trade vet

Your right,I used to go up at least 3 times a week.The auctioneers,the cafe ,the office staff and even the traders on the floor were all very nice.Mind ,getting stuck in the snow a few times at Beattock summit on the A74 ( pre M74) was not very pleasant !

It hasn't been a quiet November for buying,mind this has been helped by some rediculously low book prices.So you can pay £500 over for something and you have nicked it !

Be careful with business overdrafts,unless things have changed,they can be called in at any time,with little notice and for no reason.

Hi Lee I was expecting you to say small automatics ! For the stuff you want,I think you are well located.I recall when the London guys used to buy all the decent heavy stuff in Glasgow or Edinburgh,but it is no longer available in the same numbers and northern stuff usually needs paintwork.You are better off paying a £1000 over for stuff in Bedford,Chelmsford,B/Bushe,or Colchester.If you go to Belle Vue,Derby or Brighouse you will see what I mean.

H Lee What sort of stuff do you buy !

We may be 12 years away from this,but by then recharges may be down to 1 or 2 hours.I agree about Tesla,the Tesla 3 is killing them.

Hi ASP I think you are are doing OK for newcomer.I would not register for VAT just yet.You will be able to get away with a lot in your first 18 months.Try and buy some stock privately as once you open an auction account and become a regular you will be on the HMRC radar.I would say stick with what you are doing and by next summer,you will have learned a lot more and you will probably be doing better.There are a lot of traders who would like to be in your situation ( no debt ).

As you are going well,May I enquire how much on average you are making each week.Are you VAT registered ,It may be better to just stick with what you are doing.

If there could be government grants available for charging stations,it may be worth looking at.There will be a huge demand in the future from those people with EVs who do not have off street parking.In some areas it will probably be quite lucrative to operate a charging station.

Any diesel ! Does this not just apply to new diesel cars .

Have a look at CICARS.com,incase that is what you want !

Does the UK not have the cheapest used car market.I think we need a bit more information about what you intend to import.

Good auctioneers know who buys what etc,we buy online and we get run up all the time and often the auctioneer gets it wrong.Sometimes you can then just buy them afterwards from the provisional office.As for current prices,we buy ex fleet and I can honestly say,I have never seen stuff as cheap before.

It will be interesting to see if Motors survives.It appears to have been originally owned by the Daily Mail who after blowing several million sold it to Manheim who probably bought it for the tax losses.Manheim seem to be in to everything,Cox Automotive,Dealer Auctions to name a few.

I doubt they will get 25000 dealers to spend an average of $200 or £160 per week here like they have in the US. I think that is right,I recall asking them how we would benefit by them disclosing how many days our car had been on advertised their site.I got some bullshit reply which made no sense to me.

It's a void deal ! The punter can hand it back and the dealer will have to cough up,I think there is going to be a lot of that.

That's wonderful Arfur....of course I am guilty as well. BCA manager pulls me to one side,he says we have a problem can you bid on this Sierra ,Cavalier or something,don't worry you won't buy it.Anyway,I am in front of the rostrum chatting bullshit to the guys,the way you do.The car comes through,so I start making animated bids and the auctioneer says at least twice 'are you sure' etc which I ignore.He then boshes it out to me.......you are right,I bought the wrong car and I had to stand on.

I remember them.Mind you there were a lot of traders who had ' guide covers ' because it disguised the fact they nicked their guides from a main dealer whose name was stamped on the outside of the back page.

Hi Guys Just keep slagging off Merc manuals,more the better for us.It has never been a better time for a punter to trade up to a late plate Merc to impress the neighbours.Horses for courses etc,our guys usually have about half a dozen late Merc manuals in stock at most times.Alternativeley as long as I can remember,southern traders have come up north to buy all sorts of autos which do not sell at all up here !

Looks a straight one,it would walk out at £6999 from a pitch up north.However with the Budget coming up and with a lot of negative diesel stuff in the media you may have to sit on it for a while or until you can do swappers,warranties and finance etc. from your own website.

It's early 90s since I last subscribed,but out of interest I searched Glasses and it appears its inventor William Glass was an amazing guy .He invented all sorts of stuff ,it is worth looking up.However,he would probably ' turn in his grave' if he knew that the present owners of Glassses were producing these monthly market reports for the trade with crap information .You just wonder if Glasses got some fee from Dacia to promote them as the fastest selling range in the UK ?

I can believe that,especially if they are part of a PLC.Have you noticed,when these guys announce their latest results,they prefer to emphasise an increase in sales T/O dressed up as good news, rather than the bottom line which has often got worse.Investors and market anylists can then take the view that if sales are increasing,profit increases will naturally follow. Then both the share price and the share options of the directors are protected but they will have to repeat the charade next time round.Next year they will probably bullshit that their results ( which might be bad) are perfectly acceptable having factored in the effects of Brexit etc........

Nice one !

That's right,past glories !,I recall being camped at main dealers from 11.30 pm for the midnight handovers in order to get the swappers!.....apologies again to the new millennial traders.

It's the £500 repayment plan I was concerned about not the renovation charge.Anyone heard of this happening .