little spender

I can beat that .. I once bought a caravan at leeds ,, I thought I was buying the car in the room a focus I think it was, lost £200 on the caravan as well haha

Cheers guys I'm hoping to do 4 a week of there with some advertising know it will be up and down Good advice on the stocking up I have 7 car's now to get me away im holding back on a couple off as I have no where to put anything yet Trying to get a viewing on this pitch is the hardest bit .. the guy is just to busy by the sounds of things

What I mean is rather than spend 60 hours a week in the lot for for 2 sales a month id rather lock the gates and just use it as a lock up and be there as and when I need to be and work the internet harder there will be a fair margin on the cars but some cars will be under a grand id be hoping to do two cars a week off the road not two a month

S&b at 2 a month walkins wouldn't be paying any bill but I get what your saying How many cars do you hold and how many sales do you think are walk ins ? You can pm me if you like I'm just trying to get a few ideas thanks

Couple a month ! Id lock the gates and use it purely as a lock up Thanks for input .. I'm still waiting for a call to veiw

Thanks I'm going to look at a roadside pitch tomorrow it holds about 22 cars outside and 5 inside on the outside of a town, the rent is a grand a month the town is a not poor but not rich by any means, affordable rents and cheap morgages id say I will be selling stuff under 3k I'm thinking the walkins should pay the rent over the month with a couple of sales a week and the rest can be internet based sales

Thanks ASP that's good info

could it not be put on the bottom of the recipt something like there will be a £80 per week hire charge or 80p per mile on any car returned plus

ive had bad luck with the clark ones .. left one in a car and blew the pcb on another one just bought a half decent one from Halfords of all places £45 seems to do the job well

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I'm interested in anybody with a roadside pitch or a trading pitch in a estate or area known for selling cars under 3k my question is do you get many walk in sales ? in these times of internet sales There's a garage close to me I cant find any online presence

Thanks I know 30k isn't a great amount to start with but its all I have at the moment The only problem I will have is being on my own at first having to lock up and leave the site to do things I will be getting the cars delivered to save time £30 plus vat isn't to bad and il get that down to £25 soon I had a car forecourt 14 years ago but was only there for a year, back in the days of spending a fortune in the paper and the paper auto trader

years ago the auctions had a massive wagon battery on a sack barrow .. would start anything ,, be great for a unit or pitch

anyone else just have a quick scan on ebay for the real prices in there area

Thanks lads James that's what I wanted to hear I don't need to be rich just make a decent living that's all I don't mind selling stuff for £795 to 3k I've sold plenty of it in the past I'm viewing a large yard/compound for about 20 cars with a showroom for about 5 cars its on the outside of town on a quite busy road ... its a grand a month plus bills I will probably use it as I would use a unit and view by appointment but while I'm there I might sell the odd one of the street what do you lot think I'm in the north east of England BTW

Thanks for the comments I wish I could say I had some original ideas some gems of wisdom I could share my plan was find a 2000 sq ft unit to rent .. this has not been as easy as you would think or I as I thought at least work by myself buying cars from auction ebay gumtree etc. doing the lot buying selling cleaning out sorc the work for mots ect .... will be back got a manhiem delivery

If you had 30k to start up in car sales how would you do it ? ...and don't say you wouldn't I'm not asking because I have no idea, I'm just interested to see different ideas

First of all Hello been reading for a good while over a year probably and all I read lately from you guys is doom and gloom I was wondering is there any success story's out there. you know the type of thing started with ten grand now making a cracking living or started with 4 cars now have 30 anybody loving it and wouldn't want to do anything else