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what do you think about this James Baggot? not sure what to make of it myself, thanks for posting

so theyre not charging you 50%? even better news

Good news for Cargurus users, what do you think? https://www.am-online.com/news/supplier-news/2020/04/02/cargurus-extends-50-coronavirus-lockdown-discount-into-may

Umesh, please please please withdraw this petition for goodness sake, this is madness and not the time for this. we have enough bad press about the motortrade without this. why dont you and your club tell us what support you're giving, what advice you have for us, I'd gladly sign a petition to give nurses a 50% pay increase not help car sales people recoup bonuses. this is sheer madness. I have 2 sales people who I'm paying their average for next 2 months, then Ive said we'll look at it again. we all need to be in this together as a nation to help people stay safe, stay at home and protect the NHS, not protect the bonuses of car salesman. This will reflect really badly on us and I want no part of it. How much would it cost taxpayers to do this? how many hospotial beds, ventilators and nurses salaries would that pay for? You need to stop this immeadiatley you are showing no concern or passion just making us look greedy and self serving, please withdraw it before we all look like fools stay safe, and look after one another

Agree with Rory, service is still ticking over, epecting to close full time when we go to full lockdown, have 5 technicicans , their saftey is the most important and have them now working flexi time to avoid contact amongst themselves, everything now by appointment only, sending walk ins away (believe it or not had 2 yesterday!!) had 3 people cock on pending sales quoting current conditions. Delivered one to home for a 48hr test drive on Saturday afternoon, sent the guy a video prior to the test dirve of us cleaning and disinfecting, first time ever and today he's rang to say he's keeping it so glimmer of hope still, What are you guys doing if anything differnetly that seems to be working?

Well I dont mind, saves me around £3000, and with the extra stock its a welcome and much needed boost for us, its the only place that has ever worked for us in terms of actual sales and return on spend and I think its a very positve move personally. no one else has offered me any help right now

Fill yer boots whilst you can I say, they dont give much away for nothing, just got another 10 cars on for free this morning, Thanks, cutting back is the last thing I want to be doing right now. even thinking about going back onto motors

Well said, it doesnt take much for us to talk ourselves into recession. thankfully not noticed much of a difference, if anything Feb was a bumper month. Workshop has had a few cancellations but still selling more directly online with deposits unseen, we deliver nationwide so that helps. We've got to keep our heads and continue as normal. mate of mine cancelled everything last month, Motors, autotrader, facebook, ebay, and is now complaining his sales have virtually stopped, thanks to the Coronavirus!!! - NO shit Sherlock! Noticed stock at auction coming back to somewhere near book - theres opportunities out there lot of interest in my cheaper end stock, more than usual, not sure why?

Brilliant

bargains gone up to £2k instead of £1,500 - If you stock that end of the market, not me but some will benefit I suppose, mines up by 5% as Im currently paying for retail checker so not so bad now thats free. Dealer on the same road as me is with cargurus and says his bill automatically rolled up by 75% after his first 12 months so it must be that time of year,

I dont like the hgh price markers but doesnt seem to be putting people off, I track everything, not just the phone calls but the people who just rock up without emails, calls etc. 80% come from AT and I'm not the cheapest, 4 sales out of 10 last week had high price flags but as theyre great cars with nice spec, one owner, serviced etc. they bought them from me. you need to shout about why you think it deserves that high price. lets hope they see sense though as its definitey not made the job any easier, just need to work a bit harder and smarter but at a time in my life when I want to be taking it easier

I tend to stay well away from 500's, stupid new deals from franchised dealers always meant the odd one I stocked hung around too long for my liking. I dont tend to aim for any particular profile of stock just try to stay away from what the local franchise dealers are stocking, find that anything too new (under 3 years for me) and punters seem to want to buy them from a main dealer - just my experience, I know it works for many others but not me. Small and mid range stuff, Golfs, A3, Yaris, Focus, Fiesta, Corsa, Quashqai, midsize SUV's etc nothing too flash or heavy around £5k-£15k max, every dealer around me wants to stock big German diesels so I leave it to them, would prefer to be busy getting £600-£800 per bonnet and selling every 20 days than sitting on something for 50 days and make a grand. I do have the luxury o four service/mot and bodyshop and try and tie all local sales into service plans so get more revenue out of every sale hence maybe lower margin on the actual bonnet

according to my portal the latest says 42.3 Daily adviews vs 31.8 similar ads. suppose it only takes 1 adview if its the right one. Ive seen individual cars get 100's of daily adviews and in stock for 50 days then a low performer with 20 ad views sell within 5-6 days. on the whole though I reckon the higest adviews are a good indicator of cars that are closest to selling next.

