justina3

Surely part of the indemnity you pays ensures the cars history is checked this hasn't happened so the auctions should be your main point to complain

You will have to paint at least some of it then pop into halfords they have a fair selection of mobile phone holders just get the one with the biggest base to it

The home made mechanic or Kwik fit fitter always make me walk off for a cupa, the time served mechanic i love to deal with as there living in the real world, I did sell a car to a VOSA inspector last year who asked if he could check the car using my ramp crack on i said, he then asked what mot station i used when i told him he replied there ok dont mind them, felt if i give him the wrong answer he would have walked, anyway he bought the car and never seen him since he was a nice guy to deal with apart from his big orange coat saying VOSA inspector all over it, i was going to try and pinch his coat watch peoples faces in horror if i walked into the auction with it on.

whats wrong with the good old western union money transfer, seen that used many many times in never never land.

That sounds so god dam USA

Sold my Cooper today whoop whoop looking over my records the mini us my top margin vehicle

That's spooky I use that line also

Same as tradex never had an issue on some lumpy stuff I do charge a percentage towards merchant charges as these can soon mount up

plenty of space to cover most price brackets, i am amazed its still there.

I think thats a great looking pitch, you could do some great pos on those walls, up sells on warranty company history so on so on, I think with the power of the internet passing trade isnt as important as it used to be back in the day.

Agree so much poor info out there regarding these, i used to use a great dolly had brakes ect when i bought mine armitage was one of the best brands not sure if it still is, only problem i found with them was there where a nightmare to reverse with, after getting stuck a few times i went on a towing weekend course and bought a trailer and an old rat bag of a shogun job done.

?? i cant keep up who are these

I used Motors for many years when they where owned by (cant remember the name) but it was part of a newspaper group so it allowed me to put the old fashioned classified adds in my local evening post for pennies sometimes even a few free which was great for our local advertising, then they sold out to the Manhiem group and the phone stopped ringing i have no idea why they spent millions on tv adverts ect but the leads just dried up so i left. and at the price quoted above they have knocked 50% off there rates makes you wonder why

Umm i think you misunderstood what i said or i wrote it wrong, i am far from not affected, fed up of people through the nose and out bidding me on cars, my stock is half what it normally is which must have an affect on my sales, however i refuse to pay over the odds just for it to sit there and wait for me to reduce it down so i make zero on it.

Not down my neck of the woods people are panic buying over paying then having the stock stuck up there jumpers i call it sheep mode, you often see it when stock gets thin on the ground, i would rather have 10 cars owing me the correct money then 20 being stuffed up my rear end. Your logic is sound but in practice i have never seen it work like that in real life.

I think unless your buying right up in the year stock then Glasses guide and similar no longer have any reference to what is going on in the real world i was watching three traders fighting like there lives depended on it over a 55 plate fiesta this morning bought over double cap clean, My point being if i had my trusted little book and went to auction hoping to buy stock in a certain older range the book would be pointless.

I got two booked for today wont be holding my breath...no doubt they will turn up with half the car is marked up for in pound coins which according to mike brewer is meant to me make cave in so i am told.

These kind of questions pop up a lot recently on here, I still struggle what difference or what help it will be knowing what my rent is ? my pitch could be ten times bigger or ten times smaller, I could be on a prestige estate so my rates are treble or in the back of beyond and there almost 0, how can you possibly work out why your quiet from that ? I am lost. anyway apart from that we are desperate quiet as well on the plus side my pacman score is off the chart

I did something similar at the start of the year, but then the guy was on the phone screaming at me and i twigged i only give him my personal account not the business one, and he had indeed paid the deposit as promised. Thankfully i hadnt sold the car so i got away with a very big slice of humble pie and a full tank of fuel for the customer. Clearly a case of to much to do and rushing around like a fool day.

That's almost impossible to answer as each month is very very different, plus each dealer will be totally different in what they pull profit wise from a car, i know a guy who is happy to make £100 a motor so sells over double what i move, however profit is king in my book and i get no where near the amount of headaches he does, then add in the mix people who sell £1000, against people who sell £10,000 I feel the answers you get will give you no help. Turnover is vanity that old chestnut springs to mind

I always ask first as mentioned its a game of whits, I tend to avoid questions that allow them to give a silly answers like how much do you want for your car, that often gets answered with as much as i can get, so that answer gets you no where, try ones like what do you value your car at. The price range i work at thankfully it doesnt come up often and when it does i am being offered a pile of turd fit for scrap which i am happy to give them £150 for and explain the advantages of letting me doing it over the local scrote who will sell it on and not transfer the log book ect, that often focuses there minds.

Finding 30 cars to fill the site at the right money / condition / spec is going to be hard enough, good stock for a while now has brought a top premium and squeezed margins very tight. good luck your going to need it.

is there anyone you havent had a problem with

Agreed i would rather know where i am, but sometimes its a waiting game next auction sometimes i have had the same car for a few pounds less.

not part of the big two but our local auctions, i never push them as there often waiting for an answer on several cars from the same vendor, i know some garages push for an answer early and the block just say its been declined.