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  1. Posted

    2 hours ago, BHM said:

    ABSOLUTELY. As I wrote, I believe the vast variety of nationalities who’ve made the UK their home have “embraced our traditional values etc. etc.” and I’d like to add that I wholeheartedly welcome these people and have found they are an unalloyed joy to conduct business with due to their openhandedness and honesty. Indeed, I’d be more than happy to send someone else’s Granny to buy from them. Almost as much as I’d send a schoolgirl to Rochdale to deal with a certain section of “their” community. 

     

    ;)

    Closet racists, they're the funniest! :lol:

  2. Posted

    On 17/12/2017 at 0:14 PM, BHM said:

    The trade’s changed quite a lot over the years, in addition to the reputable Asian dealers you’ll no doubt remember from years ago you’ll now find we have the pleasure of hosting many Eastern European dealers on these shores. You’ll find the Romanian, Polish & Lithuanians, not to mention the Bulgarians, Latvians & the occasional Belarusian - let me categorically assure you that all of these nationalities have keenly embraced our traditional values of fair play & common decency in business.

    You are virtually guaranteed a fair deal and they delight in offering first class cars at second class prices. They are particularly helpful to greedy, gullible trash expecting to ‘nick’ a cheap car & suddenly start trading for BIG BUCKS. However, due to language barriers occasionally you may find that a “Business” advertisement has been inadvertently uploaded as a “Private” advertisement. In order to circumvent this error you may find cars being sold on behalf of a friend/relative/neighbour/the-next-door’s-dog etc. and strange meeting places that look suspiciously like a knackered old unit on an industrial estate although, they are in fact the sellers private address (or should that be the other way round!?!!)

    I’ve confused myself now so I’m off for a lie down. 

    In my 20 years in the business I have come across plenty of native English car dealers who also 'embrace our traditional values of fair play & common decency in business'.

    Being a numpty (to put it politely) is not defined by race, faith, colour, gender, sexual orientation, geographical location, place of birth or anything else like that.

    People who wear Hawaiian shirts however...

  3. Posted

    14 hours ago, twerp said:

    Does anyone sell vans effectively through AutoTrader ?

    Seems hard to filter for specific models. 

    AT still gets the hits but eBay seems to be the place to go for people looking for vans IMHO. We've pretty much given up on AT vans and just advertise on eBay. Works for us.

    As for filter on AT, it's all about the end user, if he knows the difference between a panel van, a box van etc then he won't have a problem finding what he wants.

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    We got roped into it with a geat deal... can't remember but i think it was £99+vat which was too good to pass up. Tied into 3 monthly rolling contract. After 3 months you have to give them a month notice so 4 months in total minimum (for us anyway).

    In that time we didn't sell one car through Motors. Waste of money for us but worth a go at that price... nothing ventured nothing gained and all that...

    Like someone said above, so many people haven't even heard of Motors. IMHO for the kind of cars we do (£10-£20k) you can't beat AT (even though they shaft you on cost) and we're finding fleabay surprisingly effect too (especially for vans).

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    On 08/11/2017 at 11:19 PM, SuperLease said:

    Ironically Dragon2000 is the nickname I gave my ex wife. 

    Lol! I Like it!

    On 11/11/2017 at 6:42 PM, Mat C said:

    I use Autosales ( just started ) and after the initial pain in the A of loading our last 12 months deals ( as its our year end )  its a brilliant system. Runs alongside our SAGE for VAT and monthly management accounts etc..

    I've just signed up for an all encompassing accounts package with a Local firm who are motor trade specialists, so they understand the ins and outs. They do my Vat return, payroll, accounts, POS system and reconsile my bank, basically everything, saved us £££ in the long run and also saved us lots of stress. If anyone want their details, let me know.

    Hi Mat, looking for a good (motor trade savvy) accountant, could you possibly forward on the details please? Cheers, Adam.