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We're currently on a site right in a town center and have been here for 18 odd years. Up until last year we had 1 car stolen but such is the state of car crime right now it doesn't matter what you do really as we've had 3 stolen since April last year. 2 x Evoques and 1 Disco. Our CCTV is literally state of the art, tracks people on site, ANPR on entrances and face recognition on the main office entrance. 2 of the thieves were caught broad as daylight on it, identified also but are apparently still on the lose stealing cars according their own facebook accounts. They are that brazen now they don't even cover their faces... It doesn't matter what you do really, you can just try to make it as hard as possible. I'd go for concrete bollards and steering wheel locks on any keyless cars. Anything to slow them down or deter them entirely. Good luck with whatever way you go. I'm dreading our insurance renewal this year.

Unless your desperate for it to be gone walk away. Asking for trouble on that car especially if you get "one of those customers".

It's great finding little niche ones no one else has picked up on yet

Never done it apart from on our website with ClickDealer. I also don't get it. Why pay AT to advertise your sold cars? Why not advertise a few less and have some in reserve for that reason. There is not too much to give away anymore as everyone (if they actually had the time to) can find out anything anyway.

Never had a problem with them, but I wouldn't hold them to tyres. Not a dig, just not worth the run around and hassle.

Always low ball... Anything that comes our way in terms of unwanted stock we go a few hundred UNDER CAP Below. Never turn away a sale but don't get stuck with rubbish you don't want. We then use Paddock Wood to sell our unwanted P/ex's

While the concept on that thinking is good the actual response from it is un-logical / illogical as your basically asking normal punters, who don't usually haggle on the price, to do so and in turn, turning them into the melts that we come to disregard and hate. I agree 100%. I'm all for getting more leads but when more leads turns into more work and time with absolute lemons I'd wish they'd leave sh*t alone and let us get on with what we're good at.

Hahaha, I find it relatively amusing tbh. The look on their faces when told their BMW after spec'd, time machine, marvel of a super car is actually not worth a carrot is priceless. Lord the Alpina owners take pretentious to a whole new level. It's still a bloody BMW not a sodding Ferrari Enzo Don't fall for the trick of there isn't many out there. As there isn't but there isn't many buyers out there either for them. IMHO it's a £12k (At Most P/Ex) Retailing at £14k Even at those margins I'll have to have been sitting on my car for a long time to even think about taking it in as a Part Ex. I still think it's a car you're going to be sitting on. Most Alpina owners want less than 3 owners, FSH (A BIG BIG MUST, every 10K min), and want it spotless with no signs of it being painted or sprayed outside.

Don't do it... Offer him a small discount off your car if he sells it privately or goes to WBAC. Less hassle and as others have said you'll get the Alpina brigade round telling you stories of how they were design engineers at BMW for 24 years and how they managed to rebuild seven BMW engines and their first car was a GT40

We're ok, kinda bang in the middle really number figure wise but number *unit* wise we're down about 5, so finance reading it looks good as profits per unit are up, unit turnover wise not so much. Nothing to go on a lavish holiday for and nothing as bad as last month, so meh. It does 'feel' quiet though with little walk ins. Lots of finance props again but still have around 8 from last week all accepted with good low rate prime lenders now not answering calls. Strange people. Picked up 7 last week from Manheim, all little cars, £6-7k, (Fabia, 3 x Aygo, Civic and a 2 x Corsa) all well under book. Looks like the AH's and vendors have given up on their ridiculous high reserves and are now letting them come through. Anyone having any luck at BCA? EDIT * *

Hahaha this is sods law. Just seen on our CD - Part Ex due that another Tiguan coming in Saturday... Although it's Manual, Petrol on an 08 done 48k. This now surely simulates a craze? 3 part ex Tiguan within 3 months... I reckon the first one told his Tiguan friends we give good part ex prices on them

Yes they are. They are keeping high reserves on vehicles at the moment because there is going to be a crash in the new PCP deals which is evidently showing affect on 2-4 year old vehicle sales and prices. In a consumers point of view why go for a PCP deal on a Merc 3 years old when you can get a new one with a lower rate APR PCP deal for an extra 40-50 quid per month? Hold out if you can as the AH have to sell them at the end of the day. Bedford, P/Wood, Blackbushe, Enfield are not even allowing us to take our old P/ex's down to them so I'm sitting on 9 now from last month and the start of this month. I even tried to call Chelmsford and Colchester but they were also the same and not allowing more stock to go through.

Indeed it would be the customer who purchased the vehicle where the paper trail stops ahead of. If it were a private sale, then the onus falls to the next responsible party, something that a private seller is not. If the paper trail prior to Delroy taking in the vehicle is evident, such as it is plain to see in black and white on a simple MOT history report, and Delroy is the next responsible party (being a trader) and he has not done his due diligence then of course it still comes and falls onto him whether he passed to trade or not. I'd love to be wrong, but that's my understanding of how this will go.

Used to do ok with them, 1 or 2 every now and then but at 300 quick a pop it was bareable. Now for 550 a pop for upto 100 cars, not really. I was quite willing to stay with them and help them grow due to the dominance of AT but for that much of an increase I'm not paying them to do what feels like a get rich scheme. They've been talking to MotoNovo and their fund and find my car hahaha

Both Diesels, 1 (47k) immaculate, the other few scratches and wheel scuffs. Yeah I'm wary of it as my previous experience with buying and selling them. Maybe I got a tad lucky with them at the right time. Yeah been a little eye opener. Gonna have to see if they make good money in the AH these days. Hard to find a good ROI on a vehicle bought for under 6k.

Ok, so last month we took a 10 Tiguan, Auto, 47k, Silver in as a Part Ex, gave just under cap average, was good condition, but never done well with them previously. Sold it within 20 days made a very tidy profit on it too... No end of the month we took in a similar one, 12 plate with 78k on it manual in black... again just under cap and sold it within a week!!??!! I didn't cheap them out, (just under 2k profit on each, and priced at CAP Retail. WTF is up? Was it Lucky? Have they gone popular? I'm actually thinking of getting a couple in now but last time I did (was a couple of years ago) they sat for ages. Ergh! Dilemma How do you guys find them?

Put them grey Snap

Spot on. My dealing with them have all been above board. They want to see a paper trail. In this event, with a mileage discrepancy, no paperwork, no HPi, and no NMR you're going to be giving a full refund I'm afraid.

Nope don't do it. Fraud all over it.

Agreed. Less hassle, repair it yourself and sell it on or suck up the loss and throw it through auction. In that circumstance I try to get the customer into another one of my motors, less a decent discount as a gesture of goodwill. Keeps the customer happy and hopefully they return to buy again in the future.

Not worth the risk of being thrown off Google. It's in their terms and conditions and not just limited to their review system.

https://parcelcompare.com/ Make sure you get accurate dimensions or they WILL charge you for the correct dimensions and for scaling costs.

Hahahaha

Nothing new. Timewasters and below sub prime. Be good for dealers targetting these customers or who do a lot with First Response

I've gone to the dark side and switched back to Manheim