sold 7 this week, 4 of which had high price on them, customers dont mention them on the whole and dont haggle at all nowadays, seem to sell them quicker when they do have a good or great price tag though and punters happy to pay screen price when I point them out

Motor Trade Delivery for me, beat any quote, must have done 100 last year since moving from Movex, saved a fortune and no issues on any. We try and ask for same driver (Brilliant chap called Micheal) always on time, and knows how to do a great handover, many of our reviews mention him by name. different chap does the auction pick ups and he's spot on as well

Sell quite a lot out of area every month, several unseen, confirm with video/walk round, expection and sign off on delivery, as mentioned above we get copies of driving license and utility/credit card bill for delivery address, dont deliver to anywhere else except whats on these, not had any issues with distance selling but make sure you know the consumers rights to hand back etc. We'd much rather sell locally as well as good for repeat business and can get them signed up for our service plans which keep the servicing and MOT side busy but dont be scared about selling further afield, build up a relationship with a logistics supplier like Movex, we moved to Motor trade delivery for sales beyond 100 miles as turned out much cheaper and handover to customer is really done well. saying all that a screamers always going to be a screamer regardless of where they are and dont be put off by distance selling regs, just get to know them and you'll be fine

Been on the free package since October with 40 cars, same as advertised on the autotrader. looking at my DMS and dealer portal, stats so far since Oct 7th AT leads - 281 emails/calls/texts/chats/walk ins and 77 sales Cargurus - 44 emails, dont think theres any other way of contacting dealer, have replied to every sinlge one but never got a reply and no sales yet, but its free so will see what happens

I'm getting more calls from the Fleabay Gumtree, motors rep than I did PPI. their one tactic is to rubbish AT and sell on price. was quoted £450 for 40 car package in December, now its £300 for a special 6 month deal. I've spent several thousand with all three over the years until I started looking in depth using my CRM data and call tracking and realised over a period of 12 months I'd sold 1 car. This was quite recent but got sick of the frankly stupid timewasting email best price idiots that arent serious Complete waste of time and money, they say it only needs to sell 1 car extra every month to pay for itself but I only sold 1 car in 12 months!!. AT still gets about 80% of my sales, rest is walk ins and referals. The time and effort it takes to wade through the dregs of leads to get that 1 sale is painful and probably would add another £1000 in man hours over the year. Not for me, might work for some

agree with all, you pay for what you get. Nacman how many sales do you get from AT for your £2k? you've got to work out your return, theres plenty of cheaper websites out there but tried them all and for me none come close to the return we get from them and I monitor it very closely

Car window stickers, used to put the web address on number plates but stopped in January to try something new my grandson suggested, for the same cost of the number plates Ive bought 200 universal iPhone/Galaxy phone chargers that slot into most cars USB ports (when they have them) with my logo on, they're about £4 each and get loads of comments from car buyers, they love em.

It took a week - 10 days from the hammer going down to it being delivered, is that normal? how long did they have your money for before delivery? rarely use BCA or Manheim physical auctions now but is that generally the lead time nowadays?

I do find that the majority of emails tend to end in nothing, but perhaps 1 in 20 will then follow through with a call or a visit so its worth replying to them. Looking at my DMS - Email as initial enquiry source has resulted in 9 sales so far this year. Not the best source of leads but I certainly wouldn't disregard any of them.

Agree, avoid, the risk is 100% yours

I think like any kind of loan, you've got to manage it and not let it get out of hand, I had a small stocking loan until a few years ago, positive was it keeps you sharp and focused on return and making sure you sell within an allotted time as said above. Negatives, like a credit card the offers to increase my funding kept coming virtually every week and its tempting to build your business around this debt. But if you use them wisely, your confident you can get a good finance pen and do sufficient volume its somebody else's money you're playing with so nothing against them, just grow within your means. Seen dealers go from 10 cars to 50 in a year and all they do is work for the funding company and stressed out their head

Was on the free package last year but came off, cant find me on there now so bit of a puzzle, call me old school but wont display it as I've not earned it, doesn't feel right