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talking scrap im glad i got rid of all mine as i havent seen a darling itinerant for weeks who wants to buy my pussie cats too

i thought all those hippy ideas went back to fransansiscoo on another note car craft were considering planting a tree for every car sold but unfortunately they went bust

just seem to be getting previous customers lately with no fresh blood

I Ive just had a really good thought,one of my bugbears is dealers who buy cars from wherever, throw a bucket of water over it, stick a for sale sign in it and let the customers come back with the faults after sale, This legislation should really stop these people who are everywhere and to me this is more important than kerbside traders selling cars because i have no time for their customers anyway who think they are beating us,however a customer cannot distinguish between a flashy sales pitch and a bomb type site when it comes to buying cars,ive always said if repairs cannot be made in house, then really customers shouldn't be purchasing from these places unless the seller can tell the prospective purchaser where his cars go for repairs because lets be honest a lot of smaller traders would have dave up his council flat fix it with his range of hammers otherwise and to take it one step further unless you are a large chrome palace then selling or giving away 3rd party warranties is really a get out for the seller,this new legislation rally does bring a more level playing field. Ive been updating my appraisal sheets this last few weeks and trying to cover every base ,i realise i cant but now get the customers to sign off the appraisal before i let them make a purchase as a classic example for rejection with no appraisal is a seized rear wiper missed at pos and customer says they needed one,silly but a good reason for rejection with a signed written report from your competitor because there wasnt even a half decent bit of rubber in the blade thus proving fault was present at pos A lot of businesses are going to shut over this new rejection in 30 days because lets be honest cash flow is king and we dont all have enough of it Has everybody listened to the links that umesh highlighted in the podcasts with lawgistics? They really should be bedtime reading for all of us,thanks again umesh

the customer is saying he doesn't trust you,for me that's it ,i wouldn't want the sale

weathers great just come back ignore sky news have a good one my rant? the french were worse than the germans for pushing to the front in the hotel breakfast queue was it an emissions problem?

ive worked from home,bad purchases get in the way and you can end up playing butterflies moving cars round,worse thing is customers certainly do turn up when they want my record was selling a car at about 11.30 pm on a friday night to a bloke,this was all 25 years ago i would never go back to selling other than one car at a time at home in retirement to help pay for new walking sticks remember customers will turn up as Phil H says on a sunday whilst you are in your undercrackers rodgering the wife good luck and lets hope you have a strong marriage

confirm your mobile phone works where you intend doing business from,18 months ago orange turned the volume down on their gigglewatt thingy so i had to go to oh my 2

problem is how much do they get for each vehicle,i know a trader who rang another trader up as he was selling a van for them on his pitch and he was negotiating the price down,turns out he was lying and he now walks with a limp

dead here quietest year ever i think

my insurance stipulates clean licence over 25 and accompanied im sure ive said this before but will repeat it an ex trader over the road from me flipped a punter the keys and off he toddled returned 20 minutes later flipped the keys back cheers mate, will think about it, in the fullness of time a nip appeared and trader had to swallow it as he know not who the driver weret ive kicked a customer out of the car in my time for bad driving,i don't go to work to be murdered by a moron who thinks driving on my insurance my petrol and my baby gives him a licence to kill finally what checks do you do to confirm driver indeed does have a licence ? me i rarely give test drives but if i do its usually me driving or if they seem sensible and have appropiate documents i might let them have a go and remember trade plates fully covering in trade cars one final thing from october 1st no sales without a drive with customer at my side so as mentioned on this good site customers cant come back moaning if i showed them the little bit of whine in first gear and they wants all their monies back in the 1st month and im being used as free car hire

lawgistics are dedicated to our job fsb is for anyone and to be honest is not best suited to motor trade in my opinion visit lawgistics website for full and good info i do NOT work for them by the way but if they are reading i like my malt

hi welcome to themadhouse be careful with any leases that need signing and remember most are 3 years and rolling consider going limited (take professional advice) willingness to work 25 hours a day experiance tow rope thick skin be prepared to be obstracised as a second hand car dealer by friends and family but find lots of new mates down the pub an enjoyment to do the job consider joining lawgistics rather than federation of small business

