David Horgan

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

yes we ask all the time , really helpful , walk round look , start the car up while they are on the phone . might be just our luck mind , but we haven't failed

Dont think i would trust that fool personally , makes my skin creep looking at him , When he stood in question time asking about bloody curtains oh my god , what a stupid cretin

better than employing starmer or corbyns gang , all the stock gone for free to to non working idle twats . Imagine Abbott in charge HAHA well errrrm what we think , is this urm let say this , what i mean is lol What she means is wheres my other bloody shoe cos these two are the same colour , and where my counting beads gone my god shes one cell short of a single cell life form . Think the country thinks that way as well , the last two elections prove that one

Think some folks are browsing around since we opened , looking is something they haven't done for a while , been careful to separate the test pilots from buyers . Deposit and a set agreed deal deal before driving the car is the way to go , its one thing the Covid restrictions taught us . Those who have 4 more to look at today can jog along and look at the others , seems to make the others disappear rather quick when they have that choice to make . Weve had a few who think that its discount city , Post Restrictions I bet you need to sell cars don't you , How long have you had this in stock types , They learned a very harsh lesson when I wont budge on price , But all round its very buoyant and lively really

It will be bozo starmer trying to get a browny point , He needs one