Nick M.K.

13) Remove photos of dashboard showing date and time. If it sticks in stock they can see it and can be put off

I had a look at the Audi A3 mostly. The location is OK, not great but not the worst I've seen. Similar to one of mine I sometimes use when the light is really low (https://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/201811072224788). You can zoom in thye car a bit more to get rid of some of the background. 1) The £4050 price should be £3990 or £4000 or over £4190. Otherwise you don't appear in a lot of searches for the sake of £50 that EVERYONE will want to chip down. 2) The mileage of 90100 miles should absolutely be 90000 in your ad, again to be visible in searches 3) I like your text but remove half of the superlatives. Have a couple, sure but "fantastically smooth" as an example for the DSG gearbox is a bit over the top. 4) Remove the bit about NOT offering finance. You can do a finance deal with ZUTO for example and even if you don't want to work with them you can always get a customer to come, see the Audi, love it, then find the money somewhere else in a few days. 5) Remove the number of owners. It could put people off. If it's really important for someone they will ask over the phone. 6) Remove the payment by BACS or CASH bit. 7) With a service and MOT date like that put New MOT, New service or recent service. 8) Change the order of your images slightly so customers see the nice leather interior very early after clicking on your ad. Mix them up a bit :-) 9) Pick ONE photo of the alloy with the least amount of damage and use that. Don't give buyers a reason not to come and see the car. If you are worried about letting their expectations down put in your advert text "Some kerbing marks on alloys" 10) Use the world Petrol and the word Auto somewhere in your ad so if someone is specifically searching Google for a Petrol Audi Auto you have a chance of them finding it. 11) Pay attention to every little detail in your ads and if it bugs you - get rid of it. 12) If you have a landline number give it to Autotrader to display along with your mobile. Divert the calls to your mobile so you will always answer it. Use call whisperer.

Hi Tim, Pamporovo is where I go. Will be there from 1 to 4 Feb so will just miss you. The best night club (and it’s not dear nor fancy) is Plan B in The Perelik Hotel. You might as well try it if you don’t need to be out at 8:45 to catch the first lift up.

They wish they could afford me :-)

I only have another couple of weekends left with decent conditions, the first weekend of Feb I am taking 7 Brits from our village. Depending on how that goes I can organise a car-dealer only ski trip next year for those that 1) ski or 2) enjoy £1 pints of beer in winter conditions :-)

For the benefit of anyone curious about the economics of this* (*pre-Brexit): return Ryanair fare to Plovdiv, Bulgaria (my home town), £80-£90 including two cabin bags transport to resort: Free (I have my own car there) accomodation: Free (A friend has an apartment) 3 day ski-lift pass £76 meals out £30-£40 for the three days Knowing I didn't drop any of my prices during the slowdown: Priceless. Knowing that after 14 years of working like mad, 12 hour days, 7 days in most weeks I can do this: Even more priceless.

I spend a couple of hours a day contributing to this forum. I also got all my stock through all their outstanding recalls from BMW. I go skiing every other weekend so I am not tempted to reduce prices just because it's cold and slow :-)

I have a CTEK MXS 5.0 and it always starts the cycle, no matter how low the voltage. I've had it for years, I highly recommend it to anyone that doesn't have one yet.

Mercedes are very easy to get the history out of. Just email a copy of the trade purchase invoice, front page of the V5 and a short covering letter requesting the service history to cs.uk@cac.mercedes-benz.com. They will email it back within a day or two. No GDPR issues as you have a logitimate interest in the vehicle.

Switch & bait :-) Trading Standards absolutely love this. EPV, I think I might be the only Bulgarian that understands the expression gullable div :-) My English teacher would’ve been proud of me :-) Bait & Switch rather.

That makes no sense. A lot of people use the word Sold when the list the things they’ve done to it before sale. Will be Sold with new MOT for example.

Mine are started in Portal and get auto exported ftom there

+1. I went to a really good car dealer masterclass where one of the tips was to advertise SOLD vehicles. Called "The syndrom of the busy pub" in marketing (where you walk along a street of restaurants and you naturally want to go in the one which is full of customers or even has a queue to get in) Will have to think of another text: Thank you, no longer available Thank you, found a great new home Thank you, you just missed out :-)

I have no less than 4 active ads with SOLD in the attention grabber, no issues. Just double checked them all now. Maybe if it's in the attention grabber the AT "police" can't see it :-) https://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/201810121426442

A lot of that at auction is a buyer who is planning on exporting it. 250K miles turn into 75K and the car is sold abroad with no service or MOT records. A newish Audi A8 with almost 200K on the clock and book value of 8000 recently made £13000 at Brighouse. I bet a proud new owner in Malaysia or similar paid over £25K and regard it as the bargain of a lifetime :-)

All yours SIR

I would consider over 15K miles a year high. Would sell them with no hesitation though.

And if they all look like models and don’t haggle they are Bulgarian. The easiest customers ever. Very difficult to please if they are car dealers though.

Never bid at Paddock Wood, have bought one online, grade 3 that should’ve been a grade 7 (if it existed)

At BCA what you are describing has always been the norm.

It demonstrates how effective an EDIT button can be when you have one :-)

I wasn’t complaining. When more people turn up there is often pressure on the decision maker to buy and that never comes from me.

They go everywhere together. What I have found is that Pakistani customers always come in threes and they are all brothers. Wifes don’t have to approve the purchase. I usually leave one of the three to do my job convincing the other two that they should buy.

They start 4 days after winning. IF you pay during these 4 days you get another 3 days free

I used to happily pay them when stock was difficult to find. See a very cheap car, buy it without having the ££££ to pay it, wait a week or two, pay it + £60-70 storage and watch how the same car sells for £1500 more :-) Now though it's easier. I will pay them by transfer 3 days after winning them, this gives me extra 4 days of FREE storage so I have until end of play on TUE to pick them up. Free. I call it a turnaround when sold and I need another few days for that. Off skiing this weekend so will sell zero.