David Horgan

I think that too Rory . Sold two ST Fiestas last Sat and one guy was from 120 miles , the other one was 80 miles , and the cars were just standard St Fiestas one Blue and one Black , The Black one was even aa ST 2 with no Sat Nav not the loaded 3 . I'm not known for being cheap so it isn't that . cant tell can you , customers are a law unto themselves

Nearly all our customers are from south or north of us , Cheaper here is the comment , when i look i think cant see that , looks all the same to me . but eh if that's what they think .

Hong Kong a good mkt then Yes sir the Fiesta 1.25 of course we can deliver to Hong Kong , yes that's correct £4,995 for the car , £5,000 delivery + taxes 3 months warranty yes sir , but its a return to base warranty that ok But do remember the warranty will of expired when it gets to you at Christmas

Proper old dude at 37 then should of been ashamed of yourself bothering the old people . imagine a 37 yr old in an A40 now days , they all want Golf R's on £350 a month PCP Now , how things have changed

haha sure has Frank , i remember living on a posh new housing estate when i was a kid , we all sat on Grumpies wall leaned our bikes on his wall , nicked Flowers out his garden , potatoes up Grumpies Jag Exhausts . he used to go nuts at us lol Then he collapsed in his garden one sat afternoon , we were not upsetting him that day , but was hanging near his house , saw him go down and it was us who raised the alarm and called 999 from a phone box , saved Grumpies life it did , his wife came back found the ambulance on the drive , found out it was us pests that saved him " the ambulance man told her we had called them " We all got £10 reward and was friends ever after with him when he got out of hospital . Was a heart attack we found out later . £10 was a lot of money back then as well , considering there was 8 of us as well . We used to help him sweep his drive of leaves , wash his Jag , mow his lawn , Finished up a nice old guy and taught a lot too . happy days

Haha bet it gives her tongue a rest . bet the staff waved her off and had a party .

Isn't she on a bike trip round the world somewhere , I heard she gave up and her staff took on the business, Sure i saw her picture getting ready to ride round the world . Should be in Clacton by now

Made My day

I must be a greedy type lol Customer just told me this week that she thought £160 was quite sufficient profit out of her PX , I asked what she wanted . £2,000 she said lol because I know what you will sell it for . Whats that then ?, £40 advert and you will easy get £2,200 Lady your a genius i told her , but what about Valet , Service , Two tyres , MOT , VAT , £20 of fuel , Advertising , Wages , Running costs , warranty costs . Then the hassle of selling your pile of un loved scrap " You have all these cars to pay that she utters " Lady your car is valued at £ 500 end of thanks for coming . Bye . She left and came back two hours later , I've sold my car to my niece for £500 what discount can i get now . NOTHING sorry I sold the car 30 mins after you left . ____________________________________________________________________________ We have it all wrong , £143 is plenty , Bread and water Chaps , Porridge on Sundays .

Be a surge in part time car traders Frank next , got 10k redundancy, think they are rich and blow it on two bangers from local night auction Sell em for less what they bought for and finish up renting a van to deliver for Amazon .

Bargain , Pleased it worked out , happy days Portuguese Red ,

Wonder if its a franchise , this one was Nottingham , I just put a Corsa thru same site , 02 Plate sxi £306 came back on that one

had an old lady in about a month back now , selling a 4x4 Octavia 12 k car so nice motor , we fully serviced it , new mot .It was spotless This old girl wanted a 4x4 estate so she felt good in winter driving to see her daughter . Went to look at one nearer to where she lives , fair comment i thought , It was dirty , mouldy , green mould in windows , filthy carpets , , She asked if he was going to clean it . he told her to wind her neck in , I sell cars not a valeter, regards service lady get it done when you've bought it lol . he lost the sale obliviously. She bought ours

The Picanto we took last week was like that , Came from 200 miles away to us , he admitted he had to pump the brakes to keep a pedal , and filled the oil every 50 miles , Like mobile smoke screen when it arrived , Incredible how they keep the junk so long . Always makes me think when the tyre disposal truck comes and we look at what weve taken off cars on the road , bald , split , canvas , steel cords , just visible tread pattern , then you think these bloody idiots are on the road among us . 27th Nov 2020 i had a young lad run into the back of me on a set of traffic light , slammed into my rear bumper at 30/35 mph , heard him sliding . "Sorry mate it didn't stop I tried honest " His tyres were non existent regards Tread , nothing at all on the rear , 1mm maybe on front . " just bought it mate dint know " Thought you will when cops get here he got a ticket for the tyres lol he was insured as well , lucky me .

