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  2. Posted · Edited by See Cars Derby

    Two new deals for me and two collections 

    Took a 2002 Corolla 99k T Spirit in part ex. Had my first enquiry from RAC CARS, he's travelling from South Wales at 10am on a £3290 bright yellow Fabia.

    had a guy turn up on the Civic I sold first thing but managed to get him out in a Mazda 3 and he is 'bringing the wife back today' - so we will see!!

    Bought an 88k 55 v70 d5 SE manual from Sytner which made me happy.

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    I've just brought a Lexus IS 250 into stock and it falls into the £500 odd per annum tax bracket.

    It doesn't worry me as it's still a cheapish way into a 'luxury' car?

    Do you think it's changed now they can tax monthly, the amount is just another D/D every month, or should we still be a bit wary when bringing in the big petrol gas guzzlers from March 2006 onwards ??

  9. Posted

    Very quiet here in the Midlands, normally track for a minimum of 1 a day and on the 8th day I'm only on 4 for the month so far.

    Don't know if anyone else finds this but as its quieter the customers seem to be getting more difficult, putting it bluntly, when its quiet the idiots always come out!

    Thoroughly agree. I don't know why it works like this but it really seems to.

     

    Unless in then busy times we totally ignore/dismiss the idiots and thus don't really give them much thought beyond yet, yet in the quiet times they are all we have so we get involved ultimately leading to disappointment.

    Had a decent day yesterday, Astra Coupe Sxi in the morning and V50 Volvo in the afternoon.

     

    The second deal almost hit a snag, a typical Volvo 'expert' at first reckons he's had them for years, telling me which engines go in which model etc. Decided he loved it despite wondering why it had a 5 speed box not 6, he paid deposit after test drive and I valued his p/ex etc, he was about to leave and said 'don't forget to drop me some diesel in it'

    'it's the petrol model' I said, as he and his wife went rather red and mumbled a few expletives.

    Anyway he insisted he still 'liked it' and I agreed to give him 24 hours to make his mind up - I woke up to a really nice email insisting they wish to proceed and thanking us for our sociability, thank god!!

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  10. Posted

    A few years ago my Dealer Portal was hacked and cars were put on priced at £5-6k under what they should have been with photos with an email address stamped on them. (I'm sure we have all seen the type of adverts I mean).

    Now it looked like a scam and the cars weren't just cheap but TOO CHEAP. I spent a morning answering phone calls about these cars or replying to emails which said 'I've tried to email you on the email in the photo but had no response". People seemed to genuinely believe they could buy £12k BMW's for £6k etc. I'm sure with a bit of sales talk these people would of sent me a deposit via PayPal or other means. It seems some people just don't have a clue. 

    Lots of the advice on buying cars seems to be focused around getting a 'Good Deal' or 'How to Haggle' which is all well and good but maybe they should include advice on 'How not to get screwed over' within their poorly written articles too.  

    I had this twice before, both times the office manager that worked for me gave the autotrader password to a false/scam email, and both times the same happened and the level of enquiries on 30k BMW x5s priced at £6990 was absolutely ridiculous.

  11. Posted

    Hi Craig

     

    Really simple, Road tax the Merc first either at the PO or online, but do not send away the V5 , instead, send the orginal receipt for road taxing along with the completed V317 and V5c's to DVLA, that way both cars are taxed! DVLA will then recognise that it is the new keeper that has road taxed the car and transfer this road tax to the private plate on the MERC, SIMPLES :-)

    quick question, the normal v5 we send off, shall I just retain this then, will they send a 2 new v5s (one for each vehicle) straight away using the method above?

     

    thanks

  13. Posted

    Sold a Mercedes C Class yesterday and took a Renault espace against it.

    he also needs/wants his private plate putting on the merc, I've not done one since the tax changes, I read it's now quicker but how does it work with tax, does he have to tax the merc first (ie now?)

     

    thanks in advance

     

    Craig

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    Yeah I would still do so if space wasn't at a premium because it's not nice having the same car on your website even for months on end is it really?

    normally when you drop a car to what you paid for it or thereabouts the phone rings on it so you shouldn't really lose money in theory apart from cost of advertising and storage in the time you've had it, only if you have paid way too much in the first place could I see a problem??

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  16. Posted

    I'd say 50/50 mate.

    The way I approach it is tell them that with the advent of the internet and autotrader national search then they can price check every Fiat Panda/Renault Scenic/Mazda 3 in the country, so we cannot afford to be expensive and thus we price as competitively as we possibly can from the offset. Obviously this means there then is no room for discount here like they may be at other garages who price over the top.

    You can also say, if they are nice, that they must agree because if we were expensive you wouldn't be here would you?

     

    They'll soon get it.

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  18. Posted · Edited by RCSALES

    I've been thinking about this a long time and have analysed previous sales, length of turn oves and other bits including margins and prices paid for vehicle.

    I am now implementing the following strategy due to space being at a premium.

    Proper margin for 6 weeks, will only adjust if response rate is at the floor.

    Reduced margin for a further 4 weeks, hopefully this should bring in the buyers.

    After 10 weeks if not sold at reduced margin, then price to clear and get money back, re stock and move on.

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  21. Posted

    Had a mega weekend, 3 Friday, 2 Saturday, 2 Sunday, 3 Monday.

     

    Didn't give £1 off a car (tell a lie I gave £200 off one in lieu of doing the paint work rectification) and that's from a stock of 25 cars from £1,500 - £5,000.

    Personally I have found a lot of goof stock on the online auction sites (DA, A4C & Sytner) and having regular enquiries at the minute.

  22. Posted

    Not had a lead yet, been on a week. Problem I'm having is I put my stock on autotrader as 'due in' whilst I'm waiting for it to be delivered and upload a picture and company logo to say the same, this then goes to RAC Cars.

     

    However when I upload my 20 pics to AT, they don't ever seem to follow through and update on RAC cars.

  24. Posted

    There a lot of websites that the trade use to dispose their stock.

     

    Dealer Auction

    Full Auction

    Sytner Online 

    Auction4Cars

     

    Possibly more that I have not listed

     

    Also HPI Bid has recently started although I've not looked into this.

     

    The advantage of this, personally, is that you can almost do two jobs at once. Be in the office to deal with customer and also buy your stock. No standing at freezing cold auctions all day!!

  25. Posted

    We took an email Friday morning requesting first appointment 10am Saturday on a fusion we have/had in stock.

    They were waiting at 9.55am, car was sold at 11am, lovely couple and they did comment that they have emailed a few dealers in last few weeks and most haven't replied!

    It can be frustrating but I can't see a reason not to reply really.