Event Twigworth Breakers - Gloucester - Closing Down Auction - 30th Dec

[Forty-two]

Just spied this

 

http://www.hjpugh.com/new.html

 

No details of a catalogue or what will be on offer. Seems an odd time to do an auction, I thought everyone is usually skint until February once Xmas shite gets in the way.

[mercrocker]

Good time of year to be buying - retail is pretty dead and gives dealers a chance to buy in stock for the next season. Wouldn't have minded a poke around up there myself - if I had time, money and space!

[Sloth in a bowl]

Auction looks to be for large commercial sized lots, so not shitter friendly

 

Can buy stuff beforehand at 50% discount site is http://twigworthbreakers.com/

[Pillock]

They've got a 24v Scorpio in their 50% off stuff if @scaryoldcortina still needs bits to stop his pissing all over the place?

 

Also a Mk2 Orion. Hilariously, no Laguna 2s at all - too shite to break?

[lisbon_road]

Longer term, this is a loss.  Sad day.

[mat_the_cat]

Used to go there a bit, but Harry Bucklands just up the road was always cheaper!

[The Reverend Bluejeans]

Banbury Motor Spares and Doncaster Motor Spares are also closing. Unless you are specialising in one make, it seems this way of doing business just doesn't work. Big open air site, and the U Pull It way seems to work as do old fashioned 'take the fucker off yourself and mind the Dog' scrapyards.

 

I personally wouldn't dream of going to a breakers that shelves stuff and charges almost retail for something used. Alternators should a tenner, not £39.99 plus VAT.  I always remember having an argument with some mong who wanted £150 for a BMW 320i diff. I said he was joking - it was worth 50 quid tops.

 

Mong: "Do you know how much these are new""

 

Me:      "Yes thanks. Do you know how much the car it came off cost new?"

 

And this is the problem - companies like Twigworth just priced themselves out of the market, plus they didn't understand that the likes of us actually want to root through rows of dead cars.

[AnthonyG]

Maybe if they had stuck to breaking cars rather than selling new tat they might have survived.

 

Floor Mats for £15? No thanks I'll go to Halfords or get them off EBay.

 

Harry Bucklands seems to be thriving, an old fashioned 'chuck it all in a big pile and let the scavengers sort it out' business model as Rev BJ says. One less local competitor for them as well.

[lisbon_road]

.....Harry Bucklands is a fine place, and well organised and very friendly and helpful too in my experience.  Prices not bad, especially if you buy a decent pile of stuff.