NoMargin

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    6 hours ago, grant8064 said:

    and you know they're not re-testing them quite so stringently when they've just bought them off a victim for £100.

    Apologies for the rant but I have yet to meet one that applies the same rules to his Brothers/Sisters/Uncles/Wives car as he does to mine or a young woman/elderly ladies.

    19 hours ago, BHM said:

    As for failing on a sidelight bulb, if your sidelight bulb was u/s then it’s a fail. I’m unsure what your point is.

    Majority of my cars went to that mot station, I expect them not to be so petty.

    I agree with grant.  A failed sidelight bulb is only a fail when it suits  the mot tester. 

    So you can't check seat belt because  car seat fitted which is fair enough, so to cover your back you add car seat loose, what a load of nonsense. 

    As I said to many trigger happy testers. 

  3. Posted

    On 05/03/2018 at 5:44 PM, Arfur Dealy said:

    I'm fed up with the constant slagging off and moaning about AT. Yes, they are the greedy but sometimes you just have to get in bed with the devil......

    I'm  sure many of us do every night. 

  4. Posted

    Seriously what's up with MOT testers  and trolling advisories... Is it because they can? Few examples of potential purchases:

    -Dots on front wiper blades

    -Brakes making a noise

    -Unable to check passenger seat belt as babies car seat fitted, car seat very loose

    And whats with the engine covers and under trays fitted... Aren't all cars fitted with them nowadays. 

    My beautiful 2006 Honda Civic 2.2 diesel, complete with sat nav and cruise control, had been flying through its Mot every year without no advisories. Last year it failed on... A side light. Tester had the cheek to fail it then proceed to fit a new side light bulb then pass it, then bill me £2.50 for the bulb. Cars due an MOT this month, wish me luck and pass me the whisky. Rant over and good night! 

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    6 hours ago, met said:

    OK, so now we've cleared that up, apparently one of them is 'noted' on the V5 the other is not. What is not clear is whether they are both still classified as 'right offs', otherwise what is the point of having two different categories?

    They use to put cat c cars on the logbook but not cat d's... But I get what your saying met, they should just put both on logbook, as they are both write offs

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    6 hours ago, Lakeside said:

    Problem with eBay auction I find is for every one genuine bidder there’s ten time-wasters. Atleast with classified/pro you don’t lose anything, with auction you’ll lose listing and final value fee’s.

    On 28/01/2018 at 2:00 PM, Jimbo said:

    You get the final value fee back if you relist or cancel sale because the buyer has timewasted so you only lose about a tenner per auction. But your correct so many timewasters, last price brigade etc ebay auction not for the faint hearted, but definitely has its advantages 

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    4 hours ago, tradex said:

    We had a white E30 320 rag top few years back, a proper old thing, keeper really, 2 former, 20 something stamps, power leather, nice miles at 80k.....one of my colleges bought it at Paddock Wood. Could he shift it, could he f*uck, must of had it 4 months.

    So as the wing man whom pushed into it at the initial purchase, (like you do:D) I bought it off him and tried my luck....not a bite, nada...using AT and Ebay Motors Pro, same as my mate, an

    2 hours ago, Jimbo said:

    If i have a car for £3,500 and advertise on ebay at £3,500 i get little to no bites. 

    If i list it at £1,000 with a £3,500 reserve it usually generates lots of interest, viewings, offerd and ultimately hits the reserve about 40% of the time which i find decent

    d with a strong ad with 20 pics.

    So took it off sale, waited a week, then put it on Ebay auction and that thing made 700 quid more than the classified price previously used.

    Guy came from Wales, loved it and was the last painless fleabay auction we did. The amusing thing was he told us he had been looking for over 3 months for the right car...:wacko:

    Goes to show it does work sometimes, especially rare bits. And it does generate a lot of interest I agree, definitely not something I'm sure we'll be keen on doing with all our cars though :)

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    On 28/01/2018 at 2:00 PM, Jimbo said:

    I still use ebay auctions and dont really enjoy it. Whats the deal with ebaypro?

    Is it a set fee for a certain amout of cars? 

    Is it like a classified ad or bidding?

    i spend £18 to list a car on auction for 10 days with a reserve. It attracts a lot of idiots but also sales so would be interested to know how pro works differently

    Does any of your cars ever make the reserve, I usually put cars I haven't had luck in selling on no reserve auction, and surprisingly had made more of similar to what I what I eventually had the car advertised for. 

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    Is this the only car you have for sale, if so next I would buy a few cheaper cars, instead of one big juicy one,  at least if it don't sell the others might and don't start driving it for your own personal use, you'll fall in love and get attached, and what if something goes wrong with it, what will you do then. Get a cheapy to run yourself around in. And definitely redo your photos consistently. 

  16. Posted

    17 hours ago, Rory RSC said:

    Its all about passive income and working 2/3 hours a day on some signals earning £3k plus a month.

    I can teach you to trade for a small fee.....:lol:

    I'll pay you only if you sign a money back guarantee if I don't make 10k in the first 3 months :)

  17. Posted · Edited by NoMargin

     

    20 hours ago, arslan2468 said:

    I'm mainly doing this as a means of another income stream which is quite profitable, a few hundred quid a month defo does help me, 

     

     

    Start 'matched betting' easy money,  less stress, less work ;)

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    On 08/12/2017 at 9:13 AM, justina3 said:

    I know a lad (dont we all) who buys and sells loads of cat d and to be fair he really does supply a good car, no website just word of mouth loads of lumpy sporty stuff with top profit, but each to there own when you have a web page and it screams written of its very hard to get any calls on them.

     

    I also know of someone who only sells damage repaired stuff, he's been doing it for at least 15 years, and does well he drives around  in a 6.0 Bentley. Few years back he had about £100K worth of cars, trades from home, no website.