Nick M.K.

So after months of experimenting, talking to customers, punters, competitors, £££ spent on gadgets and hours in front of a computer screen I can confidently say that while video MIGHT be the future we are not quite there yet. Yes, it is currently overrated. It's a bit like Boris Johnson and Borat from the thread the other night. Lots of noise. Not a lot of result. I am on target for my best month ever, videos (albeit short) on every car, on every ad, nice desirable cars, lots of calls, ad views and interest but very few video views. "Did you watch my video?": Yes I saw it for a couple of seconds but it was your pictures that mainly drew me to your car although it was more expensive than others. "What made you travel 80 miles, was it my video?": No, everyone does videos now, it was your ad and the exact spec on your car. "How did you decide to buy from me and not from somewhere closer to you, was it my video?": No, we saw many adverts, sent several emails and your reply was the first that came back. Your car had the right spec too. So you can be Steven Spielberg and a magician with a video camera but the fact of the matter is: People are still searching for used cars in quite a conventional way and for the moment it's probably best to spend more time writing effective ads on AT than editing movies. The above is my own personal experience of course, maybe affected by my inability to create astonishing video content and I know there will be replies that "videos sell cars" etc etc. All I am saying is that for me, today, they don't. Something else drives my buyers.

I went through their whole sale catalogue and can not see that car in my list so have no idea what section it was listed in. Something from Moneybarn for example I would not touch. Cap Clean for that car would've been £8925 so £225 under but yes at £8700 I would've been a buyer if I was there on the day, if it had good colour & spec and if the condition was good. Have a look at the graph below with trade prices going UP! CAP retail hasn't caught up yet as I would not offer it for £10K.

So it's ONLY £3000 not $48,000,000.

It's the interior condition which gives a driving school car away plus in our area most driving instructors are Indian (mine was too in 2004, Mahendra Pandoria, a great guy). This Auris's previous owner is called Nicholas John ****** and hopefully he wasn't a driving instructor.

I feel as a dealer of used cars this a wrong approach. You need to think what might be desirable to the majority of buyers and in this particular case what might be desirable to just ONE person out there. Because ONE is all @david gott needs to sell it (unless at auction, then it's TWO). I'll prove my point. The Ferrari 250 GTO is not desirable to me as a classic. It does nothing for me. I don't like the way it looks, it's not especially powerful by today's standards and quite frankly I don't know what all the fuss is about. BUT one just sold for $48.4 million. $10 million more than the same model sold 4 years ago. (maybe this is what the fuss is about) https://edition.cnn.com/2018/09/30/cars/ferrari-gto-most-valuable-car-auction/index.html

What??? Someone will lose sleep over this, for sure. @david gott, list it on AT at £3000 exactly and publish the weekly response stats here please. +1 That's a valid strategy, sometimes the "it's too good to be true" brigade needs reassurance that they are looking at something really rare and genuine. What better reassurance than asking the highest price in the country.

It would be ideal for it but this one is in pristine condition, looks like it's done 20K miles and doesn't have any signs of the pedals in the passenger footwell.

This is what I've been doing for years with my daily drivers, always managed to sell them for above market after a few months. When I need a quick sale it never happens for me but when I hope to have a car to enjoy it for a while it goes immediately.

You absolutely have to advertise it for £3000, keep it there for a while and then drop gradually. Even if you paid £300 for it it doesn't mean you can not try and ask crazy money just in case there is a crazy person there. Or if our friends at Pistonheads are reading this: just in case it's a person who really knows the modern classic car market. Write in the advert: eligible for classic car insurance and that the one previous owner was an avid car collector. Let's face it, he kept it 25 years, he must've been. And let it rust in peace? Noooo. Let someone else enjoy that slice of Wolfsburg history... That particular model Golf has the distinction of being their worst of all time so some might say it is an "important" car.

The thing is, it wasn't cheap even with the mileage incorrect. My bid was almost Cap Clean. On Autotrader at just under £9K mine was the third cheapest 13 reg within 100 miles from me and in the last 18 months oldish Hybrid prices have risen nationally. How fast can you say Ultra Low Emissions Zone... Sorry, I didn't understand what you meant here.

