Mat C

oh, 38000 miles, Paid £7800 for it from a dealer back in Nov!!!!!!!!!!

I dont use cap - It Autotrader retails at £9500 I was thinking £5- £5.5k and retail it at £6995?

Hiya everyone. Just throwing this out there as I rarely deal with Written off stuff, however I've been offered this in PX and have no idea really where it should sit or if anyone wants to underwrite it? 2013/13 Audi A1 1.6 Sport Tdi Manual Misano Red Black Roof and nice 17" bi tone alloys Comfort Pack / Connectivity Pack / Auto Dim mirrors Nice tidy car bar 1 scuff on the front edge of the bottom N/S Front bumper I have photo's but i'm buggered if I can upload them on this forum. Any advice / takers / underwrites appreciated.

I love em!!

You need to clean those cup holders too

Try 9 weeks on an £8k JCW that we found had, had a replacement engine, blew its head gasket on the way home. claimed on BCA, waited 4 weeks for an engineer to come and confirm it was a heap then it sat gathering dust as I waited and waited and waited for that promised call back every single day from the branch I purchased it from so they could have it back. In the end i took the car back to my local branch as I was sick of waiting for the call from the original branch, I watched it go through the block last week and make similar money to what i'd paid ( poor sod, it was f*cked ) Only today ( 11 weeks after Purchase ) have I had my account credited.

I got pulled up on this ( my own fault ) as Santander started charging me 1% for paying in cash. I'd stick it in my personal HSBC account and the transfer it over - been doing it 2 years and then I get a call from HSBC about excessive cash deposits. I went and paid £8500 in one day and should really have split it up over a week or so. Anything over £5k alerts them and they looked into all my previous cash deposits and warned me I was in breach of my personal banking conditions 9 somewhere deep within those booklets they send you out every 6 months or so ) they then sent me a shitty letter saying basically if i did it again they'd cancel my account. So I just suck it up and try to take as little cash as possible.

Every single one a Mini We do really well with complaints, i.e we get very few. I'm of the opinion, if it goes wrong, we put it right and we've only had 1 proper screamer in 2 1/2 years and that was on a 110,000 mile VW Beetle. We stopped selling px's after that and concentrated on selling the best stock we can get. So far so good!

Not been on here for a while.... been so busy.. 26 for the month including trade, 19 retail, absolutely buzzing. Best month in our history ( albeit 2 1/2 years! ) Let hope it continues

Definitely. I'd rather have my car than his, hence i'm hoping someone will underwrite it. To be honest I gave up with this guy and then he's popped back up and significantly reduced his expectations. There's a man out there for this car, just trying to find him/her!

I can do a deal with this man at £16k for the Alpina?

Thats the one - however the guys wants in excess of £20k for it, DEFINITLEY NOT I've walked away from the deal...

Been offered this beauty against my £18k GP2. I have no idea what its worth, however feeling he wants a straight swap or even cashback.. Anyone know anyone who'd love this? 2004/54 Z4 S LUX Roadster Met Blue, Black Leather. 65k 6 Owner FSH been garaged and kept like a newborn etc..... If i could work out how to load a photo I would but I can email them no worries.

Cardealer5 for me. I'm not the most computer literate and they are great. I considered Clickdealer, but was a little more expensive See mine here www.superminiuk.com Thanks

15 year old car done 4000 miles since purchase.... and has a rubbing?? Am I missing something here? Seems like you're getting into a hole here by even acknowledging the customer. Move on man

Hair grips, everywhere oh and Make up on steering wheels/sunvisors/door cards/armrests/stereo controls/indicator stalks ............... Damn Mini's

Retail is detail, Your photos are shocking. Take the price board out Give it a clean Re photo, looks like someones just stolen it and taken some pictures! Not sure what the photo of the 3 month warranty from 2013 is doing in there either?

I had a scammer contact us yesterday, lovely email asking for best price, how much off and whats your last price, so i politely replied with the usual, priced to sell, lovely car, inspected, good history and the price is the price.... instant reply was - I will proceed with the transaction now. kindly login to your paypal account and select the request money button located at the top of your paypal account homepage and send the money request directly to my paypal account id which is caseykeenum@outlook.com so that i can submit payment to you via paypal right now as paypal is safe, fast and easy to send and receive money online. If you dont have a paypal account just logon to www.paypal.com and set up your paypal account, after setting up your paypal account you locate the request money button located at the top of your paypal account home page, use it to request money directly from my paypal account which is caseykeenum@outlook.com once I receive your money request from paypal, I will submit payment to you immediately via paypal. Get back asap Errr - hell no delete...

I struggle with my pics sometimes with he light, have to have the door shut for exterior pics, and then take the interior ones outdoors!! arghh lighting is key for me! Good luck with the unit too, looks similar to ours, but with more toilets! ha ha

Movex for me too - regularly get stuff from as far as Kinross and Bridgwater and usually its pretty good value too. Again as above only ever had 1 issue with some jockey supposed to deliver a car on a Friday PM and 'couldn't' make it till Monday, funnily enough it was a lovely A5 Convertible in the middle of summer!

I'm from PLC land and have had it drilled into me to turn my stock ASAP. I stock 10-12 cars and sell 14-16 a month. for me its all about getting the ££££ back in the bank as soon as possible. I premium Price for 10 days, then re look every other day. If i've had a car in stock over 120 days i'd get rid for cost or a small loss as i'd rather have it invested in something else. My average days in stock for 2017 was 28 days, which I can live with as I did have a couple of terminally ill cars that went 200 days or so! PLC would write down at 30/60/90 days ( in fact you'd get a fine of £1000 per car at 90 days, so it didn't happen ) Sometimes stuff flies away in minutes, but others stick, I try to take a lesson from each car I buy, every day's a school day so they say....

I went for the Landbeasts one in the end. Collected it yesterday, I can honestly say, what a pleasure it was dealing with them and the car is 'Split Mint' I had the biggest grin on my face driving it back up from London. If I could add a Picture here I would. You should ask for a referral fee!

I whole heartedly agree. I get a nice warm feeling when our customers come into our (shed) showroom and say, 'wow' look how lovely your cars are. I see some crap for sale every day, terrible photo's, filthy interiors, damage hear there and everywhere. My mantra is, why give them a reason NOT to buy it. Like Pip, we detail every car, polish chrome, scrub exhaust pipes, dent man, machine polish, it needs to look as good as it possibly can, good pictures, good bodyshop for bumpers / bonnet paints ( especially on MINI's ) I also really only like to buy stock that I know will sell, bright cars, that when you look at them you say,.... That's a lovely car..... With us its easier I guess, as Most people love a Mini, we sell to 17yr old girls, 80 year old fellas and everyone inbetween. Look at your oldest car and ask, would I buy it, is it clean, are the pics good, does it start..... Retail is detail.....

My spelling, I was evidently high on some exhaust fumes, Dog Dick red is our usual, however I have heard Dog cock too! Or dog knob... I'd love a split mint DK red IS200 though

I have no idea, its just something thats always been banded around garages i've worked at. I'm sure my brother uses it all the time when describing a particulalrly beautiful car, particularly is its old. There are some daft motor trade sayings out there... Ducks on pond, Got some billys on, Flat as a witch's tit, dock cock red..... I should start a new topic...... I'm sure some of the ( older ) guys in here have loads of them..