviting best price brigade but at £175 I’d only need 1 extra sale a month off it!

Whats peoples thoughts on stock profiles performance on different platforms?? We have around 20 cars on a 12 car package on AT, rotate the stock. Tend to do up to 7 years old under 70k, mixture of ‘everyday’ cars, up to £15k retail and 5/6 vans signed up to AT before Xmas on the deal, now paying circa £900 a month, we recently got ‘match data’ back from Jan/Feb and I did exactly the same as many here and handed my notice in on Monday, something like 4 direct sales and 2 Non direct ( we sold 15 Jan & 17 in Feb ) I was completely underwhelmed. However on reflection I’ve gone back and looked at the actual profit we have made over these 6 extra sales (unit net profit/finance comms/trade ins profit) and it had more than covered the cost. My thinking now is that while the numbers were poor without AT we wouldn’t have sold those 6 cars to those exact customers and made the extra profit we did. I’m really torn wether to leave the notice in place or to keep the package going now, we’ve sold 21 this month, our best month since we started and I can’t help but think AT has somehow helped that. I know it works for some and not for others I just can’t decide if it’s working for us or we’ve just been lucky! March Match Data may be the decider!

We had a 3.5t sprinter, steel back and a trailer Collecting 2 at a time all over the country I was convinced I was saving money - got pulled by Vosa, overweight in the truck with a polo on the back We were let off with a slap on the wrists which was lucky in hindsight. Since sold the truck, kept the trailer for the odd move, but use drivers now. Much the same price per unit I’ve discovered, by the time insurance, maintenance, tax, fuel etc is accounted for. I wouldn’t bother with another but depends on your set up, availability to collect etc

Check out TextMagic, you can great your own display ID name, create templates, add customers etc. We use it all the time

We have ours through Ivendi that Motonovo pay for. Works great and Ivendi are fine to deal with. on advice from another trader - don’t sign directly with Ivendi, silly get out clauses/12 months notice etc but if it’s through MN it’s all good in my experience

Like this is exactly what we do, I bought a handle thing to hold the phone off eBay, as well as an external microphone that clips to your collar, works great and easy to edit on mymovie app

We were with RAC for a while with the warranty’s and free breakdown cover - found it a waste of money to be honest! POS stuff is good but not many punters bothered about the free breakdown in our experience

We took up the AT deal before Xmas after 8 odd years without it. Decided we are keeping it until April to give it a chance and I’ve had mixed results, I’m amazed at how many best price messages we have had- especially via the live chat feature. I thought this was a gumtree/eBay trait but appears not been with gumtree previously and it was a complete waste of money, motors exactly the same. F&F has not given me 1 serious lead also cargurus has given us thee odd sale but wouldn’t dream of paying for it, for all the common reasons. Best ROI is FB for us - we had a 2013 XDrive BMW M sport in white, 2.0 petrol that had 1700 odd views on AT, and produced absolutely nothing, best price brigade, swap for a clapped out Audi etc etc - Stuck a boosted post on FB with a £0 deposit finance example, car was gone within a week, cost us £30 I know we have had a few sales from AT we wouldn’t normally have had, but I’m not sold just yet, early days for us with them though...

Autosmart tardis lifts it straight off!

I just looked at the Audi and bmw- Bmw looks better in that light, I’d try brightening the photos of the Audi or taking them in a different light. both could do with a good bit of tyre shine on, id also spend 10 mins on the A3s scuffed wheel with some 800, wheel trim silver rattle can and a pack of playing cards, a DIY refurb Interior shots of the switches etc look dirty- buy a detailing brush and get all those bits of dust out with a good interior cleaner (we use pazzaz by AS) buff off with a dry cloth and it will transform those pics. I’d avoid taking those types of photos of the bmw steering wheel with obvious wear etc too! write ups are good, loads of photos too, plenty positives, but retail is detail..... mind you it is january...

Like We are exactly the same, 13-16 plates usually fly out and no major issues

i’ll just put it up haha

Pm sent!

+1 we did our logo ourselves but have had intro/outride clips made up for our walk around videos and some other bits and pieces from people on there, some very talented people and reasonable prices too!!

Love this! 2 things that are asked and I always have to look it up! Def stealing this! We have a price board, silent salesman with finance example, and slogan sticker across the screen, a few odd corner screen stickers again promoting finance! used to have the roof toppers & plate covers but wasn’t sold on them so no longer use!

Looks like you didn’t pay much attention to the detail.