Nick M.K.

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.

They are renaming the product to AT Check MAX 8

Are you kidding? Scrap value on something like this is nearer to £60 in my area. At least no one thought my account has been hacked :-)

L reg Escort possibly? 58K miles but odos on those only went to 99999, then back to 0. If Practical Classics had an online forum, that would be a good place for this question... i’d scrap it.

Tell him that most of the above is considered fair wear and tear on the 150K mile 10 year old SUV and it explains the depreciation that these “luxobarges” suffer from and from which the customer benefitted greatly by buying the car for a tenth of it’s price new!

It's a closed group so we may not see the post.

Your friends PAY you to find them cars? Mine almost expect everything for free AND will say stuff like "Look at how shiny and clean your other cars are" with a tone that suggests theirs should've been fully prepped also.

+1 The quality of these intros has increased greatly in the last few months. Welcome to the forum and best of luck. The harder and smarter you work the luckier you'll get :-)

2014 C Class diesel estate bought for around £13K from BCA Leeds 13 months and 17500 miles ago. Still worth that to retail and will probably be advertised shortly before the mileage creeps up to 100K.

Hi Simon, I know exactly what I am saying. Basically after YEARS OF BENDING OVER BACKWARDS for each and every customer there will be a time in the near future that (for the first time in my business’ history) I will be driven by the circumstances and by some customers personalities to do what’s better for ME and my children. After watching you for years to call customers words like pond-life and bottom feeders on this very forum and to dictate take-it-оr-leave-it terms to them I genuinely think my business is honourable ENOUGH.

Over many years of dealing I’ve never not sold a car that I took a deposit for unless of course the customer changed their mind. First deposit, first served. However if a customer has really managed to beat me down on my price AND demanded extra work AND been extra fussy I would sell to Mr £8000 who not only offers a lot more for a lesser condition vehicle but seems much less fussy as a customer with which the OP can go on and do many future deals. If both customers were paying the same price I’d absolutely honour that deposit. In this particular case I’ll take the eight grand.

I agree with this after clicking on one of my own CG free ads that popped on a banner after I did a google search that only spelled "Juke Nismo for sale" My own Juke is all over my Google Chrome now.

They are not exactly leads then are they? They are just ad views.

Because they also appear in many Google searches and SOME of the leads will be genuine. If you only sold 4 cars in 2 weeks from Autotrader as well by all means consider dropping it.

Relieved now that they closed the old forum :-) I can do without logging on for hours.

Interesting to go from mechanical into sales, unusual but I guess this gives you a bit of an edge. Maybe mention this into your video. 1) Astra Video: Location too busy for my liking, too much background noise from the road making your voice difficult to hear. I am a fan of scottish accents but maybe talk a little bit slower. 2) Astra AT Advert: Not enough text. Only a few words. Include a bit more, stuff about the rarity of that model etc etc, keep them engaged, keep them on the advert. Once they click off you've lost them. Photos: Location and background too busy, lines, reflections, fencing takes the eye away from the car. Find a location with a more rural, neutral background, stand a couple of metres further away from the car, then zoom in for correct proportions. Clean interior and door cards a bit better, make sure steering wheel is straight and get rid of air freshners etc from inside the car. Good luck!

It shows it to you but will NOT show it in the info which the customers can see.

Very odd. No Nox sensor or DeNox cat codes is unusual on these. Always seem to have them.

Have you scanned the car? Have you got a code with no EML: "DeNOX Catalytic converter sulpherised"?