Rory RSC

Half way (ish) through the new month how is business for everyone? We are a lot quieter than A) I would like and B ) I ever expected. Last year from march onwards we went mental busy and saw some really strong growth.

We service every car and I stamp the service book for the customer on the date and mileage the car leaves our premises.

Will be tuned in today - best of luck.

Meet at a pre arranged meeting point such as a friends garage? if you were a buyer and someone wanted to meet you at the local 24hr garage/ asda car park/etc how would that make you feel ? people at £1000 are so much worse than customers at 5-6k. they buy a £750 banger and that is literally all their money they have no other money towards fixing it even if it is a cheap example of a 187,000 car if something isn't working they will be back and moaning.

He will be feeling sheepish when he comes back for the pick up.....

Finished on 35 retail units for Feb. A couple of deals cancelled last minute for us which is rare. Overall a fairly profitable month sales wise however we had a couple of horrendous warranty claims. Lets hope March is a success this year like it was last year - was growth month on month after March.

Keep them for the Xmas party CDX16 afterparty

How much additional profit can you achieve realistically with 100k extra stock. nextgear you only pay for what you use also.

I don't dispute that. The benefit of the just passing people means they can see something in person they would otherwise have dismissed as to expensive/not suitable / a million other reasons online. I just don't get any of them with where I am situated. Do you find the just passing by folks commit on the spot or do they often return having thought about it?

I have sold 1 car in all the time I have been where I am to a walk on. No passing trade here.

credit4cars might be able to do something if affordability can be proven.

We have sold 23 retail cars this month. Behind where I wanted to be. Also had a deluge of warranty claims that warranty provider have not paid out for. A fortune has been spent putting things right at our expense. Sometimes think we are to nice here and get mugged off a bit.

I've bought cars with clutches that have gone. Online. Driven through. Happened on an Audi S3 which looked clean and tidy and was . Bar the modifications that were not listed. And the fact it had a stage 2/3 clutch kit fitted with solid flywheel conversion. Chalked it down to experience. You save time buying online but you do end up losing out sometimes. It's a volume game.

wasn't she autotrader ?

No one reads adverts. All the time - " has it had cambelt changed and whens the MOT" Advert says cambelt changed at 58k and new 12 month MOT FFS lol.

4 Car Finance 24/7 deals this week - are these guys on a big advertising push at the moment? Did a deal with evolution funding for the first time this week - efficient, quick and good payout with quite a nice easy to use online portal system. Surprisingly good and would rate the experience quite highly. Worth a look as a broker for anyone who needs them. Stark contrast to our experiences with Jigsaw.

We had a pigeon that flew in the office and landed on my business partners chair. Never seen him move so fast Does that count ?

I think that sum's it up well.

Might be useful could you not do it just by having a closed section of the forum where only a certain level/trusted poster/contributors can access? Maybe ones who have engaged, provided a website, vat number etc?

Appreciate the PM and will keep eyes peeled.

4 Sold so far. Today I sold my lovely V8 BMW M3 which is my most expensive car sold to date at 19k. Taken a nice disco as a part exchange in against it which is a beautiful bit of kit but not quite sure where to price it. Phone has been ringing more, emails have been coming in so hopefully a good weekend is in store.

Can you PM who and we can aim to avoid Thanks

Anything like that for me modified seems to sit for ages and not shift. I try to put back to standard or shift cheap as chips where I can.

Are cars not going to break straight away? You will need a warranty process from day 1. Are you not going to need to take card payments straight away? Cash is potentially ok selling cars up to £1000 - £1500 any more and people want to pay on card. We take barely any cash through our business hardly anyone pays that way.

This selling cars is all a numbers game. You get a bad one every so often and there is nothing you can do. You did the right and decent thing and acted honestly. Good on you because plenty of our trade competitors would not. These things happen, not very often and it is the game we all play.