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  3. Posted

    1 hour ago, Nick M.K. said:

    From the second to last paragraph of her intro I can see she is a social media consultant. 

    I also almost didn’t read it as she lost me on Gold Metro :-) 

    I had two cold emails last offering the world on our facebook page from similar outfits, guess its only to be expected in these times, my phone hardly rings these days with we can save you a fortune on your ....what ever bills.

    Thank god for spam filters.

  6. Posted

    I think it’s just a game of numbers didn’t buy a single thing today, Myself however tomorrow is a different day thank god for on line bidding. 
     

    yes you end up with the odd lemon but factor in all the time you save it’s still well worth it, driving around the country for me is just no longer viable. 

  7. Posted

    I am still here.....holly crap how sad does that sound, not a lot changed still a daily struggle to source stock to source decent customers. 

    One thing that has changed i think is the advertising landscape, what ever your old flavour i can bet you a cup of hot chocolate it would have changed and not for the better.

  8. Posted

    2 hours ago, Boycie said:

    That is one of the issues, it used to be franchised dealers only, but anyone can sell on there now. I particularly enjoy the buy it now cars that Autotrader say are over retail prices....

    I dont see that being the crux of the issue, for me the issue is dealer auction will allow almost anyone sign up with homemade vat number and purchase cars, there is no way on this earth i could compete with the guy who doesnt declare a single thing offers no services other than a burner phone and a picture of his backside heading off into the sunset with the customers money never to be seen again, they know it we know it everyone knows it but it gets them sales and keep the dealers listing cars with them so it will never change.

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    36 minutes ago, trade vet said:

    I take it you do know about signing up to a Making Tax Digital compliant provider.( that’s £20- £30 per month ). plus if you are like me, you will need somebody to upload all your invoices onto the system.Good Luck.

    A lot of dealers have no idea what info there sending off to the vat office with there mtd return, the revenue's ability to be able to drill down into any entry now is as clear as glass, going to be a lot of surcharges issued this year thats for sure.

     

  10. Posted

    1 hour ago, XFS said:

    A bit of a boring topic. Sorry in advance.

    Ok, so I am making a fresh start with a new Unit based business. We start trading early March with a stock of 12 to 15

    I am looking for an easy way of make accounting and VAT easy.

    My accounts recommend A programme. Cant remember which one, but it didn’t look particularly appealing to me.

    Any recommendations ?

    Thanks in advance

     

    Depends on your level of input required most accountants will offer an entry system and charge a nominal fee just picture snap the invoices wing them over and they do all the entry work, you may be surprised with the cost v work required.

    Back in our car audio days we had close onto 30 staff and the accountant used to charge £50 a month to do payroll wasnt worth our effort or headache just emailed him hours last day of the month and payslips turned up within an hour job done. 

     

  11. Posted

    11 hours ago, Boycie said:

    From our point of view, the more people that leave Dealer Auction, the cheaper the cars should be, as there are less people bidding in them.

    If only that was true I see it as the decent buyers leave the pond life that shouldn’t be in there in the first place will remain and continue to feed the main dealers goal to offload crap at any price. 

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    4 hours ago, Halfpenny said:

    And don't get me started on Minis - refuse to touch those things now.

    I am part of that gang as well its a mini adventure the add says there not far bloody wrong, 

    PS as a keen rugby fan i have to ask, your not related to Lee Halfpenny by any chance,  true welsh rugby legend.

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    22 minutes ago, umesh said:

    :lol: many on here won't know isopon p38 ...remember the stuf well!! 

    I am convinced I am going to get some nasty disease at some point due to dust that stuff and mdf used to make, H&S I used to think that was some fancy clothes shop up London way. 

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    1 hour ago, Mark101 said:

    I wouldn't back a car or even bother Surecheck for a wheel bearing. If that's all that is wrong, I would be quite happy. If I could use the wheel bearing as an "excuse" for a car that isn't as good as I hoped on the other hand.

    I agree, that would be classed as a major win in my book. 
     

    and certainly not worth the hours on the phone following a claim. 

  15. Posted

    1 minute ago, Peter Warne said:

    I just wanted an answer to my original question. But if that’s too hard ok

    I think your barking up the wrong tree here most will happen is some measly fine from the dvla which no doubt will be put in some dormant company name and never paid, back to the drawing board. 

     

  16. Posted

    Just now, Peter Warne said:

    This guy is filling the streets up round my unit some days I can’t get my van in

    shall we all hire a mini bus and come around sort him out for you....or you could grow a pair and go have a chat with the guy.

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    35 minutes ago, Dealer said:

    Not bought anything since AT have taken it over, it's ruined totally in my opinion. Not a massive fan of it but it's to the point where it's unworkable now unless you have time to sit there all day on it. 

    Totally agree one of those rare occasions where the old website was ten times better with what they replaced it with.

  19. Posted

    I will answer you vat question the rest I cringed as I don’t BMW’s or the customers they bring, anyway there is no real way of reducing your vat if one business claims it the other company incurs it if you own both businesses it’s six of one and half a dozen of another. 
     

    finally what starts of as a passion for most of us very quickly turns into ground hog day, I know prefer to walk as much as I can as I am fed up with cars. 
     

  23. Posted

    15 minutes ago, Uzzy100 said:

    to all the hating moaning disgruntled members that seem to be jealous of the way i have been doing things, I've registered with HMRC and filed all documents they need to invoice me accordingly for the last two years. 

     

    The issue you will come across when you come onto a forum of people who run businesses not only in there heads is that they can smell a lie a mile away and the above comment just confirms its all a load of tosh.

     

  24. Posted

    1 hour ago, JXB said:

    This is where I'm heading I think. Can't imagine boycotting AT all together but there's definitely space to be pushing Facebook a lot more than currently and reduce budgets elsewhere.

    Thanks for your help anyway!

    Yeah, feels like a trial and error process but always seems like AT are exploiting their position.

    100% agree its trial and error for us before we take any action we always have our own stats to back it up, I have a small indi dealer close to me with 3 sales staff if they do not fill in where they heard from you and what influenced the customer to pick that dealer questionnaire they have the sales person loses that commission three strikes and they lose the months commission, point being i think everyone is now looking at where to put there money a lot more than we have in the past thanks to the arrogance of autotrader. 

     

     

  25. Posted · Edited by justina3

    I often find with questions like these, what every one is doing is of very little importance to me, facebook doesnt work for other dealers do i care umm nope it works for me and thats all the info i need. 

    welcome to the forum by the way.