What do you do with your old bangers?

[Jimbo 11]

Just wondering what you guys do with them

we're finding ourselves with a few too many less desiresble cars and wondered what u guys do when you get the "old dogs" in?

no one really wants to be spending time selling a car for £50 profit which is most likely going to be attracting people thinking their £300 car should be immacculate. 

So if you get an old thing, noisy, rattling, oil leaks, wear and tear etc do you just send to auction or ebay/gumtree? Prob with the latter 2 is youre still selling as a trader even if you've advertised it with all the faults so could end up having to refund it!!!

[BHM 994]

Ebay. 

A brutal advert - total honestly, and quite rudely written i.e. No champagne taste, lemonade money idiots + £xxx does NOT buy a new car, if you want a new car go to your local dealer but you'll need 20 times more than this.

It works a treat, you ignore all texts, most emails, weed out any arseholes or other undesirables on the phone and tell the viewing punter straight. 

If your sales technique is as abrupt as your advert you'll be fine but if you've not got the stomach for it or you're an automatic bullshitter promising the earth then you'll have bother

Tbh buyers of a few hundred quid banger are no different to buyers of more expensive cars. You need to scare away the dickheads (most are just hard-up punters being overly optimistic) with a rough advert & rough talk and get left with a punter who understands shit money buys shit cars. There are plenty out there who expect & accept they will need to do a few jobs to a car at shit money.

[Jimbo 11]

Thanks yes on the case now with warts n all ebay ads

how do these work with avoiding people returning a £300 skoda in 2 months saying its a sh!t heap when you basically sold it as that

[Max Branning 149]

Try and find a local trader that is happy to deal in the dog end of the market. There is plenty out there !

If you can nick 50 - 100 quid on each car and he takes the lot, then happy days surely ?

[Jimbo 11]

Good point

i will put some feelers out as id rather just trade them on

sometimes my suppliers insist i take a few crappers along with the good stuff which is fair enough. Just dont really want to sell them on myself and worry about come backs

[BHM 994]

If you speak straight to people you don't get comebacks. The punter who wants comeback will be put off the moment you say "it's cash, no receipt, go & don't come back thinking there's a warranty because there isn't".

When I say straight talk I mean STRAIGHT TALK. There must be absolutely no fucking about at this end of the market otherwise you will get comebacks. 

Obviously if you're retailing £30,000 German wet dream machines from a big glass showroom this approach is possibly not good for you. The punter on a 3yr old M5 might be somewhat put off to hear you telling a punter on a £300 Focus that "It comes with a lamppost warranty, now either get your wallet out or go cos I'm not fucking about over a £300 banger. Take it or leave it" 

[It's me 609]

scrap them or as said brutal ebay advert but not auction ,insist buyer has seen all the good points as well as bad and write up a detailed receipt to cover your bum

to be honest i prefer not to take crap in because even the batteries are usually original and you dont even find loose change under the seat runners anymore

[Arfur Dealy 823]

Tell them over the phone. Dear Mr Customer, when you are buying a trade disposal car, you are buying it on the basis that it is unroadworthy and not fit for any purpose other than to broken for parts only. It must be trailored away and not driven on the road. You accept that it comes without any warranty as to its condition. You will not given the current MOT certificate.

 

[Jimbo 11]

Cheers im definitely looking to avoid this end of the market not becuase im a snob but its bloody grim

 

need to find a good contact that will buy the sub £500 stuff so i can just flip it within a day and concentrate on core stock

[Arfur Dealy 823]

5 hours ago, Jimbo said:

Cheers im definitely looking to avoid this end of the market not becuase im a snob but its bloody grim

 

need to find a good contact that will buy the sub £500 stuff so i can just flip it within a day and concentrate on core stock

Don't be too hasty giving away the bangers, there's good profits in them. You just have to make sure you cover yourself when selling. As BHM said above, write a brutally honest advert and state clearly the car will be sold using an "unroadworthy" invoice. No come backs entertained at all. Simply cover yourself and the pond life will appear with a wad

[Jimbo 11]

1 hour ago, Arfur Dealy said:

Don't be too hasty giving away the bangers, there's good profits in them. You just have to make sure you cover yourself when selling. As BHM said above, write a brutally honest advert and state clearly the car will be sold using an "unroadworthy" invoice. No come backs entertained at all. Simply cover yourself and the pond life will appear with a wad

Im on it today now thanks a lot mate. 

[Rory RSC 596]

I make some very good money off the PX to clear stock. Do not give them away. 

[umesh 336]

Ditto ! Older PX's - do make good profits ! A Little time and effort you'd be amazed ! 

[BHM 994]

Absolutely true, personally if I could get enough DECENT p/x bangers I'd 'specialise' (ahem!) in them.

The scrappers just want moving on to the spares-or-repair crowd but on stuff half decent it's so easy to double- or treble-up on them. If you've no overheads you can make a good living selling shite, as long as it's good shite that's clean & recently MOTed.

[Max Branning 149]

Time and space has to be factored in. If i have several bangers sat in the way rather than spending hours prepping them and dealing with inevitable issues i would rather sell them straight on to another trader and make a few quid in the process.

 

[Stephen 21]

Gumtree and e bay seem good last 2 sold within 24/48 hours and your right can make decent money with no come backs made the overall deals great 

[Earunder 69]

Under £300 we scrap.

Under £1,000 we trade out to a smaller local dealer that has cars upto £4k.

Edited October 4, 2017 by Earunder