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    23 hours ago, Mistermuttley said:

    Same with Manheim always seem to win a proxy bid right at the top of my limit. Call me conspiracy theorist but I'm sure they know peoples top proxy bids. And this was happening before Covid times.

    I’d be more surprised if the robbing bar stewards didn’t do this. All these millennials who have faith in the power of the internet are kidding themselves - it’s just made it easier for the auction houses to abuse us.

    Surely everyone has noticed how all big businesses are more than happy to hide behind the Coronavirus to offer a reduced, and generally, pisspoor service. 

    On 8/7/2020 at 5:57 PM, metcars said:

    They’re in no hurry to return to ‘normal’.

    You’re correct - are they fuck. They’d love nothing more than current practices to become the norm. 

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  3. Posted · Edited by BHM

    As a purveyor of £1-6K cars I see allsorts via FB (I do not do any of the social media shite - no friends, no comments, not even a single photo, I just use it for free advertising uploaded from CD5). 

    I’ve found the dreamers on FB are no worse than any other advertising site & as with any arsehole email you are not obliged to answer. As is the norm what soon happens is customers call, messers email. THERE ARE PLENTY OF NORMAL PUNTERS ON THERE WHO ARE PREPARED TO PAY THE ADVERTISED PRICE.

    I’ve found there really is no particular pattern, I sell a few at both my lower & upper ends courtesy of FB. If you get any mega mileage p/x German shite you’ll be inundated with Eastern European tossers, but I choose to just ignore many of them.

    I hate social media but anyone who says they can’t sell a car via one of the biggest sites in the world is clearly doing something wrong.

     

    On 8/1/2020 at 1:12 PM, SC Derby said:

    It's amazing for selling the sub £1k bangers SUPER QUICKLY. I mean if you stuck a 200k passat or octavia on you would get about 25 enquires within an hour.

    Exactly, I know a few lads who ‘specialise’ in such deathtraps & they move plenty of metal for peanut wages - uncleaned, uninspected, Coronavirus MOT extensions etc. My take on this is because FB is full of this sort of shite anything even halfway decent with an advertisement written by someone who can string together a sentence stands out a mile.

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  4. Posted · Edited by BHM

    I’ve only heard from them when they’re pestering me for business. They’re wasting their time at the moment - selling’s not the problem so it’s not advertising I need, it’s more cars at the right money. 

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    29 minutes ago, MarkTVS said:

    You missed the evo 9 there! The 10 was nowhere near as good!

    Evos - I’ve never even sat in one! I’m afraid my buying profile doesn’t include pseudo rally vehicles. Scabby old 4x4s, abused estates & a few knackered old Zafiras are more my bag (unfortunately!)

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    3 hours ago, Dave2302 said:

    That may well be because in climates like the UK the fuckin' things look great topside, but absolutely fall apart underneath :lol:

    :lol: I was thinking exactly the same when I read your comment. Horrid things, and by the time they get to 10yrs old (when I’ve occasionally had the misfortune of experiencing them) they’re usually absolutely knackered & ALWAYS have issues - they’re on my ‘Don’t buy list’. I think the last half-decent car they made was the Galant but no fucker wanted them.

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    19 minutes ago, BIGNIT said:

    I can understand it coming on, but why would the car cut out?

    Does the customer have any mechanical understanding? If I were a betting man I’d bet by “cutting out” what your customer is referring to is the TC cutting the power and NOT what we’d all think of as cutting out. Ask him if he is having to restart the engine with the key/button & my guess is the answer will be ‘no’.

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    5 hours ago, JDM1983 said:

    sold, transferred or bought a vehicle website closed every day from 7pm to 7am - what possible good reason could there be for that :blink:

    Nowt to do with Covid19, that's always been the case. I don't know but I assume i's so if they need to do any maintenance they can do it whenever they like at their leisure.

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    1 hour ago, metcars said:

    The problem is that the dirt gets buried into the scratch. If you have a chip or scratch you 'must' deal with it ASAP. A shitty scratched screen is such a turn off at sale time, like having a dent in the bonnet.

    Yep, even on an oldie I struggle to get away with a fine arc on the back window. On the windscreen they just make the car look a complete mess. 

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    That’s not DSR is it? 
    Surely if THEY are having it collected, as opposed to you delivering, then DSRs don’t apply. Their appointed collector is responsible for inspecting & accepting the car on their behalf - at least that’s what I write in an email to anyone thinking of arranging third party collections.

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    1 hour ago, trade vet said:

    The negative posts tend to be the more accurate ones.This job is not easy,but give it a go.On the way you must be prepared for some big mistakes and you will have to learn to blow money on some cars.You will have plenty of set backs and things will happen you have never even thought of but you will have bonuses aswell.If you survive the first 2 years you will have a good chance of success.You can get some good advice on here as people like to help. Good luck.

    I could be talking out of my arse but I reckon if you’ve got a self employed work mentality & ethic you’re in with half a chance (the other half’s the cars) but anyone with a PAYE mentality is fucked from the off buying/selling cars.

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    55 minutes ago, trade vet said:

    Don’t like straight cash deals unless it is on old stock.On the odd occasion I have said sorry no discount we would prefer to wait for someone with a p/x unless you have something to put in.Then they say something like Auntie Barbara has a Micra she doesn’t use any more and you get that instead and retail it.

    The days of turning away a punter without a p/x & instead preferring to wait for a nice swapper aren’t a luxury many can afford nowadays.

  22. Posted · Edited by BHM

    How times change. It wasn’t that long ago cash meant pound notes, no receipt, f*** off & don’t come back. Nowadays a cash man means a bank transfer, receipt & then chance his arm for as much comeback as he likes. 
     

    On a serious note, Mr VW wants an hour’s UNACCOMPANIED ramp time, plug-in his pal’s obd reader, brought another pal’s trade plates for his test drive, he’s laying the law down “Ok” :lol:, then if he’s satisfied he’ll then make a reduced offer. Who the fuck is going to entertain this cretin? I cannot think of a single person who would do so.

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    9 hours ago, Rory RSC said:

    Its true. Wasn't sarcastic but a well known character on here spent way to long thinking, getting his hand held and couldn'tactually do the basics.

    That’ll be the chap who had a website & took an interest in the CRA before he’d even bought one car :lol:

    First & foremost this job’s about cars, not fucking about with website graphics when you’ve got a handful of cars.

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    17 minutes ago, trade vet said:

    Lesson 1

    Forget Copart and try buying proper cars.You won’t make any money resurrecting damaged goods,it takes too long and you will attract too much aggrovation.You might be better off continuing as a pub manager and watering down the beer. !

    :lol::lol: ....and fiddling the spirits.

    I’m with you on this, if you’re paying someone to PROPERLY nail together damaged shite you can’t make any money.

    However I’m sure the lads throwing them back together themselves (plenty of cable ties, sledgehammer chassis work & Roy Orbison paint jobs) make a shilling.

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