Nick M.K.

Jimnys are really really overrated then. New £13K, 10 years old Cap Clean £7500. To have better residuals you have to be a Renaissance French artist...

I forgot to add: sold two for the whole year from CG.

I was paying around £275 up to 20 cars last yr

I'd usually buy 3-5 at a time from BB, pay and collect all keys / docs etc. Then on different days my wife would drop me off at one of the endless car parks which are long distance away from the main site but easy to get to by car and it takes us forty minutes from our place and maybe a tenner in diesel. I have attached a photo of one of their lovely world class facilities: And another from the times when cars were parked on site which is right next to the airport:

Tried both, average quote around £150 per vehicle. BCA came at £95, quoted 3-5 working days, seemed OK at the time. I almost never have cars delivered and will probably stick to my local Blackbushe from now on.

Would've been in a couple of weeks after I got fed up waiting over 10 days for BCA Wolverhampton to deliver two cars to me but my other half is taking me away on hols tomorrow so BCA have all the time in the world now :-)

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.