You would think so, wouldn’t you? At a time when Wi Fits, mobile phones, laptops and iPods would rule the spending during the run up Christmas, you would have thought that those looking for salvage cars, would just wait until January or when the bills had been paid. But that has not been so. Credit crunch or none, the demand for salvage cars, still grows even during the build up Christmas.
It could be that the right cars have been released this month, or it could be that many buyers put the cars back on the road and make a profit. Or it could be that buying a salvage car is the only way to afford the type of car they are looking for. Whatever the reason, things did not slow down for the Christmas of 2008, so the expectations of 2009 are huge.
The only days the salvage auctions were closed were Christmas day through to Monday. As there would be no auctions on Sunday anyway, there were only 3 days lost. There were even salvage auctions still going on, during Christmas Eve. It is true that a repairable salvage project could also be a Christmas present; I know my son wanted an engine, to repair his second car.
If you are not yet in the repairable salvage market, you should at least to look to see what bargains there are available. It might not be for you, the time to work on these vehicles may be too extreme for you. If you rely on breakdown cover and garages even for the simplest repairs, then it clearly isn’t for you.
But of you like working on cars, then buying a repairable salvage project, might keep some of your money in your pocket.
It is a few weeks after the visit to set up a Auto salvage business in the States starting in Florida. The business will have the same name as in the UK, namely SalvageSpareFinder, but will have access to many of the salvage auction houses within Florida.
This is a huge market with prices much cheaper than here in the UK for the equivalent cars, even after you have taken into account the shipping and Vat costs of getting the salvage vehicle back home. We see a huge demand from eastern European countries who are crying out for cars. This will be a great way of buying, especially if eth Euro stays high.
Of course we will be selling Auto Salvage to the locals also to mirror the same as back here in the USA. Although we still have to see what kind of customers the Yanks are. Will they appreciate what will be doing, or will they complain and expect prefect cars for salvage prices, we will have to wait and see.
It has been a huge project and the business is no set up, although the website does have a bit of optimisation and visitors to go. The auto salvage market is huge, especially for the repairable salvage cars that are to be put back on the road. So watch out for the official start of the business, when the cars are added to the site and can be found by me and you.
The rest of the world better watch out because SalavgeCarFinder has big plans to go worldwide, that may be able to offer salvage cars from country to country. The first project will be the biggest as we take on the Auto Salvage market in the USA with our new site AutoSalvageFinder. If you think the salvage market is big in the UK, you need to see the USA market, it is just huge.
There are 50 States out there that have their own system for dealing with insurance write offs, that are auctioned off in a similar way to the UK, but in higher volumes and up to now we have not seen a one stop shop for all these salvage auctions.
The new salvage site will probably start off in the State Florida and then expand throughout, with every American Make and model listed on the site, there will be damaged repairable cars, but also a chance of vehicles that cannot go back on the road in the USA, but must be sold for export, this could be a new whole market and opportunity for those who do believe then can repair these cars. Especially when the currency exchange rate is on your side, making it cheaper to repair outside of the USA, than across the pond.
So if you are looking for American model salvage auction, watch this space.
We are all feeling the pinch at the moment and not sure about taking out finance or to consider buying big purchases. New car sales were down 20% this last new registration, compared to last year. But one area we are not seeing a downturn in, is the interest in insurance write offs and damage repairable cars.
In fact there is an argument that the recession id fuelling the demand for car salvage because of the savings that can be had from buying and repairing these cars. The internet has made the , process much easier than ever before, with several photographs showing the damage of these vehicles, so you can cost the value of repairing the car and getting it back on the road.
Insurance companies need to clear these cars quickly to get their cash flow back to cover other insurance write off claims, so there are no showroom staff cleaning or repairing anything on these cars, to make them appear as of they are worth more. You see these insurance write offs normally as they came in the yard, good and bad. The aim is to get the cars back out of the yard as quickly as possible. The aim of SalvageCarFinder is to put everyone in touch with these cars and provide a platform to buy these damaged repairable vehicles.
Well we are nearly ready to deliver a truly national USA auto salvage site with thousands of auto salvage autions sites all in one place. We offer a unique system that allows us to bid on your behalf from trusted wrecking yards and insurance salvage sales.
This service has particlularly succesful in the UK, so for now on we are including these auctions also within the header of the site. We will be openeing an office in Florida soon also, so there will be a direct cotanct over the phone from someone based in the USA.
Of course these things will take abit of time, but the best things in life normally do. We look forward to presenting a worthy salvage website to you in the future.
