BHM

Hi, no. But to sell now, there’s no point sitting on stock for 6 months.

+1 (except when I’ve been away on holiday). I’ve made a few grand, so the wolf has been kept from the door, but that’s all. All of a sudden interest has spiked upwards. Unfortunately it’s all of the last price brigade, Nigerians (by the accent) “coming tomorrow” (do they ever turn up??), pathetic emails, bottom feeding locals, two phone punters shat their pants when I’ve agreed to THEIR p/x valuation, and today I’ve even been stood-up on a viewing (a “cash man” talking the talk but obviously unable to walk the walk).

My stock is 8-12 years old.

F*** small cars. Whatever you ask for one there’s another 10 on Bumtree at half the price. The average skint small car buyer only understands one word; CHEAP.

Cos they’re cheaply put together (although mechanically strong) & the owners are bottom dollar punters who know the price of everything but the value of nothing.

First post & milking us for info? Come on, screw your heads on lads. I’ll stick my head above the parapet & say I’m sick of these parasites.

I’d give them their independence in FULL. I’d erect a full physical border, they’d be told to sort out a banking system of their own, they’d get sweet f.a. subsidy and all of those whingers I encountered for years in the construction industry who proclaimed Scotland to be where their heart was yet seemed happy to live, work & as such took to British shilling would be sent packing. I say hats off to Nicola Sturgeon

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I’ve never heard of a mileage blocker but let’s say it had a shit load more miles on it. Even if you went back to Sytner with proof, I suspect although they’d reluctantly reimburse you I bet they wouldn’t even approach their customer.

Next time I’m in Wetherspoon’s I’ll ask the bar staff.

Surely it’s only a matter of time that mileage interrogation becomes part of the handover back to a dealer of a car on lease etc. The only problem I see is lazy dealership employees who can only see as far as the next car written on the board.

FFS, what’s the world coming to!?!!

Very good business according to the local remapper who started decades ago as a “mileage correction” service. Apart from a few immigrant traders selling within their own community ALL of his mileage correction is for private men - the trade don’t seem to clock cars anymore thanks to MOT & history record availability.

At the moment it’s punters’ finances that are wrong. You can have the best stock in the world but if the great British public ain’t buying, they ain’t buying.

I’ve happy memories of the clocks going back......

No it’s not around here either. I’ve made wages but that’s about all, most of the time even the ‘last price’ brigade can’t even be arsed this month. Many in this game are howling about how bad it is. The only punters doing business seem to be those that have to - either their lease is ending or, at my end of the market, because their car is completely knackered.

At £2.86 per minute I’m happy to discuss it

Yeah, and advertise 2010 low mileage diesel Passat estates at £1750 & reap the rewards. I’d then be more than happy to listen to the shit the greedy punters spew out of their mouths.

I came across it half an hour ago, I just laughed & scrolled past it. I didn’t even open up the advert - them Sytner buyers must be on crack.

‘Cos they’re cheap! They should be a £2-300 p/x & belt them out for £695 to the scutter market. Tbh a quick sale for a drink & as long as the roof works & the back wheels aren’t rubbing the inner wheelarches then the scutters who buy them go leave chuffed to bits & tbh who can blame them - it’s a lot of car for pushbike money & anything convertible is seen as flashy in some circles. A BIT OF FLASH FOR NOT MUCH CASH!! SUMMER’S COMING!! CHEAP - WINTER PRICE!! SAME RUNNING COSTS AS A HATCHBACK!! GET THE NEIGHBOURS JEALOUS!!! Please stop me, I’m giving away all of my “CHEAP CABBY” sales lines

Do they f***. Messers with no money.

VW men, ’nuf said.

Correct That sounds like my stock profile (except the f***ing VW) - it often takes me a fortnight or so to get a car on sale but if I turn an £800er into a £2000er then it’s no sweat for me to have these cars racked up outside the grease monkey’s premises. It beats the ‘wiping it’s face’ I usually end up getting on a newer small car. Its all swings & roundabouts, I usually seem to work for either decent money or shit money, with little between.

F*** knows. There’s a 2007 auto CRV on there currently at about £6200 (where’s the profit on that??), a 12yr old Fabia needing an MOT yesterday made £1111 and an 11yr old Zafira with a battered quarter made nearly £1200. Even scrap seems to be making £500 and everything I buy needs the spanners putting on it.

Hahaha, I often do the school run & it’s a right eye opener. Timing chains screaming their f***ing tits off, mirrors hanging off and any shitty old Chav-spec RRSport or X5 always seem to be sat on bald tyres of pisspoor brands. There seems to be a roaring trade locally in runners (secondhand tyres), I wouldn’t waste my time getting such shit fitted. Punters nowadays are too lazy to even wash their cars, punters (and many mechanics) don’t understand the importance of the correct oil and doubtlessly the quality of the chains are pisspoor - especially VWs which have obviously been pared to the bone for a small cost saving.