Fix it quick Or it will run on , on its own , max out the revs and go BOOM , not a pretty sight , seen it happen

Place called CARTAKEBACK www.cartakeback.com www.cartakeback.com What i thought . put reg in , price comes up and bingo collected and paid up .

Customer coming up here to collect his car on Wed , using a scrapper as transport . Another Picanto , had one last week that went scrap . Just agreed £50 px , Scrap price is £376 collected makes me smile more than the profit on his 18k car see what appears first though , way the trade is we might get it gone for more yet ,

I'm thinking cheapies in your head and whats about now in my head may be two different levels of price band . my cheapies start at £3,295 to £4,995 retail £1,500 bangers are very few and far apart now if you want them to move by engine power anyway . Leave them to the face book brigade to play with , Though i do have a guy who buys those £200/£500 bangers off us and he kills them on face book . £995 almost anything he reckons , Here's the keys mate get on with it , I had a Kia Picanto the other day 05 plate battered thing , Guy drove it 200 miles to us , burning oil all the way like a BP oil spill it was . Gave him nothing for it as in Zero money . Just free ride down here to see us from Darlington near you some class Kia's up your way Called the scrap man and he gave me bloody £366 for it and collected it too , thought may god stock is going up in price

Different set of so called managers and bean counters thats why . easy to add numbers up . Just see the brain whirring cant you "ureka moment" , " hey 25 px's at £700 gross profit is 17k + " look what were missing out on " Then they learn the hard way ,

Nearly gone as we opened up Rory after lock down click collect , like shelling peas , 80% of them never got online after the 12th they just walked out . Good money too , average of 500 notes extra on each one and some more when i could over the profit margin we planned for .They just kept going up and up . Wish id bought 100 but we didn't have any more room . But I am the ultimate risk taker , i have zero fear of buying , born from an early age in the wholesale fruit markets and produce auctions , Like now everyone who waits for the crash is losing money , I'm buying cars at what i sold them at 6 months ago but you know that too , Still selling . Tell you what though the public are now realising that prices are fixed and cars are short in supply . Sellers mkt and about time again

Exactly this Rory . We cant stop buying because stock is higher value , Standing still in my head is going backwards . People want cars they pay .

Spoke to some Finance People the other day , they are looking at CAP prices being so far out too . They lend at 120% above CAP Retail and a lot of deals are failing because Customer Deposits are not filling that gap between the actual price and the CAP retail pricing . Lots of thoughts about going with the Autotrader Pricing model as it moves faster depending on retail pricing that shows live .

10/10 from me . I think the government has done a good job , dealing with something like Covid that descended on us all , destroying people , lives , business , economy, has been a challenge for everyone , must have stretched the government to the very limits. Whatever happened , somebody had to make a descion and carry it out , untried , untested thoughts , very hard to make that first descion , Very easy to talk afterwards about what we might think went wrong . easy to say what should have happened , All I can say is thank goodness we got Brexit done before this took off , Or we would have been controlled by the European think tank fools and it would have been a very different matter in this country right now . Lets just hope we can master the Indian strain if it comes to it , fingers crossed for us all .

Done a few of those deals in my time

Couple insisted on emailing me about a Golf GTI last Friday , £16,995 Nice thing full spec, Fully Serviced . Whats the price we would go to for cash . 16995 Could we pay actual cash , No Would you accept a px , What have you got ? SEAT "ok " can i have the reg number , She said no GDPR I cant value it without the reg . Oh well if you promise not to pass it on to anyone She probably hasnt noticed its on both ends of her car for the world to see . car comes in as an Ibiza 110,890 miles , 05 plate , battered . no service , two weeks MOT . £100 I say . delay mmmmmmmmmm dont like £100 I thinks can you get to £500 she asks this morning . NO its going to the Scrap yard , Oh . whats the best price then , " £100 " its not fixable I say . DELAY till now . Ok we will take £100 if you take £16,795 for the GTI Lady its sold this afternoon No answer yet Any public reading this , the MORAL is RING US , email is too slow in this sales environment. YOU will MISS the CAR YOU are Looking at