got to be a Peugeot if its kicked its injectors out this could have happened by the delivery driver or more likely bodged up to p/x and dealer not even aware speaking to them costs nothing and i would have been on the phone as soon as problem found even if you get no joy its a lesson for all involved albeit your pocket getting the hammering,this job is always about us getting it from both ends innit

you have to cost the transport arrangements into your buying and selling, its a fixed cost so give your transporter driver a contract and arrange a price per car,this way he knows his earnings and hes got steady work,get them on a transporter and you lose the personal touch when the cars come damaged in transit as they will personally why not just buy a car transporter yourself and 15 miles is easy to cover plus you can bring one back from the sales on the night usually if you wait round long enough so thats one done at no cost

the way to handle this is as follows in my opinion assess the car and work out all avenues ie fix car auction trade on ebay scrap once all costings have been tallied for each and every action can you decide the best course however if you are going to sell into ebay and say its a trade to trade sale then they have to be trade,no ifs no buts turn the sale down rather than take money thats going to come back and kick you ,dont take a trade in and to be fair why not just put it in at a fixed price anyway that you are happy with,this way proper traders can do their sums and work out if its worth buying rather than having itinerants sat round their computers on a sunday night chewing on their maccy dees and having the last bid the last 2 cars ive just sold went this way to proper bona fida traders that did their sums and knew there was still meat on the bone for them,ebays a great tool but it does bring out the scum

what a shame on these cars you cant lose a finger in the camshaft hole as punter sticks their dabs in the oil filler hole with engine running to show you that mayonnaise is a sure sign the head gasket has gone as the wife tuts with arms folded and the daughter plays with her white phone

my post office used to bend over to help but since it got ponsified up out of all recognition and they chucked the glass partitions they seem to have lost the will to help, plus i very rarely go there anymore after dvla's last grief so i just let customers do their own tax now prior to pickup,a great idea is to give them the 12 digit reference number on their invoice, this way they can insure and tax online at their pleasure and turn up to collect car all legal like and if they cock you still have new keeper supplement

thanks downloaded all 3

latest scam ive been tricked into twice this last month is p/x vehicles with much shorter tests than sellers told me about but on both occasions i offered peanuts anyway as i didnt really want them,i offered both of them on ebay and all of the scum of the world came out to bid me lower,they sold and i made profit but both left a bitter taste,best thing is i now have the upper hand in any warranty issues (i self warrant so they come to me)

to be fair the original poster goes on to say and here i quote Haha! Buy anything today? Funny thing is I know who's taken it, they have a penchant for S types it seems so its maybe the case that the buyer specialises in this brand and as i said further up this thread may well have a buyer waiting who cant do the auction legwork, hj on his old forum used to have someone i think called reg dwiar? who would often buy cars on behalf of customers for a small fee that was always saved in reduced auction costs

be wary car might have log book loan on it which is why only old style log book available be aware the identity number for taxing will also be wrong but post office might just tax and disc shows to old customer,i think it would need a new v62 filling in at the counter,not sure if you would have to pay the £25 but would be interested in the feedback as i have a car with old style only in stock too

it may be the case that 2 people needed the car to fill a customers request,ive had a customer come in again today to see if i can find him the car he wants and again ive had to say not yet,of course maybe they were buying via parkers guide anyway,or it is silly season august before a bank holidays maybe the buyer has finally flipped?

this months like pulling teeth seems to be getting worse not better, most of my sales these last 2 months have been distress purchases too due to customers unforeseen circumstances like rear ending the local bin wagon with their normal car

i wont offer anything until ive perused it checked it and got it mint,most customers cant see past a set of dirty rims and sweetie wrappers on the floor so first impressions are lasting impressions, so unless i know the customer and have the car well in the pipeline its a no no for me after many years of experience,good luck to you guys/gals that get it to work for yourselves though