Nick M.K.

You know how I always say Fortune favours the brave... I retract it after reading your post :-)

This is describing accurately approx 30% of my potential customers. Depending on the amount of tolerance and patience I have left in me some of them do buy. "Why are you selling it?" is by far my favourite question

My words to him exactly. I've walked around 4km in the auction yard yesterday, James must've done more.

One delivered yesterday early morning and should* be paid on Wed. I guess I'll have to count it towards October. *long story. When the dust settles I'll do a separate post on this one deal.

I was there with him and it was nice to meet in person. I bought one in the afternoon and bid on a dozen others with no luck, James stayed another couple of hours and bought a very late bargain. He is probably still on the M25 on the way back. Mine seemed a decent buy at just over £7K, we'll see: https://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/201810011052642

You can't really be quite active in a public forum where everyone knows your website and keep the market to yourself :-)

DON'T bid online in that section unless you need it for parts of course. If you do you are far braver than me.

I use the NoCo as featured in the video above and it's ideal because it's super light and you can charge it in a car on the way to collecting another car :-)

For years we were based very close to CarGiant in West London, we got at least 2-3 sales every month to people that were told they could only buy there on finance or made to wait 5-6 hours until the car underwent "final preparation". They would lose patience, find us online and sometimes even arrived on foot If it was me I'd haggle for a finance deal "don't care how high your interest is as long as you get me approved", then cancel the finance in 10 days and pay it in full to the finance co. People don't know that they can do this and even after they read it on this forum still wouldn't be sure if it's OK to do.

Where is @EPV when you need him. That's his neck of the woods also.

I DID get it cheap, maybe not as cheap as the underbidder would've wanted if the eml came on but the alloy wheels looked horrible in DIY black with scuffed edges. 48 hours later it was unrecognizable, I'll try and attach a photo...

I'll see your cheap fix and I'll raise you! Drove a 2013 TT TFSI that I bought a couple of days ago on the A40 and got traction control light, Stabilization failure message, EPC light and engine management. Car drove well, maybe slight lack of power. My Snap on showed "Mass Airflow sensor signal implausible" and also in Brake electronics: "Fault code stored in engine control module". Yes, the MAF electrical connector was loose, almost off. My guess: someone at BCA partially unplugged it hoping to trigger EML and to get a bargain. 3 seconds labour to fix, no parts needed! By the way that 2009 CLC I emailed you about a while ago did indeed have some oil ingress from the Cam adjuster magnets wiring all the way to the plug for the engine ECU. Another cheap fix, upgraded the cable connections for around £30 and a good clean of the plug.

How are they going to fill up all the forecourts, compounds and pitches then? The finance companies provide very low interest stocking loans and they need the finance business in return. Having thousands of cars and "only" making the 5-10 percent (I've heard of 12!) on finance commission is a valid business strategy. I don't envy the "cash buyers with no part exchange and no need for add ons" looking for a great deal. They probably get laughed out of showrooms...

I am glad for the OP for this outcome but I personally think I'll never want to take a customer to court over his p/x... To me the very idea that they sell to us at rock bottom trade price (don't tell me you pay more) is enough of a penalty for them, even if gets them out of a vehicle with a few issues... The fact that "there is no comeback for me as a trade buyer" is something I use very heavily in my p/x negotiations and I wouldn't really want to lose that card for the sake of a court payout or two. Also, just imagine a review: "Dear Nick, thank you for selling me a nice car, I wish you didn't take me to court over the quality of my trade-in after we agreed a low price and shook hands, in hindsight I should've given it to WBAC, although they pay slightly less at least they don't take sellers to court". And just a reminder as if we can ever forget: (retail) buyers are liars anyway.

eBay. Every year I think of stopping it (£175pm for 20-25 cars), then I do one very juicy sale resulting from it and I keep it :-)

Simon's? All of them. It's in his video. Mine? I make them look at the documents as soon as they mention Test Drive. I keep them on my desk for a few minutes and look at them looking at the docs. If they don't like a gap in a service book or something similar (the surname of the previous owner) we sometimes save the test drive time.

Same here. So I don't do a voiceover, I just use ambient relaxing music which YouTube puts automatically in the video instead of the original sound. Takes seconds to do without needing any editing skills.

I am sorry, I didn't want to emphasise that YOU missed it but wanted to emphasise that THEY WERE born here (and their spelling is still s**t)

You should see the writing of my kids that WERE born here. Shocking :-)

I prefer to talk to my customers on the phone but certainly have a few letter templates for those few that say "There is nothing more to be said, my solicitor will be in touch soon"

Probably imported from NI and re-registered from their XXX1111 NI plates to a more normal age related UK one. I would've chipped the seller and bought it there and then.

I don't know about speaking but my spelling and grammar are certainly way above average

No offence taken.

THIS! I sometimes take them. Blackbushe, Hall 3, 11-11:30am on a Monday following a payday week. Prices in that Inchcape Retail section are indeed......retail. Beyond retail sometimes. My friends / customers look bewildered and we can't win anything of course. I ask them to drastically increase their budget, then get them a "bargain" in their absence late afternoon on Wednesdays or Fridays.