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  10. Posted

    5 hours ago, metcars said:

     

    So..... anyone going? I was watching the ticket sales and there’s still just under half still available at Colchester tonight. I thought it’d be crammed with the usual local suspects but? 

     

    I had an email the other day from Manheim trying to drum up interest.

    What I don’t understand is why on Earth  you need to register to attend & only one person per account - Manheim must surely be one of the most awkward bastards to do business with & yet again more hurdles to jump. You can go just about anywhere in the country unfettered but with Manheim that’s not the case. What a fucking company. 

    Not that I’ve used them much over the last few years but the sharp practices employed by their staff regarding misdescribed vehicles has driven me elsewhere. I’m afraid Manheim opening up for a few evening sales so I can look at the bangers won’t attract me back -  I’d bet they’re not allowing full access to the cars, no doubt disguised as anti-COVID measures, as they’ll do absolutely anything to castrate the efforts of trade bidders to sort the wheat from the chaff.

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  12. Posted

    9 hours ago, Halfpenny said:

    Yes, its crazy. Poor availability and sharply rising prices. Not seen this before in 40 years of this business. What the hell is going on?  

    This is going to sound a bit ‘off’ but does it really matter? Surely the price is passed on to the customer (directly, or in the case of vehicle sales, indirectly) & if they don’t like the price they can shop elsewhere. Perhaps this is an overly simplistic view but that’s how I see it. 

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    1 hour ago, Frank Cannon said:

    Very odd to my mind, if they can't get the basics right, always makes me think are the brakes maxed out, rightly or wrongly;)

    Absolutely. If they can’t be arsed to clean it they certainly won’t of been arsed to put it on the lift. 

    Mind you, I guess there’s no right or wrong way to sell cars because even those sellers sell their cars. 

  18. Posted

    Quite a few customers who come my way have a tale to tell about viewing cars they’ve seen on FB. By the time they get to me these customers are usual VERY easy to deal with.

    Mind you have you seen the standard of sub £5K cars nowadays? A quick look on any advertising site will show filthy cars with stained seats :(. There’s one garage near me, plenty of cars, they have a £6K motor with a dented wing. It’s no wonder they have plenty of cars advertised with motors like that, fuck me, I’ve sold £999 cars that are tidier,

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  19. Posted

    2 hours ago, Frank Cannon said:

    Mate of mine who does the banger market under 2k is also slow

    That market is absolutely fucked & has been for months - the lads can barely give the stuff away & if you’ve tried selling a cheap p/x you’ll see the bottom-rung punters nowadays are absolutely pitiful. I’ve got three bangers to advertise & I can’t bring myself to advertise them.

    The management at one auction house are openly telling anyone who’ll listen they can’t shift this dross so they will submit any bid & work for next to nowt.

    I’m generally in the market sector above 2K (most of mine are 2.5-5K) & it’s absolutely flat out. I can sell everything (except for one heap of French shit no-one wants) that I can prep and as such I constantly only have a few cars advertised - as soon as something is advertised it sells fast so I always look like a business going down the pan with 3 or 4 cars advertised. 

  20. Posted

    7 hours ago, MattR said:

    if you sense champagne taste on lemonade money, be blunt and suggest they shop elsewhere.

    So true.

    7 hours ago, MattR said:

    never put yourself in a position where you are desperate for anyones money. Because they can smell it. 

    So so true :lol:. Vultures.

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  21. Posted

    My worst customer (by worst I mean a chancer trying for a few quid back) is on the most expensive vehicle I’ve had in a while - a £12K commercial. 

    7 hours ago, Noel_96 said:

    By cheap cars I mean the 2-5k market 

    They might seems cheap to you but depending upon what you stock you’ll soon learn £2-5K is a lot of money to plenty of people. 
    Tbh the price bracket is irrelevant as arseholes, penny-pinchers & dreamers are attracted to all price ranges. However there are also plenty of nice, decent & pleasant people out there. The knack is sorting one from the other.

  22. Posted

    8 hours ago, Rory RSC said:

    sell some mondeo / galaxy size cars with a fresh oil change and a new mot ten times easier 

    Only 10 times easier? I think you’ve missed a zero off that figure.

    For Noel I immediately thought of cars like Focuses (good spec models only), a few Passat estates (don’t be tempted by Octavia dross - the punters are pitiful), 7 seaters or crusty old 4x4s - proper punters with the chance of reasonable profits turned over in decent time.

    A fresh ticket on this sort of stuff immediately raises your cars to the top 20% of the market. 

  23. Posted

    2 hours ago, Noel_96 said:

    this is the exact market I was planning on starting in first due to limited funds, only time will tell I guess

    The LAST thing I’d suggest anyone tries starting off in is the cheap small car market. Cheap small cars = small profits due to the cheap greedy bastards who buy them - obsessed with CHEAP tax, CHEAP to run, CHEAP to insure, CHEAP FUCKING EVERYTHING!! 

    There are plenty of cars you can make reasonable profits from with modest funds - swimming in the small car sea is definitely not the way to do it. 

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    16 hours ago, Lakeside said:

    Could be due to the huge backlog of driving tests? Not many youngsters passing at the min. 

    The daughter can’t even get a test date at the moment & the painter’s son has just failed & I’m told his retest is next year. Also, tbh anyone who has the sense to check other cars for insurance quotes they soon realise they don’t have to be sat in a 1.0 peasant car.

  25. Posted

    1 hour ago, CRW said:

    Seems its particularly Nissan Micra's that have been affected by the inflated prices. Just got off the phone to a guy who was trying to sell me his W reg Nissan Micra Auto. Told him politely its 22 years old, I deal in 2 - 8 year old stuff generally. He was insistent it was low mileage and it would be a good buy for me.  To humour him I asked what he was after for it. £1600 he said. :unsure:

    :lol::lol: Tbh I don’t think I’ve ever had a sensible conversation with a Nissan punter - buyer or seller.

    Except for X-Trails I avoid all Nissans. Just magnets for greedy ‘Last price?’ immigrants, the penniless and the thick as pig shit (delete as appropriate).

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