Nick M.K.

A Bulgarian wrote that. You can't possibly trust it. In Bulgarian the word Perfect has the same meaning as the word Immaculate here: Well used with signs of fair wear and tear but can do the job if you are not too fussy.

Sourced from carefully selected vendors and lease companies with which we have a very long working relationship through several remarketing channels for which we are an approved buyer :-) Every now and then we also buy direct from owners, especially if the car is in exceptional condition :-)

Tell him to plan on spending a minimum of an hour there depending on where exactly the car is parked. Thu is Van day so queues are not huge for docs or keys.

Why £4295?? Everyone will bid £4000, no one will pay the full price so close to the magic £4K price point (unless it’s a p/x deal). If they will only pay £4K ask for £4000 so you get in more AT searches. Or if you want to be in front of Hundreds of £3995 or £3990 ads go £3989. And if you think the Mazda can be sold for over £4K try it at five. Someone might just come along and pay it.

I read this, then I looked at a copy of Octane from a few months back that predicts that early MX5s are quickly becoming "collectable", then I got the joke. £4295? Why? Either £3989, £4000 or £4989 more like it (for June at least)

Same with used car retail.

I was about to say that there can't be that many Bulgarians in Yorkshire but I remembered my first (and last) trip to a beautiful place called Rotherham. I arrived there by train, the doors opened and waiting to get on was a friend of mine from Bulgaria :-) Definitely a small world p.s. Auris Hybrids are very popular among the Bulgarian Uber drivers in London but for some reason they like to buy them new from Toyota with a "Uber" discount.

Oh yes they do. Otherwise why does everyone that ring me ask What are the "couple of minor marks" that you mentioned in your advert text? I now put that "couple of minor marks" in every advert. Works superbly against the "Oh, but I thought you said the car was immaculate" brigade.

I love the political correctness in this sentence

While the no-cars and no-parking in city centres mantra quickly kills off the British high street.

My camera and lens are nothing special and with photos of cars things like weather, location, background, light, angles, shadows, time of day, car cleanliness, editing ability etc etc are far more important. I could now do my photos with even a basic slr / lens combo and I still use a 5 year old Nikon D7100 with the kit lens (18-105mm). It does take more time and then editing them after takes hours. Literally hours. It's not for everyone.

+1 but Best Offer disabled. eBay buyers always send aggressive enough offers, I don't want to encourage them by enabling the offer function. Have you noticed how the text ONO, OVNO doesn't appear in that many adverts anymore?

I am having a very good month, not despite zero emissions but because of it. A lot of market activity in the London area from buyers that simply HAVE TO change their car although they don't really want to. 3 out of 10 sales this month were to such customers. Very nice condition diesel p/xs at VERY sensible prices means I will also start June well stocked up with full stock ready to sell. Most sales from AT and for the first time ever every customer had left a refundable holding deposit before travelling to view. Not on the strength of videos but just because I asked them to. AT works great for me, I can only assume it's the images quality as my pricing is never the keenest :-)

It won’t be the latest. You can apply for V62 (customers name) in a post office and having that old V5 will save you the £25 fee.

http://pdr-forum.co.uk/index.php?topic=2225.0

I see that In Blackbushe all the time. The sheet on the windscreen will say 1 or 2mm in red and when I look at the tire it will be much much better. Someone didn't bother checking or selected a wrong drop down option on their iPad or whatever they use. `

Because the thread title was specific about Boost Ads I thought I'd mention that there is cost involved for anyone that doesn't know much about this. I've said it many times on forums before: the only thing worse than a very expensive advertiser that works is a very cheap one (or free) that doesn't.

+1. Takes a fair bit of time, generates some unpleasant comments that stay there visible for everyone to see and ad boosting actually costs money.

I love repricing up. My AT rep recently said that on one ad I did 28 price changes in 3 months :-) A car CAN look too cheap and hence the target buyer will miss it completely.

I think the importance should be on who has the most quality stock and what location gives the greatest opportunity to buy stock CHEAPLY even if you have to pay them a few quid more for their buyers fees. All I can add is that I remember BCA Gold fee of around £80 for a £3500 car which right now will be £250 ish. Not a huge difference between Gold and Platinum at the moment.

I think auctions are the way to go. My biggest regret is wasting many hours of my time to go and look at private cars far and wide in my early years. So much stock at auction plus you’ll learn quicker. But go several times, watch what happens, keep your eyes peeled AND make garage contacts so you don’t have to avoid cars with no Mot for example.

What Rory said.

I love the place. NO physical auction I've ever been to presents so many opportunities if you are not there to get a specific car or a specific model. Just don't go and try to collect a car on the same day. The key office will make you wait for hours.

My accountant didn't mention any such thing so for now it's probably not needed. Watch this space though...

I've often though that about car finance... My reason for not getting deeply involved in the MTD discussion is that for my business the only change will be a minimal increase in annual accounting costs. Our accountants (a separate company) are dealing with all set up and problems that come from MTD so I don't need to get deeply involved.