Hi All
I am selling July 2006 issue's of Glass's Guide
Happy Bidding if you're interested.
Hi All
I am selling July 2006 issue's of Glass's Guide
Happy Bidding if you're interested.
How do you do?
can't get a b'gishew franchise?
motortrade dont even use glass anymore.
motortrade? wassat then? The one main dealer and two independents have packed up and gone from our High St. Our local parts emporium has shut up shop for the last time.
The last engineer packed up and went home about 5 years ago - I can't name a single source of engineering whatnots that hasn't gone over to only selling power tools and the nearest stock metal holders is about an hour away.
Still, so long as there are estate agents and charity shops we still have the pretence of a thriving community. I guess the great unwashed have voted and we get the High St we deserve. oh well.
What do they put in the windows then?
:)
Stuart
Folk that think their funny!!!!
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Nige
Damn, you saw right through me then...
Stuart
Baby salesman struggling for commission?
IanL wrote:
Naughty naughty!
How exactly will having a Glass's guide do that?!
Matt
Well you are a pane in the arse..
On or around Sat, 22 Jul 2006 01:09:37 +0200, Matthew Maddock enlightened us thusly:
yeah, I was thinking that. I daresay that it's not a problem to sell older editions, but Glass's (or rather the trade, I suspect) are iffy about it getting into the hands of joe public.
It's a violation of the subscription T&C's for them to be given away/sold on, even the old ones AIUI. I'm surprised Glass's don't complain to eBay to have it removed. 'tho I suppose you don't see them that often because dealers know their subscription will be canceled if they are found out.
Have to say I'm not sure why Glass's is so well though of - whenever I've seen a trader use one and had a look in myself the figures don't seem to bear any resemblance to anything! I was offered £1500 for a BMW estate a while back using the "Glass's guide price" When I told the dealer I reckoned it was worth about £3000 his response verbatim was "What, for that?!" Great way to win over a customer! You can imagine what my reaction was. I sold it myself privately for £3200 in the end :-) Now I know dealers have to make a profit, but if I could get £3200 for it, I doubt he would have put it up for less than £3500 which would have meant a £2k profit on £1500!
Matt
Glass's only gives the dealer an idea of what ball-park he/she should be talking. At the end of the day the dealer, just like every other retailer, needs to make £x profit. If you are talking trade-ins, he/she will simply move the profit from vehicle they are selling to the vehicle you are trading in as you haggle. They will take into account their individual market niche and the local market - whatever one may think of one's pride and joy they *know* what they can sell it for, what it's likley to cost them to do so, and even if they want it at all (in which case they will make a derisory offer so you will go away and sell it privately). In short, if you actually want a deal on your "new" car, sell your old one privately and forget the trade-in.
Richard
On or around Sat, 22 Jul 2006 13:37:43 +0100, beamendsltd enlightened us thusly:
sums it up pretty concisely. It's like the difference between borrowing from the bank and lending to the bank.
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