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CAR dealers are using CRM tools to help fill the sales-driving hole left by the end of scrappage incentives. Instead of relying on the scrappage scheme to draw customers in, dealers are being more proactive and using trick CRM Best Practice to do the same. Tech firm Pinewood MD Neville Briggs said this was being [...]

VAUXHALL sportscar fans recently helped charity by driving up bidding to £4700 for a scrap VX220. The Lotus-derived sportscar went for so little because it was a ropy example ‘given’ to the new Giveacar charity firm. Giveacar is the brainchild of former dealer Tom Chance. It offers to take customers’ car off them, for free, [...]

THE scrapping of a logbook loophole has been welcomed by one leading car salvage auction specialist. London-based Bluecycle have welcomed the Government’s decision to amend the DVLA’s V5C document, closing a money-making loophole and stopping hundreds of unauthorized scrap yards cashing in at the expense of reputable recycling plants. The revision effectively deletes the ‘Scrapped’ [...]

SMMT data has revealed a huge 17.5% decline in registrations as dealers are hit by not having scrappage. 55,305 new cars were registered in August 2010. The SMMT says this compares poorly to 2009, where sales were incentivised by the scrappage scheme – but actually also mark a return to usual patterns seen prior to [...]