trade vet

Hi Rovex I am not sure there will be 90% EV’s in 10 years.If you are right and rapid charge technology arrives, a lot of car pitches might be more valuable as charging stations. Good luck and please keep us dinosaurs informed how you are doing.

I like that......How many times I must have heard that expression at the block......usually some ne-er-dowell saying ‘I will get 2 grand out of that all day long’.etc.....

When you look at the bicycle business.That is supposed to be doing well but I understand that many long established retailers are shutting down for that very reason.Younger people have no fear of the internet,a friend of my daughter bought and paid for a £20k SLK online and had it delivered despite our advice to wait for a cheaper one from us.Look at all these online ‘crap clothing companies’ who are doing really well.You would think people would want to feel the quality of the material before buying. Someone will get national online used car retailing write at some stage but I tend to agree with James (EPV)

What about the small print and how it is worded.I would read it with a magnifying glass.Punters will probably want a 3 year warranty thrown in with the deal.

Good luck to them but £30m ! There has been some good ones that have previously failed with something similar.Tesco,Richard Branson and a few years ago some other non trade guys who raised millions to sell on line and then self destructed after 2 years of claiming how well they were doing.

It was just a joke but I wasn’t able to enter the smiley’s.

Thank you,I did think that no EV punter would buy it on 6 bar.It was 75k 2011 which were probably the first ones.But it would have been over £5k including fees .The locals think they are crap,they make them here.This one was very clean and was sold online.

So Nick you have just entered to a contract to buy it for £6500. no chipping allowed !

Zetec S petrol ?

Hi Jimmy,I have never bothered with car mags or car TV stuff,but last week I picked up a Modern Classics mag ( £4.40p) which nearly put me off.You want to see the prices being charged.That is why I thought that Rover 75 Conniseur last week was too cheap. There must be some good future classics lurking up your way.

OK thank you.The way I interpreted it 12 blue bars on the gauge meant fully efficient batteries and they deplete at about 1 bar per year.

Now that is a claim to fame.Wow,that could be the best deal I have ever heard.....

Hi Rover,I hope you are clued up on Nissan Leaf’s.Never having one,I fancied an 11 plate at Newcastle last week.I read up about battery depletion and the gauges etc.This one had 6 bar,which meant fully charged it would do 45 miles.Recon set of batteries about £3000.It still did over CAP clean,made no sense to me. Rovex.

When we had words with the neighbours when I was doing a few from home there was nothing for them to see.I told them to contact the council.The council guy came out and as the cars were not visible to the neighbours because we had a very large garage on the house,he rejected the complaint.Soon after the woman next door was blowing her top because a rough looking punter had knocked on her door at 8 at night.It transpired that a solicitor down the street had been selling his wife’s XR3.They never complained to him of course.

Now for me,the Merc looks far better and ‘level’ in this photo.I see why you rated it so highly.The swapper does not look all that bad either.

I have enjoyed this post.There cannot be many ex local authority planning officers now operating as a car dealer.He has provided valuable advice,what would a solicitor charge.I suspect Ex Council Jobsworth is also a proficient car dealer.

I think you might get better odds than even money.It was powder blue met.,( not many of them) and where it was parked,there were better alternative spaces.Then throw in my negligence on that particular day,I think you might get good odds on those possibilities.

That story is better than mine.You were employed at a main dealer,you must have had to work hard to cover that up from the bean counters.As for making mistakes,I have made some far bigger mistakes than that.

Thank you

Bid this punter on his 7 year old,powder blue met,Merc CClass against a newer one.He had parked his swapper in an unusual place over the road from the pitch..Said he would think about it.A few days later I see a powder blue met C Class park up in exactly the same unusual spot.The guy comes in and I say something like ‘you’re back for the C Class then’ and he says yes.So I write the deal down for him and say leave a deposit and get it tomorrow.He looks at the deal and says,’ I will just pay for it now ‘.I pass the deal over to a sales guy for the handover. The next day our sales guy says something like,was that guy with C Class a friend of yours etc.The swapper C Class turned out to be 4 years older than the one I valued,it was a different punter. I think the swapper had its birthday and we blew £3k on it,how embarrassing. sorry if I have mentioned that one before.

Thank you Mr V,we know what they have to do,produce results.I do not need to know the technical stuff,that is beyond me.Thank you again for your offer.

Thank you The local company have demonstrated how we are locked out and something about H1 and H2 and we apparently only have one or two links compared with a competitor who has 150 more and who are also a local car buying site.So we are not optimised for what we are doing. I see your people are also charging £500p/m ,so why bother selling cars Mr V.

Yes £695 ! Thank you,surely diesels have never been popular down your way,we have been buying diesels down there for many years and shipping them north.You have just got to watch the new lex sale at Newcastle on wednesdays to see what I mean.It has taken Lex 20 years to work that out.

Still £6950 up here,2 litre petrol and auto,but had it been diesel £1200.I am sure AD will sell it.

Our award winning Dealer Management System company who built our site and who are good in general have cocked up and we have been locked out of the Google search engine since we launched.They unfortunateley failed to understand the importance of our home page which is dedicated to buying in stock.They are doing their best to rectify things but I am not entirely confident.I have spoken to one local SEO company who claim they can do wonderfull things for £500 per month.However in the small print of their contract it states they cannot guarantee any results which they claim are normal terms in their industry.Considering we are starting from zero,you can imagine I have reacted negatively to their terms of business. Can any of you guys give me any advice or recommend any reliable people who can deliver a SEO service for cheaper money.