Rory RSC

Spot on. Loads of car's that are easy to sell but not good news as a retailer.

Exactly. Told him to trailer it away. Said he could'nt get his truck in the entrance it was parked round the corner. Declaring a car with a brutal advert as not safety inspected, carry out your own checks, spares or repairs and if someone wants to wing it driving it away as an adult the responsibility lies entirely with them.

Stopped a lot of that now after people got wind and were buying them for peanuts and being offered big bucks trade in / scrap them.

How much money do you have?

Learn to take a loss and move on. Next one you will make money on plus you get finance commission, get a nice part ex in against it make money on that, take another part ex in against that for £250.00 and sell for £1995. Just the way it goes.

Can finance higher mileage under motor loan agreements through brokers. Can be risky on higher mileage cars.

I think the thing to remember when refurbing sales cars is that the customer just needs to see the car as having nice unmarked well cared for wheels they don't need to know the wheels have been refurbed and look out for an absolutely perfect job. Take the eye off it, wheels are a big selling point on a lot of stuff. One of those jobs I think is so time consuming better off paying someone else to do while you make money on other more important things.

On my list of cars not to buy. You get lucky on a few but these engines are awful. Bits of plastic break down on the timing chain guides and ruin the engine. It won't be an easy fix and something will happen while customer has it.

You know for all this trouble shooting in the car dealer world we should set up a consultancy and start charging for this free game changing advice sometimes.

Like. You are a smart man. Astra VXR's and low balled part ex's are all I will take. I never sell a vauxhall and don't see it again. Always back for something.

Its not just you generally with a higher volume of stock I get a lot of phone calls and emails and there is next to nothing coming in. Really quiet. Should pick up again after the footballs over with.

Convert the T5 to a camper and count the monies

Corsa's are one of the hardest sellers to make sensible money from unless you are buying them at half of book and selling them at bottom book. I hammer them if they come in as a part exchange as you just can't shift them and the buyers are right pain pointing out the tyres and brakes are not new every time without fail.

@EPV is down that way I think he might get a trade in to offer you. If I lived in Skye I don't think I would ever be in the office to sell cars I would be out in the Cuillins all day that would beat dealing with screamers

Ill do it for £350 cash for you. PM me.

I love buying. One of my favourite bits of this job. Its not easy but it is out there. All these guides / i control / retail check etc are all great but nothing can beat that gut instinct you get of thinking if i buy this for X and sell for Y that car is going to look seriously good value and then getting it back in and sold quickly. Like Nick says you have to be a bit loose and flexible and just nab something outside your normal parameters that has a good chunk in it. All about taking risks this job. Win more than you lose you are up.

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So you bought it then?

Simons approach takes a bit of getting your head round. He most certainly loses some folk that would come out look around and buy but does not have to deal with all the time waster faction that annoys a lot of us. Its actually just a modern and very direct way of doing business. Moving 8 cars out the way for someone to test drive something having had the chat of it drives well are you buying today etc and then them coming back and going off to look at 3 more or the 47 year old man that wants to check insurance ffs its easy to see why he does it some days. The thing I like about this job is that we all have our own ways of doing things that work and get results. Ticking over here, no records being broken. Very lacking on emails and leads full stop.

Are they selling them though. Are they knocking £500 off for a deal. What are they buying them for? Good margin, quick margin and I am trying to focus on what the cars daily profit worked out at trying to keep that number up quite high aswell.

I can't imagine you will see many police cars in that area. I saw one police X5 traffic car between Loch Lomond and Glencoe in 3 days. You are far more remote.

Once someone gave me £20.00 so I bought the lads a takeaway lunch with it. Never had so much as a gift, thank you card or anything. Probably 3/4 thank you emails and a few positive facebook comments and reviews etc which is worth more to me. Actually did once have a guy who gave me a gift, thanked me profusely and was very nice at point of sale and then turned into a complete and utter nightmare of a customer within 24 hours when he got his ruler out and measured panel gaps on a used Vauxhall before kicking up a fuss and even Vauxhall telling him it was fine He was bloody weird.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/money/cars/article-5925469/Why-Englands-success-World-Cup-cost-Auto-Trader-150k.html

I don't think it deserves splitting equally. Answering calls and emails during any waking hour 7 days a week, being on site 7 days, dealing with finance apps, the part exchange prep and everything else takes up a lot of time and expertise. People get nothing by having money in the bank and a return of say £400 a month on a 20k investment would be pretty high. Owning a 2 bed buy to let and getting £500/700 per month back and owning it outright involves having £120k tied up.

Accidents happen get the car fixed and get on with life.