justina3

A very broad question to answer as a lot of dealers do things totally different, many factors differ from how far away do you sell your cars local or national ? do you have a great support network like mechanic spark general all rounder ect. Return to base cover like we offer is great if your selling locally if someone has a abs light come on for example we can have it fixed and back them normally within 24 hours often the same day, then fixing faults becomes almost a secondary advert for your business when there mate down the road is still fighting with the big supermarket to even look at there car fault. For us everything is in house we control the fix we control the parts spend and nip any issues in the bud straight away before a snowball turns into an avalanche as these things often end up doing. You dont have to have your own technician in house you can do as we did at first and have a local mobile guy come and look at faults. Faults are a nightmare for sure but we take the view now is the time to shine fix it clean it get it back to customer job done.

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You heard that important bit of info from ? selling to whom cant see marketplace making a dent on anything its a very poor platform and has even added its own form of price markers so not even worth looking at.

Notice a lot of thank you comments on social media like Autotrader done you any favours from the goodness of there hearts, they responded to a massive reduction in customers like they have never seen before they had to do something to try and keep dealers. When the going was good give they give two hoots about price markers ? did they hell as like. Still say Ebay motors missed a massive opening they may never get a similar chance.

I know of at least ten small dealers open i passed daily there didnt seem to be anyone out enforcing the rules that i have heard off, other than the old wives tales, i said ten almost everyone is back open from what i can see.

my comment clearly struck a chord with lots of people, i wasnt being funny just some of the advise given on here would be a money pit if followed.

Thats if the auction houses want to shift back to physical, for now they will have to but i do see a future for grade 1-3 cars all to go on line first then who knows, the staff and insurance cover alone might cover the lost sales from the car wash crew turning up each week with a pocket full of kesh. From what i see those kind of buyers are cutting there teeth on facebook ads turning up at peoples door steps and bidding them hard and forcefully, we bought a KA this week the lad tried to sell it on facebook but had several very nasty people turn up and almost throw him half the money and walk off with the keys.

Best bit of advise from me would be not to listen to every bit of advise you receive.

Hi Steve crazy times welcome all the same

Rome wasnt built in a day as they say, and bread and butter does sell on there you have a fair amount of dreamers the block button is great with dealing for those type of customers, study your demographics well create an add that reaches the customers pointless just letting it go for 100,s of miles if its a billy basic fiesta people wont travel that far so set your distance wisely. As with all forms of advertising its a trial and see and fine tune what works for you.

Totally agree, odd manhiem doesnt try and duplicate there clear success with there on line buying app

Cough and I will kick you in the nuts. staying alert here

Funny that I feel the same about manhiem bca just seems to be an easier place to buy from. manhiem needs an app to match bca.

Thank you that’s very helpful

And watching bca this morning seems some dealers 50k is burning holes in there pockets

Bca just seem to be moving there stock around nothing fresh arrived, never bought from Aston opened an account tried to get prices of fees and delivery and was told I had to buy ten cars before they told me the price I was going to pay.......hmm maybe not

And the comment that economic hardships may force people to buy second hand cars ! Sounds good news to me

I only heard opportunities in that video.

No idea who they are i tried to register to have a looksie and was told i didnt fit there dealer profile so still have no idea. Or any idea what profile / dealer there looking for what ever it was it wasnt me

any link to the video?

I forgot about that angle, with that in mind the dealers are the last people they want, apart from maybe the supermarket buyer.

From the auction house side of things those customers pay over the odds for stock so if anything there the ones they would want at an auction not the dealer hoping to buy anything close to cap

They could just sort there appraisal system out and they wouldn’t need branches.

Think the on line model suits them.

Really ? still shocked me how little people know about what funding has been offered by various councils and the government. All the info you need is out there ten fold, it takes less than a few hours to get your head around it all and come up a formula that works for your business,