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Earunder
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1 minute ago, Jimmy T said:Evening all new here but looking for some practical advice.
Have a customer who wants to purchase and pay for a car in the morning and for us to deliver nearly 320 miles from us ! The car is 2007 and has 115k Miles. How do I stand with distance selling regs ? Also wondering what would be the best advice with regards to Warranty. I’m thinking to clearly tell the customer car is sold with no warranty for spares and repair just to cover ourselves as wouldn’t want to get involved in any repairs / warranty work from so far away. Any advice would be welcome... thanks.
Unless your desperate for it to be gone walk away. Asking for trouble on that car especially if you get "one of those customers".
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8 minutes ago, Nick M.K. said:I do really well out of 3 car models that sell fast and with a very nice margin. I often buy them at ££££ below book in an auction hall full of dealers that don't know what I know. Otherwise why let me buy them so cheap. The models are: now sold of course.
It's great finding little niche ones no one else has picked up on yet
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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.
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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.
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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
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25 minutes ago, EPV said:Which is how I view it but the point has been previously mentioned that it's a useful way to engage your buyers, if you have it up for £4,995 and someone makes an offer of £4,700 you can contact them to say you're close on price and that £4,850 would do it. I can see how that would work.
It's something of a moot point for me anyway as I've fucked eBay off out of it.
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.
1 hour ago, BHM said:It surprises me that anyone would want a “best offer” button - in a roundabout way you’re saying you don’t want the advertised price. Also, I’d imagine it’d just attract more divvies than normal with their stupid offers.
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.
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1 minute ago, BHM said:About 6 months ago I had a BMW bore, with a BMW p/x, interested in one of my gems.
Firstly he emailed War & Peace telling me his engine was based on the 1970s Formula 1 engine, so I ignored him. Strangely for one of these email bores he phoned up with the same spiel, you’d of thought this idiot’s car was actually a Formula 1 car - embarrassing. His car? A f***ing clapped out 18 year old 318 estate with about 200K on the clock. Arsehole valued it at something like £1500, I bid him £100 and when he started his patter again I cut him off. I’d hate to have to deal with an Alpina bore
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 £14kEven 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.
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On 4/30/2018 at 10:57 AM, Mat C said:Been offered this beauty against my £18k GP2. I have no idea what its worth, however feeling he wants a straight swap or even cashback..
Anyone know anyone who'd love this?
2004/54 Z4 S LUX Roadster
Met Blue, Black Leather.
65k
6 Owner
FSH been garaged and kept like a newborn etc.....
If i could work out how to load a photo I would but I can email them no worries.
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?
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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
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46 minutes ago, met said:I agree, and personally I think that they are full to bursting with stock? One of the yardmen that I've known for years admitted that they've had to rent storage space around the local area? Or at least the sites I attend.
I wonder if they might be 'drip feeding' us!
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. -
2 minutes ago, trade vet said:Why would Delroy be refunding a Trader when he has a signed for mileage from his customer and his sales invoice to the Trader states the same mileage.Unless I am missing something,If anyone needs a partial refund for the 80k haircut,surely it is Delroys customer being the victim and not the Trader.
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.
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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
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1 hour ago, NOACROSS said:Sell eventually, but endless grief german stuff for us, and we don't find any of it is desirable or sells well down here-so I don't buy anything german now, but hit them hard if come in in PX.
Were yours petrol or diesel?
I guess as they become more affordable and hit a certain price point then everything has its day.
Both Diesels, 1 (47k) immaculate, the other few scratches and wheel scuffs.
48 minutes ago, Rory RSC said:- One of them we do well if its a PX and bought in keenly. If I then try and buy at auction too expensive and end up sitting for ages.
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.
1 hour ago, Dan W said:similar to us Earunder we always sell them fast and with good profit, Never been a fan of them myself they are ok but customers just love that VW Badge it seems.
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.
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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?
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2 hours ago, Grantlfc81 said:I’m a firm believer in keeping your cars available to a wider audience at all costs.
ive had a grey 1 series come in with black wheels that need respraying -
Do I put them back to silver or keep them black?
I absolutely hate black wheels and I think that you have a smaller audience to sell too.... I swear it reduces your market and cars with black wheels to me look like the car has been ragged about by a boy racer
Put them grey
59 minutes ago, Rory RSC said:I paint loads of wheels black and grey here
Snap
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42 minutes ago, Matt Reid said:The clear HPI report would be what you need. I think you say that it was clear when you checked it in 2016, and that now it shows that it was clocked in 2012? And have you sold it to a trader or to a private individual as a 'trade sale'? TS may just want to go through the trail, they may want to do more. But, having had a visit from them a few years ago, the picture they build up of you during your chat is likely to influence your future dealings with them. So get all the advertised mileages on your forecourt up to date, don't advertise something with 50000 miles if its done 50551. they want accuracy. And get all your paperwork in order so they can see all your cars advertised have current MOT's.
Dont advertise with full service history unless theres a stamp there for every year (unless the manufacturer says differently)I'd also suggest a quick check that they all start and no bulbs have blown. If thy think that your cars which are currently available for sale are all good, they will look at you far more positively and listen to your side of the story.
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.
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Nope don't do it. Fraud all over it.
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16 hours ago, Arfur Dealy said:Refund
Minus 45 per mile
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.
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Not worth the risk of being thrown off Google. It's in their terms and conditions and not just limited to their review system.
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Make sure you get accurate dimensions or they WILL charge you for the correct dimensions and for scaling costs.
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6 hours ago, BHM said:I’ve got a heap of shit or two in the compound. Shpock-wise I might dip my toe in the water selling as a ‘private’ as everyone else seems to be doing it. Now how much is a PAYG phone from Asda..........
Hahahaha
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Nothing new.
Timewasters and below sub prime. Be good for dealers targetting these customers or who do a lot with First Response
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17 hours ago, Mark101 said:Bet it isn't quiet where I am going - BCA Online - NOW (oops, I'm late)
I've gone to the dark side and switched back to Manheim
Fence or Bollards ??
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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.