Classics on sale for years!
Discussion
Yes, I know this has already been aired, but the Search on PH was unhelpful and mostly irrelevant. The Post was prompted by looking at CCW. If you are even a half hearted browser of such papers/mags, you feel that you know some of the cars!
Edited by Lester H on Thursday 20th May 12:55
Turbobanana said:
I'll certainly miss my old friend, the Gold Nissan Sunny Auto that always appears in my "Sort by: Newly Listed" daily eBay browse for classic cars, if it ever actually sells.
I looked it up, as it’s raining...so presumably in certain e-bay ads New Listing means Old Listing!There used to be a dark metallic green Lotus Excel for sale every week in CCW for ages, back when you could hardly give them away. Apparently the recipient of a £5000 engine rebuild and was for sale at under £3000. Felt like a part owner of that car, I can still see the grainy little photo in my mind's eye!
Years ago, working for a Suffolk-based multi-franchise motor group, we used to have a yearly purge of all the overage stock. The rule was that a stocklist would be given to each of the sales execs with a bottom-line offer price and you could sell whatever you liked, regardless of its location. You would get paid £1 commission for every day it had been in stock to that point.
Naturally we all focussed on the oldies - those that were celebrating a birthday - but one year I managed to sell one of the Mercedes 308D minibuses from the hire fleet that we'd had for about 8 years. This would have meant about £2,900 in commission, which I planned to put towards an E30 M3 that at the time you could buy for about £5,000 from Holland.
At that point management decided to cap the commission at £500, so that is all I got. I left shortly after.
Naturally we all focussed on the oldies - those that were celebrating a birthday - but one year I managed to sell one of the Mercedes 308D minibuses from the hire fleet that we'd had for about 8 years. This would have meant about £2,900 in commission, which I planned to put towards an E30 M3 that at the time you could buy for about £5,000 from Holland.
At that point management decided to cap the commission at £500, so that is all I got. I left shortly after.
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