Jimbo

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  7. Posted

    Just wondering what you guys do with them

    we're finding ourselves with a few too many less desiresble cars and wondered what u guys do when you get the "old dogs" in?

    no one really wants to be spending time selling a car for £50 profit which is most likely going to be attracting people thinking their £300 car should be immacculate. 

    So if you get an old thing, noisy, rattling, oil leaks, wear and tear etc do you just send to auction or ebay/gumtree? Prob with the latter 2 is youre still selling as a trader even if you've advertised it with all the faults so could end up having to refund it!!!

  8. Posted

    So i've never bought or sold at auctions so this area is quite new. 

    I know main main dealers just all p ex cars to auction

    question is do many smaller traders do this with cheaper stuff that is probably more grief than its worth selling? 

    If so how do you go about selling to an auction house please? Do you drive the car to them or they collect? Do you just tell them what u want for the car like an ebay reserve and whatever it makes as long as it hits that reserve is what u get? What about their fees?

     

    thanks in advance. Just being offered a few crappers that i sometimes "have" to buy along the way which id rather not sit on and retail too much

     

  9. Posted · Edited by Jimbo

    Seem to be lots of people trading from farms and/or yards and outbuildings of their big homes and gardens at the moment. 

    I supose it must work for them and they get to keep all their cars in one place and up their inventory of stock  

    would much rather have a nice roadside sales plot though for passing traffic

     

  12. Posted

    11 minutes ago, Arfur Dealy said:

    Classified is the only way you can advertise on ebmp, you pay for a package of cars monthly. Don't waste your time auctioning unless its for disposal purposes only. Classified advert all the way, :) make sure you write a comprehensive honest description with 20 photos and you won't look back :) 

    Currently been doing auction with a reserve. 

    I will look to do classified for next car to compare. 

    I dont have a pro account - is it easy to upgrade?

  13. Posted

    2 hours ago, Arfur Dealy said:

    Like.....

    I now have the AT top sponsored package, it started on the 7th of this Month (currently 18 in stock) and Ive not sold one through AT !! Not one !!..... All 5 sales have come from eBay..... 3.0 cdi Vito Traveliner 10K..... A4 3.0 TDI S Line Estate 10k...... Touareg 3.0 TDI £5K...... 320d Biz Ed SE Estate 6k.....XC90 2.5T 4K......

    Do u just do auction ads or classified?

     

    ebay pro account or normal?

  17. Posted

    On 17/09/2017 at 9:56 PM, have a word with the wife said:

    fence it off yourself ? water on site ? customer toilets on site ? electric [ recharge jump pack ] ? could probably decorate the place for around £2k, banners flags BALLOONS :lol:cctv ? good padlocks are £75, its one you need to really think about deeply :)

    Hi thanks. It has a lovely lake nearby so dont want to fence off really. 

    Has toilets and out buildings for paperwork. 

    I have jump leads and my car if need to jump start. 

    Just looking into banners flags and signs. Bit of a minefield !!

     

    im 95% decided to give it a go now and get 8-12 cars bought to make it look nice

  18. Posted

    So we have an AT trade account but not a contract

    we always make sure we arr prices within the top 5 cheapest if u click sort in price order. 

    Question is do people actually bother to "sort" becuase we wont be near the top in the natural list with sponsor ads at top. 

    I feel the cars we list are good quality, great pics, desireable and well priced. But they dont seem to generate many calls

    does AT not really work unless you plough the very high costs of a contract??

  19. Posted

    On 14/09/2017 at 3:34 PM, BCC said:

    Facebook has a number of algorithms which were introduced a few years ago. It will take a while to learn the ins and out of it all but when you have mastered it, it can be a goldmine.  Lots of people focus just on the amount of page likes. Some dealers have 50k likes and some have 500, the one with 500 likes may be getting more engagement and traffic than the page with 50k likes.  Facebook will only show new posts to people who have engaged with one of your posts within a certain amount of time.  You have to entertain and encourage engagement from all of your followers or the posts you want them to see (your cars) won't even show up on their newsfeed.  We often post videos and funny clips of things not even related to the cars we are selling. (we even boost these sometimes to people who like the page)

    Post regularly but do not spam people with lots of boring posts as people will soon get bored. Do targeted boosts to help attract new followers but also do regularly boosts to people who already like the page as they will most likely already be your target market. They should be anyway.

    Our Facebook page if you want to take a look,  www.facebook.com/blakedowncarcompanyltd

    Love your FB setup may i ask how you built up your followers so well?

     

    also, we would like to specialise in sports performance but wondered where to start exploring in terms of finding a good supply for this type of stock over run of the mill type cars?

  23. Posted

    Thanks a lot guys

     

    i am pitching my proposal on a £x amount  per car sold as the rent = no sales no big drama. I know a couple people with suitable land that "might" be interested in just gaining some money for their land but they arent greedy. 

    It would be appointment only so dont need to be there full time unless wanted. 

     

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    What are good things to use to "tart up" a basic piece of land into a nice car show ground?? Flags, banners etc? Where do u guys get these things?

     

    does it matter if the pitch is not visible from the main road?

     

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    im at the stage where 2-3 cars is max from home but sometimes i might be able to get say 5-6 hence looking whether to expand and really try and make a good go of how far we can grow

  24. Posted

    Thanks guys

    so the one we had looked at is close to a main A road but not quite visible due to the main road barriers. 

    I can use it as a showground/plot and it will probably host 10-15 cars. 

    I can use an outbuilding as an office if need be to finalise paperwork

    it is in nice woodland/lake setting and it just has a nice feel

    its just an expense i dont currently have so trying to work out if the outlay (£tbc) is worthwhile or to remain a trader from home with low overheads but potentially not the best forecourt!