Rory RSC

Yes. Trial and error, when you crack it its a good feeling.

You do save a lot of money when prepping in house. I don't know about 78%. Our own workshop was the best thing we did instead of having to pay any external labour costs. You are right though the efficiency it leads to is where you really make the money. Cars back and out the door quicker.

Its my best return on add spend. I constantly try and drive the cost per sale down.

If 90% of garages have their cars MOT tested in advance ready to pay and drive away but you don't and you were in the market for a car and needed one would you buy from the place that would let you drive off or would you buy from the place that made you come back ?

You know those ones where a 3 series has M5 wheels that would be about a grand a corner and then wonders why they aren't genuine....

The ones who want to buy don’t mind taking an hour or 2 off. The ones who want to browse and just look wont.

Stoodley auctions.

How long have you worked for Autobahn?

Aren't sky adverts targeted at what you search when the box is connected to wifi these days so you are probably more likely to see that sort of thing.

Who are you and what have you done with Simon?

Price always goes up around 10% in March

In answer to original question - Do you like making more money per sale? Do you like putting fewer obstacles in front of customers? Do you like making it easier for people to buy when they want to buy from you?

Your finance rep must love you. Whats your finance pen at 80+%

Its not 1981 pal. In terms of thinking Cat D's are the way forward then maybe for short term gain. Long term wise how do you scale that up? do you want to be associated with that stuff when trying to build a long term business? do you want a pitch full of cat damage stuff 5 years down the line.

I started for the same reason and running the same business. Worked out alright for me so far.

Hi MCC - What do you think makes a good and successful car dealer? What do you think would make you good and successful ? Fresh eyes and lack of industry know how can actually be quite a good thing, it did me no harm and I still like cars to this day. Not as keen on people as I once was though. Do you have any sales background. I personally can't think of any car sales business that has done well without the owner being extremely good at selling. Anyone can start up, buy a few cars they like and think its easy. The reality is to actually turn it into a business that can pay the rent / bills / mortgage is difficult. You are fortunate you do 4 on 4 off so have time to attend auctions, buy private and advertise cars. Plus you can arrange viewings to suit you around those times. The one thing I see that all the successful dealers have in common is that they all work incredibly hard 6/7 days with long hours. All have a very positive mindset and an adaptability to changes. I think many of the successful dealers I recognise would be successful in any field they turned to, its a characteristic.

Autotrader, football and brexit are 3 topics I would quite gladly see never discussed on here

Can you give your salesman the facebook messenger lead management/ whatsapp out of hours responsibility and let them earn a bit more if they convert from it save you dealing with it?

Make sure you get someone to film, look at the camera and say watch this before attempting any drifts. Whats the worst that can happen.

Are you the chap that offered £1500? Really.... someone else just turned up I sold it for a grand. Can't beleive this I thought you weren't coming.

Where do you buy your parts James main dealers? Literally every single Audi A4 / A5 / A6 that comes through has misting of oil. Clean all of them off pre MOT.

36 sold. Averaged 45 listed pretty solidly throughout the month. Did well to hit that number. I've had a week of house moving over the last week in the evenings, hard to keep up the pace with distractions usually very focused.

I can begin to only imagine what that sort of thing will attract.

Would you save £25k or would you make less as you wouldn't be selling so many. Vast majority of our business is done via AT. They are the best for a reason. I'd go priority before axing but personally if its not working well for you its down to what you are doing and offering and then the rest of the platforms might not see any better returns.

For what its worth, there are a few characters on this forum that are on my complete and utter moron list. You aren't one of them or even close to making it. I will say again despite what you know, what you have learned or think you know I would recommend selling non categorised cars, aiming for an easy life, fast turn around and the ability to build up your profile and reputation.