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Originally Posted by yorkie_chris
We've had the debate about workshop rates on here before, repeatedly.
They end up subsidising the shiny showroom with the workshop. Why this? I don't need to buy tyres and oil from a "prime location" or pay for some cnuts 10 grand carpet on the floor. They want a prestigious business... alright fine, not my problem. I'm happy to go to someone in an industrial estate with fair rates. If that puts them out of business, then the problem is with their business model not fitting reality not mine.
Or is drinking crap coffee in a glitzy showroom so important to everyone's state of well-being? 
I take issue with your comments that nobody needs to own anything. It's this throwaway society attitude that isn't good. The only winners in that game are the bankers and insurers.
Owning something that depreciates, or paying for the depreciation and never owning it! If I bought a new un I'd expect to keep it until it was fooked and the average depreciation wouldn't be too painful.
Suppose I shouldn't complain really, my shagged secondhand vehicles probably all started out life that way. |
You hit on a very good point. At the moment, the UK is suffering a shortage of good, used bikes. This is due to two things, namely:
Very poor new bike sales during the last three-four years, and
The number of used bikes that were sold to buyers in Europe when the pound was really weak. Buyers took containers full of bikes into Europe and made a killing because they had bought them so cheaply.
This means that everyone is now having to pay more for decent used bikes as there are (relatively) so few about.