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[cruisetopoland]

there is a limit and I think it's 6.

BUT it only refers to CGT - any more than 6 and you start to be come liable for CGT, which will only be a few percent - if they catch you.

Only 6 per year?   

Looks like prison for me then

Ah then I'm already near that, I'm on my fifth car in around 12 months.
Not bought and sold for gain, I just can't make my mind up what I want or how many either.

But.....I'm already thinking should I have sold the TD estate, should I buy another Omega.

Anyway as the origanator of this thread it sounds like a right pita to actually buy and sell cars legally.
So how do all these ebayers go on, they're not all registered as traders surely. They must get around the registration docs somehow, without it showing as a new keeper, especially if they want to move them on quickly.
I actually bought one last year from ebay, the car was last owned by someone in Nottingham. The guy I bought it from was just around the corner from me, but he had the whole V5. and kept the cars at his mothers house, sounds dodgy but he was actually a nice bloke.


Mick

Traders often buy as if a private buyer and promise to send off the reg doc, then hold onto it and use the following to explain why it is not their name on V5c:

It was my late father in laws (would you check?!)
It is my sister/aunt/cousin/ex-girlfriend's car
a friend/someone at the office wanted my car and I took it as p-ex to help them

I was going to register it in my name but:
the child seat won't fit
my wife does not like it
I won another car on ebay at EXACTLY the same time

etc

[omegod]

Regarding the carry on at the post office,it comes down purely and simply to incompotent staff
I know someone who works in a main branch post office and is a bit of a car nut... she told me that a main branch office can tax any vehicle regardless of its status.... she says there are different ways to input the details into the system and most staff dont know how to do it, hence the reason they say they can't and you 'need to go to your local DVLA office'

I wish I knew someone like this, trying to sell a car that is registered as disabled at the moment but it's proving to be a royal pain in the ass as the buyers don't fancy a trip to Chester to tax it at all. Is it really possible to do this at a main postie?

[Iain]

Regarding the carry on at the post office,it comes down purely and simply to incompotent staff
I know someone who works in a main branch post office and is a bit of a car nut... she told me that a main branch office can tax any vehicle regardless of its status.... she says there are different ways to input the details into the system and most staff dont know how to do it, hence the reason they say they can't and you 'need to go to your local DVLA office'

I wish I knew someone like this, trying to sell a car that is registered as disabled at the moment but it's proving to be a royal pain in the ass as the buyers don't fancy a trip to Chester to tax it at all. Is it really possible to do this at a main postie?

Apparently so,its the way its entered into the system or something... TBH i dont know much about it and the girl i know is away on holiday so i cant go ask her

[x1xv45]

"a main branch office can tax any vehicle regardless of its status"

But what they can't do is change its status - e.g. from Disabled and back. This is my recent experience. So unless it's different where you are omegod, it's off to DVLA.

You could change the status yourself in advance - doesn't cost anything, but then you have to buy 6 months tax or SORN it, neither is palatable when you're trying to shift the car. But 6 months tax looks very good to prospective buyers.

[omegod]

"a main branch office can tax any vehicle regardless of its status"

But what they can't do is change its status - e.g. from Disabled and back. This is my recent experience. So unless it's different where you are omegod, it's off to DVLA.

You could change the status yourself in advance - doesn't cost anything, but then you have to buy 6 months tax or SORN it, neither is palatable when you're trying to shift the car. But 6 months tax looks very good to prospective buyers.

I have considered that but it will mean waiting weeks for the log book to arrive before I can shift it,I think a car with no log book is scarier than a tax problem. :-/