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£695 & “you should get a refund in 14 days” ain’t what I’d call a no quibble, 7 day money back deal. Quite the opposite - even I’d almost be comfortable offering those terms!

Tbh I still don’t know anyone actively trading who advertises as such. Anyone currently thinking of adding such a ‘courtesy’ to their customers? I won’t hold my breath.

I’d say I was staggered. Part of your business model is advertising that you take back cars, no questions asked, within the first 7 days? I don’t recall any car dealership, new or old, offering such generosity.

Sorry, but that’s one of the worst suggestions I can think of.

He needn’t bother on my account. Hasn’t the IMDA got its own forum for AT propaganda?

Unless you were an unashamed pervert, the only place you could wear a gimp mask & rubber gloves in public without attracting negative comments was in Amsterdam’s Red Light District on a nighttime. Now they are de rigeur for the fashion conscious. I’ve even seen blokes in supermarkets with full face respirators that I assumed they’d pinched from work. If I was that scared I’d stay at home. I guess banks will soon be asking for motorcyclists to leave their skid lids on.

I thought this thread must have been started by AT judging by the large font emblazoned at the start.

Our local Asda, and all other shops, are rigidly policing the numbers shopping. At the local Asda they've erected barriers for queueing, you're instructed to sanitise your hands on entry (hahaha) and anyone caught not following the arrows is given 50 lashes with the cat o' nine tails. I believe they've also applied for planning permission for a gun turret so any transgressors of 2mtr distancing will be shot without warning.

I've found customers have no problem at all signing/paying outside - everyone expects things to be different. I'm sure our uncommonly good weather has helped. If it was howling a gale & pissing down it might be slightly different

Dear me, some of you like to make life hard for yourselves. The supermarkets have done the spadework for us & just about EVERYONE expects to be instructed on what to do when shopping. If your business is generated remotely surely every single one of us is capable of qualifying most customers - sorting the wheat from the chaff. Yes, a few will slip through the net but at the point you realise they’re tyre kickers you simply show them the door & tell them to return when they are buyers. If you’ve got an open pitch & your business is mainly generated by walk-ons then surely a half-hour trip to a supermarket will give you a bloody good idea how to operate. This isn’t rocket science, a couple of signs printed, a bit of bunting (remember that?) or chain and even some rubber gloves to placate those who want them. All this bollocks about showing some tyrekicker a car then having to leave it 3 days for the next tyrekicker you’ve let in is just that, bollocks. If you’re that bothered can’t you lads stretch to a £2 bottle of spray bleach & some kitchen roll?

......I don’t imagine in his book he’ll be slagging off & naming the difficult punters, telling us about any brown envelope deals or of any mechanical bodging that I’m sure hasn’t gone on in the past. The trouble is, with many of the best tales many of us wouldn’t dare put anything in writing. I guess the tales may be similar, just the sums of money different.

Too true!

Hi, your guess is as good as anybody’s.

Glaswegian schoolboys must of got good pocket money, my parents couldn’t afford a Range Rover in 1971.

Perhaps true but he obviously doesn’t give a toss about reviews & why should he? Buyers buy. Simple. Only arseholes with too much time on their hands & sellers pathetically obsessed with social media who don’t know any better take any real notice of reviews.

Getting the stock is the problem. Actually, it’s not just the buying, it’s also the preparation & then getting a half-decent margin across them. Plenty at the lower end will manage to buy but their prep levels will be even lower than usual (if that’s possible).

Eh? What’s decent about that?

Qualification of customers is the key, price of stock (half of mine I’d just sign out the V5 & mentally write it off rather than have a theft recorded) although I guess your stock profile will have the biggest impact on the bellend rating of your punters - imagine telling VAG-man or some undesirable specimen on a p/x BMW they’re free to go out on their own

Surely this is a wind-up?

I wouldn’t have a clue but I’m told by someone who does it that it’s almost a full time job posting ‘things’ (whatever that means), organising regular draws (sounds like the raffle at a church fete) to get his posts passed around and also interacting with the general public (fine if you like that sort of thing). I get the impression it can yield results but only on nice stock - for bread n butter stock you’ll probably just be laying on entertainment for watchers & likers - not buyers. It probably depends on how enthusiastic you are engaging with Joe Public & whether or not you like social media.

I used to cough to hide a fart. Nowadays I fart to hide a cough.

Let’s bring in some reality. Sorry but what’s all this nonsense about sanitising a full house before viewing? Utter rubbish. I certainly don’t see sanitisation squads following customers around supermarkets. Back to estate agents - their offices are hardly going to be thronging with people & as for viewings they aren’t responsible for the vendors’ properties.

I think the trouble is is they don’t know either. The steady rise in list prices over the last decade, fuelled by everything bought on tick, must net the manufacturers a good percentage. (And stone me, I think Peugeot are still using 15yr old 206 radios & window switches in their current cars - minimal development ). Tbh many new bread & butter cars are clearly built down to a tinpot price. Perhaps a stimulus strictly on UK built stock. Even more radical, perhaps adding a duty on all Panzerwagens. Should some of it not go the same way as coal mines, Woolworths & the rag trade? Ford, and others, already have their hammers & nails at the ready.

Eh? Brexit looms? Didn’t anyone tell the narrator that Brexit has happened. At that point it was clear there was little point watching further.

Straight from the horses mouth; Motorway are not just the fastest way to a great deal but also the safest too. I’m glad they also didn’t miss a trick & climbed straight onto the Covid19 bandwagon and keeping everyone safe and compliant with govt regulations. I’d love to see some of these govt regulation compliant deliveries take place. It’s similar bollocks being spouted as the supermarkets being the safest places on Earth & they’re selfless continuing of trading in adverse conditions. Is anyone taken in by this bullshit?