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  1. Posted

    Big balls on you fella, stuff like that i call them either "shitters" or "rats" .........i give them to the local banger dealer to "rat 'em out" 

    Don't want any association with the forecourt whatsoever as these punters that come back thinking that they have bought a new car do my nut in! 

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    5 hours ago, ExCouncilJobsworth said:

    Hi there planning legislation is a massive grey area and it depends on who you speak to at the council and the outcome can vary.

    There isn't a material change of use as pointed out by one of the posters above. 

    This is similar to someone running a home business like eBay or the local spotty teen running a window tint service. 

    Your cars are advertised on the net and you dont have a walk in business thus your customers attend by appointments. So there is no large quantities of traffic. 

    Your neighbour could have lots of visitors day in day out that are loud and this could go on for several hours of the day. Whereas your punter might be there for 20 mins has a rant and goes. 

    You could get planning permission i mean apply for it or you could operate as you are now. In either case if the LPA approaches you they may advise you to apply or alternatively serve an enforcement notice for you to cease the use of business.

    If you are refused planning permission or served with a notice in either case you can make a free of charge appeal to the inspectorate. If you appoint a planning consultant to act on your behalf you will obviously have to pay his fees. 

    The appeal process can take months and in this time you can still operate.

    This neighbour sounds like some residence association leader we used to have in a west London council area...always making complaints even though he might be 5 or 6 miles away...

    He was racist... So do ask yourself are you being picked on because of being a minority on the road? Might sound silly but when i did planning inspections i would go round and find no issue then the complainant would twist it and make a different allegation... All whilst the complained told me this neighbour has called the police, other council depts and what else on me!

    They always use the solicitor excuse to scare you off...

    I now sell 2 to 3 cars here and there and my neighbours are fantastic. I always tell the punters off if they park nearly blocking a neighbours drive etc so make sure your punters dont prat about and it is a pain when the eastern europeans turn up with 10 of them to view a £1200 runner...

    Love the username! 

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  11. Posted

    9 minutes ago, Mark101 said:

    Mine went live on thursday afternoon, it just happened.

    I had a call from autoraper rep saying it's now live and as we feed via our website and have to tick the boxes to go to various channels eg eBay, motors etc we upped the auto trader ticks from our standard 23 as we don't put all our stock on there. 

  12. Posted

    10 minutes ago, Ocsltd said:

    Is the double up offer happening?

    I've not received anything from AT and there's nothing in my dealer portal about it....

    I can try and add another car to see if it works, but don't want to screw up one of the other adverts in case it's not.

     

    Yes went live yesterday late afternoon 

  13. Posted

    1 hour ago, Tony F said:

    And getting back on topic for Novemebr trade. We have just had our worse 2 months ever, oct & nov, and thats in 27 years of trading and including any decembers.

    Seen lots of rough patches over the years, and always manage to duck & dive, weave, find new solutions etc and come up good each year. But to say the past 2 months has me stumped is an understatement!!! Headscratching times. Glass ceilings and brick walls.

    Same here, October dire, start of November was ok but last 2 weeks may as well have gone on holidays (if i could have afforded to that is). Blame black Friday, cyber Monday and all the other retailer bullshit hype that's all over the media etc

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    18 minutes ago, Nick M.K. said:

    if I just had a great month I will leave the other two sales for the next one. If my current month has been dysmal I will happily add those two sales to it :-)

    Point of deposit Nick, goes on the monthly day by day planner as a sale. Pick up may well be the following month but i have always done it this way 

  17. Posted

    15 minutes ago, James01 said:

    We are still dead here! A no show and a customer asking if we have any big discounts for Black Friday were the highlights of our weekend. 

    Same James, 2 last week amd had to give one away as well just to get some coins in! 

  18. Posted

    4 hours ago, EPV said:

    The week? Surely you don’t measure your profits weekly? 

    James, with 23k per month overheads i know what i need per week to make ends meet hence my post. If you run your enterprise a different way then good luck to you but I know what I need to cover the bases. 

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  20. Posted

    First companies we use due to the healthy commissions are:

    Blue, Close, Motonovo

    Second tier if credit is a little iffy and the above have declined 

    First Response

    Third tier when we are really struggling and all the above have turned their noses up then it's sent to

    Advantage, Mallard, Zuto, Cf247 and anyone else who we think we may have a remote chance with! 

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    14 minutes ago, wow really said:

    Hey guys. YouTube William's motor company. Rogue traders he has blue lambo... makes matey 5 stars look like a saint. Like after lie after lie.. 

    Not far from me this fella, been going for a long time but went bust sometime after he was made famous by the bbc