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Don't do it!

Oh right

Just out of interest, as a member of DA, can you buy and sell?

With a special relationship like yours with the vendor it's a shame you can't make a deal 'without' DA?

Kissing donkeys while on holiday pretty much describes my ex wives

What's a holiday?

Oh, right. I didn't know you could check the cars over before bidding. That's always rule number one with prospective P/X auction purchases

If it wasn't for threads like this I might consider joining DA. It would be easy to feel that the stock was a little bit special and the trade only aspect some guarantee against rip-offs, but that's clearly not the case? I think I'll stick with my regular old fashioned auctions

I suppose there's little incentive for these guys to declare faults and develop a good reputation if there's no accountability for them. It also seems that other traders assume to buy these cars with some fault or other, and if you don't buy they will. It's hardly surprising things are the way they are? I'm struggling to convince myself its worth joining in on the fun at DA when I'm getting enough fun at Manheim/BCA already

So, buying from DA is substantially cheaper than Manheim/BCA? Or the cars are superior quality? I don't get it, a PX is a PX isn't it?

Plus the big auction houses offer cheap logistics/storage facilities which is probably even more relevant. I don't mean to sound unsympathetic, but reading through this thread and hearing about you guys having bad experiences, it doesn't sound to me any better than the old crap I have to sieve through at Manheim? Plus I can at least hear it start up and have a play with it. Or is DA hinting at everyone being honest gentleman traders?

Sadly, it appears that "everyone's" getting shafted?

They've been lured away by Manheim/BCA. Especially with deals on free collection and storage before sales

Reading through this thread reminds me of how in the old days we used to hang around large dealerships in the hope of picking up PXs. There was always a picking order, and all dealerships had their "favourites". But eventually some nasty old thing was offered to you and you couldn't really turn it down no matter how bad it was. If you refused it, it would just go to the next guy (who'd be more accommodating) and you'd not be welcome back! Of course that was in the '80s, but some things never change!

A few years back I knew a guy that was into everything, an Arthur Daley type character. Would buy and sell anything. If he ever sold it car he would describe himself as acting as an "agent" for the seller, in the same way as an estate agent sells a house. Obviously estate agents can sell houses, earn money from houses but have no obligations as far as "issues" with those houses; not so with the motor trade!

"freedom of the open road" "mobilising the masses" not any more!

Yes, I get that, cars are just a commodity to be bought and sold, like white goods, TVs or carpet. I suppose it helps if you sell cars that you actually enjoy owning and driving yourself, I don't, and I stock what I know I can sell. Interesting fact, many years ago I pondered on the idea of selling boats. There's a surprising boating community in North East London

I'd imagine those early jap performance saloons will be highly collectable in the future, but nice "original" ones, not the "chavved out" or "fast & furious" versions

Selling cars in pre internet times meant you were part of a small community, some of us grew up together and we knew what we were 'holding', how much it stood us in and where it was from. Deals were much easier between trade when you knew the guys from school days. Sadly, these days you can't be that picky and have to dance with the devil

I also remember a time when you could pick up E types and Healeys in Exchange & Mart with a bit of MOT for really not much money?

.... Depends on if they're kept original or not. With these sorts of performance saloons there comes a point when they aren't bought to be fast cars but to be appreciated. Look how many lovely mk1 Escort Mexico/RS had their originality ruined with vauxhall engines

Will Amazon be self-warrantying?

*******sigh, again with this*********** The solution is for Car Dealer Magazine to do a "so you want to be a trader" type thing. When newbies arrive asking questions they can be pointed to the guide. It's been done before by other publications. If Car Dealer Magazine were really clever they could even charge for this as a series of publications and drag it out over 12 months @ £34.99. Plenty of guys on youtube doing this already? Existing forum members don't have to give away any "special secrets" on how they earned their first million. Just my opinon

They should invite real car dealers to input on the design of these systems rather than their IT guys interpretation? Although you can be sure the website is probably easy to maintain and backup.

No advisories?