RJ Magpie

It's not my full time job... yet...

I don't know if I understood the question correctly, but there is something called CarVue and it was mentioned once in CarDealerPodcast.

I'm a tiny "home trader" from Swindon. PS. Before anyone acuse me of anything I want to explain that I do pay VAT and give warranties and always sell car with full tank of fuel...

what about ChipsAway?

Ok, thanks for your reply, I was thinking of taking a risk but if no one has nothing good to say about them I'll not use them...

Hi, Just wanted to ask if any one have used this service from bca? Any good? Or waste of money? Vehicle Preparation Regards, Jacob.

There is or was Waheed from Reading WHB Motors or something like that. My sister paid him £500 deposit for a car that supposed to be ok and was written off 3 times and had 6 previous owners. She manage to get £250 back... But there is a case with trading standards against him already as he conned loads of people...

Kingswood Autos Bristol https://www.facebook.com/KingswoodAutos/

I don't know if that's the right place to put this but there is also a case with 'established' dealers who are dodgy and ripping off people... There is a guy in Kingswood, Bristol who is known to police and still does the 'business'. To the point... My friend found a car on AT and called the guy to arrange a viewing. He paid £200 'holding' deposit over the phone as there was someone coming to buy the car. Next day they went to see the car... (...)... It was 2004 Honda Accord diesel, advertised as excellent condition for £2k. It wasn't good at all and it had some body damage. The guy said that it's 11 years old and he shouldn't think it will be ideal (advertised as excellent...). When they rejected the car and demanded deposit back the guy replied angrily that they still owe him the remaining £1800... So they decided to leave before situation got violent and when threatened that dealer with police the dealer laughed and said they had police before and they can do nothing as they come and go... So my friend lost £200. I went on facebook to see if that dealer got website... Few horrible feedbacks along with few 5* from guys who work there (one of them works at Copart - maybe that's their source of cars?). One of thos bad feedbacks said: "Dodgy garage paid for a 2004 Honda Accord £1900 and he never delivered car or refund money he's wreck my kids Xmas" I think that's the same Accord my friend went to see... Can I name and shame? There is more people like this as my sister paid £500 deposit to get a car from guy in Reading and never got the car and money back (she managed to get half back). But I heard from the guy who paid £1k and lost his money... I just want to add that I do learn a lot from here and I may be a small home trader but I do want to make things right for the customers and my cars go with warranty and full tank of fuel (it annoys me the most when you buy a car and cannot be sure if you will get to nearest petrol station...) Regards Jacob.

Yes classified on eBay - I don't know about the final fee as I usually paid £13.34 for an ad and when the car goes I just cancel it really. On FB i'm in few groups and I'm not the best at it...

AT is crap... I'm part time and advertised few times on AT and no single call or email from there at all... ebay and facebook and it's much cheaper. AT want's £60 for an ad for 21 days with 20 pics and ebay £14...

can I have this PDF as well please? info@rjmagpie.co.uk

It looks like tipp-ex to me really...

regarding trading from home and card payments, I'm using iZettle and that's pay as you go. you just need a smartphone and card reader which u buy from them they charge 2.75% or less. It may look dodgy to some customers though

buying for £500 and selling for £850 is not always the case: bought 2001 diesel focus for £500 sold for £450 and had to spend £300 on it...

I have just wasted a 24 minutes of my life... And can't claim them back... Utter rubbish... Even I know it's not true...

if all their employees will save staples, then whole business will save money and then... Big boss will get more into his pocket.

Went to BCA Bridgewater yesterday to pick up a car and they gave me ONLY 2 Staples!

I went yesterday to pick up vehicle from BCA Bridgewater and there was a dent in tailgate which wasn't on vehicle appraisal form. Although it could be seen on pictures to which I didn't pay proper attention... Ask them if I can refuse the car they said no as the assured thing only applies to mechanical not visual part of the car... Anyway I took it and went home. But that's lesson learnt now - if I want to buy online I will go and see it first day before... Or attend an auction...

There is something called CarVue which was presented on CarDealer Podcast (episode 64 if I'm right - the title of podcast is Affordable Dealer Management Software). I didn't try it yet though...

I shouldn't have trusted but I did and I'm worse off after taking p/x... But hey, I didn't check the car properly as the guy gained my trust (after all father of 2 young children just like me) and there are brakes to be done and today as I was going for a test drive few hours before someone was due to come and see I have broken down on M4... So I called AA, recovered it to the garage who serviced it for me and there is fuel pump gone... But as we have inspected it must have been like this for some time as the original pump was bypassed by some other pump... So another hard lesson for me... But I'm glad it happened to me...

Hi, I had an Audi A4 2.0 tdi and no one really wanted it. It was a decent car but that was so unwanted that even I was fed up looking at it and I have done horrible deal of swapping that for something and a renault van. People were almost fighting about it over the phone as It was low priced due to gearbox close to end of its life but they weren't bothered. I said to one that the handbrake cable was sticking a bit and he said that furniture polish would do and today he came in with cash, very hapy about it, not bothered about the things which were not perfect! 2 days from posting an ad! I will give vans a go!