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Key workers! Offer them a crafty hand job with the anti-viral Latex gloves & they’ll leave happy. Tbh it’s easier finding a non-key worker nowadays.

I’ll get the popcorn

I suspect Randy won’t be a regular contributor.

Looking at ‘her’ I’d guess ‘she’ has a pair of knackers already.

I imagine all of these current online ‘opportunities’ have been there since lockdown. Plenty of the older items I invest in will be the broken biscuits that weren’t tempting when rattling their way past the rostrum 2 months ago. Imagine buying blind & paying up in advance then going to collect these gems smoking their tits off, crawling up the road bouncing off the rev limiter as the clutch gives up the ghost, dual mass flywheels trying to punch their way out of the bellhousing and oil slicks like the Exxon Valdez. As Duncan Bannatyne often said, “I’m out!”.

Very true - what would you do if you were a creditor? Now might be the time for a few to pop their businesses & go bust on their creditors, after bleeding-off any cash first obviously. Plenty but plenty will also spend it on additional/different stock and plenty more will spend it on catalogue ‘designer’ clothes, belcher chains, thick gold plated bracelets & RRSports/BMWs/white Audis.

Definitely

Thanks. I actually only put it on as a joke in response to an earlier post but my contract is up in a couple of months so I might buy a phone & go SIM only. (and no Mark101, I don’t mean for the single use burner phone ).

Yep. Many decades ago it was a special moment if you saw a Lambo or a car with the prancing horse on its bonnet. Not now.

Errr...no I can’t!

My phone contract’s up shortly - any advice?

I thought it was nice to hear that it’s not just the peasantry such as myself that has to put up with low ball offers

I suspect once you’ve given them the once over most p/xs are knackered. Yes but just about everyone wanted delivery last week (I don’t deliver my polished turds) but don’t seem to want to arrange it themselves. Tbh all but one of the ‘Delivery? Men’ were emailers which leads me to suspect they were messers.

Try telling that to a punter on a £999er!

I tried a 348 & a Mondial 3.4 a few years ago and they both felt horrid, like thrown together kit cars. They drove like shit as well & didn’t feel particularly quick. Funnily enough at the same time I tried a 928 & my conclusion was it was just a boring 2 door Mercedes. I just don’t ‘get’ those sort of cars, and while I’m on it them Honda S2000s are shite and further down the rung MX5 are diabolical. Mind you, 348s seem to be on the increase so another ship has left the dock without me.

Have a guess . A fellow trader asked similar; “What if we come to collect & the car’s knackered?” Manheim’s response was “Don’t worry, we’ll sort something out”!!!! Would you trust them #+*^s?

Haha, you’re right as far as this thread is concerned.

I wonder if they told MP Matt Hancock something along the lines of; You snooze, you loose. Money talks, bullshit walks. First come, first served.

What’s the recipe for Home Mad Soup?

That’s my stock profile & there’s no chance at all for me. When the world first went tits up Manheim tried it for a week. They ran up everything - to my mind showing they have no comprehension of the issues buyers face buying blind based on their totally inadequate descriptions. They think the likes of me are interested in a few scratches & wheel scuffs when, quite frankly, I couldn’t give a toss about them. It’s the mechanical aspect that concerns me which they don’t cover.

Yes but no. What I mean is the govt don’t want it but unintentionally that’s exactly what they have authorised. All of the ‘but your car must remain roadworthy’ counts for sweet f.a. with many motorists. I suspect the decision makers on govt policies such as this are well paid, live in reasonable conditions & keep their newish cars well maintained. Their decisions have mistakenly been made based on their standards. They should of come here yesterday & seen the state of the tyres & a brake pipe on the old Fiesta I presented for MOT. I only mention this because purely by chance last year it was ‘my’ tester who passed it - only 12 months later it’s a death trap.

I think they’re all getting ready as it is - many big dealer groups have had a couple of skeleton staff in this week.