Nick M.K.

Stock selection. 1) White BMW 3 series M Sport coupe with dark grey or black alloy wheels 2) very low mileage Honda Jazz Auto under six grand. Very different people will look at either car so the Facebook targeted "boosted" ad will aim at 25-35 year old men for the first car for example and 55-69 year old ladies for the Jazz. Heavily focus on Finance for car 1 and don't even bother mentioning it for car 2.

Every time I buy only one of something if it sells well I end up selling a dozen of it in the next year or two. Sold one Cat N with huge profit last year but it's not a market I want to delve in. Beginners luck I reckon.

Hence you want to move to Cat N cars????

Global payments reduced my debit card rate from 0.9% (!!!) to 0.2 when I mentioned I will switch to Barclays. Do the same with Worldpay.

Majority of TFSI have been sorted by Audi under warranty but you are only really safe on a post 2014 14 reg and newer.

1.8 TFSI. They will not be disappointed. The quality is obvious immediately. You smell the leather and you know. The price should usually be higher for the Audi but as I told them "you get lucky sometimes". The 1.8 TFSI may not win awards for "engine of the year" but it's was so much better buy than the small Ecoboost, they don't compare. Best £8500 these customers could've spent on a 2014 Focus sized car that wasn't a Focus.

Looked for a newish petrol Focus for a brand-loyal customer recently. Ended up getting them an Audi A3 for the same money :-) 20 years of Fords and I don't see them in one anytime soon.

Sold for £9K? Bought for? How does this compare to my 2016 model?

EVERY modern car is built cheaper, less durable and much more complicated than it’s 80s and 90s counterpart. Having said that parts are cheaper and plentiful and anything can be fixed. You can always have a yard-full of 3-4 year old Hyundai and Kia still in the warranty period but then we only live one life. I personally love German cars and will not go back to selling rubbish built in Ellesmere Port, the home of the Astra.

That's what I used to do every holiday until this coming one but because of the time difference and the costs involved I decided to suspend the ads. Save £1400, put them towards the cost of the holiday.

I am away for almost a month in August and have given my notice in April. Asked them how much notice do they need to restart my advertising in September. 1 day is enough, they said :-))) If you want to cancel even a single unit of stock it's still a month.

So I thought at the time. Yet the market proves us wrong. Again :-)

Like the 2016 Ford Kuga Titanium I bought in p/x early June for £9200 (under Cap Below at the time) and watched similar cars go through the block for 10500-11500. Now my £9200 are just shy of Cap Clean and at £12K I've only had a couple of calls.

Oh, sorry Grant when you wrote “I literally just book them in now and that’s it” I thought that was literally it.

You don't text them to confirm a day before? You don't text them to confirm on the morning of the appointment? You don't call them to ask about pre-approving them for finance so you can save (them) a lot of time on the day? You must at least be calling them to offer them to reserve the car because of the high level of enquiries on it? If you don't people won't get serious about your car, they will continue to online-window-shop until something or someone makes them serious. 3 sold this weekend, all 3 on finance, all 3 with a small deposit paid unseen. One is actually paid by the finance co but the customer has not even seen it yet.

To me this read more like Glass half empty...

That's why I sell 90% of my cars. The other 10% go to people that were actually looking for such a model. I have almost no local customers. Even with just £150 deposit unseen most cars are as good as sold.

I wish I saw this post sooner, it was such a long day yesterday, especially the traffic back. Definitely going again next year but on the Saturday.

Customers use so many methods of contact these days that you can't really draw that line anymore. You can of course but you shouldn't. Some call, some leave a voicemail, some simply leave a DEPOSIT, some auto-apply for finance, some email, some text, some WhatsApp, some facebook, some DM on Twitter and Instagram and some (still!) just turn up! BE MORE OPEN MINDED ABOUT PEOPLE AND THEY WILL OPEN THEIR WALLETS.

Had an OK June and I am having a fantastic July so far. Went to watch Wimbledon on Monday the 1st, took my daughter for a nice lunch in London on Tue, going to Goodwood tomorrow, The Henley Regatta on Saturday and I might even sell something on Sunday! Who knows :-)

The DVLA has a form (V55 I think), straightforward enough. If the vehicle has been exported from UK to JER less than a year ago you might have to repay back the VAT they reclaimed at the time of the export! If the vehicle has been in Jersey for a while there shouldn't be a problem.

That's very long shot. Usually the car will be gone in 3-4 weeks, never mind months and that's if they are retailing it. If not it will be gone in a few days.

Exactly the reason why an online based seller at a unit with no passing and little local trade should have a completely different stock profile to the local pitches / supermarkets. I bought an Aygo last month (almost by mistake) and I am enjoying an average of 2 advert views a day on AutoTrader :-))) If it wasn't in white, still in Toyota's warranty and with one doctor owner it would probably get negative views. I'll end up using it as our courtesy car and a second family car for a few months... Taking it to Wimbledon tomorrow. Lucky me!

Just like us dealers then :-)

40-80 miles on average, over 2 hours many of them. Can’t say about the videos because mine are brief but the 60-70 photos on Autotrader make a difference. Post a dummy ad for one car and see what the response will be like when you write “located in Solihull” for example.