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BHM
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In answer to the questions why I don't need to know the MOT station it's because I buy very little locally but even when I do I would not reject a car simply because I don't like the MOT station.
I sell cheapies but I get the majority of my stock reMOTed anyway. I'd of thought all of the big dealers on here do the same - surely you're not just knocking out motors with an MOT of unknown quality?
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Does that mean they are just swapping 2 letters for 2 different letters?
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If you speak straight to people you don't get comebacks. The punter who wants comeback will be put off the moment you say "it's cash, no receipt, go & don't come back thinking there's a warranty because there isn't".
When I say straight talk I mean STRAIGHT TALK. There must be absolutely no fucking about at this end of the market otherwise you will get comebacks.
Obviously if you're retailing £30,000 German wet dream machines from a big glass showroom this approach is possibly not good for you. The punter on a 3yr old M5 might be somewhat put off to hear you telling a punter on a £300 Focus that "It comes with a lamppost warranty, now either get your wallet out or go cos I'm not fucking about over a £300 banger. Take it or leave it"
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I couldn't care less either way.
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Ebay.
A brutal advert - total honestly, and quite rudely written i.e. No champagne taste, lemonade money idiots + £xxx does NOT buy a new car, if you want a new car go to your local dealer but you'll need 20 times more than this.
It works a treat, you ignore all texts, most emails, weed out any arseholes or other undesirables on the phone and tell the viewing punter straight.
If your sales technique is as abrupt as your advert you'll be fine but if you've not got the stomach for it or you're an automatic bullshitter promising the earth then you'll have bother
Tbh buyers of a few hundred quid banger are no different to buyers of more expensive cars. You need to scare away the dickheads (most are just hard-up punters being overly optimistic) with a rough advert & rough talk and get left with a punter who understands shit money buys shit cars. There are plenty out there who expect & accept they will need to do a few jobs to a car at shit money.
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You'll get raped at the block for your cars. The majority of traders rightly steer clear of "part exchange direct" cars & your cars certainly won't get prime position in the running order.
For fees contact your local auction house(es).
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Dear all,
I've a new way of making money quickly & easily. I believe some people may refer to this as a "get rich quick scheme". After discussing this over a spliff & a few cans of Stella with my mates one night, I then spent a morning of my time researching car retailing and realised that I am able to REVOLUTIONISE the industry and, best of all, do it on the cheap!
I want zero financial risk.
I want to make zero financial investment.
I want zero obligation to the purchaser.
I have little/no experience but anticipate I can introduce myself to various main dealers and take their trade-in stock on a sale-or-return basis.
I think I can source, advertise, test drive & sell or return vehicles simply sat on my arse looking at a computer.
I believe I can sell anything within record times.
I believe I am capable of handling 100's of cars.
I believe I am capable of handing 100's of customers. Thankfully as I will not be responsible for any preparation or obligations under CRA2015 this frees up more of my time to deal with more & more customers. Yippee!
FOR CHRIST'S SAKE!! IT'S EVERY OTHER DAY ANOTHER FRUITCAKE SCHEME APPEARS. Is it just me that finds this ill thought out drivel depressing?
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Hi, haven't you answered yourself in your third paragraph?
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4 hours ago, Trident said:This one has literally beaten them all, i definately can't top that one!!! not even with the foreigner who collected his car and proudly told me he had passed his theory test that day and produced his middle eastern driving licence to copy for our records, he didn't even know how to tell the car had fuel in it - as in - the petrol guage!!
Haha, I bet you still took his money & waved him off.
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Bloody hell D&M that's some tale. What sort of person asks for a quick test drive just because they've seen it in a car park? He's that serious he can't be arsed to visit you, another penniless dreamer.
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If the auction houses are so desperate that they're signing up to a contract like that then they're heading for the knackers yard.
I, for one, have no sympathy for car auctioneers. They rape their buyers with their fees, they offer fuck all service to the same buyers and they have twisted the industry so that large vendors are paying next to nowt because they always expect to get blood out of us lads. They only have themselves to blame for any hardship. The sooner more of it ends up online, with sensible fees, the better.
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Bluster & bullshit. Allegedly a large team working on errr..what? No car, no prototype, no factory. I suspect this electric vehicle will be closer in concept to Sinclair's C5 rather than Citroen's C5.
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There are a few cars selling on the internet at more than I'd sell them for. There must be some in the trade stood with some expensive looking cars.
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Hahaha. Some of them private punters must get a right old surprise when they drive their new pride & joy out of the gates. From what I've seen half of them don't realise the auction adds their fees - one old boy recently was whining like a knackered diff on a Vauxhall Carlton about his £300 fees on a £600 car.
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Yes a bulletproof old lump but God, were they thirsty in a Galaxy with an auto box hanging off the end of them!
