Love reading the weekly report on the above, but any chance of referring to the fact that a car has a year's tax as just that; instead of referring to it as "ticket"
Don't know if this is trade slang or whatever but tax is what the real world calls it!
Other than that, keep it up, most enjoyable!
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I thought a ticket was an MoT :-{
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12 months ticket refers to 12 months MOT, tax is often known as rent.
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Reading it again it probably is an MOT. I just assumed it was tax as he refers to some cars having MOT and some having ticket?
Just to reiterate though - like the reports.
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Its us cockneys BobbyG!
Seriously, there is a an accent and language called Estuary English slowly spreading accross the country.
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Not quite as simple as that RF. Estuary is spreading in the SE, but Scouse is spreading into West Lancashire, Cheshire, and North Wales, Mancunian is taking over Derbyshire and East Lancs, Geordie (as opposed to Mackem) is spreading south from Newcastle. Broadly urban accents are taking over; Estuary is most influential outside its base because of the meeja being in London, but bits of Scouse and Geordie are turning up all over as well. Estuary may eventually become the new "standard English" accent, just as R(ecieved) P(ronunciation) used to be. They are not actual languages though, but dialects of English.
Anyway, here's the article that first noted it (in 1984):
www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/estuary/rosew.htm
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Checkout item no.4543342412, ive certainly not seen one of these before on ebay, why would anyone else buy it with all the kit? i mean Joe Public anyway?
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Its not what you drive, its how you drive it! :-)
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Bit easier to click on :
cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=4543...2
-- Lee Having a Fabialous time.
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Cheers Lee! :-)
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Whilst I enjoyed reading it I'm not sure its as useful as HJ's auction reports. Mostly becuase just becuase the final bid is £x doesn't mean that the car actually sold for £x. There are so many pink fluffy dice types on Ebay that there is a high chance the bloke who won doesn't buy it, or he picks the car up and it's a right shed, or its not as described, or he haggles 200 quid off the price, or whatever.
It's nowhere near as cut and dried as it is as a proper auction and so the final value should be taken with a lot of salt until positive feedback regarding the sale has been left. Until them IMHO it isnt sold ;)
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It was Paul's idea to submit eBay auction reports. I thought somethign different, so why not. If anyone else want to submit reports FOC, if they're good enough I'll publish them. The benefit to you is building up a portfolio of published work and getting better at it the more you do.
HJ
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Like it or Not, Ebay has/is becoming one of the primary ways of selling and buying used cars in the UK. As such it will have an influence on how prices settle.
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These ebay reports certainly do provide a snapshot of what is happening in a wide market place.
Probably the least used ebay tool is the advance search feature to check prices on completed lots. Click on Advance Search and enter the car type (eg Ford Focus) in the Keyword box, enter Automotive for the category, and finally check the box for completed items. This brings up the all the Ford Focuses that have been listed recently. It gives a true guide as to prices lots sold for and with careful watching - any cars that have been relisted. If you have never used this tool then give it a try, its wonderful.
With regard to the Fiat Marea Weekend 2.4 turbo diesel that sold for £2400, this was a fairly good price. I bought my Weekend 2.4 turbo, which was 6 months older and without aircon, but with 5,000 miles less, for £2150 last August. A check on Auto Trader will show dealers asking up to £3500 for a similar model.
If someone wants to spend the time then why not do reports that cross reference information for specific popular models on ebay and Auto Trader.
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This begs the question, Do the various "paid for guides" ie Parkers and I suppose to an extent CAP & Glass look at and take account of ebay sales?
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