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  3. Posted

    2 hours ago, Tom said:

    Why are your over heads so much? can you break it down for us?

    Small 1500sqft units in bad parts of the Midlands are £1500 p/m

    £600-700 in rates

    £1400 p/mth AutoTrader

    £250 p/m Insurance

    £3700 fixed costs aren't hard to imagine

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    39 minutes ago, tradex said:

    And as usual although everyone is cutting their throats, prices at auction are 'retail'

    ....typical and it's been like this since I can remember, and that trust me is a good few years, always thought that's bloody odd?

    Like the first 2/3 weeks in January - traders in a rush to buy more cars and outcompeting oneanother at crazy prices but with no customers to sell them to. Odd

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    2 hours ago, met said:

    He must get around, there's a few from Enfield branch on there.

    I always thought it inappropriate to take photos of stock while the cars are still on the auction site with the screen 'top', but there you go

    They used to cover Walsall / Measham / Nottingham but tend to stay South now.

    I knew an independant buyer who was instructed to buy anything 'cheap' for them.

    They must make a fortune.

  11. Posted · Edited by twerp

    5 hours ago, BHM said:

    I've came across them before and was always unsure how they get away with it, eBay's a publicly accessible forum and they're clearly selling everything under trade conditions with no comebacks. 

    They have been around for over 10 years under different names, they source purely from BCA.

    I think everything is sold on a scrap invoice now.

    Old name was Sterling Cars, Reading.

     

  13. Posted · Edited by twerp

    Wait until you give them a last price, then they start passing your number around to all their brothers / cousins / uncles in an attempt to get more off.

    I had 5 days of constant phonecalls from every single relative until they eventually bought realising they would not get a penny more.