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Going to phone them up again tomorrow, see if they will be more lenient on us or we will default and I will withdraw from the facility and let them take the all the cars back. We are still getting enquiries from customers, telling them we are in lock down so can't sell them cars. BCA know what's going on unless they are on a different planet.

Yes I do have an account manager have been speaking to him directly, he's been waiting to hear from the people above him. We are all in limbo.

Called them yesterday, that's all they offered which is pants. Some young lad on the end of the phone, never spoke to him before, asked for management, no one available. Told him we are not going to be able pay you'll have to come and take the cars away. He couldn't answer anything really because he hasn't been told anything else.

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Anyone have a stocking loan with BCA, a rich cash company like BCA not doing anything for its customers. How can one pay off for a vehicle when they can't sell it due to lockdown. BCA Profiteering from the lockdown - only thing they are offering an extension for 28 days when car comes 120 days on the scheme, they want to charge £25 per vehicle also the interest on these vehicles may increase to double. The few companies I know of are freezing/suspended accounts to help their customers Net Gear Top Gear Close brothers Auto trader Ebay motors group Car Gurus

They should go free like all of them or suspend until we are back to normal again. I call EMG today they were happy to move March bill to End of April Free. AA cars also moved March bill to end of April and April and May has been suspended. I will be talking to both of them again towards end of April if I need to. Will call CG tomorrow to do the same. Don't mind if they suspend advertising as we can't open and sell anything.

AT double your stock free is back due to Covid-19 until end of May 2020

Peugeot has gone right down hill since the 306 and the 406. Used to be brilliant bit of stock, now the petrol 1.4 are the next biggest head gasket blowers since the Rovers, Vauxhall's aren't much better.

Yes, per month.

£325 + vat for 50 car package £350 + vat for 60 car package £375 + vat for 70 car package These prices are for the dealer promise package, they do another one call AA Approved which is more money.

I agree, but the childs locks that's a bit OTT.... the mot tester should be reported to VOSA.

Thank you for the feed back. I've signed up, going to try it because of the AA branding. We already have very good reviews on AT and Google. Customers do say that they came here because of the reviews. Telling myself can't do any harm although it is another expense. Time will tell.

Bought a VW Golf 61 reg, car was last mot'd by VAG main dealer had some advisories; Child seat fitted nsr. Child seat fitted osr Nsr door child lock activated Osr door child lock activated I'm baffled with some advisories on mots, can it get any worse? Some mot testers need their brains testing or is it another money making method, I mean the garage probably charged half an hour labour to deactivate child locks.

I sell commercials and cars, you are right. Van = net price then vat then total then less part exchange.

We use retail check, rely on this method of pricing part exchange cars and buying rather than cap.

Feedback please - Had the AA rep in today offering / selling the AA Dealer Promise brand, anyone have them on board? Does it make any difference to sales?

Was talking to AT today, they are going to move the bargain buys limit from 1495 to 2000 from April. Think that's the least they can do as bargain buy ads cost a fraction of the price of vehicles advertised above the bargain buys limit. Think AT are trying to do something to make AT advertising a better value.

I noticed AT part ex / trade price is about 300 to 400 less than cap clean on most cars.

We give in house warranties, been using Lawdata books for years. Every car we sell we put £50 in a separate bank account to cover any claims. Hand over the cars in good order you wont have too much come back.

Where did you buy from, was it Bedford? I managed to buy just 3 from Bedford on Monday, usually buy upto 10. Some of the stuff was making retail.

Looking to change website from AT to another. Asked Car Dealer 5 about the reviews we have on our AT website, they said they can transfer them.

Which is the best website provider to go with other than AT Razor as I'm thinking of ditching them. Reason being the website also has price indicators.

I was at BCA Bedford today, what vendors? There were alot of UKCG today.

Happy New Year To All. Has AT caught on with getting rid of price indicators when you take the date of first registration out? I have a car which is about £600 above good price, I have taken the date of first reg out before and it worked, but now it don't seem to work, won't let you save the ad without the date. Anyone else had this?

16 for December. Which I am very happy with as I thought it was going to be a dead month. Sales included 1 bought about mid December by a father as a Christmas present to his daughter, 1 Christmas eve and 1 new years eve about 3.30pm.