Absolutely it would, as would the make, model and colour. Only the make was a match That's why I photoshopped-out the name of the garage in Luton that got it wrong. At some point they've spotted their error because the silver Prius does have a valid MOT with a different test number. But the station sure didn't call the DVSA to remove the wrong info from the system.

Next time I'll be all over anything entered as Mileage Incorrect but hopefully will have more than 50 seconds to investigate it before it enters the hall.

The ones that were thinking similar reg got it spot on. I played a bit with similar reg combos and found it! A Silver Prius reg LT63HCG (very similar admittedly) went for it's MOT in Luton and the tester entered the reg wrong. I called DVSA who will delete the wrong MOT information from the record of my car. I've never seen this before, the lady from DVSA says it happens every now and then. Biggest loser was the last registered keeper who did a new MOT, full main dealer service and 2000 miles later sold it to WBAC who picked up the discrepancy and presumably hit him hard on the price. In their defence they entered the car as "Mileage Incorrect" through Blackbushe. I paid £7K, just under Cap Clean, I am sure it would've made more in this condition and in white if it wasn't for the discrepancy.

The mileage is GENUINE, no clocking involved but this is what 50 other traders in the auction hall assumed on the day so I got it for decent money. Can anyone else venture a guess? Also, who would clock a car a day after a main dealer service and MOT only to then go and do another MOT?

The other Monday when I met EPV at Blackbushe I bought a very clean 2013 Toyota Auris Hybrid in White which was offered MILEAGE INCORRECT due to a MOT discrepancy. Mileage 90500 miles. I have published it here. My hunch was that it was a genuine car with genuine miles and I thought that both MOTs were done by the same garage, one two days after the other because they had wrong details on the system. But when I got the car and looked up the MOT locations online they are not the same. What do you think happened? The car comes with a full Toyota history, serviced on 8/8/2018 at 88064 miles and book stamped, copy of the receipt is present.

But you CAN apply for a new V5 surely??? You fill in the V62, you pay the £25 and eventually a book will arrive.

They won't. Now that they've seen you here they will prefer to stick to their usual source of cars: "My mate, who's had since it was 3 months old.."

Oh, someone has been watching Gone in 60 seconds and decided to make a re-enactment. To be honest if it was only one guy that managed to move all 15 cars so quickly I'd be looking for him to offer him a legitimate job.

He must've been on it for a while, then arrived here to troll us like I've heard some dealers do on various car owner's clubs Facebook pages. The idea to do such a thing myself has never crossed my mind of course...

Time to change insurers Dave. You should be able to tax any car you like.

Can they not change the word Piston to something more appropriate? Like KNOB for example.

eBay. BUT ALSO - EVERYWHERE.

Read my post above, we must've typed them at the same time.

In fairness I was going to attack you a bit but remembered how I had two of my cars impounded for unpaid tax in my early years (maybe 2004). A neighbour must've rang the DVLA who sent a recovery vehicle from a private company based in West Drayton and they lifted both cars from our road. One was an old Sienna red (dog d**k red) BMW 5 series 530i, E34, value around a grand maybe, the other a 5 year old Alfa 156, beautiful car, worth maybe four grand at the time, half my operating capital. It took me a couple of days to locate the cars, another day to arrange the tax for them and I worried they might just scrap the old BMW. I went there to collect my cars and there was my BMW, washed and polished to a complete shine, right outside the office of the proprietor Mr Odel or Odell. He was a huge bloke, rough as you like, absolutely hated foreigners and was not pleased to see me there. I think he had decided to keep the BMW for himself and run around locally in it, presumably he would inform the DVLA that he'd scrapped it and charge them! The Alfa 156 was on a forklift, ready to be scrapped and the forks had bent a couple of suspension arms at the rear. It was so much hassle trying to get it recovered back, repaired and chase compensation from Odell for the bent arms, less than £200 but I got it weeks later after telling them I am about to "request the DVLA to arrange a full review by the Department of Transport". He must've made all his staff and friends and family to vote Leave in 2016.