Business, car sales, Car traders, stock sourcing

[POORCARDEALER]

Hussy786 said:

Hi All

I am new to this forum, im in the motortrade pretty much still building the foundations.
Where would you guys sugguest is the best place for buying stock, i struggle finding stock on a regular
basis.. I sell used cars up to the 4k mark mainly diesels with mileage up to 130k mark.
Or could any trader on here supply me with thier px stock at trade prices. I am interested in building contact with bigger dealers out there. I usually stock up to 10 cars a month. Buy from bca sometimes but thier prices are ridiculous majority of the time...

Hope to hear back from you guys

Regards

You have the same problem as 99% of the trade.

Its not easy buying good stock at all.

[cuneus]

Have you looked at any of the Trade only auction sites ?

[Hussy786]

cuneus said:

Have you looked at any of the Trade only auction sites ?

Im signed up to trade outs its not as good as it looks

[Butter Face]

Hussy786 said:

cuneus said:

Have you looked at any of the Trade only auction sites ?

Im signed up to trade outs its not as good as it looks

Autotrade-mail and dealer-auction are both good sites!!

[Hussy786]

Butter Face said:

Autotrade-mail and dealer-auction are both good sites!!

You know with autotrade mail is it mainly dealers selling their cars to trade? Or auctions? Because trade outs has mainly auction houses.

[Butter Face]

Hussy786 said:

Butter Face said:

Autotrade-mail and dealer-auction are both good sites!!

You know with autotrade mail is it mainly dealers selling their cars to trade? Or auctions? Because trade outs has mainly auction houses.

Autotrade-mail is dealers selling to dealers. We sell/source a lot on there.

You can put up requested adverts etc too, and auto emails if anything meets your requirements, you email/call, do deal, arrange delivery etc yourself.

It works really well IMO, I source my personal cars on there too.

[Hussy786]

Butter Face said:

Autotrade-mail is dealers selling to dealers. We sell/source a lot on there.

You can put up requested adverts etc too, and auto emails if anything meets your requirements, you email/call, do deal, arrange delivery etc yourself.

It works really well IMO, I source my personal cars on there too.

Thanks for the advice, but they require you to have an autotrader account which i dont have at the minute, website is underconstruction.

[n_const]

Sign upto full auction and auction 4 cars too !

[JimmyConwayNW]

eBay and Gumtree travel the length of the country to get to where you want to be.
A lot easier to buy privately as more time to inspect than at auction.

[kev1387]

Hi Hussy I'm in the same boat as you, not long started trading, also signed up to Tradeouts but found the prices of the cars on there to be retail prices. Also tried dealer-auction but they won't let you sign up unless your vat registered which at the moment I'm not over the threshold. The auction (BCA) are sky high prices to at the moment, people paying way over the odds for cars. I did may be think about going down the trading van route see if that's any better.

[MarsellusWallace]

Try West Coast Motor Auctions in Poulton-about half an hours drive from you-I've not been there for a few years but some traders I sell to use them sometimes and pick out a few bargains.

[kriss]

Do you have a valuations subscription (Glass's Guide)

You can advertise as an underwriter in there, or they currently offer free "Trade to Trade" advertising for stock in their GlassNet system.

Chris

[Junglehop]

Defo a Vouch for FullAuction, allows you to buy and sell with CAP integrated which is pretty handy....