It's the only car I've ever had a call back from the customer complaining about fuel consumption. He thought it was faulty & that I'd ripped him off.
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You need thick skin in this game.
There's plenty whinging on here about my attitude but they are other people's views to which they are entitled, I may strongly disagree with them but I'm not offended & it washes over me.
The moral of this tale is if there is the slightest chance you won't like the answer then don't ask the question in the first place.
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9 minutes ago, GreenGiant said:Elephant in the room......
Ben.
For your own sake, I hope you get somebody else to write your ads for you, buddy, as I just choked on my cornflakes reading your posts. Others might tell you that grammar and spelling aren't important, but I can assure you they definitely are. Many, many people (me included) make judgements about businesses and individuals based upon their ability to communicate professionally. And, therefore, make further decisions about whether they want to do business with (or employ) them based upon those judgements.
I'm sure you're a lovely fellow, but, based upon what I read, would I buy a car from you?
Sadly, no. And I may not be alone.
#JustSaying
+1.
A poorly written advert would be off-putting to me. Conversely, when I receive emails in abysmal "text speak" I just hit the delete key.
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Sorry but I disagree. Nutters are to be ignored, dance to their tune & you play by their rules.
Operate a straight business & you'll sell. If you think you can please 100% of people 100% of the time then I'm afraid you're in for a disappointment.
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Hi, I'm going to come at this from a different angle - DO NOT SEARCH YOUR COMPANY NAME & READ REVIEWS IF YOU ONLY EXPECT YOUR EGO MASSAGED!!
You WILL soon be disappointed. The last time I searched my details, a couple of years ago, I was horrified at what I read. Apparently I'm rude (true, but only to arseholes), my cars aren't immaculate (no shit Sherlock!, most of mine are under £3K) and there was one reviewer who I'd only communicated via eBay email apparently didn't like me refusing to give him the personal details of a previous owner. The fact I'd asked him something along the line of "Would you expect me to forward your details to any internet weirdo who requested them?" didn't go down too well with him
He was such a "real man" he put the same review on 5 or 6 websites. I guess he had a big stiffy on thinking he was going to wreck my business, because that's the mentality of these spineless cretins.
HONESTLY WHITESTONE, PAY NO ATTENTION TO REVIEWS - THE POPULATION OF THE UK IS ABOUT 63 MILLION - DO YOU THINK ALL 63,000,000 WILL READ THE REVIEW AND GIVE A FUCK ABOUT IT? There is no such thing as bad publicity & I used to have a laugh with buyers who mentioned the reviews. Forget it & don't read it again. Simples.
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Three weeks ago I was whining that I'd sold nowt in nearly a fortnight then 3, 3 & this week 5.
It is dead & the five I've sold this week have, oddly & gratefully enough, been 'sticky' scruffy old shitters that I thought nobody wanted, but they were cheap & five cheapies sold has made a very nice wage.
I cannot weigh up this game though. 5 cars I've had stuck around for a while then in one week the only cars I sell are the errr...cars nobody wants. Very odd.
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9 hours ago, grant8064 said:All smells a bit fishy to me...we also offer to help the customer tax the car online and by help I mean I point to the post office or tell them the web address
Snap. You can't force a customer to buy what they don't want to! The DVLA can do what it likes, the post office is 50yds from me & the DVLA is via the internet and that's good enough from me.
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10 hours ago, tradex said:Sorry, I have to disagree.
I really think reputation is a very overated facet of the car trade.
The over riding concern of 99% of customers now is price, not quality.
The good days are over and we won't see them again.
Just now, BHM said:10 hours ago, tradex said:Sorry, I have to disagree.
I really think reputation is a very overated facet of the car trade.
The over riding concern of 99% of customers now is price, not quality.
The good days are over and we won't see them again.
To bloody true. The reputation bit is absolute bollocks or certainly is at the lower end of the market. A saving of £100 up the road on a similar car (but no history etc. etc.) will have the average greedy price-centric punter scurrying along & stuff you! I've seen it a number of times & even when they've bought a shitter they a still not happy with your prices.
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8 hours ago, Arfur Dealy said:Classified is fixed advert for at 28 days. Auctions attract scabbers and BIN leaves you vulnerable to negative feedback and non payers. The only way is classified.....
+1 absolutely.
Tbh the days of making money with eBay auctions are long gone. The private man is back to shitting himself with auctions.
Quite Month!!
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I've had a reasonable month financially (I think I've flukes it) but it has been quiet & this week has been even worse.
Courtesy of DA I was at Stoke this week & the compound was barely half-full of p/xs and today I was at a local dealer collecting another gem. The 4 or 5 salesmen were all sat around doing sweet f.a., only 3 leads on the board and not a punter in sight - although it still took them 45 minutes to find the keys & dig it out of the compound.