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So it was a private seller whose name and address would not be on the reg doc.If so,that is a big own goal and I think for the moment you should stick with your day job.

When you pack in your day job, you will have to work very hard and be lucky to replicate what you are now earning in total.Could you also just re explain how you were scammed.Who did you buy it from,did you do an HPI check etc.

There is a big difference from working as an employee to running your own car sales business.Things will happen in year one he has never thought of.So I would forget about going into debt until you have been operating and coping for 18 months.

Beware of lending out cars on the customers own insurance.If something untoward happens and some fault is found effecting road worthy ness like a not fully efficient handbrake ,it is down to you.There have been cases where dealers have been charged.Sometimes when I have had someone who understood the liability,I have just invoiced them for the loan car which they have signed and let them use their own cover.When they returned,the invoice was torn up.This was long ago but after that if it was a big job,we had a cheap hire car deal.I think you should have some sort of separate cover for supplying courtesy cars.

If 10% of AT trade advertisers reduce stock by 50%,that is a lot of lost income and the penny should drop.

Sorry XFS I was just directing my experience to the newbies and some of them often refer to my posts as doom and gloom.Clearly you are not one of them.

Is Pistonheads not just for punters or NFE ‘s.

Not knowing what a ‘sticky’ is.You need to be in the advanced lounge then if you want to know something you get the best historic and live replies.You should also subscribe to CD Mag if you haven’t already.

Sorry guys gloom and doom again but you need to use a chartered accountant.Good record keeping may be a boring subject but it is very important should you in future be randomly selected for some inspection where they go back years.You newbies should also bear in mind that in the event of your accountant messing up ( and even the best do) HMRC will hold you responsible for their actions.I found this out after trading for many years and there is a price to pay.

You must be new to the job.It does not matter what you may do to improve your image,be it promoting yourself for sponsoring good causes or offering some no quibble free repair policy,you will still be viewed with suspicion.Get used to it.

Maiden bid and hammer down ! You must have been panicking.Some clever dick in the hall may have tried a piss poor starting bid and the auctioneer was proving a point.

I must have bought thousands at Blackbushe.My favourite ,you can often nick something even when stuff appears unbuyable.However you have to put in a lot of effort with research which is now a lot easier.To buy two or three you have to target about 80 and if you attend you have to be switched on for hours to nick the odd one that slips through.( similar to XFS yesterday)

Brilliant again ! Good deal,who would swap an Orion Ghia injection for a Maestro ?

You are right,just checked.My recollection was getting in with a punter,switching on and saying ‘how ya doing’ and it would reply with ‘hello,drive carefully and check your oil water and tyres etc. It must have just said something like that every time you switched on.I suppose it was over 30 years ago.

Brilliant.They actually did a top of the range talking Maestro where you could give it various instructions.The trouble was you needed to speak in a BBC Radio 4 voice.If you had a regional accent they did not understand .You couldn’t make it up ! I think Tradex would remember them.

I take it you do know about signing up to a Making Tax Digital compliant provider.( that’s £20- £30 per month ). plus if you are like me, you will need somebody to upload all your invoices onto the system.Good Luck.

Only by chance I did well out of Maestros.In about late 80’s,I knew a BCA guy who became a manager at the newly opened Bridgewater.He told me that dealers in Devon would pay well into book for nice Maestros as they were very popular with pensioners.The Trade hated Maestros and up north you could buy (without any bother )quality,low mileage examples well off the book.For a while,I used to send a wagon load down each week and I had my own section in the hall.Sounds rediculous but it was true.

Paid for your own Guide,not many did that. ( smiley face )

Double dodgy.

Now they were shite.I think they were described on launch as having a state of the art transverse alloy block which represented a breakthrough in automotive engineering.What happened,they kept blowing head gaskets and jumping out of gear and there were so many warranty claims I think the cost put the manufacturer Rootes Group ( who had been around for ever ) out of business. Something similar might happen with these new higher powered hybrids with valeters and mechanics getting electrocuted.

Do you not mean newspaper and cardboard ( smiley ) I think Marinas and Avengers were good compared to the modern shite.You must have had a upmarket operation as we never bought short motors,we used the scrapyard.

Hi Halfpenny Great intro.You are needed on here but can you apply to use the private lounge.Look forward to your input.However be prepared to get slagged off from time to time by the younger ones.Isopon p38 ,we used to call it Mary Bakers after Mary Bakers spongemix which was often advertised on telly.When Spitfires were introduced they were good sellers but I seem to recall you had to tell the punters to be carefull when driving in high winds.The wind could get under the softop and blow them over !

Did anyone read this Lawgistics account.Guy who purchased by credit card wants to reject after several months on the grounds that he was not informed that his Cat converter could easily be stolen ( which I think it was) and therefore his car was not fit for purpose.Lawgistics had to deal with the credit card company to throw out the claim.....whatever next.

Option 1 for me.