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Because they can't all be selling. It is known for Auction Houses to stock pile the cars for a few weeks to keep the prices up. Don't forget there have been some major franchised dealers that have joined the used car market since November and more are joining. A lot of the sales at ludicrous prices are "probably" to these franchises, which is fine by me, they'll lose money and be out of this industry quicker than 6 months.

Seriously WTF BCA 12 plate with 57k LAND ROVER R/R EVOQUE 2.2 SD4 DYNAMIC 4WD CAP £ 18,900 MADE 20,600 plus fees... Only retails at £21,500!?!?!?! This morning has not been a good one! Not one single car bought so far this week! MOAN and RANT over... On a side and positive note. The weathers rubbish

The one thing that annoys the living daylights out of me (politely put) is they come up with these platforms, have no sodding audience yet, need our cars desperately yet ask us to pay to be on them. Whoever comes up with these gimmicks is in lala land. In actual fact, I'll come up with a platform, you guys can advertise for free forever and we'll go take the market by storm.

I used to get a few bargains between Kinross & Livingston, they used to hold them for me until I reached 6 cars so I could save some £'s on transport. Lately though (well this year so far) GRADE 3's are 4's and everything making over CAP clean with delivery which negates the whole prospect. Plus the sodding rust on some of them.

Ooooh thanks for that! Our HPi bill has been creeping up over the last 18 months, now just under £600p/m!

Why did I go back on to BCA today!!! Hahaha should have stuck with Manheim. I know, absolutely insane at the moment and all the heavy stuff £15k -> is dropping in price every 3 days. Top it off had 2 offers on cars this week 2 k below asking price which is already a few hundred off Retail. Evoque Dynamic and an E350 AMG Saloon. Talk about getting the bum pinched both sides. (Maybe the wrong terminology but it sounded good in my head so lets roll with that!)

They do have a very unethical approach to gaining new dealers yes, but it depends on where you are and if they are spending money advertising / promoting that area as if it would be worth signing up. I've always advised if you can afford to throw away the advertising cost per month for 6 months then go for it and try it out, if you can't afford to effectively lose that money then don't do it.

We get telephone number and post code along with the email. We call the customer immediately, if no answer then send an email back to the customer, then after 2/3 hours if they do not reply then give them another call. This industry has gone from a walk in relaxed sales atmosphere to being very pro-active and chasing and sniffing out any leads necessary. ---------------------- From CarGurus though, if they do not have a telephone number we only send 1 email as they are, shall we say, `questionable leads`.

Sold about 5 in a *EDIT - not year, a month* from them. Still paying as still getting more response from Motors and CarGurus are always improving and re-investing their money back into promotions and adverts. They are the only real threat to AutoTrader, and AT know it. For that reason they can have my £300 p/m

Hold on to your money and tighten up your purse's as it's continued into February. We all know it'll quieten down, just try not to get caught out in over paying as your customers won't be over paying to buy it off you. Looking at A/T and CarGurus the market is still holding value but not increasing as BCA sales have been showing. January panic buying is always and will always be on the cards and this industry makes it a hard one to predict and anticipate, but history of the last (my last anyway 18 years) shows it'll go the same as always and drop off.

168.80 Nearly at the 150 mark and I'm in before 3rd week of feb. Should be +200 by May / April, ending around 240-250 this year, then back to the drop mid december, and around we go again

Yes. We have 2, 62 plate toyota aygo auto and a 58 plate audi a3. Nothing special but does the job. Both came in as part exchanges, clean little cars. Still prices up to sell but just replaced with something else when they do go. It is a courtesy though, not a necessity, although I do believe it looks good on your company.

It's a common cycle when the market looks like its dying down. Someone has to hold the prices up as the Manufacturers love to crash the market, usually Christmas and January so it's no surprise its lasting a little longer this year. Hold on tight and keep plugging away guys. 3 off Manheim today, all small Corsa's (2013->) 4-600 behind CAP clean, not what I was after, but a little touch for a few decent space fillers for the time being. Now the part where they turn up and they are not grade 2/3's. Gone away from BCA after yesterday, so let's see how Manheim goes again as I need about 20 cars.

Not imported, but exported. Careful on importing cars from abroad. Make sure parts are available for them at a reasonable price and time scale. Nothing more worrying than a car going wrong and you trying to explain to a customer you can't get parts for a few months. Will get pretty costly.

Nope, new product from MotoNovo. Not something I'd go into as it's too new and there are lots of these finance sites about. Especially now on FaceBook.

Wouldn't worry about tactics as at the end of the day if you get back what you're looking for then that's all that matters. Sure I've let cars go a little cheaper than I would normally but don't beat yourself up about it. At the end of the day if you turn a nice profit in a short time it's a winner. Anything and everything else is just a bonus.

Why not ask a few local MoT stations to do a service and MoT for you? You'll probably be able to get them done for about £75 - 90 per car if you're giving them the constant business. Take them less than an hour, the owner should be happy as he doesn't have testers / mechanics sitting around doing anything.

Ebay: 你的车要亲爱的 Translation: You're car too dear! Morale of story: Even the sodding chinese take the pi$$ on ebay

As others have said, waste of money. Put it toward upgrading your lunch menu, that way you'd at least enjoy spending any money your potentially going to give Motors. Cancelled our contract with them. 1 sale in 6 months, advertising 80 vehicles.

Wasn't aimed as a dig, just from my experience on the 2 occasions they ballsed up with myself. Apologies, usually a BCA firm stance is because of it selling under CAP therefore not worrying about taking it back. It took them 3/4 months to sell the one I backed as I had too overpaid because of the vehicle over capping. I didn't want the rigmarole of getting it repaired and / sprayed as I bought the vehicle without that on it so hence would want it like that. That's why I backed mine. I can see why it can be frustrating, I just find their process a lot easier to deal with than Manheims and a few of the smaller houses who really don't give a toddle about anything.

Happened to us. Notify AutoTrader of the registration and hopefully they had it on there and can pass the details on the user account to Action Fraud. We had to create the case with AF as the victim did not want to have their details passed onto the police. Luckily, AutoTrader has lots of information from the advertisers account and cookies.

Can't see anything wrong with that if I'm honest. They've offered you either compensation or a refund. If the shoe was on the other foot what would you do? I have a feeling you got it a substantial amount under book and they feel it's quite realistic they'll sell it for more anyway, hence the low ball and assertive stance. Only had it happen twice, once @ Measham and once with Bedford. Backed them both with no problems and money in account within 72 hours, so moved on without any problems. ============= Manheim - I think their company moto is deny everything. They actually come close to deny even selling the car with the excuses they come out with. Not bought from there for, actually can't remember! To think I was going to try them again next week!

FINALLY!!!!! Over 1k vehicles watched this week I've finally managed to get some in! 12 in 7 days! Still about 15 odd short but at last there is some sense. Maybe the vendors had low reserves, who knows. None of it was WBAC rubbish, all from good vendors so over the moon this afternoon! Hope you guys had better days also!

If you're happy with a £4-600 profit it's for you. The cars we have bought were all as described without problem. Only thing I find, or actually struggle to find, is value for money with something I can actually have a good profit on. As tradex has already mentioned, the best days for this are gone. Been 2 and a half odd years now since my last purchase, but I still sign up every year hoping for that 1 bargain haha

Not very good for us. A lot of time wasters that just makes you want to throw a wet flannel at them. IE Car up for £17k - Message: I'll give you £13000, cash today.