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If he owns it, technically, so what? As for insurance, ask your insurance company to add him as a named employee.

It will be a problem when he wants to take the plate off the car if it's in the trade! Put the car in his name, transfer the plate and providing it's taxed and insured he won't have a problem.

My understanding is that Star is one of the best manufacturer specific diag machines around. In the right hands, it’s very powerful.

I got the same email. I told them to fuck off.

Me either. As for CG, I've had shit loads and I mean SHIT LOADS of emailed leads from them in the last 8 weeks. I cancelled my package with them 4 months ago. About a week or so ago, I thought I must be due a call soon from a sales rep, asking me "how it's going" Yesterday, I got a call from an American from CG's asking how it was going etc. I stopped her before she got into full swing pitch mode, told her what I thought was wrong with CG, why I didn't think my profile was conducive to CG's and why the previous 9 months of contract I had with them (6 and 3 months separated apart) didn't yield enough sales to warrant a new contract. All with her in complete silence. She took it well to be fair, didn't attempt to try and fill my head full of magic and left me to my day. I think one day CG's will be a big player in the car advertising world.

I think this is off on a tangent. Customers clearly aren’t going to reject a car and say “it was like it when I bought it”

Killing them

Agreed. Autotrader do state that most people will travel 60 miles. There’s always people that will travel 300 miles and those that won’t leave their front door. Too many variables to even consider second guessing how “people” search.

I have a backlog

I’ll see what I’ve got in the back..

Free dead prostitute in every boot

You can't be everything to everyone. Some people will be looking for a boggo Focus or Astra and in which case, will have £5,000 to spend and filter by price. Other people will be looking for a high spec Q7 and price will enter their head a lot later in their little car buying journey. Some people will travel 250 miles to save £250 on a boggo Focus where as some people won't travel 50 miles for a better spec. So worrying about whether people search high to low, or distance, is a waste of time because everyone starts out at a different point. In my opinion, it's all academic and there are much more important factors to be considered in digital advertising.

50/50 for me. I’m 35 miles from the centre of London.

Especially on that particular car

Ok mate, apology accepted, forget it and move on.

Algebra is about right. I can make more sense of hieroglyphics than the above. You might not be so blasé about certain things if it were your livelihood.

AAM90, just so you know that I'm not some sly creep like some I could name from this forum, I am telling you what I have just done. Reported this thread to the admin, suggesting it's removed and that you are removed from the private forum. There is no need, whatsoever, to tell people from the public forum, what happens in the private forum, or else, what is the point in having the private forum? You're just feeding the curiosity of a mob, people who just want the "gossip" and if they could be bothered, could get access to the private forum and find out for themselves. If you think I'm being out of order by saying this, you know my name, my website and my number. Call me and we can discuss it further or pop down and I'll make you a coffee.

Ah well done. Glad to know that it's bad enough being splashed about in the PRIVATE section of the forum, we now have people basically telling the public forum, what is happening in the private forum.

Mine wasn’t quite similar really, I never got to the Nav stage, it was just a constant “updating” message on the screen. In the end, mine was an issue with the module, someone had buggered it up by using a cheap CD update from eBay! So take it to a proper firm. The module itself is about £600 from memory or they send it off to France. Not cheap either way.

A week! I’ve had hangovers last longer. Presumably the 3 series is a different type of diesel to the Astra, if the 3 series sold quickly. It’s the only explanation for it.

I get 14 in my 2300sqft unit and I have a 200sqft office, toilet and storage set up. I’d say you’d get 18-20 cars in a 2800sqft set up

Yep, most of that stuff is a “Chuck the book out” type of stock. Certainly more interesting than some stock profiles but each to their own. Good luck to you.

Love the profile. I’d love to know where you get a steady stream of such cars as well as they’re exactly the type of cars I sell!

Rory can often be found at his local orphanage handing out toys and sweets. When he isn’t helping old dears across the road.

Eh? You paid £18,800 and had a gross margin in of £700 at £19,500. By the time you allow for a bit of VAT (at the price point you’re selling at it won’t be long before you hit the threshold) and allowing a bit for advertising and small overheads you’ll nett £300-£500, on a £19k car. Even the vendor is making more than that. Ridiculous. People aren’t going to buy a £19k Audi from a door stepper when they only have a couple of cars in stock, when they can go to the MD, get given a cup of expensive coffee and some smoke blown up their arse for a few hundred quid more. Three weeks isn’t a long time. I said the same on another thread yesterday to someone panicking about having a car in stock for a couple of weeks and no enquiries. I don’t know what books you’ve been reading or who’s advice you’ve been following but trying to sell £19k Audi’s from home on a part time basis, with a £700 gross margin in, is a waste of time. Your expectations of what you can sell at with your current set up are unrealistic. To build yourself up, sell £5k cars and do 5-6 of them a month with a £1k gross margin in. You ought to be doing more margin really given your low overheads.