Originally Posted by
Iain Mac
Trading Standards monitor used car ads and can/will take PT traders pretending to be private sellers to court. You can't hide your trading history to deny a customer the rights they are entitled to under consumer law, and the cost of meeting those obligations is something that a legitimate business just has to swallow.
Specifically section 14 of the 1979 sale of goods act, thats the massive difference when selling a car if you are a trader or not, sec 14 applies to traders but not to private individuals.
Also if a trader tries to sell a car "sold as seen" its actually illegal.
Also, the taxman has a dim view of people trading in any field but not registered for them to get their cut.
If you were to try and deny being a trader but reliant on a Traders policy, I'd guess they could use that info against you.
Indeed, the potential problems from telling the insurers you are trading and the taxman you are not, are big in one direction and massive in the other!