18 Feb 2009 2:11 PM:

 You'll find over 170 here: www.autoscout24.es/

Good Luck!

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01 Feb 2009 11:24 AM:

 Word!

As cez6 says....think it through.Chances of getting a legal licence are very slim. Sometimes you can find and pay for a traspasso for one....but it isn't cheap. Being self employed means having to find over 200E each month for your Social Security. Plus all your taxes, running costs etc. But the main problem is this: to advertise you'll need to be totally legal. And right now, with things being very tight for many, most of your competition will be much cheaper than you  because they are non-legal. If a customer (also feeling the pinch), can see no benifit by going legally, then where is the benifit for him, other than that important price difference. 

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30 Dec 2008 1:48 PM:

Though it is a shock to see the actual price difference....in the end I can only but smile. What is the worth of anything? Just what some mug is willing to pony up. Provided that all parties are happy, buyer, seller and agent, then all is good.

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23 Nov 2008 6:05 PM:

Not very creative SPAM. The shrill headline followed by an urban myth (really, he'd do well writing for the Daily Mail)....and then to cap it all adding the police advice he received. So, if it's just a cut and paste from another source, then did his friendly policeman warn him before this, or was the warning before he researched...and then cut and pasted his results? SPAM-FAIL

 

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21 Nov 2008 7:24 PM:

Hi Steven, You certainly have a right to be angry...at yourself! To have a business that might deal with English speaking peeps, and yet NOT buy the ".com" when you were buying the ".es", reeks of a shortsightedness and/or an incredible cheapness, as a URL goes for around $7 per/year.

Having said that (and harshly), I do understand your basic problem: they want to be connected with you, but you don't wish the reverse. Because they are using your good name to gain type-in traffic through a parked domain (ie no constructed website) you might have good cause to appeal their ownership....but it still might need some funds to change hands. Of course you could buy every variable of their URL, and point all to your site...but unfortunately most peeps type in ".com". Plus you want distance from them.

Personally I would work on your "brand". Both Google and Yahoo have various tools by which you can find the most popular searches performed over whatever period of time. Type into these tools search terms with which you think peeps are using to find you. So..."spanish property lawyer" might have been searched for 1000 times last month. So buy a URL with those words in it! Make a blog out of it. Cover it in lots of pretty banners pointing to your REAL site. Optimise the site for search engines with keywords, tags etc.  Rinse and Repeat. Link all together. And within a short  time you'll have a nice traffic network. Once peeps hit your site, make sure you encourage them to bookmark/add to favourites. And most important of all, don't get mad....get even!

PS Thankyou for the great job you do on this site. People like you really do make a difference. You have calmed many a nerve!

PPS I understand that Justin is doing SEO work...so I'll not tread on his tippy toes any more. Whenever I read of him here, he's either shopping, crashing his car, eating or motor racing. So I'm sure he could do with a real job!

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