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Are they having a larf?

A number of garages expect me to start the buying process before they tell me how much my car servicing is likely to cost. But I’m foxy, remember; I’m used to comparing prices first and I have no intention of … Continue reading

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Garages compete for the female purse

Car servicing is very valuable business for independent garages, fastfits and franchised car dealerships. By keeping in touch with local women drivers who have been or might become future customers garages are more likely to see us more often, for … Continue reading

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Female friendly garages reach new female customers

Genuinely female friendly good garages who are worried about losing business might do well to consider marketing themselves as female friendly to attract new women customers in today’s recession-like times. As the gaps between car servicing periods lengthen (and appeal … Continue reading

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Time for a coalition in car dealerships?

Not being a motor industry person, I occasionally read or hear things that make me wonder why… One such recent prod was when I read that new car salesmen (and women) in UK car dealerships are paid more than those … Continue reading

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Record complaints in UK car dealerships

I picked up a great foxy tip from a lady driver I met this morning at a Business Link ‘Access to Finance’ seminar in Burgess Hill this morning. She told me how she had been able to prove that she … Continue reading

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Female friendly garage choices for consumers

I heard on the radio this am that Consumer Direct is back campaigning for regulation in the UK garage services industry. It would appear that the latest car ‘service and repair’ code has yet to hit the spot for independent … Continue reading

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Some car dealers are like MPs

Like most hard working people the thought of politicians on the fiddle at tax payers expense is a sickening realisation and ‘something needs to be done’ although few of us have any power to do anything with our vote when … Continue reading

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Foxy motorists need more not less choice

I see that the Brighton Argus has picked up on this long standing industry concern – that in 2010  car manufacturers might be able to use EU legislation to actively prevent independent garages from access to the technical information that … Continue reading

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Women car buyers get a better deal

I am not surprised that the nice people at  Parker’s are finding that most car buyers know they can negotiate a better deal outside the new car scrappage scheme than from within its confines.  We’ve known for ages that women … Continue reading

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Female friendly websites for women drivers

The word oxymoron dawned on me as I wrote the heading here as so few websites for garages, dealers and dealerships are as female friendly as they might be.  Not moron as in moronic you understand but meaning that the … Continue reading

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