Are these Vloggers just a scam? SOL or Shmee etc? (Vol. 3)

[Butter Face]

RobDown said:

AJB1971 said:

Horsey McHorseface said:

AJB1971 said:

Haven’t watched the video, but what’s the difference between the storage box idea and something like this?
https://www.asgardsss.co.uk/garage-guardian-over-b...

About £450. Plenty on Alibaba too, and much cheaper.

Need extra storage space.
Find a solution.
Decide to go into business selling said product.
Come up with a cool brand name.
Set up a website.
Purchase a white-label product and rebrand.
Offer some form of personalisation.
Inflate price.
Target higher-income individuals.

Love or hate his videos (I'm still not sure which camp i'm in) but you have to hand it to TGE - he's just basically a classic UK entrepreneur. There's an opportunity here, he'll probably make a little bit of money from it. Rinse and repeat. Good luck to him

PS I know not this post. But there does seem to be a tendency on PH to criticise businesses/individuals for buying a product and then re-selling at a mark-up. That is kind of how retailing works....

Absolutely, he comes across as a bit of a tit sometimes on his videos but that is just his persona, he's a pretty smart chap and knows how to make money. The storage isn't anything new but his use of social media and the base of followers/friends he's got will open up a market of people to sell to!

I've just ordered 50 of them from alibaba myself and gonna undercut him

[pincher]

Butter Face said:

....he comes across as a bit of a tit sometimes on his videos but that is just his persona, he's a pretty smart chap and knows how to make money.

And he freely admits that his videos where is being a bit of a tit make more money than the serious ones. So why wouldn’t he just carry on playing the character that he has developed? After all, it has got him into some pretty nice cars, even if the colour scheme may leave a little to be desired sometimes.

I don’t want to be him or be like him but I’ll tip my hat to a young hard-working guy and give him credit where it’s due. And the same goes for his brother actually, who I suspect is the actual brains of the operation, despite his own on-screen persona.

[Stedman]

Jonny8v said:

We have all ruined AH’s SVR ownership experience - he is selling.

The comments have got to him apparently. If that is true (which I doubt), he is even more naive than I thought. If he thought viewers would be engaged by the same churn on videos. Buy an SVR (his second), modify it. Chaos. Lad. Etc. He is clueless.

[LukeSi]

One of my mates has taken up vlogging haha.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NoCO-qJnV18&fe...
I had a go myself but wasn't very good.
To be fair it is GF Williams so he's got a bit of an advantage to begin with haha

[Stedman]

Stedman said:

Guys, i'm after some help.

I'm trying to find a UK YT channel. Without trying to be rude the bloke is a bit of a nerd and focuses on fixing BMWs (I think). Channel/videos seems to be red. He has done a video on tyre pressures and the importance of them being correct. I know it's not much to work on but any help is appreciated

Edited by Stedman on Friday 3rd January 00:02

Anyone else got an idea?

Cheers

[johnwilliams77]

LukeSi said:

One of my mates has taken up vlogging haha.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NoCO-qJnV18&fe...
I had a go myself but wasn't very good.

Watched both of these, absolutely awesome. Keep it up GF.

[AlexNJ89]

RobDown said:

PS I know not this post. But there does seem to be a tendency on PH to criticise businesses/individuals for buying a product and then re-selling at a mark-up. That is kind of how retailing works....

This is very common, I see it a lot in the UK but I know this mentality is found in other countries too. People with no money doing nothing about it scoffing at those who are making money from something.

[WarrenB]

egor110 said:

bluemason said:

Horsey McHorseface said:

Re. Archie / SVR:

He says his reason to sell is based on all the negativity from his followers, on his choice of SVR. But if you check the likes/dislikes ratio of the SVR reveal / first drive video, it’s 12% dislikes. No more than the two unrelated videos preceding that reveal video, also 12%. If there was negativity, it wasn’t reflected in the number of dislikes.

Or just the fact that he can barely afford it

• Insert tony gravelwood laugh

Or maybe it's to free up the money he needs to race ?

If he used that as an excuse he'd more than likely get a much better response

[billzeebub]

Also new to GF Williams. An excellent channel/approach. Wish there was more content of proper car usage and drives like this. Just the job for living vicariously when no personal road trips on the horizon. Subscribed

[sicasey]

johnwilliams77 said:

LukeSi said:

One of my mates has taken up vlogging haha.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NoCO-qJnV18&fe...
I had a go myself but wasn't very good.

Watched both of these, absolutely awesome. Keep it up GF.

That's some of the best content I've seen in a long while.

[johnwilliams77]

sicasey said:

johnwilliams77 said:

LukeSi said:

One of my mates has taken up vlogging haha.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NoCO-qJnV18&fe...
I had a go myself but wasn't very good.

Watched both of these, absolutely awesome. Keep it up GF.

That's some of the best content I've seen in a long while.

Yup, I've watched both the videos a couple of times. The SP one maybe 3/4....

[Horsey McHorseface]

scottydoesntknow said:

Horsey McHorseface said:

Re. Archie / SVR

Probably more to do with the comments section.

Unless he’s deleted those particular comments, I can’t see many. Most were predicting he won’t have it for long, now proven correct. Most likely a loaner from Saxton in exchange for publicity. As with the fake videos 18 months ago, he knows people can see straight through him, so this time he disables comments. But he’s selling the SVR to please ‘you guys’. Nope, he doesn’t respect he’s followers anymore than he did 18 months ago.

AlexNJ89 said:

RobDown said:

PS I know not this post. But there does seem to be a tendency on PH to criticise businesses/individuals for buying a product and then re-selling at a mark-up. That is kind of how retailing works....

