justina3

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  1. Posted

    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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    14 hours ago, CCC said:

    I think EBay are selling their classifieds business which includes motors and gumtree.

    I suspect this is because they’re expecting a decline in revenues (due to FB marketplace?)

    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.

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    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. 

     

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    2 hours ago, Paul C said:

    I'm surprised they got away with it (do you know they did though?), they would have stuck out like a sore thumb, most places were like a ghost town in April.

    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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    3 hours ago, MarkTVS said:

    We’ve bought everything online this month about 20 units or so, some great some bad but it’s just a gamble with BCA, I don’t like Mannheim as an auction but there grading system and reports are much better!

    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. 

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    46 minutes ago, Highlinev8 said:

    Aston Barclay are the only auction thats had some reasonable stock for sale and as you say its been selling well under cap which is where it should be.

    BCA are doing a spring clean of there yards and trying to get rid of grade 3/4 stock. The couple of sales they have had with fresh stuff that I would be interested in buying they are still trying to get close to cap clean. Cap needs to bite the bullet and slash their values because the market is waiting for them.

    Suprised you had trouble with Aston Barclay, I've always found them good to deal with, maybe try them again. For the record I have a BCA platinum account and only buy about one a month off Aston Barclay and Aston Barclays fees are slightly cheaper than BCA.

    Thank you that’s very helpful 

  16. Posted

    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 

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    21 hours ago, Motore said:

    https://cardealermagazine.co.uk/publish/motorway-restarts-daily-online-auctions-launches-new-no-contact-transport-service-dealers/192070 - Anyone have any experience with these guys? Looks like ebay style auctions. 

    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 :lol:

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    49 minutes ago, Highlinev8 said:

    I think its more like the three times the auction fee that Joe public pays compared to a dealers gold/platinum card 

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

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    1 hour ago, Blenheim Car Sales said:

    if it was  just account holders gold and above rather than the  taxi drivers and the £100 flip car idiots then social distancing would be manageable.

    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 

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    1 hour ago, Ratt101 said:

    Saw a post above about getting a £25k grant we only got £10k where did the extra come from? cos would love to apply, however we did get approved for a bounce back loan within 48 hours we have no current funding 

     

    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,