BHM

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    8 hours ago, Row said:

    Red and white coppers delight!

     

    6 hours ago, metcars said:

    Red and white stop on sight!

    What can I say gents? In all my years of having them I’ve only ever been pulled once & that was about a decade ago whilst filling with petrol at the local petrol station less than a mile away. 

    With current police staffing & crime levels I don’t think pulling insured cars with plates in the window even registers on the scale of ‘worth a pull’.

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    6 minutes ago, LSP Vehicles said:

    Nobody has mentioned Citreon's yet :D Had a mobile mech come over to do some work on my dads car and he was in a Berlingo, which I thought was strange. So asked him "why?" - Response, "best van I've had in all the years I've been mobile! 300k on the clock and all i do is service it on time with quality parts" :huh:

    He said he'd had them all, Combo, Connect, Caddy, Courier etc

     

    It must of been the old Mk1 Berlingo, it certainly can’t be the Mk2!

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    20 hours ago, Daz said:

    Every single time I ask, how much are you expecting Trade In weight and every single time they say "Well you know what I paid for it"

    This is similar to the answers those punters give when I ask “What do you value your car as a p/x?”.

    A) Well, errrr, ummm, when I bought it I paid £xxxx. 

    b) They are on the Internet at £xxxx. This sort of punter usually have their answer already cued-up ready for an immediate response with a full-on London retail price for a car with full MOT, full dealer facilities & half the mileage. This is often the same punter who when comparing your price happily quotes prices for a 3 year older heap of shit with an extra 40K on the clock that’s also on the VCAR.

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    6 hours ago, Frank Cannon said:

    I too, usually say "I'm stocked up", more polite and ends the conversation there and then, you aren't going to reason with the lady.B)

    I’m in this camp for the reason you state as many have absolutely no comprehension of the difference between Net & Gross.

    If I made nowt on the car I don’t want it back for obvious reasons & if I had a couple of grand wiped across it I find kicking them in the nuts a few months later isn’t welcome. Tbh I’d rather someone else did the kicking :lol:

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    1 hour ago, Holmfirth Cars said:

    is it classed as a distant sale if they turn up and see the car before they buy it ?? 

    Who knows? The DSRs are like the Lockdown rules aren’t they - open to interpretation.

    I’d of thought a distance sale is simply someone who pays from afar & has it delivered but that’d be too simple. 

    Do everything by phone & just tell them to visit when they’re cashed-up & ready to deal. Whether or not they’re travelling essentially is up to them, not me. The f***ing supermarkets are packed to the gunwhales with Joe Public bouncing into each other so I won’t be sweating it out over the regulations about a couple of punters per week visiting to me to view in the open air stood metres away from me.

    I guess there must be loads making a success of click & collect sales, probably with newish cars, but on my ‘oldies but goldies’ I have no intention of finding out.

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    16 hours ago, Harry George said:

    Few days on and they now want to reject at the 14 day stage 11 days time but won’t put in writing until then. We have offered to refund and collect now.

    So after 3 days they verbally confirmed their intention to reject but still want to keep it for the fortnight? Other than roll up outside their house with a transporter & try to bluff them into a return, due to the relatively short timescale there isn’t much you can do other than sit it out. You never know, you might be lucky & suddenly realise they like the car.

    Sometimes it’s just easier to move on with your life but I do understand a distance sale refund is due something like 14 days after the product is returned? If you feel the car has been well used you may wish to crawl all over the car with a fine toothed comb & rack up the biggest deduction imaginable.

    To me this sounds like you’ve just been unfortunate with the customer.

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    Can you honestly blame them after the pisspoor weak & indecisive governance we’ve all received? 9 months of clutching at straws but politically too frightened to take a strong line.

    Only a couple of days ago the Tiers were adjusted again then just half an hour ago we were told it’s lockdown time again, which I assume(?) renders the Tiers obsolete.

    It’s just a regular stream of mixed messages. Apart from seeing tonight’s prime minister’s briefing I’m afraid I’ve stopped taking much notice.

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    11 hours ago, Blenheim Car Sales said:

    it is like having a  silent  partner taking 20% of everything while adding absolutely nothing to your business and contributes nothing in the slightest

     

    apart from that paying VAT is great

    It’s not the VAT man sweating it out at the MOT station, or dealing with dickhead painters high on thinners, or stranded at the side of the motorway on a winter’s night driving back from the block when an engine suddenly lets go. Apart from that he’s welcome to his 20% :lol:

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