my trade rarely sees omegas, maybe one a month, paying for trade ads is no problem, as for contributing to the site, regularly answer peoples help requests and send them free / or p+p price parts.
cant say fairer than that.
the general idea of a template would help.
as it was seing peaches post where someone was realy rude that made me think, why dont you guys just have a template.
It would help you to keep the replies down and help you get the result you are after.
as for pound notes, ask josh,the omegas we get shot of, rarely turn any profit, but as an interest site for omegas, why not give you all first dibs at them.
I have suplied 5 omegas to club members over the past year, they all got extras, like free delivery, a free satnav, or something.
Makes no ods if i advertise on here or not, but in general, as the post suggested, would be great if peoples adds contained more info.
that was all, it wasnt a patronising attempt, or a request for someone to have a go at me, when it was peaches post that received all the rude comments on it that sparked this idea!
http://www.omegaowners.com/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1271052315I find your views interesesting, you mention a templat as other have but when you actually advertise a car on here (Like the one above) you seem a little short and suggest other sites where the pictures are listed.
I have been involved in the motor trade and I have to say then if you are moaming that you very rarely make a profit on an Omega then why bother buying them. this 3.2 estate for example. starts at 2695 but now its 1995 or 2195 with MOT Oil change and service. So thats what, £40 MOT, £10/12 Vx oil and filter, olus air and pollen filters, plugs and possibly pads/
So you suddenly decide to drop £700 off it, the service etc covers itself for parts and labour so. So had the car of sold origininally are you saying you would have made a nice healthy £500+ proffit on the estate.
We used to but little toyota's and colts like the mirage or colt mit=rage turbo, allways ran then for a day or two to fault find, allways did a servie and mot if less than 6 months left. Plus a full valet and even offered a warrany on them, saying that anyone who dealt with knew how we detailed the sale of a car and we had a good repution for sales. Also valeted for a majority of the trade and had a four post ramp to do service work, contacts for paint work, weding and electrical work to a degree we carried out ourselves. £500 outlay (Total) would easily return 750/800 all day long. 1000 motor would return 1500/1600.
Some of out trade was ex police with the traders that came to us, ok, holes to fill in, new roof linings in some, but the profit was allways there.
Basically Simon, I hate to say it, but I dont believe a trader buys any car and then says he naver makes a profit on a particular type/model, experiance tells him not to carry on doing it. We also know the valur of the Omega range and what it costs to do the work required, also aware that £1.40 a litre wont help private or trade sell a V6 motor.
as for contributing to the site, regularly answer peoples help requests and send them free / or p+p price parts.
cant say fairer than that.
I think most of us contribute to the site one way or another. Respect on the freebies, but thats your call for you and the others that choose to do it.
People on here will pay a fair price for a fair car, no one is knocking your trade Simon, not even me as we know you are in it to make a living. But to come on here and start a thread regards advertising and details then take the laxy way out then sorry matey, hance I wrote this post.
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