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    16 hours ago, LOVECARS said:

    Ive done this lots and lots of times. If your confident in what your selling and have given an honest description of bodywork and service record then why is it a problem? I email all paperwork invoices etc to sign and get them to send it back signed. It all comes down to how confident you are in the car your supplying

    This is bang on, I always look at it this way and if you have any reservations on any marks, how it drives etc then disclose everything beforehand, even take a video and send to the customer perhaps. The last thing you need is for the car to get there and them to say they don't want it, complete waste of your time then and you end up having to readvertise it.

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    We too approx 8 to 9 months ago started getting the anonymous emails and quite regularly in fact....... This is exactly what sucked us in to signing up to a package with them......... I think it was approx £800 per month off the top of my head. 2 to 3 months ago we cancelled it, as soon as we had signed up I noticed the enquiries seemed to get less, as time has gone on its just been more noticeable that it's not working. The retail values they provide are more laughable than cap! I'd love to be a retailer getting those prices! 

    I also sympathise with you Nigeldalley as I get fed up of the ebay beggars and derogatory offers from the bumtree customers too. 

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    14 minutes ago, SuperLease said:

    Depends on location as to what you will pay we rent a 3000sqft with an option to extend to 6000sqft. We can hold 10 - 12 comfortably with an office area for doing business plus whatever we are driving. The problem with a pitch is joe public expect you to be there whenever they choose to turn up. We don’t advertise appointments only I think it puts people off. We get the odd one just turns up but it’s only 15mins away from home so can always nip out if needs be. We mainly have late plate German stock never had a customer comment on the fact we’re in a unit. Stock is always clean and dry too. Marketing spend is never gonna get cheaper so we needed to cut other costs. 

    Having say 15 approx for sale how many per month do you turn over. 

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    33 minutes ago, SuperLease said:

    After 10yrs we have recently (July) come away from a roadside forecourt. They require too much effort for little reward these days so we are now 100% reliant on internet traffic. We cut down our overheads to account for our online spend otherwise we would not be in business. Working from a unit has far more benefits than working from a pitch. We have more free time to buy and do the important stuff only wish we had done it sooner. I would think very carefully about taking over a forecourt these days. As for warranties we stand by the stock ourselves unless we sell something long distance or high spec then we buy an off the shelf. Best of luck whichever way you decide to go...

    I have been thinking exactly this for quite some time, if we had to rely on walk ons we'd be lucky to get half a dozen sales per year, with a unit it's surely working around you rather than being tied to the site 9am till 6 or even 7pm every day. What sort of cost is a decent size unit costing though, how many do you stock and is it only suitable to higher end stuff?

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    2 hours ago, trade vet said:

    Hi there

    Is this pitch in a good location,can you describe whether or not it is on a main road,visible to passers by ,how many car frontage etc.As for warranties,we have done our own for 20 years.Just lift the clauses from other warranty books and tailor them to your business.However,if I was doing it again,I would emphasise it as a 'power train ' warranty,although you cannot use the word warranty ( unless you are underwritten by Lloyds etc.).You could call it Power Train Mechanical Agreement,throw it in and it will pay dividends over time,you just pay £100 per car into a ring fenced account and the claims should not hurt !

    As for advertising,that depends on the description of your pitch.

    Thanks for the reply, it's a decent location on a main road through a semi rural town/village with approx room for 27 vehicles, there's also more room to the rear. Points noted about the warranties, really pleased with the other responses I've had so far too

  9. Posted

    21 minutes ago, Rory RSC said:

    With 30 cars and 10 Autotrader slots how is that going to work? 

     

     

    HI, most likely just put the more expensive stuff on there, as they sell I'll just tick the boxes on the back of our website to move another into that slot. It's way too expensive to put everything on autotrader. 

  11. Posted

    Good evening, only found this site the day before yesterday and have already enlightened myself with some of the information I have read so far. I have been in a partnership for the last 2 years and have less experience in the trade than the others. The time has now come to go it alone (these partnerships are hard work) and i am taking over a small 30 car site myself. Few questions to put to you chaps if you don't mind. 

    1) with only 30 cars in stock and an obvious lack of footfall do you have to sit there all day every day waiting for a punter or do you think it will be ok to try and push people down the appointment route to free yourself up to run errands and vehicles around etc thus saving on other staff costs. I'm already aware that all our business is internet based and we'd be lucky if 6 walk ons/drive by's a year led to sales 

    2) warranties, now I know about the self administering policy route but does anyone actually do an in-house system where they just pay for any work that needs doing on any vehicles and how do they word their terms and conditions. There's a guy down the road who just states 1 month, engine and gearbox return to base only, dont know how he gets away with this. 

    3) advertising, what works best for you, I'm looking to get ten autotrader slots to start along with eBay and possibly motors, any other recommendations, I don't want to use exchange and fart and am currently on the fence with slumtree due to the constant beggars offering paltry amounts for your vehicles. 

     Any help would be greatly appreciated, I'm sure I'll have some more questions in time.