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This and keeping it low key, don’t get the attention of your competition if you can help it.

Which auction are you planning on doing?

The pros being the ones in the branded jacket, pointy shoes walking around with their clipboards touching every tyre you mean?

Personally, I don’t rely on the driver for things like lights on dash, I look every time for myself. It takes seconds, as well as checking stuff like window switches. Just get yourself around, in and over the car like you would with buying from a private, admittedly in a limited window of time.

Good numbers! We’ve struggled to do just over that from a retail pitch this month.. 19 here from 35 in stock and closed tomorrow, though the right email enquiry tonight may tempt be to go in!

Same here. We don’t use AT but instead run eBay, Facebook and CarGurus free package.

Would have loved to do that today just our opening hours state 4pm close!

What would even possess someone in this weather?! My handover today turned up in shorts and a jacket as it was lashing it down, then once we’d done all the paperwork proceeded to spend an hour on his mobile in my office arranging (not swapping over) his insurance! Thats my pet hate, customers not arranging insurance before collecting no matter how many times I ask them to..

Tail end of the month is dire here too, 16 currently, hoping to get to 20 before the month is out.

My mistake, thought you were pitch based for some reason!

Plus 1, was trying to think how I was going to word it! I can see both sides of the argument here though as I’ve worked both site and by appointment and each approach to warrantys work well enough for each individual setup.

20 years in and still learning but this is the statement that rings true the most for me. From doing Autotrader listings on a Monday morning ready for a Friday magazine to a few clicks and your advert is changed in real time; worlds apart!

+1 for Autosmart, tried many variants over the years and nothing seems to come close. Other than that, G3 and a mop for polishing the profit in!

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Am I right in saying you’re trying to specialise in small cars? Surely as a door stepper you’re much better off getting out and about buying whatever you can that’ll earn you a profit (at minimum, a wage?) I honestly can’t think of any worse way to spend my day in this trade than trying to buy 9 year old Hyundais online..

Normally get one or two a month away through the free package with CarGurus; a proper reply with contact details and website usually works. The quality of customer always seems better too?

How’s everyone’s month going? Was on one a day until the weekend but it seems to have died off the last few days..

South Wales

One of our traders was just telling me how he’s just got a unit and yard, inside space for 6 and outside space for 10-12, gated and secure for £250 a month!

Don’t forget boots open..

Good old Wiki on a quiet Thursday afternoon: ‘In the first series, Terry drives a dark navy blue Mk2 Ford Granada. At the start of the second series, Terry receives a new company car, a metallic Tara Green Austin Princess (a Series 2 1700HL model, with fake registration NMO 49W). This Princess was not used in the following series as the next model Terry uses is an older Series 1 Brooklands Green 2200HL, but still with the fake and now incorrect registration. In the 1985 series, Terry keeps his "Wedge" theme with the updated Neutilus Blue Austin Ambassador. In the 1987 series, Terry goes back to Ford and drives a metallic red Ford Sierra. In the last series he switches to a briefly seen Mk3 Ford Granada.’

A5 SE TFSi; looks a bit Princess-ish and they wouldn’t drive a diesel?

Used to do that too; when the dent man used a drill as a last resort..

There was a local car supermarket that seemed to use the same type of sticker; 10 years later you’d still see their stickers in the back of stuff! Plus one here for complete branding, plates, sticker and key ring, for the cost per unit why not have your name out there!

Quick turnaround, nice to see! Just goes to show that it doesn’t hurt to take a punt sometimes.