Paul C

I know all about the restrictions of driving with trade plates. My understanding was that trade plates are used to "cover" the fact a car isn't taxed on the road. BUT are they also required when a car is "in the trade" ie it doesn't have a registered keeper? For example, if I wanted to drive an "in the trade" car to/from an MoT, do I need them, since I don't need tax because there is a specific exemption there. TIA!

Plates or transporter?

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I'd be more worried about the bigger picture - how did this "mistake" occur?? Cruise control is a desirable option on older cars, and probably costly to retrofit, but I think you're going to have to stump up for that mistake. Door handle too. Is her partner her husband? If so, they're basically one and the same legal entity, so the comms and claim is valid from him too. If you've not actually been rude or ignored for ages or communicated anything yet, your best hope is to try negotiate <£500 but be prepared to meet a stonewall. And do something about how you check cars so £500 mistakes don't keep happening.....

Was it a like-for-like comparison? The customer may have changed/enhanced their figures between the two quotes, to try get a better deal.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-58335060 The headline is, that new car production is down 37.6%. Perhaps now is the time for the market correction that has been building up for ages, the fact is there is (was) overproduction of cars basically flooding the market, getting people into them with big discounts and (IMHO) stupidly high amounts of finance/borrowing. With the way the world and the environment is going, less wastage and consumerism is a long term good thing. Of course it would be a big shake up for UK with so much car manufacturing based here but then there's worker shortages in many other UK industry sectors.

The only true measure is a free market, ie no-reserve bidding. Bid rigging is simply an underhand way to run a reserve auction, which is not a free market. Whether its illegal or not, I don't know, but I do know "the wall" has bought a lot of cars!!!

Once you factor in the revenue stream from the YouTube channel, it starts making sense. It would be easy to say that area of the industry has taken a dive but really its about more/better information (ie the places and details of Cat C/D/S/N cars for sale) which has meant its no longer a "secret squirrel club" of knowing someone who knows someone who gets those type of cars. Personally for me....I have no appetite for risk. But I respect those who like this type of challenge. I agree though, for a pro business to do this, once you exclude the cars which get bid up to unprofitable level, there's pretty much nothing left any more.

Its a broad generalisation but the days of chancing upon a Copart car which has easy-to-repair body damage (and a handful of other, normal issues) at a bargain price is pretty much over, there's so many hobbyists at it there will always be one (or more) who won't assess the car properly, underestimate the repair cost then push its price up to uneconomic pretty quick. Let them try it and learn their lessons along the way.

Why on earth would a reputable dealer shoot themselves in the foot by trying this "private sale" bollocks and reducing the value from retail to private in one big lump? Surely the thing to do is to buy at trade price, sell at retail price and obvs the difference in the two pays for the costs in doing so, perhaps even making a profit??? Add value and add onto the price rather than trying to squeeze it into something not even legal! I'd be prepping "friends" cars, offering them at full retail and thanking the friend for the business. Oh and he'd already have been settled with the appropriate trade-in value so he has no concern for the car any more, its a lump of metal that he used to own now.

Or in the office again.....?

I don't think this was too unreasonable a request - I hope you don't leave customers waiting this long for a reply. In the meantime, all I can deduce from the non-reply is that you're trading from home or a minimal cost setup which screams "private seller" or <1 year startup. There really is no excuse for not having a decent website in 2021. You can make a very posh website for very little, and attract buyers from far and wide if the stock is decent........the cars you're selling are decent condition (or started out average but have been brought up to good condition?)

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Any pics of your premises or website?

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