david gott

Thank you, really appreciated

Big thank you to Del Boy for sharing his story, working from home at his studio flat with 2 cars to business premises and 20 cars in 5 years, hope you enjoy! https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/car-dealer-pro-podcast/id1506252764

No problem......appreciated! If you fancy having a blast on the podcast just send me a DM I'm going to be doing one every week, every podcast will alternate, 1 week a 20 min info related topic to help other dealers and then the next week a long form interview with a trader, heres the link if anyone fancy's subscribing, its on facebook too! thanks. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/car-dealer-pro-podcast/id1506252764

If your into podcasts, you'll know long form interviews are really popular and for all the traders on here just starting out this really is invaluable free content, I understand it's not going to be for everyone but if I had someone like Nick sharing this type of info when I first started, I'd be soaking it up like a sponge!

Done a podcast the other day with Nick MK, some brilliant info in this interview, whether your just starting out or been in the game for years I’m sure you’ll get some great value from listening, if you could like our Facebook page or subscribe to the podcast in iTunes that would be amazing. I’ll be doing a podcast a week, interviews with other traders and helping car traders use systems and strategies to help grow your business. hope you enjoy Thanks David https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/car-dealer-pro-podcast/id1506252764#episodeGuid=CarDealerPro.podbean.com%2Fb6735dac-49d2-56c0-ad5f-7a7af9b5d2a6

Similar thing happened to me a few years ago, I'm afraid if you didn't have it on the MID and depending on how much of jobsworth the officer is you might be looking at 6 points, sorry!

Haha it’s not easy at first, it’s an absolute pain in the arse!!! Although It’s like starting all over again using one of those bloody gimbals things!!

If you want to do an edited 1 minute vid instead of a walk around do 10, 6 second shots, then wack them into iMovie and edit, once you're in the swing each video shouldn't take more than 20mins

Probably best to put it back through the auction you might get more than what you paid for it putting it through privately

Your 100% right to always aim for the big margins and I always do but I just don’t see the point in holding out for big margins with anything that’s been in stock for over 60 - 90 days, get rid, get a nice part ex, a bit of finance commission or reinvest and keep the ball rolling, although I did see a great quote the other day “affluence breeds impatience and impatience undermines well being, you don’t see many poor impatient people”

If you were to sell your house with an estate agent and they told you they didn't advertise on Rightmove, its probably likely you wouldn't go with that agent. I had a mini in stock for nearly 7 months and in the end reduced it to cost on trader as soon as I done this I got a cracking 1 series in chop sold it 3 days later and made £1200, exactly the same scenario with a Bmax, took a Meriva in swap sold it 1 week later with another good margin. For me Its all about opportunity and keeping the cashflow going, yes I don't want to be a busy fool but the days of waiting for big margins never seems to come if I'm not moving stock quickly then when are the good opportunity's going to come? I'd rather turn each car over 7 times a year with smaller margin than turning a car over twice a year with big margins.

Thankyou

Need a trusted mechanic Carlisle area if anyone can recommend? sold a Jimny a couple of weeks ago, customer rang to let us know gearbox has packed in, the garage has quoted a fortune to the customer, it’s only got 20k miles on the clock and it’s an elderly lady, We’ve said we’ll get it ourselves and bring back to South Yorkshire but if anyone is local before we do, please let us know, thanks, David

This debate will go on forever, the only way to know if you can live without trader is to give it a year not using it and do the maths.

Facebook is not something we use to sell cars, BUT it works brilliantly for potential customers to see who you are, see your reviews, what your about and create confidence, most of our enquiries come through our Facebook page, nearly everyday we get at least one message enquiring about a car. The youth of today don’t want to RING you they want to PM you (private message) its the best free way to create confidence, it will take time to build your page up, get likes, create content and get in a routine but once you do it’s really easy, it’s the future and yes it’s annoying learning all these new social media apps but it will be worth it

When we were trying to buy a car for my mother, there were 3 things we used, price, distance, colour and mileage, she just looked at the pictures, the one my mother fell in love with was one the worst ads you've ever seen, no description, terrible pictures but it was in the right price range, right mileage, etc etc..........thats why so many dealers that just plonk pictures in ads still do ok.

I’m always open to change but this is terrible, Autotrader if your reading you need to sort this out, portal on the iPad is too complicated!!! Too much going on, I always remember Autotrader saying when they change things they do it in small increments to not confuse people but bloody hell this is taking the Michael!!!

Yep that was me! And yes it can be demoralising when you work out some margins especially on the cheaper cars, sometimes I’m too organised, a couple of things I don’t take off my margins is petrol and ad cost but mechanics and paintwork I always do. Nik your ads are amazing, when I first got into this game and my wife suggested our business name (very similar too yours) obviously I seen your ads and they were really inspiring, we should all play to our strengths and personally I think you should just sod the videos off, your pics sell the car to people, they create the desire that gives you an edge

Its that horrible 1.0 litre engine on a chain, hope its buggered and he has to scrap it

Haha funny

Just outside chesterfield

A first time driver/wannabe mechanic will have this for £995

Always mot before, some people are just impatient

Took a Peugeot 307cc in part ex today, nice miles, 58k, diesel, I think its on 2008 or 2009, loads of history, clutch is juddering so probably needs one fitting, we allowed £700 and just want the money back.

If it was an old fiesta with 100k but had a newish mot and the customer was really nice I might be tempted to give them £600 and sell for £700 but a 10k Bmw!!!! What a tool