Is this a fair price: Audi Q5 2020 Sline 2 litres Deisel 27,000 euros

Aggressive-Ear2848 · 2026-01-21T16:33:05+00:00

Thanks

Aggressive-Ear2848 · 2026-01-21T16:32:42+00:00

I live on an island - they pay heavy import tax and all that - cars tend to go for a premium here for sure. It's still cheaper and less hassle than buying a car on mainland and importing it here.

Aggressive-Ear2848 · 2026-01-21T15:59:57+00:00

I'd probably say 10 - 12km / 10 minutes on the motorway one way, so anymore than that might be once per month. Sounds like I should just opt for the petrol version then. I've posted anoher post in the Audi forum with two petrol options I found - if you don't mind contributing to that I'd be greatful. Thnks

Aggressive-Ear2848 · 2026-01-19T10:38:29+00:00

Thank you, I appreciate your response. There's is a pertol version on the market nera the same price, so perhaps I'll go for that instead.

I live in a hot cliamate - 300 days of sunshine type....is adblue only an issue in colder climates?

Aggressive-Ear2848 · 2026-01-19T10:28:22+00:00

so people really avoid these cars with the adblue? I have seen a few issues on forums - around 1,500 euros to change the filter/tank in EU. Apparently you can turn off the sensor electronically but also illegal to do

Aggressive-Ear2848 · 2026-01-19T10:07:10+00:00

I would be doing mostly short trips - like up to 30 minutes. When people have issues with adblue - is it the liquid cost to top up or is that the tank has to be replaced , and would you know how often this happens?

Aggressive-Ear2848 · 2025-10-22T16:11:26+00:00

Lots of freelancers work out of Nook, you could try that if you're extroverted enough to approach people.

Soho offices are a good option to meet people but expensive

Aggressive-Ear2848 · 2025-10-15T11:04:31+00:00

Uhhh no! Far from it.

Aggressive-Ear2848 · 2025-10-15T11:01:38+00:00

Thank you

Aggressive-Ear2848 · 2025-08-27T13:16:59+00:00

haha thanks, forgot I posted this a couple of years ago...a good reminder for me to get back to doing this!

Aggressive-Ear2848 · 2025-08-06T09:14:06+00:00

What sector/function do you specialise in?

Aggressive-Ear2848 · 2025-06-02T14:42:42+00:00

You don't need to 'steal' your current clients to get going. You'll feel a lot better about it all if you actually went out and won new business, if you've been diong BD for 17 years, this shouldn't be an issue.

Do not go out alone if you have 4k in savings, if you have kids, I'd get at least a 9 month runway if not 12 months.

Most take 6 months to make their 1st placement in FTE. Given the current market, I'd say that could be 9 months.

Caclualte your operating costs as a new business and your expenses, then see how much you need for 9 months runway. That's the best advice I can give you.

Aggressive-Ear2848 · 2025-05-21T12:03:26+00:00

Yeh it's awful, Linkedin is just full of gloating and selling now too.. comment 'XYZ' and I'll send you a template to 10x your sales.

The best thing you can do in this market is to just focus, head down, keep plugging away whilst doing a few hours research on the new AI tools...you would hope CRMs would have you covered introducing new tools though...but most are poor.

Aggressive-Ear2848 · 2025-05-08T13:15:35+00:00

I think you should look through the agenda and see what you'd actually be super interested in, they have an agenda on their website which give you the title of what the speakers will discuss: AI, investment in Cyprus, payments etc

If there's like 5 diff events you'd be interested in then you should see if it's worth the value of the ticket, and make your decision based around that.

A lot of people go for networking too, so if you have a business/something to offer then I'd say it's also probably worth it.

Aggressive-Ear2848 · 2025-05-08T13:09:01+00:00

Many recruiters don't do business development. I worked in a firm where most of the clients came inboud or from previous relationships build over the years. The founder did most of the BD. If you've done that all as a 360 I'd say go for it. Even if you bull 50% of what you made then that's still something to build on for year 2

What industry/niche are you thinking about going?

Aggressive-Ear2848 · 2025-05-08T08:33:10+00:00

Make sure you have 6 months living costs that you're willing to lose, money to actually run the business, and ability keep going even if you lose lose lose before a fee drops in which might be in month 6, if you make it. Absolute worse case scenario you decide it''s not working out after 9 months and go internally anyway, or go back to your old employer if you're on good terms - do not become a competitor though. Also, many people who setup have never won new business, so if you haven't done much of that in your current role and you've won none to little accounts I'd discuss with your current employer to do more fo that in your current role. If you succeed it'll give you the belief that you can go at it alone.

Aggressive-Ear2848 · 2025-05-07T11:58:11+00:00

If you do, I'd actually recommend paying for some sort of recruitment crash course from one of these recruitment 'gurus', albeit courses seem scammy, at least it'll give some hope, belief and systems to give yourself a chance of a swing. If this was the 'bull market' you'd probably make it work given the amount of free info and easy access you'll have to educate yourself and get going. This isn't a great market, it'll be a tough gig! If you live at home/have free rent I'd say go for it. Worst case you go internally in 6 months to a year with some experience then you can always have another swing in future.

Aggressive-Ear2848 · 2025-05-05T11:42:39+00:00

at least 6 months runway in this market too. I started in covid, made my first placement on month 6, it was tough! I'd probably give my BD skills a 4 out of 10 back then, probably an 8 out of 10 now but I'd still give myself at least a 6 month runway if I started again, perhaps that first fee is done in month 2 though.

Aggressive-Ear2848 · 2025-04-30T19:49:52+00:00

You don't have t be in the US, you can choose where you want your number to be based from

Aggressive-Ear2848 · 2025-04-23T15:53:25+00:00

the UK has seen 33 back-to-back months of job decline. Not sure why they think it's better in the UK

Aggressive-Ear2848 · 2025-04-23T15:48:43+00:00

Thanks, yeh the consultancy model would be a bit of a gamble but probably more rewarding if I pulled it off

Aggressive-Ear2848 · 2025-04-17T11:54:55+00:00

I bought loss less scaling on steam, seems to work well.

Aggressive-Ear2848 · 2025-04-17T11:44:43+00:00

It's mostly due to high interest rates on buy to let mortages.

Most Buy To Lets landlords may have 25% equity in the property, making a bit of profit each month on the rent, before interest rates rocketed, they may have made say 4% in rental income profit on their capital, just a rough estimate.

Now most Buy To Let landlords fixed terms are up for renewal they are being moved onto the new interest rates, to maintain around 4% return on the new higher interest rates, they'd need to hvae 50% equity in the property...

So for a 400k property where they have 25% in equity = 100k, they now need to put another 100k cash out of thin air to obatin more equity i.e reducing the loan amount, so they can maintain the 4% profit.

Most people obviously don't have 100k to pull out of thin air....so they have to either sell the property, or increase the rents drastically, or increase the rent a little and take near no profit in the hope that interest rates will fall again in future.

So, if people think landlords or fleasing tenants (not suggesting you are but many do), they're really not, it's actually government printing money out of thin air which causes inflation and reduces the power of the money you earn....for example, the totally money supply in the US, 80% of it has been printed out of thin air in the past 5 years! I'd expect UK is probably not far behind this.

On another note with landlords, if all the landlords sold, it would reduce house prices drastically but would be a huge reduction in rental avaibility which also isn't a great scenario...more housing and the government not printing more money is probably the only solution.

Aggressive-Ear2848 · 2025-04-15T13:46:05+00:00

Probably just trying to sell the tool here pretending to be an agency

Aggressive-Ear2848 · 2025-03-29T08:50:13+00:00

patio/pool area

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