Jimbo

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  2. Posted

    Never done it myself. Always buy elsewhere but constantly tempted to try auctions. 

    Im from the south east. Is there some better than others?

    i take it you cant test drive so how do you know it doesnt smoke, misfire, overheat, select all gears, clutch doesnt slip etc?

    then there is purely online auctions where you dont even see the car in person. Risky?

     

  8. Posted

    28 minutes ago, met said:

    I wondered if it was a case of quality p/x's just don't exist period.

    I've recently started using my BCA account after a lapse. The journey from blue to gold is a painful expensive one.

    If quality p/x’s dont exist where are we going to all buy our stock :-(

     

  9. Posted

    1 hour ago, Arfur Dealy said:

    Lawgistics purchase receipts state clearly the buyer confirms they understand it is their responsibility to return in the event of a claim. Irrespective of distance, it is their responsibility to return in the event of a CRA claim. You can allow a remote goodwill repair which if worded correctly will not count as the (one chance right to repair). That's why you need to judge each claim as per its merit / risk / worth / pain in the assness. Is assness a word.... ?

    BTW, my 4 year old asked me today why hail (hailstones) is called hail ? Answers please....

    Interesting thanks. My reciepts dont state that nor have space to write it. 

    I’ll look online for a lawgistics reicept pad

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    19 hours ago, A & S said:

    We handover the cars to customers as best order as possible. There will always be comebacks, you have to keep the customer tame because of their rights (in particular the first 30 days) we always ask them to bring the car back so we can sort it out for them, once we got a customer to bring back a VW Sharan, the guy had to do about 200 mile round trip. We offered him to get it repaired an his local garage, he came back with a huge estimate (turbo related issue) so we got him to bring it back, we put him in a hire car which was more economical for us than get his local garage to repair and we pay the bill. Put the car into our local VW Specialist they cleaned the turbo put it back together...perfect we got it fixed a fraction of the price including car hire costs for a week. Always try to help as long as they don't take the michael...

     

    So if you had a long distance customer take a fault to their local garage you can never be quite sure the quote is legit and just for the issue they have stated. 

    Are you within your rights to decline their garage quote and insist they bring it back to be accessed by your trusted garage?

  13. Posted

    Ive noticed im having to spend above cap clean to buy currently. 

    I cant see how theres any money left in any of the deals. Cars arent making cap retail at the moment (for us anyway) so how the hell do people buy at almost retail price and sell on for profit

  15. Posted

    Last year had just a couple situations where a client bought a car and called on the way home or once home to ask/complain about certain little things like blowers not working or heated screen or rear wipers etc. These small things funnily enough all turned out to be ok once they spent the day getting used to the car/control etc. 

    Was a relief as these cars had so little profit in as it was!!

    Got me wondering though what do you guys do if people call with complaints. Ones that live too far to take the car back and check over yourselves?

    things like a knocking noise or rattle or misc mechanical flaws? 

  16. Posted

    1 hour ago, RH Trading said:

    Not used CAP for at least 3 years now, never accurate and adds more confusion than anything else, trade guides are always a guesstimate no matter who provides them. I look at how much I can sell the car for and knock off my costs and margin - that's my trade price, going off trade guides like CAP destroys my profit. throw them all in the bin

    I agree this is the best way, but my point above remains in that when you look how much you can sell a car for, the prices on AT are just an advertised price - doesnt actually mean anyone will sell one at that rate

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    1 hour ago, Arfur Dealy said:

    Exactly, the black book used to be clean + £500 for extras like leather & Satnav. You don't see that in the valuations, each car I bid on I do a quick search within 100 miles to see the competition then retail back to my max bid, I stick to it religiously....

    Prob is when we do that we’re effectively seeing an “advertised” price on AT. Not so much a “sold” price. 

    A car on AT @ £8k doesnt always mean its worth £8k as a sale ive found

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  20. Posted

    Anyone see any trends currently. 

    Ours is a bit mixed. 

    Regular easy sellers like Yaris etc sticking around and previous tricky ones like BMW X3 flying out. 

     

    How you guys finding it?

    what do you consider as the “gems” in terms of easy sellers with lots of interest? And what do you say are the “non-movers”?

     

    for us, Jeep’s are awful but things like MPV’s seem popular!!

  23. Posted

    3 hours ago, Arfur Dealy said:

    Well I'm finally in my first unit...... Its got more space that I thought :)

     

    Looks brilliant mate well done. May i ask, how long did it take you to build up to such a nice array of good cars in stock? Did you always follow your current sales method with the videos?

  25. Posted

    13 hours ago, pmpants said:

    There's a coupe or guys I know well Jimbo who are close to us that buy the real cheap stuff, if you're happy to send me details and brief description I'll always forward them on to them. I couldn't say they'd buy everything you offer, but hopefully they could help.  Remember we'll always try to give a good bid for nicer older (so anything from the beginning of time to say 2011) Japanese, Ford and Vauxhall if it doesn't fit your stocking policy.

    Thanks pm sent