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    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

     

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    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:) 

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    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

  13. Posted

    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:lol:

    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

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    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

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    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

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    the way to handle this is as follows in my opinion

    assess the car and work out all avenues

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    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

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    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

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    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:))

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  21. Posted

    Interested to know if they were definitely trade or public that bought the Jag, If it was a dealer I bet he trades from his house with zero overheads, little prep cost and low margin but quick sale. Seeing more and more of these examples of silly money, way above CAP clean. Don't have a problem selling at moment but very slim pickings at auction to replace sold

    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

     

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  22. Posted · Edited by s and b

    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

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    You think cap wrong, paid too much or bit of both? 

    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?:lol:

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    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