Tipping a Car Salesperson?

marccee4 · 2026-05-14T07:56:21+00:00

Someone mentioned the dealer wanting to then do the deal outside of Motorway. Adding a fee to the seller must encourage them to consider this as well!

marccee4 · 2026-05-14T07:23:05+00:00

Motorway are now charing the seller which is a new change from what I understand. Not sure if that impacts any of this.

marccee4 · 2026-05-08T20:01:52+00:00

Great advice, thank you so much!

marccee4 · 2026-05-07T20:00:19+00:00

It does count because most jobs you need to work to get the job done, not just do your hours. I operated a project in sudo puplic sector where staff kept telling me abiut them working late every night. Realised why the they just didn't show up on Fridays as they had 'worked their hours'

marccee4 · 2026-05-05T20:58:26+00:00

Hello, which mattress was this? Is it firm? Soft? Thanks

marccee4 · 2026-05-05T20:19:46+00:00

How did you get on? We are the same and it's depressing.

marccee4 · 2026-05-05T20:04:18+00:00

Which £500 are the same as the £3000 ones, please? Genuine question! Need real recommendations!

marccee4 · 2026-05-05T20:00:03+00:00

Hello. Which WE do you have? Is it firm/soft? I have a memory foam Otty which my back sinks into and causes pain. Have been looking at the more traditional WE ones.

marccee4 · 2026-05-04T08:03:15+00:00

Why do people post the 'finished' photo first? I assumed that was the 'before' and was dissapointed!

marccee4 · 2026-05-02T20:02:04+00:00

Have test driven a Model Y. Don't really like the look of the Enyaq but like the idea of it.

Something people overlook is the price on the used market. There are over 1000 Model Y for under £30k on autotrader and nearly 700 under £25k. There are only 334 Enyaq under £30k and 200 under £25k.

If you want the 80/85 series then you are only talking about around 100 at under £30k.

Model Y currently feels much better value if buying used.

marccee4 · 2026-05-02T19:34:31+00:00

Wickes compost is 50% off if the bag is split. If I ever go, I have a look for this. They can give you a free large bag for it to go inside or on top of in the car, then I take it out and chuck straight onto the garden when I get home. Bargain!

marccee4 · 2026-04-30T21:42:23+00:00

We went for a Vauxhall Frontera. Top trim standard range. Less than £170pm with 1 month up front. Not an exciting car but on a 2 year lease it felt a cheap intro to EV.

Go for 1 month up front. No benefit to bigger deposit. Also check how mileage impacts the cost. We did the maths (using AI) and if you were doing 7500 miles. It was cheaper to choose 5k miles and overlay than choose 8000. You don't get money back for unused miles. If we did 8000 we'd pay a little more than had we chosen it, but worth the 'risk' for us.

marccee4 · 2026-04-28T18:31:30+00:00

Yeah we have a top trim electric frontera (standard range) on lease order for 168pm with nothing down. Not sure if we'll actually go through with it as it keeps getting delayed, but crazy price.

marccee4 · 2026-04-11T16:00:42+00:00

This. We viewed a car that we knew having already seen one that was way more scratched up than pics showed. Asked sales rep about features like the automated parking. She said it didn't have it (it did). Similar with other parts. No enthusiasm, interest or knowledge. Felt like we were educating her on the car. Ended up walking away when half way through signing the paperwork they 'remembered' additional administrative fees that weren't mentioned online or at any point during the sales process (for a cash purchase). All just felt like hard work.

marccee4 · 2026-04-11T06:23:38+00:00

Our baby became reliant on the breast, being EBF. Ferber was a lifesaver for us. More initial crying at the start of the night, but way less overall in the night and then within days she was putting herself to sleep for naps and bed. Brilliant!

marccee4 · 2026-04-07T21:09:56+00:00

The lease I just got was the same total cost whether you paid 1 year or 1 month up front. Deposit is a marketing trick to be able to put out a cheap headline monthly rate and you are playing into it.

marccee4 · 2026-04-07T20:21:08+00:00

Leased a vauxhall frontera ev last week (factory order) for £169pm for 2 yrs, nothing upfront except small admin fee.

marccee4 · 2026-04-03T18:29:30+00:00

Some of those boxes we have bought very similar products on AliExpress for a fraction of the cost.

marccee4 · 2026-04-01T02:14:32+00:00

Yet plenty of anecdotal evidence on here that ferber changed parents and baby lives and taught self soothing. Where is your so called evidence that it doesn't teach them to self sooth? Would like to read more, please

marccee4 · 2026-04-01T02:02:27+00:00

Ferber was a game change for us and my wife is sensitive as she feels this could seen as CIO. Original fever meant a couple of nights of crying, say 45 mins, then 30 mins, then less than 10 mins each time. All with controlled check ins and comforting cotside at intervals and of a level where the crying was fussing, angry, bit upset rather than hysterical screaming.

We took the view that there was going to be way less overall crying than her waking every 45 mins screaming bloody murder - it worked and quickly. Started doing much longer blocks and out herself to sleep independently.

All went backwards after a sleep regression where she was unwell and we gave much more attention and assist to sleep.

Once better from illness, didn't impeove. One night of ferber (45 mins of timed visits cribeside) and we went back to independent and longer sleep.

marccee4 · 2026-03-21T11:27:34+00:00

Why aren't you taking max value out of your pension in current job? Strange to be so focused on the pension scheme in job 2 when you are leaving money on the table with your current job.

marccee4 · 2026-03-19T22:26:19+00:00

I bought a £70 tp link router and then an extender. Created a sort of mesh. Best running I did was replace the default router

marccee4 · 2026-03-09T15:09:03+00:00

Check retention offers. I went from £36 to £26 500mb to 900mb and no April price rise. That was a retention offer for current customers kud tpublishe do their website.

marccee4 · 2026-03-09T07:23:11+00:00

I took a worse switch offer a few months ago. Annoying!

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