Fixedgear

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  1. Posted

    Poor choice of car. Punters will choose to go to Audi and get the finance, PX and experience. Plus their biggest concern is come back, warranty and peace of mind. None of which you can offer. As above, either go very specialist or cheap cars. I think you'll take a bath on this one but we all have in the past and that's how you learn. the 2018-19 cars are a risky market as all the manufacturers are knocking them out cheap or customers are simply leasing a brand new one for £280 pm !

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    On 02/07/2018 at 7:56 PM, Autolink100 said:

    We switched a earlier this year from Dragon to Auto Sales. Its a bit clunky compared to Dragon and not quite as polished but it's 1/3 the price for us and they are excellent people to deal with unlike the good folk at Dragon Their pricing depends on the number of units you add to stock but for us it normally comes to £40+ vat per month

    +1 for Auto Sales. Their support is fantastic.

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    3 hours ago, metcars said:

    I had a family member sounding me out about getting him a car. Has to be less that 50k, no more than 2 owners, black red or silver, full history, 2008/2009. Other than that he doesnt care? :D I suspect sadly the search will take too long!

    Does he fancy a Nissan GT-R?

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    9 minutes ago, SC Derby said:

    The only issue with that is if you ever have a rejection under CRA - would you then have to stump up £40-£120k to buy the car back?

    There is always risk. I guess fortune favours the brave and so far any issues we have encountered we have ironed out. A lot of our customers become friends strangely enough, it's not like we go to battle with each other like you would over a banger. In my experience, the higher value the car, the easier someone is to deal with.

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    4 minutes ago, grant8064 said:

    Sounds brave to me selling a 120k car to earn £1500?

    A lot of companies are doing it for this figure. With manufacturer warranty and zero outlay, £1200 is ok.

     

    We have a car at the moment, promised the customer a return of £41 and aiming to sell for 45. That's the new strategy we're now moving to.

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    Only just discovered this thread, we attended for the second year and we really enjoy it.

     

    There was a great little workshop by Lawgistics which only around 10 people attended.

  13. Posted

    We do a lot of SOR. Normally speaking we charge £1500 inc vat based on the car selling in 30 days.

     

    I have however now moved to a "we can achieve this figure for you" approach. Netting us more margin and taking the pressure off a little.

     

    For the purposes of the thread, these are £40-£120k cars

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    On 16/03/2017 at 10:30 AM, LawJaw said:

    Hi Fixedgear, I can confirm my advice still stands even though we have said goodbye to the Sales of Goods Act... however I would like to clarify, a private seller 'could' be liable for mis description (just not satisfactory quality, fitness for purpose etc).

     

    Many thanks LawJaw

     

     

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    On 09/07/2015 at 2:55 PM, LawJaw said:

    Good News Car Dealer Forum members... and you heard it here first... you can 'help' sell a customers’ or fellow motor dealers’ vehicle on a 'sale or return' basis and NOT be liable under the Sales of Goods Act. 

    You (the dealer) will act as an agent for client (the seller), if you advertise the car on your forecourt or website it must clearly state... ‘This is a sale or return vehicle, we are selling it on behalf of a client and it will be invoiced accordingly’.

    When you sell the vehicle DO NOT invoice it from yourself (the dealer), the invoice should be from your client (the seller).

    You will not be responsible for any sale of goods issues however you will be jointly and severally liable for any misdescription AND in the event that the vehicle is a clients vehicle and the client misdecribes it, you (the dealer) may be in the unfortunate position whereby you become liable while the client, not being in a trade or business, is not! So make sure any descriptions are correct.

    Interestingly, if the client (the seller) is a fellow motor trader they will be liable for any sale of goods issues NOT YOU.

    Any sale or return agreement should be strictly controlled and any agreement put in writing... make sure your name logo etc are not on the invoice... you are only an agent working on commission... AND make sure your customer is aware of this from start to finish of the sale process.

    You can buy Lawgistics Sale or Return Agreement Pads on both AMAZON and EBAY.

    Hope this helps B)

     

    Is this still valid even after the sale of goods act 2015?

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    Anyone else get really pissed off with ignorant offers day in day out?

     

    For a split second I sometimes want to send a clever answer back to the perp but then I refrain.

     

    When I send a nice reply I never get one back, which makes me think shall I just ignore all of them!

     

    How do you guys play it?

     

     

     

     

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  18. Posted · Edited by Fixedgear

    On 19/12/2016 at 3:40 PM, umesh said:

    Always difficult and sometimes you simply cannot judge or try to close them too much , its a balance and difficult to gauge. If the car is in the showroom which means moving either one , two.... cars then I always ' test drive is no problem , should we just make sure you happy with the px price ? or you're happy with the car looks, paper work etc so if it drives as good as it looks we'd have a deal / or you're going to buy it ?   , Doesn't always work but quite a few have said lets agree px or deal before test drive - I do get very possessive and don't want to get all the cars dirty !

    The odd one or two even after all that will have a test drive and walk away to ' think about  it ' .,.... but hey thats life :)

    can't win em all mate !

    I do explain its not just about getting cars dirty , insurance implications, damage , etc etc most sensible one do understand but the like the one who flipped probably just wanted a drive ..

    I had one quite a few years ago looking at a golf at £3000 - then he spots a GT TDI Just arrived in ,

    "he asks how much is that? " £14000 ,

     "can I take it for a spin ? " 

    I said I thought you were looking at £3000 golf , He said yeah but just want to take this for a spin ...

    I said sorry I don't do that ,let people take cars out for a spin unless you're thinking about buying THAT car ...

    He wasn't a happy chappy , said to his girlfriend not buying anything from here if won't let me take that out ! lets go .. 

    Sound advice there.

     

    The guy in question definitely wanted to drive it to get a buzz and in fact, he give it quite a kicking and I had to tell him to calm down.... It wound me up!

     

    He got quite aggressive when I tried to explain the implications of 'test driving' a car. He came to look at more than one. Tells you a lot about him.

     

    Just last week on a reluctant test drive, we had a stone hit a windscreen and crack it !!!

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    On 17/12/2016 at 9:26 AM, Rory RSC said:

    Its not something I do often but if someone is rude, confrontational, aggressive or hugely untrusting prior to buying the car and I sense trouble I will suggest its not for them. I have learned this the hard way and life is far to short to be dealing with these types.
     

    How do you politely deal with these people? I had a guy who flipped out when I said we wouldn't be test driving the car until we agreed a deal in principle, bearing in mind I had just spent £250 on paint correction detailing so it looked a million dollars.

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    I had a knocking from the rear of an BMW E93 Touring 335D M sport. I thought it was rear top mounts, which are a bit of a pain to change but turned out to be the bottom damper nuts had wound off and just wanted buzzing up. Result.