Ratt101

The offers we are getting are between 23% less than ask up to a couple at 40%. they seem to think we are desperate sellers, although sales is shut my mechanic is working starting cars etc and answered the phone today, customer bought a car December 2019, done 30k miles since purchase but due to them being furloughed, partner lost job, they have done no maintenance failed its MOT on 2 tyre's and and front pads and dics, as they have not used it much !!! they think we should pay because even thought it came with 12 months mot (no advisories) it was obviously not fit for purpose complained to finance company, waiting their response just hope it is polite

We use separate packages found dragon aimed at multisite dealers MTA works for us an account package and blue sky as website feed cheap to what been quoted elsewhere

Just had an email stating advertising will be free in December (not website fees etc if you have them through them ) expecting one of gumtree stating same as tesco says every little helps

We have a similar issue with a merc bought it one owner manheim warranted mileage, mrs been driving it for last 2 months she is convinced its not kosher, one service done at 3 years old just before mot was due, was a merc sale at manheim details of service giving previos owners email and mobile number contacted them no response car originally from mercedes aberdeen cars only service mb sunderland would be interested to know what happens

We use card saver for terminal and EVO for settlements a lot lower, but been encouraging customers to do bank transfer, but bank charges have also gone up £56 to pay £8000 in cash in also charging more for payments in and out.

We have been so busy selling but also from our advert that we buy cars for cash getting offered at least 4-5 per week and beating we buy any car, because we also underwrite cars from 2 motor home companies finding them quite cheap

We use autoglym not cheap but good we are also lucky that the franchaise is just behind us so can just go and get stock also lucky they have branched out into autosmart repair so saved us loads on small paint jobs

Paint shop backlog due to covid, prices gone up due to covid, mot station back log covid (this I can understand) finance commissions gone down (covid) main agent had a car from february until July (covid) I know it is a major issue but feel like its the new excuse.

Media will not turn says limited use, but comes on when reversing to show parking etc, been into VW main agents bill for £102, just to say not working (cheers knew that when I took it) been told could have had additional security added to the unit ( came across this once a few years back on a honda civic, where the driver could pick a pin code to activate it honda had no way of decoding it so ditched that system, found a company online that could do it but cannot find their details hoping they could help ) anyone heard of this or any idea who can look at it, any help appreciated cos currently stuck with it

I replied to one like this the other day, his comment was I can pay £9000 cash (the car was £14000) so I sent him the finance figures for borrowing £5k , not heard back from him.

Trade vet its a family business 2nd generation mainly retired, 1st generation sadly no longer with us so 3rd generation now running it now. You like us will have seen the changes over the years still got some of the adverts from grandpas days will dig them out and post them because some the advertised specs make me laugh.

We deal mainly between £5k and £15k a few over that and under px's, tend to find the £25k plus, hard market they wonder why ours is so cheap (aint got the overheads of main agent) but ours is discounted cos it is too cheap they think there is something wrong, most of our £25k plus have been sold to local people who know us and know we have been in business since 1947.

Depenends on your bank used to be an ask bank manager need a business account for that Trade vet loads of my friends think its easy money becoming a car dealer think we print money its not they have tried makes me laugh

No just feels like a trader

The dates are key to this, yes you can tax a car on the green slip twice, but you need to make sure the date you sell it out of trade is the same day entered on dvla site as they taxed it, and paying monthly is a nightmare, if you do not put it into trade the same month the previous owner cancelled their direct debit they will get emails saying they owe dvla, and dvla are crafty if you pay for a month and cancel direct debit its not always good for that month can show as untaxed And good luck in your new business its certainly not easy selling cars at the minute with customers not understanding auction prices have rocketed and cannot understand why they are driving round in circles chasing the under £2k market which is flying out and the 5k-12k market much more competition

MarkTVS forgot say say when you log in via the app after receiving the text and are told to isolate, there is the option to print out a notice for your employer if required giving the isolation dates, for confirmation and also ssp and this would be sick pay, I have just had a call from track and trace, which was put as a welfare call but really to check if I am isolating and I did double checked the isolation date and it from date of last contact, and the tests take on average 4 days to come back so the isolation period would have been 10 days max, I also re-checked my partner does not need to isolate and that again was correct, I think your employee's partner is a bit confused to put it nicely.

Mark, I am actually going through this at the minute, I was disclosed as a contact by one of my friends, who has tested positive, I was sent a text message and had to complete my details and told to self isolate for 14 days, even if I had a test and tested negative as I could still become infectious, my partner does not have to self isolate unless I start showing symptoms, so your employee would not be required to self isolate at this point, they now text me daily with an Isolation Update advising me how many days until I can go out, and tips on how to avoid my partner in the house. The one thing I did not know is that although my friend got his test Saturday 20th and got his results Tuesday 23rd the isolation period started from 17th September as this was the date of the last contact I had with him. So I had done 6 days of the isolation period without actually knowing it.

My father in law and his dad who were old school would have called him a dreamer, and not entertained him, 3rd generation we treat them differently just before lockdown had a kid roll up in a 62 clio sport wanting to test drive an 18 plate audi s5 at £30k, wanted £4k for clio (which had a misfire) which we offered, he then said I need to go and speak to me dad, thought no more about it 1 hour later he is back, me dad and nan are paying £10k can I get £16k on finance, sailed through auto accept paid out, we have had the poshest customers in demanding this that and the other and turns out their credit rating is so far down the toilet they are willing to pay nearly double through sub prime just to have a car that looks good, give me straight John Bull anytime, and congrats David sounds like a good deal

I love it when they say I sold my px to we buy any car cos their advert said I would get a better deal as a cash buyer - no we want your px to retail if we can I don't need finance - so no HP commission (but to be fair these days it's negligible ) What can you do me for cash ( well I still have to pay the vat and taxman) agree a deal and they hand over a credit card!! that's not cash and it costs me more to take a credit than debit card. but the best one we had recently was a phone enquiry who had loads of questions about a car involved us running up and down the pitch in the rain (cos none of his questions were the usual owners, fsh, mot which are on our website) 35 minutes later, he thanked us for our time and advised he was only ringing because his wife had just bought the identical car which had gone back to the garage for a fault and in case they could not fix it and they gave her a refund he was ringing all dealers within a 150 mile radius who had the same car just in case he needed to arrange viewings for a replacement vehicle.

I got pulled over last week for the tank to be dipped for red diesel checks, then had to spend 15 minutes explaining why I was on trade plates, where I was going, both the plates and the car was on mid, I was using our original set of plates which are actually the original metal ones that dvla used to supply donkeys years ago, police actually checked to see if they were real as he had never seen any like this before.

We use RAC dealer passport cost £2.99 per car we check

Is that a question for RH or me Ratt101?

Autotrader at £32k a year versus others, no brainer and they have given it all for free, and what AT is missing is if someone wants a certain car they will google it not necessary do an AT search we all use google We are opening tomorrow and will be no AT advertising we have been in business since 1947 and still going strong

We ditched autotrader nearly two years ago they kept ringing saying we would regret it, kept motors and ebay (which now includes gumtree) car gururs hassling us every month to upgrade no interst AT cost us nearly £30k per year plus va,t motors etc £12k per year inlc gumtree and ebay, and has been free for the last few months, profits have not altered since binning AT 23 sales so happy you made the click and collect/ deliver work for you, never happened for us can you share some tips

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/5eb97d30d3bf7f5d364bfbb6/staying-covid-19-secure.pdf Think its this one