justina3

Welcome along, with the value of cars your looking at i would say at sadly is the way forward, also i would look at other options regarding warranties plenty of threads to read through on here and make an informed choice.

I very much doubt you will find people with similar problems on here sorry to say, its more like dealers moaning about this and that some days where are happy but there far and few between. And in fairness its not only the motor trade that has a few bad apples there in all walks of life, you only have to turn the tv on and its full of cowboy builders and the likes the list goes on, i do feel if the trade was all bad it would be more shows high lighting them, i know a lot of people in my local car area and can hand on heart say i would only avoid two out of maybe 30 so thats not a bad percentage. Doesnt help you i know just saying.

who knows its hard to tell these days, if it is i really dont understand what they get out of it but hay ho each to there own

i truly hope you get justice, not all dealers are the same hope next time you have more luck.

I was wondering that, whats the difference between just putting some money under my bed

i would be getting some advise asap, the revenue will love you when they pop along, if you have registered for vat recently they will for sure come out to do a first inspection. You should have an accountant by now maybe ask there advise on a part time book keeper if your that far behind. I do mine daily so there is only a small handful of invoices to deal with, bank account on a app so any monies going out i can record daily so at the end of the month i am not scratching my head why i took a few quid out here and there. Sometimes we are all guilty of being a busy fool, ie spending all the time saving money here and there and then having to give it all away to an accountant as we didnt do the basics ourselves, been there done that got the gold badge.

I find vans just as much hard work as when a fault occurs you get the its costing me £500 a day in lost revenue thrown at you.

all done

Coming from Wales people from Devon used to ring us daily saying your only 20 odd miles away yes if you take the ferry if you take the car your talking more like 250 miles, one donkey even left us negative feedback saying whats the point listing a car so far away. that was the last straw for me stopped using them after that which was a shame up until the big changes it used to work well for us.

Problem i always found with fleabay is the search default which is always set to best match, not closest first as it used to be back in the day, so you get into stupid discussions about someone 150 miles away from us has the same car for £50 less, where as gumtree and mongbook doesnt have that problem.

Wales hold up well the same as our Scottish friends what that kind of media, just be picky what you promote, a flame red Fiesta zetec for say £2k will fly out on there where as a Volvo estate wont go no where.

I would say I am pretty much in the same market as you, only difference is our bottom lines £300 is not a lot of profit for the level of work your putting in I would look there first off and answer yourself why, then look to change it. I have no experience with AT so can't answer you there sadly loads of other guys and dolls on here do so I am sure someone will pop along shortly to help there.

I know no comment means you dont wish to say anything but any chance of a hint as to what you mean ?

amen for self warranties, we now have a mechanic who does his own work as well as ours so he is on site most days as he uses our workshop, saves a small fortune.

makes for boring tv so cant see that ever happening

Nothing wrong with research good on you, but i would say not all sales people like to bs

Poor kid what's wrong with eating pickle onion crisps when talking to a customer in a car

I am sure in this day and age if you turned up with some crispy £20 notes they wouldn't turn you away

Depends on your stock value, I find selling mostly bread and butter the end of the month is always busier due to people getting paid ect

If i had my time again i would not be involved in sales thats for sure.

its all i know, and from looking in on other trades the country is as ass backwards towards them as well unless your a top level mp or something, I mean who in there right mind would want to be a police man or a nurse, phft no way i rather put up with trading standards and the guy in the street who becomes rumpole of the bailey when his rear windscreen wiper makes a odd noise after 7 months in the £1500 fiesta i sold him.

I have several similar people within 3 miles to me, you think trading standards would visit him instead of moaning about my mileage discrepancy stickers are not the latest issue

cant beat the smell thats for sure

I cant get on with that midnight stuff it just masks what ever is below and stinks, as for engine dressing they do one called Krul which is even better than finish as it doesnt get affected by the heat of the engine.

Has anyone got a link to the new "guidelines or rules" i cant seem to find them anywhere, coming from Swansea the home of the DVLA there vans are everywhere in my area so be nice to keep up to date.