Nick M.K.

Push them a bit Mark, should work. Fingers crossed.

Great news! It's a bit annoying when they have their pricing all over the place.

I don't understand everyone that talks about AT robbery all the time. We are not talking some garages here, or repairs, or expensive parts or £12000 for a diagnostic machine or customers that lie about their p/x, it's just an advertiser. A service provider that can be switched off with a single phone call. No sneaky 24 month contracts like other companies (i.e. iVendi), no fees for late payment or £15 a day storage charges. As above it's a pure choice. And it DOES WORK. Imagine a marketplace full of many cheap advertisers that DON'T work.

Easier said than done. Depending on the systems you have in place it is difficult to attribute a sale to an advertising platform from leads other than direct phone calls. I did a deal on Saturday after the customers messaged me on our company facebook page. I don't advertise on Facebook, I use the page very infrequently, yet I received their message and thought that maybe they found the car through a Google search and "facebooked" us. Just before they drove off I remebered to ask them where they saw the car advertised and of course it was Autotrader. "We didn't look anywhere else" If I had advertised on Facebook or never asked that question I would've wrongly attributed that sale to another platform.

I'd say blocked trans oil filter due to dirty or wrong oil and insufficient pressure to operate. Once it warms slightly it improves. An oil and filter change should improve it a lot. Some Mercs suffer from this where the torque converter material breaks up and these small debris block the filter.

+1 AND a lot of people that watch used car videos watch them at work with the sound fully OFF.

Yes that's correct. You can select the options from the list but IN ADDITION you can type other stuff and their algos are programmed to search keywords like Navigation, Media, Leather, Panoramic, Lane Keeping, Rapid charging etc etc. So in a short advert without most of these words the vehicle will have a slightly lower suggested retail although it may be an identical car!

Oh yes they read them! Otherwise how did a bloke spot the "£300 finance deposit contribution" I had forgotten to remove from deep in the text on an advert last month and had to effectively deduct from my price :-) Also something not everyone is aware of: AT price indicators ALSO depend on options MANUALLY TYPED inside of your advert text, not just the ones selected from the list of options.

Dave doesn't do "free road tax". Anything smaller than a V6 is of no interest to him

Just in case you think it might be April fools joke try it with one of your logbooks Dave, without paying in the last screen, works perfectly.

No. A RANDOM FIRST DIGIT in front of the 11 digit doc ref number on the front of the V5 does it IF the part logbook you are holding is the last one issued for the vehicle.

I find that advertising websites are a bit like airlines. Same aircraft, similar number of seats, different pricing, completely different travellers :-)

With eBay Motors Pro it's better than eBay auctions in the sense that it is indeed fixed pricing just like on any other Classifieds website. It does attract some very price aggressive buyers but you get some good ones. The £175 (up to 25 cars) may not be available as a deal now as they are pushing a combined package eBay / Gumtree for around £230 which is great value. I will leave someone else to explain the downside of dealing with some Gumtree buyers but I will probably go for that package. "Right now, you’re advertising your cars on eBay Motors only. But you could be getting up to 50% more leads on the combined eBay Motors and Gumtree Motors marketplace for only 30% more than you currently pay (1) when you sign up to our Spring offer (available for a limited time only). Typically, this means, for dealers paying £175/month, would now pay just 30% more or £53 more per month to advertise in both places (current rate card of joint Plus package - £568/month)."

We wrote our posts at the same time and I kind of touched on that. Different stock performs differently on various platforms and it's a case of you monitoring that closely. You can switch off AT to measure the difference in your sales just in case there isn't any. 30 days notice to switch off, you can then switch it back on immediately. For my stock for example, for my pricing positions one platform clearly performs better at the moment. Do you have the Call Whisperer that tells you "This is an enquiry from Autotrader?"

Except when they don't. Different people do different things so it makes a lot of sense for us to constantly try different things. I'll be the first to admit that I never found the patience to work hard and master Facebook / Shpock / Marketplace / Google+ / YouTube / Snap Chat or Instagram. I am 41 and on the old side for some of those For free CarGurus is a no brainer. I get leads but almost no sales from it. For a hundred quid a month Motors is a no brainer. For another £175 + vat eBay also delivers well for me. And for the last £1180 (up from £1105 this month) AT brings me the best quality leads. The fast buyers for the dearer cars that get little interest on eBay. The same buyers that are not overly fussy about how much or how little they get in part-ex and that quite often want finance. The people that leave their deposit in advance for an unseen car, pay it in full by transfer when they see it and OF COURSE I do get some lunatics who can still be found everywhere... I have no forecourt, no passing trade, no "walk-ons" (some of them have actually seen a car online before they walk on) and if it isn't for AT I'll have a nice little part time business sourcing cars to order for friends (slit my wrists now) or repeat / referral customers and ping ponging emails with the eBay last price brigade. I am sure that a lot of people do and will continue to do very well without AutoTrader and I wish everyone great success and easy trouble free sales. That's what we all want. But it ain't free

Either the motor that moves the light up and down is failty or needs re-learning.

If this includes them bidding in the hall it's not that bad

Can you publish an exact fault code and the make of the machine used?

To me the basic BCA transaction is the car hammer price. Everything else I view as an "Extra legroom" kind of add-on. Compulsory but add-on.

I posted this a week ago. So it's from a week ago. My rep told me on THU so three days after they rolled it out. I even posted on the IMDA Facebook page to not bother sending an open letter as the product was stopped in it's current form almost immediately. This is a current ad with a mileage discrepancy, live now. As you can see it does NOT show it: https://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/201809280975957

They seem to be following the Ryanair model more and more where they have so many thousands of transactions that even a couple of quid "added value" here and there really add to their bottom line. Bought a car online from BCA Wolverhampton, yes it might've been slightly cheaper than Blackbushe but my immediate added costs were £44 Live on Line fee and £95 delivery charge. The car was paid on TUE and should arrive here next WED! 8 days! I can buy from Blackbushe in person and sell it in 8 days! Buying in person and collecting in person really has it's advantages sometimes.

+1. I know what my ideal customer looks like. Looks like a person that is not on Pistonheads, has done their homework, knows the car better than me, read my reviews, is prepared to pay my advertised price and generally feels happy to buy from me. If he has a wife, if he has kids, if he is wearing trainers, if he needs picking up from Heathrow: so be it.

I think it will pass IF the car passes its emissions test. For ABS though I can promise you that the car should FAIL if the light doesn't work at all or if it stays on all the time. Then again, my tester never misses anything :-)

CCTV from your forecourt, a signed statement from one of your staff or a neighbouring business or similar in addition to the mileage readings should suffice. Good luck with it.

This could've been a case of a similar reg number on a completely different vehicle of the same make and model and supplying dealer. Just tell your insurer you were not involved in the accident, you car wasn't there on the day and show them proof of the purchase mileage, MOT mileage and sale mileage that show that the car hasn't travelled the alleged hundreds of miles.