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    11 hours ago, Lakeside said:

    I watched a grade 5, 114k mile, 2014 mondeo with a poor assured report (eml on in limp mode with blocked dpf and turbo related fault codes) fetch £100 over cap clean today. Things are getting silly.

    Everything’s changed. Not that I buy them but I see Corsa’s regularly making £500 over top book (it doesn’t seem that long ago when they had to give them away) & yesterday I saw an 8 year old Zafira make £1000 into book. Fighting like fuck for an old Vauxhall, I never thought I’d see the day! For the buyers sake I hope there’s nowt wrong with it.

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    17 hours ago, Webuycars said:

    Just go to the office and say take me off that car , simple 

    That’s right, and the auction house will be more than happy to remove the high bids left, right & centre then repeatedly tell vendors the bidder has backed out of the deal. Not.

    To me this sounds like an ideal way to become known as a cunt & eventually get your account suspended.

    Perhaps it’s just me but, assuming nothings changed with the car, what sort of trader bids on cars then cocks on their side of the bargain?

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    12 hours ago, Lambchop said:

    I take it it’s a smart repair guy and he does a few jobs in the same day for you BHM ?

    No, I’ve never used a smart repair man in my life, just a one man band but he does all sorts - plenty of decent stuff passes through his booth. My original painter retired last year, he was as cheap as chips but even Stevie Wonder could tell where he’d been.

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    Just now, SK1John said:

     

    We mostly go for ex lease stuff so has to be bang on, we do ours in house but those are just figures from when I’ve asked around… how much are you paying? 

    Half what you quoted, even less if I need a few panels done. However my stock certainly ain’t ex-lease - 6yrs is a ‘new’ car here - so standards may (ahem!) not be so high :lol:

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    5 hours ago, SK1John said:

    I think mid range trade pricing is £150 /panel for scratches etc. Can pay up to £250 for established top notch. You can probably find cheaper but I’d question the materials and finish.

    How much!?!! Are you taking your cars to the main dealer for paint?
    They must be good, nearly new cars to warrant such largesse :lol:. 

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    16 minutes ago, David Horgan said:

    They also fiddle CAP prices too

    Definitely. This is obvious when the greedy bastards drop something on their keyboard whilst fiddling the figures & they book a 10yr old Audi A3 at £53400 :lol:. 

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    I’ve never had a S/S issue that wasn’t a battery. Years ago any cheap battery would do on a car but nowadays even I go brand name only. As the old saying goes, ‘Buy cheap, buy twice’.

    I do save a few quid buying via eBay from Tayna etc. as Varta/Exide AGMs, or similar,  seem to run at about £100 inc. VAT delivered which the local factors can’t get near to.

  22. Posted · Edited by BHM

    If YOU are selling via the course of your business then yes I agree.

    However if the advertisement makes it clear the goods are advertised on behalf of xxxxx and it is from xxxxx the buyer is purchasing the goods and (most importantly) there is no reference to your business on the receipt/invoice then there is no responsibility on you.

    I’m not referring to pisstakers with half of their stock being sold on behalf of friends/relatives, I’m referring to a genuine friend/relative sale of which there is no legal recourse to your business - or at least that’s my belief.

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    I think every other person I’ve met in associated trades (mechanics, MOT testers, bodywork men etc.) who’ve had a go at selling soon declare they won’t sell another car & say something along the lines of “Fuck me, there’s something wrong with the public, they’re as fussy as fuck” :lol: