I wonder if this is a move into separating out the high value bikes for resale without the tarnished association with WBAB. Andy
Landlines are a thing of the past. Why pay exorbitant prices for a business line when you can get a PAYG contract for less than a tenner per month. I’ve come across a small number of businesses in recent months that are out in the sticks, using redundant farm buildings, that have no access to a landline. Andy
Hardly trade bike prices. They have an average condition/mileage ST2 that is about a grand over what they fetch in a private sale.
That blows my theory out of the water Guess I’ll have to resort to my first thought ..... cowboys. Andy
They are opposite rite-bike in bradford. I'm presuming they are connected in some way with dealer-bikes moving on anything too rough to be sold through the main business.
A "proper" business needs a landline - not just for phone calls, but internet banking and email. A 10 year-old can go into a newsagent and buy a PAYG sim - and throw it in the bin when things get difficult. I guess it depends on what kind of business you want to be.
"A "proper" business needs a landline - not just for phone calls, but internet banking and email." That can all be done now on a phone or combining a phone hotspot with a laptop or even a data sim in a modem. I'm thinking of binning my landline as all I get on it are people trying to "help me" with my computer or my "accident". Cheaper too. If you don't want to look dodgy you can buy a landline number and have it forwarded to your mobile.
If it's who I think it is, yeah I may know him. He worked at a place in Keighley a few years back and then went to work for webuyanybike for a while. It gives no surname for him so I cannot be sure its the same lad though. It is the right area and role.
Not really. This type of business profile is often out of the office. He will be running around the country either buying or delivering bikes. By listing a mobile he can always be contacted. Why go to the expense of adding a business line in premises that may be empty 70/80% of the time ? That would be daft. I have a landline at home and in theory a landline number, but only for my fibre broadband. I dont have an actual landline phone anymore. I use two mobile numbers in the same mobile phone instead. One is business, the other my personal number - but so many people contact me on both, it made sense to drop a second physical phone and use one dual sim in one phone. That way when its on handsfree in the car - I am available.
This shouldn't be a business that is often "out of the office" and anyway, you still have a landline and if out on the road, you either call forward or have a message saying that you are out of the office and available on your mobile, the number of which is...... Different strokes for different folks but I would never deal with a company with a mobile number as their main contact.
Once upon a time I used to get all new business enquiries where I worked. At first I was very nervous if there was no landline. Over the years, and with the younger generations now being the new business uptake , I hardly ever see a fixed landline number unless it’s a big office based company etc. My kids and their friends would never even consider getting a landline nowadays. The world is changing.
If Ducati Worcester did not have, or could not afford, a landline, then I wouldn't waste my time trying to do business with them. Old fuddy duddy? Maybe, but in my boring old traditional style, I am the customer and so what I say goes!
