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I hope you are not referring to Greengrass.His all weather uniform was navy blue overalls ( with about 5 grand readies in the top pocket )reinforced heavy boots,he had a beard and drove an ex AA recovery truck. Great bloke,he could buy and sell most people in the ring.

Hi Salt You are probably making the usual mistake of stocking cars that YOU like.I would suggest trying different stuff and work on very low margins until you will find out what the punters want.So you might find it is Zafira’s or Dacia’s or Ssang Young’s rather than A6 Avants or M Sport BM’s .The punters will let you know and you can take it from there. Good luck.

You will get plenty of good help on here and you will need it..One thing,may I ask what influenced you to want to be a car trader.

Hope you weren’t mixing chip fat with diesel Caspar...Do you recall that was a trend about 15 years ago.I think it was promoted by BBC on some consumer ‘ helpfull hints ‘ programme !

I agree,£50 ? if you employ people how much of that would get milked or put in jerry cans at source.As for sending punters to Asda,we posted disclaimers around our premises about using supermarket ‘spot market fuel ‘ after a bad batch caused thousands of seized engines about 10 years ago.

Track car ! ......you must be a glutton for punishment.

NHS yellow Focus Estates,never had those but I would imagine they would make good Hartlepool taxis.

Providing fake information to Track and Trace to avoid self isolation should attract big fines.( like in NZ )

So unless you register your house as a B&B with dinner gong and a small bar,you could get fined 10 grand as a business !

Would a logo’d visor not be better than a mask ?

Good point MC,you would think he would know that considering he is spending £70m shuttering all the Pendragon purpose built used car sites to be replaced by new build mega sites.It was reported he wants to take on Cazoo but cannot be right as Pendragon is many times bigger than Cazoo. When new CEO’s are parachuted in to save PLC’s it does help that they put their money where their mouth is and buy a significant shareholding.From what I can see shareholders are still waiting for Mr Burman to do that.

Thank you,it’s a shame for Taz being 20 years too late !

Thank you Taz,what make are you by the way.....I did say Police Authorities changed their disposal policy in 99.All questions welcomed if you were unable to understand.

When I was signing up some roughish but friendly likely lad on chucky and you think he will never get accepted.Then you ask their occupation and they would say ‘scaffolder , steel erector ,I’m on the riggs or self employed Ready Mix Concrete driver you knew they would fly through.

Heard this on Saturday,punter on phone asking all sorts about N/Leaf then says it’s not for me it’s for my 17 year old son.Was then told ‘ he ain’t going to want a Nissan Leaf ‘.

Blast from the distant past.There is always a chance that a ‘ sharp ‘ auctioneer in cahoots with a trader might be operating the old.’ bounce out’ ruse.That is when stuff with a lower reserve gets quickly ‘trotted up ‘ and bounced through unsold.It is then flogged after the sale for ‘ reserve ‘ which keeps the vendor happy.The car is then re entered and gets sold for proper money..........surely not !

If it works they will probably charge.

The way the online prices are going,it might be the contrarian buyers ( ungraded and grade 5 stuff ) that will score.Another thought,I think being an auction grading officer might prove to be a lucrative job ( know what I mean Harry ? ) While online cars are far too expensive has anyone seen the price of commercials,several thousand over book !

What was that Manheim / Cox Automotive guy with the corporate jargon called who used to post on here ( until we pissed him off ).Get in touch with him.He had some contrived title like ‘global head of blue sky thinking ‘ or something.

Oh Dear ,You still might hear from them !

Would you mind introducing yourself and telling us about your business first please.

‘ inflammatory’

Mark is going to need old Rumpole for this one.I can hear him ‘ members of the jury to mention cam belt changes to a car dealer is highly inflamitable akin to mentioning the war to a German,it is just not done ‘.

Is there not an alternative like a sale and lease back deal.Would the lady not prefer to remain living where she is rent free.So if there is going to be £100k negative at the end of the term and the property is worth a lot more,can she not sell to an investor.The investor pays £100k and she signs over the property in return for a long term tenancy agreement based on Housing Benefit current levels which presently brings in about £450 per month.So the investor gets 5% return which I doubt they can get elsewhere without taking some risk.As the property is worth more ,does that not add up for the investor and for the tenant who will be rent and council tax free.Does that make sense or not. BTW Dave good photy but that Cossie does not look straight ( if there was such a thing ) or is it an XR4.The wheels don’t look right to me.

Ha Ha,sign of the times.You are in the wrong job,why not get into selling small boxes of vegetables with a recipe sheet on line and charging £40......Sorry,forget that,too many already doing it.