Nick M.K.

The finance money as. The comission: check in the post around the 4th on the next month. The finance money Yes I meant above You also need to set up with Blue and First Response.

Be positive! Our acceptance rate actually increased slightly to just under 45% :-)

You have my email, send it over and I will post it here with a Flickr link Since they accepted me to the private chat room I lost the upload button too :-)

Lucky sod. All I have in my garage are sets of tyres, some tools and a hardtop for an Audi TT Roadster. But no Audi TT :-)

In July I saw a white BMW 320D GT on a 64 plate enter the hall at Blackbushe, UK Car Group Trade. 21K miles, Cap Clean around £15K, retail around £17K, decent spec and almost as new, very nice and clean car, cat N which I hadn't heard of before but the auctioneer several times repeated non-structural and I thought I'd chance it. £9600 provisional to me, sold later in the day. Bear in mind a car like this cannot be sold on finance even though some companies are falsely advertising it. When it arrived our garage couldn't find the accident damage but there was a business card with a lady's name, same as the reg keeper so I called her. She told me the whole story: Minor bump, rear bumper damaged, repaired by a "BMW Approved" third party bodyshop and her insurer DirectLine paid out. Less than £2K repairs. However immediately on collection she had problems with the rear PDC non working, electric rear spoiler and both electric windows not working. Kicked up a huge fuss, the bodyshop couldn't help, couldn't fix it, DirectLine agreed to write the car off if she paid them back the repair cost and agreed to let her keep the "salvage" (look at it!) for another £5000. Which she did and promptly sold the car to WBAC, now cat N recorded for £8000. They sent it to BCA and that was it. A brand new control unit that was replaced by that bodyshop was not coded properly, an hour labour to fix, two new front tyres and that was it. Sold two months later for just under £14500. With a decent HPI Clear part ex.

To get that marker even if you don't have Retail checker you can just see the AT suggested retail price and calculate between 95% and 97.9% of their market value so a £9995 AT retail car should have Great price at between £9495 and £9704.

Peugeot 205 1.9 GTI. Sold for £3K some years ago. Now worth 20K ish

Depends on the car, age, miles, condition and price point as no finance is possible. There is demand, cars do sell, some of them for close to normal retail money.

One more deposit so three here and bought three at Blackbushe yesterday, the prices were all over the place. My hopes for a quiet December are already quashed.

Sounds almost like going on a summer holiday to the Med in February. I wish you every success though.

It checks against the last VOSA mileage entry only. It specifically looks for misleading ads where the mileage is rounded down on purpose, say 80000 instead of 86520. IF the entry is in kilometres for example the ad will still get rejected but a phonecall to their "misleading ads team" should sort it.

Autotrader have finally implemented a system which checks your advertised mileage against the online MOT data for that vehicle reg. One to watch out for, especially when the reg number you use (if you ever do that) is from another similar vehicle which has higher miles. They don't email you the reason, don't tell you, the advert just gets rejected...

Nice deal this. No wonder everyone says that buying stock nowadays isn’t as easy :-)

No. I called David on his mobile, asked him how much he needs for it to be happy out of this deal and will pay him the agreed amount by transfer tomorrow. No chipping.

No. But I had two £100 deposits that people didn’t turn up after leaving them. Time saved. Can I not answer the other questions you raised? Every time you enter one of these keyboard wars on this forum (roughly twice a week for you with all the time you “save”) I get worried about your blood pressure.

Not a saloon though. It’s the 3dr hatchback

Sorry, just agreed a deal with David over the phone. The Volvo is coming home with me... Will this be the first car sold after a brief mention on this forum?

Let me have that petrol Volvo David, should fly out in Greater London.

Like 4-5 grand instead of £12K?

If it looks ok and has decent spec it’s £1000.

So what is the point of asking for a deposit? Just mark the car as sold, remove ad, remove video, lose the opportunity to find another buyer until the first customer turns up. If they don’t like the car thry get deposit back anyway... Deposit should be about MUTUAL commitment. They commit to your car. You keep it for them. Wife didn’t like it? No problem, no hard feelings, no need to go ahead with your purchase and those £100 will just about cover the delay in selling the car and the extra admin work...

Do it at Nissan as the car is under warranty. Any major problems they find will be fixed and the manufacturer will pay. £149 is a small price to pay under those circumstances. I would also advise you to NOT start in used car sales with newish high value electric cars. Buy 4 Micras instead.

This is one of the two scenarios when my refundable holding deposit will NOT be refunded. The more common one is when they don't call or don't turn up!

There is more money in part exes than in retail cars that cost + £300 auction fee and +£150 delivery. You have NO competition when you are buying a p/x...

The odds are 50:50. It's either the same car or it's not. Some punters have been known to turn up in a different vehicle for the "appraisal" hoping that the dealer will miss the age / mileage / spec / condition difference and will fall for the old "it was on a private plate" scenario :-)