There's a bloke around our way who has made a good living buying cars from private adverts, adding 'a drink', two hundred quid say, and floging them on to the trade or sourcing them to order and budget. Much less worrying than the auctions.
Now he has gone into 'recycling.'
He buys real lemons, dogs, sheds and smokers then flogs them asap to the scap man on the docks. He is making money risk free with few overheads. Get in the queue.
Such is the value of scrap, and the ease of turning a wedge you wonder why anyone would be other than legit. But that's life.
One scam is to tour around looking for cars parked a while on pub and other private car parks then getting the propert owner to let you to take them away. You may know this as theft.
Others simply nick the best bits at night.
Which is why Retainagroup is working with Ford to provide a method of marking catalytic converters.
Chummies across the UK are stealing cats at an increasing rate. The precious metal content fetches around £100 and the scuffers don't seem to be able to do much about it, the underside of cars being dark and wet.
Each mark, applied to the casing of the catalytic converter, comprises a logo a seven-digit code and a 24-hour telephone number. Once the mark has been applied, the unique code is recorded with vehicle and owner details on the register and can be verified immediately at any time.
Marking and registration packs will be available from Ford dealerships either as individual customer kits priced at £11.87, or 'fleet packs' containing marking material for 30 vehicles, priced at £136.85.
Two crocodile clips and a few metres of sturdy cable long enough to reach the mains are considerabley less expensive.
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