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23 years is long enough that the politicians making this promise will be long since retired / dead.

Are you serious? If established platforms with huge resources, such as eBay, can't crack the market what chance do you have?

If they can't even afford to put fuel in it what do you think your chances are of getting any money back off them?

I'm not surprised the phoned was ringing off the hook for £200 with 5 months MOT and drives well sounds like a bargain. There is always a market for extremely cheap cars but the problem is they are usually not the kind of people you want to be dealing with regularly.

I'm sure they do. Very annoying but they are probably lonely or mentally unstable.

I see your point and I would agree about the morning as making drinks and chatting is clearly something you do before work on your own time, but in the evening I think clearing the place up is work time, why should they work until 5:15 then clear up on their own unpaid time? It does drive me nuts when places don't open at the time they say they will though. Doctors are terrible for this, if by some miracle you can get the first appointment of the day at 8:30 you will be lucky if they have even unlocked the doors by 8:35 and by the time you are booked in it is 8:40. Banks and post offices are just as bad. But anyway, I would be more interested in if they represent good value for money, don't take the piss too often and get the job done when it needs doing. Counting minutes here and there would do my head in, I mean would you deduct their wages for toilet breaks under those circumstances?

I don't employ anybody so I can't really comment on the legalities of the situation. However from his perspective I guess he is just doing work in his free time to earn extra money and while I can understand your point of view I do struggle to see how you can stop him unless you have some kind of clause about working for competitors in his employment contract? I see what you are saying about sick pay should he get tired or injured but then again he could give up the second job and take up marathon running or sky diving for a hobby and you would still be on the hook if he ended up off work sick. And from his perspective I guess he hasn't "taken" 30k from you he has earned it. I think I would have a quiet and friendly word about it explaining your conflict of interest concerns and see how he responds. End of the day he is getting paid well by you in a full time job so he shouldn't want to shit on his own doorstep. If he doesn't respond appropriately I think you would be well advised to see what the legal position is regarding letting him go. If your T&Cs of employment are as good as you say you will have no problem finding a replacement.

Too much hassle honestly........ They should pay the money into their bank and then pay by debit card or bank transfer. Let them explain to the bank & HMRC how they happened to come across £26k in cash.

The "about us" write up could do with a bit of rewording IMO. As already mentioned there are some grammatical errors on the first page. - if these things aren't your strong point it might be worth paying someone a bit of change to proof read it and just polish it up a bit.

I don't understand why white is so popular these days but combined with the right spec it certainly is in demand. Used to be that white was for ex-police / services and poverty spec only.

No idea, totally out of my league but I would guess at £15500 retail with those options and colour combo.

Well I don't like their website much as the navigation bar kept popping up in my way and then the search result returned 'featured' cars 100%+ over the budget I had entered. Initially I thought there is no way to set a minimum price, so I was sorting the results low to high ending up looking at a load of £99 finance adverts..... though I did eventually figure it out. Also despite doing a used car search from the front page on the second page the 'new' and 'nearly new' boxes were still checked. Not very intuitive.

I wonder does this kind of spam ever actually work? I know I would be inclined to avoid any business that tries to advertise in this way.

So are you operating as a proper registered business, paying TAX, insurances, warranties, etc? Or trading on the side cash in hand, no come backs, etc?

9 days? blimey.

I'm wondering what your policy on moving on stuff that has been sitting around a while. For the average car at what point do you cut your losses, 1 month, 2 months, etc? I would normally adjust the price to get it in new searches, take new photos, re-work the advert and so on, but every now and then something just sits around for no apparent reason. It is a bit different if you have something a bit specialist or with a nice margin in it but when bog standard stuff sits around for too long it feels like you are just burning money really.

Crap interiors, high-ish running costs and zero prestige. Practically have to give them away, especially the early models.

Yes but a lot of people probably wont want to commit to finance on the newer or more expensive end now. There is too much uncertainty about how the exit will be managed, who will lead the government, if there will be another election... all those things are going to have an impact on jobs and interest rates. From what I can see quite a few people voted out as a protest against the government, cuts to services, insane house prices and so on.... but a lot of those people are having regrets already because they didn't expect out to actually win. Even the leave side don't appear to have a plan and they are already going back on the promises they made about less immigration and more money to the NHS. Interesting times we live in.

I'm a long way away from 60 but I'm OUT. What I find really irritating is the almost constant insinuation from people on the IN side that anyone voting leave must be bigoted, racist or whatever. 3rd post in on this thread and already it has happened. I'm certainly not bigoted but I do feel by being part of the EU we have to give up too many powers that should be in the hands of our politicians and while immigration is not top of my list it is certainly true that we don't have a choice over EU immigration while we are part of this club. I also feel voting leave will trigger a huge shift in British politics and business, yes some uncertainty and risk in the short time but in the long term I think it opens up a lot of opportunity for positive change. Having said that I think remain will win by a comfortable margin as so called "project fear" has been incredibly strong. This whole thing could have been avoided if we had been allowed a brake on immigration and if successive governments had done more to tackle the massive shortage of affordable housing (both private and council), school places in good schools, GP surgeries, etc. Around my area they are infilling brownfield land with poor quality but highly expensive shoe box sized houses and not creating any additional infrastructure to support the community.

no good moaning about it you have to vote with your feet. They will keep milking their customers until the customers start going elsewhere and it hits their bottom line. bronze/silver.. not even worth the effort as it covers sweet FA.

Probably only had a £1000 budget and was hoping to knock down the price? Though there are plenty of tight wads out there who do buy far inferior cars just to 'save' £50...... I mean it is a hazard of the job isn't it. OP you need to relax about it anyway because if you are getting frustrated about it you could end up coming across as too pushy (or even worse, desperate) which will then scare of genuine buyers as well.

I assume that is PER claim with an unlimited number of claims...........Otherwise what idiot would buy it?

This is a laudable goal but it can be difficult to do this, especially as a new business and many customers are shopping on the basis of price alone. They search for a car priced low to high and then still expect 5* service at the lowest price. But if you can establish a good reputation locally there are a smaller number of customers out there that understand low price vs good value and will become repeat business if you do it right.

I wouldn't be surprised if this kind of 'how to' piece is actually sponsored by the auction companies themselves. They really seem to want to attract private buyers and why not? It is funny when you see they pay retail money and retain 0 consumer protection because it must be better than going to a nasty car dealer who dares to try and make a profit!

I've seen low ball offers work when buying less desirable cars from motivated private sellers so I can understand a bit where the mentality comes from. What I don't get is why people expect to pay trade for their new car and receive top retail price for their trade in. It is definitely the google generation though. Emails offering 50 - 60% of the advertised price are not uncommon in my experience.