I decided to drop the price of our very nice silver 03 Golf GT TDi 130, from £5500 to £5000. Jane, our admin lady altered it about 5.30 pm yesterday, but …to £500 by mistake!  Within a minute I had a call, and then a total FLOOD of calls for an hour or so, probably 40-50 calls, until the amended price took effect on Autotrader. Then all went quiet again, finally. Demand was so strong I couldn't get people off the phone before it rang again and went to voicemail, then I couldn't call them back because the phone was ringing so hard!

So the moral of this little story is that it's easy to sell cars at a huge loss, we know that now. And all those people really should have avoided paying just £500 for almost any Golf unless the seller was exceptionally ignorant of the market. The car would have been truly awful if so cheap.