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Your right,a relative of mine recently damaged the bonnet,grill and bumper on his £7000 A6.I have bought worse at the block.His insurance company wanted to write it off.They gave him £4000 back and he got it repaired for a grand but it is now on the hit list. There is a hugely successfull claims management company near us called Wynn’s,they make millions.A friend of mine had someone run into the back of his old 3 grand X5.Wynns rented a Range Rover for him,he had it 2 months ! I now understand why insurance companies are quick to write off.

DISCLAIMER./ Reality check Cautionary note for anyone thinking of starting up in this job after reading posts on this forum.Car dealers often have a habit of exagerating their profit margins.For instance I know of no one as previously suggested regularly retaining 3 grand margins per sale and operating alone and making £90k per month ( or even divided by 9 ). So any wannabes please don’t get the wrong impression......Thank you.

I don’t agree.For example in Lex at Wolves next week there is a 65 plate diesel Zafira Tourer with 100k.( Cap Clean £5500).If you could buy that to retail at £5950 it would be worth buying.

Good luck,but if you are working from home I would stick to what you are good at.

It has always been the same with advertising,trade pays more.

Nice Doblo at Ingleston Tues,if you have a BCA account,I know a good pro indi buyer who will be there who would check it out.10 plate,it should be 2 grandish

I had forgotten about Pendle.I recall it was a disaster,the best sales guys walked.I have no idea how it worked,you must have a few more gems to enlighten us.

Carefull you don’t lash out.....£5.99 bottle at Majestic ! Don’t tell me,it is from the north side of the vinyard. Have a good weekend !

BHM’s successfull returns policy is probably helped by the large Alsatian he has chained to his fence..!

Either your quality control is second to none or you are selling none runners !

I have had any car cover with the RAC for over 25 years.

I usually say,we sold it to one of our regular customers for the full price and his part ex looks better than when he bought it from us.We actually have someone to buy that and they are on their way now.....We much prefer part ex deals....That usually confuses them.

BCA branch network must deal with hundreds of complaints per day.They cannot pay them all or get their vendors to pay so by not cooperating with dealers saves them a lot of money.If I was with BCA,I would be in favour of the system knowing that most dealers are fickle and will just give up.

They told me it was a promotion,so last week we signed up to the same deal.( thanks to Nick )

BCA try it on every time with Assured complaints and it works for them as most claimants just give up.You have to remember that what we are paying £28 + vat for is technically an AA inspection.So next time it happens why not request by email the name of the AA inspector and a copy of the report you have paid for.They will refuse of course,but you can then take it up with the AA and involve them aswell.I have to say I don’t have problems with BCA Assured because I am sensible with claims but they know where it will end up if they don’t cooperate.It cost them 5 grand last time.

Hi Max Welcome to the jungle.

Should have said 25 cars

We have a few cars on Car Gurus in with our Click Dealer package.We have done few from that.So we have signed up to a enhanced package with them for 20 cars at £260 p/m

Just got our EBay/Gumtree contract through thanks to you Nick.The guy was insisting it was £399 p/m but when we told him that our other branch had just done a deal £227 he relented.

Thank you MR Ripley,but I think most of us on here would prefer to follow Scottish Dave and his own Proactive Rupture Reaction Activity Plan you refer to,rather than yours.I have to say it may not be a good idea for you to copy his plan,he might get very annoyed......Good Luck with your business.

The kids are certainly embracing the advanced tech where we are.We have a pitch very close to what has been judged for the second time as the worst high street destination in the U.K.Its not that bad compared with some London Boroughs etc.The other day a ladies hairdresser who trades on the high street was showing off his new novelty toy a recentish Lamborghini with his salon logo on the doors.I was thinking that cannot be right etc,but no I am informed that apparently he does cracking business.The kids from ‘ the projects’ to use US terminology, in their quest to become reality TV stars or FB influencers are paying £250 for hair extensions and Botox injections which supposedly are also very popular and expensive.....You cannot make it up,I am with Tango Victor.

Is that cheap ? We have taken in a 07 gttdi 115k ,needs £250 paint and apparently an injector harness ( causes it to chuck it after 20 mins driving ),stands £900 but would take less.We advertised it with an honest description for £1500 and got no response !

Hi Jimmy Have we not already valued this one several weeks ago.I might have said 16 grand or is this another one.I think I asked if you bought it at the door and you didn’t reply....

I have to say that if we had a big pitch,big overheads,lots of heavy metal with big mark ups etc,I would be staying with AT and also using the others.We used to spend 2 grand a week with AT and others years ago but our wage bill was nearly 5 grand and it all worked.Now as a ‘non league player’ things are different.By rights we should have very cheap rates with AT ( as an ethical company according to them) because we must have spent several million with them since the early 80’s but it has changed hands about 3 times since,so no chance of that.

Hi Dave Maybe your ‘bobby’ is like me and doesn’t like ‘ vanity plates’,that is what the Yanks call them.My daughter has a ‘protest’vanity plate T18 BSY ....TIBBSY ,it is named after our last cat !