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I mention this again for the benefit of anyone who hasn't heard me pontificate regularly on this subject - that we STILL get people telling us they saw the car on Autoraper. It's over two years now since we were last with the Highwaymen.

My story/set up is almost exactly the same. Life goes on fine without Autoraper.

Oooh, oooh, is it time to have the Autoraper debate again? Is it? ;o)

Click Dealer. Great company and the staff can’t do enough to help. Free feed to Autoraper etc.

Crumbs T.V. I’m with your Mrs! Good luck though!

Synergy. Pushing the business forward /moving forward....vis-à-vis ...aghhhhh!

Yes, and I fail to see why you can’t answer, join in the ‘real world’ on here and the sarcasm as you put it! Thanks for showing you are in fact a real person!

Did you advertise it on AT? It should come up automatically. Their (indeed ironic & inaccurate) spiel says the customer is covered is how I read it. What a pain for you. Anyway- the dealer needs to compensate you or take it back, but would be interesting to see AT's defence against this. No doubt arse well and truly covered in the small print somewhere. Keep us posted! (What have we got to do- Hpi check AND Experian check everything?)

Quote from Autoraper site: "Vehicle checks on Auto Trader Every car for sale on Auto Trader has a free five point background check, which covers whether the car is stolen, has been scrapped, written off, imported, or exported. You can see that information towards the end of every advert. For peace of mind, you can upgrade this to a full check for £14.95. If a vehicle has been written off, scrapped or is listed as stolen, Auto Trader will give you another vehicle check for free. There's also up to £30,000 of data guarantee is case of any inaccuracies. " Yeah- Experian - you're right So, if this car was checked using the same Experian system, then am I reading it right there's a 30k guarantee it's right? (I also love the typo at the end of the paragraph)

Hmmm. It comes up on DA automatically if its a Cat C/D etc. in big read letters on the listing. I had assumed this was DA checking automatically, the same as all cars listed on Autoraper come up telling you. What did DA say?

I’m sure he’s a really nice guy behind the bulshit, and is playing in his corporate world effectively-but even the [studio?) photo annoys me. And don’t get me started on the over-elaborate corporate speak! I reply to anyone who takes time to poke their toe into my world. Just good manners. However, he probably thinks we’re all idiots I guess. Next.

Two ways of dealing with this fool: A) Give him his money back less 40 per mile and sell it again for a tad more money if there was so much interest. B ) Tell him to do his worst at court and take your chance. C) Pay him what he's asking or what you're offering, but get it in writing that this is a one off goodwill gesture and his accepting your payment absolves you from any future comebacks, conversations (text or otherwise) about the car. For what it's worth - I would go for A as you can't argue with a fool. If you go for C then he must return it to you to investigate and deal with. Could just be a liar as well as a fool. Good luck!

Yup - very true & we all said the same. They could afford to and should have given it free and grow it slowly- without millions wasted on TV advertising I say, but what do I/we know! I really like MN as a finance company and their system and payouts are very good and I wish them well with it now they have seen sense. It'll either become a good product or will fizzle out. Time will tell!

8 months. Yeah-They still are saying it's a success from what I heard. They're now moving on to the 'next phase' or something. We'll see. (even) I can't complain now it's free I guess. I agree about being refunded but that'll never happen.

Just had my Motonovo rep in to say they are giving F&F free now to any dealers that have supported them with this- including (like us) those that have previously cancelled. I think they missed a trick there and should have given it free to all their MN dealers from day one. Anyway- good that it's now a Brucie at least.

Ditto. Don’t jump too soon!

Buy private, although you may get the odd one or two off DA very occasionally. My advice is to find a niche or specialise in something and stay reasonably down market price-wise I don’t understand why you can’t buy off BCA etc if you want to? Your employer has loads of potential competition including the general public already. I always do the belt if it’s due or nearly due. Remember, the cheaper the car, generally the more of a messer the buyer will be as it’s often all their money Particularly when buying private, you may well get a better deal on something that hasn’t had the belt done -or it’s nearly due- as for some reason it’s almost the end of the world for a punter-and only just behind that terror that is a head gasket (gasps)! Good luck with it. Let us know if there’s anything sensible you need to know.

Problem is FAPe DAPEGS or whatever it is sounds like a disease. I don’t advertise on Autoraper so dunno if you can lose all that and just call it a diesel auto or not.

Yeah. It’s v Funny. They don’t care.

Love it. Thought as much. Anyway, I rarely do auctions but the OP asked, so I contributed as Pentons do OK with it as I say. Don’t get me wrong, they get messed about and the odd no-show. We’ve had this conversation before and Sterling Cars came up. Now they DO basically say on their eBay auctions ‘buy the car or don’t and Go F Yourself eitherway.’ Think it’s Andymc? that knows them well...dunno how well it works for them.

Look at their other items. They list loads this way. Yeah, they don’t do anything to them or care about EML being on. However they do point this out and photo damage.

This Main Dealer do it well I think. Have done it this way for years. On the few occasions I feel the need to do an auction, I have shamelessly plagiarised it. Ebay item number: 132745253256

Yeah- we have plenty of room at the site and in the compound but it's no where near the painters, valeters and our houses. Oh well. One of those things- life in the city.

What a work up.

True. Same here I guess. No one else is going to. ;0) Minimum 20 cars a month out there with stickers in the windows. I think it helps keep your name out there. Especially the local buyers. They're only cheap so I'll carry on living in the past.