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  5. Posted

    6 minutes ago, Rory RSC said:

    Not once has anyone ever mentioned how long a cars been in stock with us from cargurus. Or Autotrader.

    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. 

  6. Posted

    19 minutes ago, Mark101 said:

    Crikey, yes of course: This is the pack a new customer gets:

    Invoice, dually signed

    PDI, dually signed with T&C's

    3 Months/3,000 warranty cover and signed agreeing to T&C's

         Plus, I truly stand by my stock and cover every single thing apart from tyres or blatant abuse.

    New (advisory free) MOT

    2 Working keys on all bought for retail cars - (PX albeit prepared the same safety wise + PDI and MOT do not have "nice to have" things addressed).

    Re: Tyres, they are either safe and legal or they're not - I don't believe I need to take 12 off +4mm measurements. I imagine your story tradex is someone had swapped tyres and came back to complain - you pulled out PDI which stated 4 x 6mm Michelin's but they came back with 2mm Accura? :lol:

    No of course not but when they moan about some rust on a wheel arch, a rip in a seat, a stereo that doesn't work or perhaps most common - a/c doesn't work - the fact they may state, it was like that when I bought it works in our favour.

     

    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”

     

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  8. Posted

    7 minutes ago, Mark101 said:

    I disagree (depending what you’re selling) but for a £15k car, I think people will travels a very long way to get the best or to save some £££’s.

    I sell relatively seldom few cars locally but plenty nationally. Redcar, Cornwall, Ireland, Northampton, Bristol, Swindon, Pembroke, Cardiff - you get the picture and that is just the recentish ones I can remember, none within 50 miles of me.

    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. 

  12. Posted

    On 10/8/2019 at 10:19 AM, NacMan said:

    Do you think the punters change relevance to price low to high? or do they just leave it at relevance? I know id change to price low to high but you don't know some people these days

    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.

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  16. Posted

    Just now, TangoVictor32 said:

    Jeezus man

    This shit is like algebra

    This thread was created in good faith.

    Its ok for some old boys to get grumpy and nasty and when i point some in the right direction i am told am having a rant.

    Double standards - cant talk about me i will have you deleted but i can have a moan at you... Its the tinternet all kinda shit happens here....cambridge analytica and facebook to name a big fish... Let alone some old wives gossip :lol:

    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. 

  17. Posted

    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.

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  18. Posted

    41 minutes ago, AAM90 said:

    Have a look at 

    You will see a copy and paste from the Private forum which was utterly despicable imo

    Nobody except admin really knows who did this though. There was never a name and shame

    The CAG forum is on a whole other level

    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. 

     

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  19. Posted

    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. 

  22. Posted

    7 minutes ago, XFS said:

    Ah, now... that...is the slight flaw in my cunning plan...

    Its not easy, but some days you get lucky. One bank holiday this year I bought a load in one day...then couldn't get near anything for weeks. 

    You miss more than you hit, thats for sure.

    I was convinced I was going to buy an E46 M3 at Preston yesterday. Cap clean said £9300, I thought well I can go to 14k...surely I'm I'm with a shout. I was nowhere near. £15800 plus premium bought it. 

     

    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. 

  23. Posted

    27 minutes ago, XFS said:

     

    Not really. I would stock an SL, but probably not a 911

    A typical car for me might be a low mileage, FSH, 1 owner older S4 Avant or a low miles petrol Merc CLS, or E class Estate or maybe a Porsche Boxster or a MK 1 Audi TT,  Alfa Spider  but today I bought an Alfa 159 which I know I will make a big margin on and it only cost 5k. It is low miles, 1 owner and great history, so its a car people will travel as far as they need to for.

    I sold a car to Southern Ireland today.

    What works for me is;

    1. I can afford to pick and choose cars and pick them to suit whom I perceive my customer to be.

    2. I won't buy unless the car is absolutely right for me. I would rather have no stock than the wrong stock.

    3. I make trading from home a positive not a negative.

    4. I make not offering finance a positive not a negative.

    If I were dealing in 5K cars I would be going for rare rather than mainstream bread and butter. Big petrol Estates,  Low miles Alfas, Saabs. Old jag XF's with good history, good Spec. Cars for mature people who don't give you hassle and don't need finance.

    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!

  25. Posted

    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. 

     

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