This is very common, I see it a lot in the UK but I know this mentality is found in other countries too. People with no money doing nothing about it scoffing at those who are making money from something.

Apart from being 50% over priced, and TGE being credited with it’s invention, I can’t think of anything to scoff about.

johnwilliams77 said:

sicasey said:

johnwilliams77 said:

LukeSi said:

One of my mates has taken up vlogging haha.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NoCO-qJnV18&fe...
I had a go myself but wasn't very good.

Watched both of these, absolutely awesome. Keep it up GF.

That's some of the best content I've seen in a long while.

Yup, I've watched both the videos a couple of times. The SP one maybe 3/4....

[pincher]

Horsey McHorseface said:

scottydoesntknow said:

Horsey McHorseface said:

Re. Archie / SVR

Probably more to do with the comments section.

Unless he’s deleted those particular comments, I can’t see many. Most were predicting he won’t have it for long, now proven correct. Most likely a loaner from Saxton in exchange for publicity. As with the fake videos 18 months ago, he knows people can see straight through him, so this time he disables comments. But he’s selling the SVR to please ‘you guys’. Nope, he doesn’t respect he’s followers anymore than he did 18 months ago.

I think the 'Selling my SVR' video had comments disabled originally, until the Porsche one was uploaded and he said he had to put money in himself, at which point comments were enabled.

It wasn't a loaner as far as I can work out - someone has already mentioned that it has gone down to Bournemouth/Southampton way to be sold.

Coincidentally, I was picking some stuff up from the same trading estate as Saxton on Friday so I popped in - the place is massive! Some lovely cars in the main showroom (430 Scud, GTC4 Lusso, Huracan, AMG GTR and a Vanquish convertible to name but a few) - but then you go out the back and there is every type of SUV imaginable spread across two floors - think my favourite was a two door Rolls Royce Phantom in cream - £90k though!

I wonder if they own all the stock or whether some of it is SOR?

[p4cks]

Just tried to watch Shmee150 again as I felt that I should give him another chance.

What an insipid bore.

[Beefmeister]

pincher said:

I wonder if they own all the stock or whether some of it is SOR?

They own the lot. It’s a staggering place isn’t it?

I’m guessing Archie got a very good deal, as Saxtons bought a job lot of oddly specced SVRs from JLR for a seriously silly price. They all have the carbon bonnets, but no other exterior carbon which isn’t an option.

[Horsey McHorseface]

pincher said:

Horsey McHorseface said:

scottydoesntknow said:

Horsey McHorseface said:

Re. Archie / SVR

Probably more to do with the comments section.

Unless he’s deleted those particular comments, I can’t see many. Most were predicting he won’t have it for long, now proven correct. Most likely a loaner from Saxton in exchange for publicity. As with the fake videos 18 months ago, he knows people can see straight through him, so this time he disables comments. But he’s selling the SVR to please ‘you guys’. Nope, he doesn’t respect he’s followers anymore than he did 18 months ago.

I think the 'Selling my SVR' video had comments disabled originally, until the Porsche one was uploaded and he said he had to put money in himself, at which point comments were enabled.

It wasn't a loaner as far as I can work out - someone has already mentioned that it has gone down to Bournemouth/Southampton way to be sold.

Comments still disabled. If his racing finance was a factor, why didn't he just say that in the Selling SVR video?



Casey and Lando: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvMJl_0oQ_8

[egor110]

Horsey McHorseface said:

pincher said:

Horsey McHorseface said:

scottydoesntknow said:

Horsey McHorseface said:

Re. Archie / SVR

Probably more to do with the comments section.

Unless he’s deleted those particular comments, I can’t see many. Most were predicting he won’t have it for long, now proven correct. Most likely a loaner from Saxton in exchange for publicity. As with the fake videos 18 months ago, he knows people can see straight through him, so this time he disables comments. But he’s selling the SVR to please ‘you guys’. Nope, he doesn’t respect he’s followers anymore than he did 18 months ago.

I think the 'Selling my SVR' video had comments disabled originally, until the Porsche one was uploaded and he said he had to put money in himself, at which point comments were enabled.

It wasn't a loaner as far as I can work out - someone has already mentioned that it has gone down to Bournemouth/Southampton way to be sold.

Comments still disabled. If his racing finance was a factor, why didn't he just say that in the Selling SVR video?



Casey and Lando: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvMJl_0oQ_8

Does it really matter ?

It's his money he's spending , if he blows it on the wrong car then flogs said car and frees up cash to buy a seat for a season racing it's only him who's risking anything.

[The Li-ion King]

sicasey said:

johnwilliams77 said:

LukeSi said:

One of my mates has taken up vlogging haha.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NoCO-qJnV18&fe...
I had a go myself but wasn't very good.

Watched both of these, absolutely awesome. Keep it up GF.

That's some of the best content I've seen in a long while.

Great content! Thanks

[GFWilliams]

The Li-ion King said:

sicasey said:

johnwilliams77 said:

LukeSi said:

One of my mates has taken up vlogging haha.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NoCO-qJnV18&fe...
I had a go myself but wasn't very good.

Watched both of these, absolutely awesome. Keep it up GF.

That's some of the best content I've seen in a long while.

Great content! Thanks

Thank you chaps, as someone who's been on pistonheads from the age of 13, I still pinch myself that I had the opportunity to even see these kind of cars, yet alone drive them. I've been trying to just share a real experience on video, I don't think I'm great at it, but learning a lot and I'm glad it's going down well!

[jayemm89]

A Monza in your third video, I'd say you're learning at a fairly decent rate!