Business, car sales, Car traders, stock sourcing

[Hussy786]

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

[Hussy786]

Im new to this mate.. How do i contact a mod?

[Hussy786]

woody2846 said:

Where are you located? Do you have a website?

Hi, im located in burnley lancashire, but can come collect from anywhere in the country as long as prices are right. Website is under construction at the minute.

[Hussy786]

mike9009 said:

My next door neighbour is a trader. He is at a similar end to the market as you. He buys bulk Part Ex motors from our local main dealers (basically the stuff they do not want) - so therefore he has some gems but also a lot of dross. Typically, this will be in batches of three or four cars at a time. He is a one man band with a small pitch (6 cars plus others parked around the area) and obviously makes a living from this but he is never going to be a millionaire!

His stock this year has varied from 7 series BMW, 1963 midget, mk1 Focus RS, Alfa Spider to pug 406s, Hyundai Amicas and Ford Kas. It really is a mixed bag but he generally shifts stuff within three weeks. Although he has had a Lancia Thema kicking around for at least 18 months (although I have not seen it recently??)

He only advertises in the local news paper- but obviously it works for him. He is an honest guy and seems to have a lot of repeat custom (selling cars for £700 is always going to bring back customers when it comes to the next MOT time, I suspect??)


Mike

Thanks for your advice appreciate it, ive contacted a few main dealers in my area but they mainly send thier cars to auctions.
I wouldnt mind getting cheaper stuff just need constant flow of stock. Could you find out from him which dealer he uses or which dealers would be looking to trade out thier stock? If there is any branches in lancashire i could posibly try having a word with them and hopefully get some stock of them.

[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

[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.

[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.