BHM

I wouldn’t know but to be fair to them they always have adverts on the telly with that woman’s husband who spits out his coffee after she mentions having triplets. Typical woman, traps the poor fella & expects a new car out of the job!

....or could simply be he’s made a mistake. Surely we’ve all had it at some point where we think we were outbid but weren’t and/or bid on the wrong car and/or won a car then found it was down to someone else. It happens.

I’ll have a C please Bob. Can I have a U? I think I’ll now try an N please Bob. I think I’ll have.........

The trouble with any T2T is as much to do with the Billy Bullshitter buyers as the Billy Bullshitter sellers. All of my time in this game sellers appraise whilst wearing rose tinted spectacles & seem oblivious to knackered clutches. Many trade buyers (on old shit) expect the earth, expect it to be retail ready & to come with two weeks full parts & labour warranty - tbh I’d rather deal with private punters than most of the trade at my level.

I’m surprised her age concerns you.

Isaac Hunt

FFS, I’d assumed as a trader that would of been your first port of call

At about 30 quid all-in it’s hardly going to blow the budget for Benji to find out. It sounds ridiculous but totally plausible, who here HASN’T ever been surprised by a diagnosis on a car?

You don’t need to make a big song & dance about it. It’ll be on your invoice, that’s all you need to do. When looking at tiles & grout on the shelves do B&Q employees prewarn customers that receipts include VAT? Tbh the few times I’ve had vans I’ve found them easier to write something along the lines of ’TOTAL price, no VAT to add’ because the sub £5K mark is generally full of private men & one man band companies who aren’t VAT registered so when looking at adverts if they see ‘plus VAT’ they think they’re being raped. Basically a ‘£3600’ van will be an easier sell than a ‘£3000 + VAT’ van. Total bollocks, I know, but that’s how people’s minds work.

Practical advice.

Greedy fucking bastards, usually. I regularly hear the line “I’ll drive it home and sort out the insurance & tax later”. Utter nonsense. Also the number who say “I’m insured for other people’s cars so I’m covered” (on THEIR car THEY have just bought ) is high.

What are these cunts on?

Just had a gold Astra & the V5 said ‘Gold’.

Slightly off topic but I get the occasional person asking if I’ll do them day insurance to get them home. As a one man band I have absolutely no intention whatsoever of getting involved in the legalities of strangers driving on the highway. Your insurance paperwork would have to be absolutely watertight because, my guess is, they’d come after the small car dealer not the big insurance company. I imagine any irregularity would be pushed my way - “No Your Honour, I told him I have 12 points on my provisional licence but he said I’d be ok for the next fortnight”, swiftly followed by their defence barrister “It is most unfortunate my client mowed down the bus queue of school kids but the financial burden of compensation for the grieving families surely lies with BHM who, my client attests, was responsible for completing the drive-away insurance”. If a customer is either too lazy or too skint to insure their new wheels I’m not interested in getting involved & exposing myself to risk.

You must be fucking mad. Let them order a taxi. I base this comment on one single ‘experience’. A friend ran a couple of courtesy cars for his various scumbag customers (car sales + a workshop) & then one day one was wrecked. A proper job, driver pissed-up, a number of parked cars smashed up, the courtesy car looked like it had been dropped out of an aeroplane. I don’t know how insurance companies work but as well as the NCB, the policy was loaded & his next year’s bill (which I saw) more than doubled to over £8K and that was after he’d pared back cover. Over the next few years it must of cost him a five figure sum, all for someone who walked away financially scott free.

TV (television, not Trade Vet), news media & about 125 years of listening to whinging “Champagne taste, lemonade money” friends & neighbours. Reading some of the emails from punters, I think some are permanently smoking the stuff.

Some of the shit I’ve sold over the years the punters would be grateful if the only problem the car had was a bit of grass growing out of the wing.

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I think we all know the answer..... Also ‘works in consumer protection’. Certainly not doing their bit for business protection.

I wouldn’t have a friggin’ clue but I’d imagine with 99% of the punters on an old ‘price range’ 911 you wouldn’t want to spend a night out in the pub with them. Also I’d guess half of them wouldn’t be able to raise enough money for a round of drinks.

It depends on the quality of stock you’re purchasing. Most of the cars I buy at the block are £1000-3500 & there’s no fucking way whatsoever I buy online! The auction house assessments are generally pisspoor as they do not cover enough checks. Also half of the assessors wouldn’t know a peach from a lemon.

6 years & 1 month! I think a new record has been set for resurrecting dead threads.

There’s nowt wrong with an iPhone camera. It’s how & what you point it at & in the correct light, that’s important. Photos don’t need to be to David Bailey standards, just not pisspoor.

You’ve got it advertised as 2wd...... ......and delete all of this shit; The car has recently had the passenger side airbag recall done. THE CAR IS READY TO GO WITH NO ISSUES £4,500 ono Test drives welcome. NO TYRE KICKERS AND TIMEWASTERS If the ad is up, it’s still for sale!

We all get sticky cars. Tbh if anything it looks too cheap. Your photos aren’t the best. CRVs went off the boil a year ago for me.