Dont waste your time with AutoTrader
05-03-2015, 10:46 AM
#21
Heel & Toe
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I've never sold a vette via CL, however I have used CL to buy and sell many things and I have always had good luck.
05-03-2015, 06:04 PM
#23
Burning Brakes
Just want to throw my hat in... I put my Viper ACR up on AutoTrader and, although the first 50 calls or so were scammy listing agencies trying to make $200 to peddle the car to the clients they had who were definitely, really ready to buy it, it did eventually generate substantial interest.
I still won't use them again.
Why?
Because after the car sold at my asking price, which *was* the product of an AutoTrader lead, I tried to take it down. Did everything I needed to, hit the button... didn't come down.
I kept getting calls. Calls from other time zones (rare car, lots of far-flung interest) waking me up, bugging me at work, etc. Finally called Auto Trader to ask WTF and get them to take it down. Woman did it manually after 30 minutes on the phone and said it would be down within the hour.
Damn if that ad isn't still up and I'm still getting calls about it 6 months after the sale.
I'm 99% sure that craigslist is doing it to boost their search engine ranking because thousands of people have looked at the car (probably 99% dreamers, etc.), and so they can say they have more cars available at a given time. That's just as skammy as what those listing agencies were doing. No thank you.
Cars.com did not generate a single non-scammer lead.
Craigslist and Ebay. I've bought 5 cars that way (including several high-end) and never had an issue.
I still won't use them again.
Why?
Because after the car sold at my asking price, which *was* the product of an AutoTrader lead, I tried to take it down. Did everything I needed to, hit the button... didn't come down.
I kept getting calls. Calls from other time zones (rare car, lots of far-flung interest) waking me up, bugging me at work, etc. Finally called Auto Trader to ask WTF and get them to take it down. Woman did it manually after 30 minutes on the phone and said it would be down within the hour.
Damn if that ad isn't still up and I'm still getting calls about it 6 months after the sale.
I'm 99% sure that craigslist is doing it to boost their search engine ranking because thousands of people have looked at the car (probably 99% dreamers, etc.), and so they can say they have more cars available at a given time. That's just as skammy as what those listing agencies were doing. No thank you.
Cars.com did not generate a single non-scammer lead.
Craigslist and Ebay. I've bought 5 cars that way (including several high-end) and never had an issue.
05-05-2015, 10:04 AM
#24
2nd Gear
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Just want to throw my hat in... I put my Viper ACR up on AutoTrader and, although the first 50 calls or so were scammy listing agencies trying to make $200 to peddle the car to the clients they had who were definitely, really ready to buy it, it did eventually generate substantial interest.
I still won't use them again.
Why?
Because after the car sold at my asking price, which *was* the product of an AutoTrader lead, I tried to take it down. Did everything I needed to, hit the button... didn't come down.
I kept getting calls. Calls from other time zones (rare car, lots of far-flung interest) waking me up, bugging me at work, etc. Finally called Auto Trader to ask WTF and get them to take it down. Woman did it manually after 30 minutes on the phone and said it would be down within the hour.
Damn if that ad isn't still up and I'm still getting calls about it 6 months after the sale.
I'm 99% sure that craigslist is doing it to boost their search engine ranking because thousands of people have looked at the car (probably 99% dreamers, etc.), and so they can say they have more cars available at a given time. That's just as skammy as what those listing agencies were doing. No thank you.
Cars.com did not generate a single non-scammer lead.
Craigslist and Ebay. I've bought 5 cars that way (including several high-end) and never had an issue.
I still won't use them again.
Why?
Because after the car sold at my asking price, which *was* the product of an AutoTrader lead, I tried to take it down. Did everything I needed to, hit the button... didn't come down.
I kept getting calls. Calls from other time zones (rare car, lots of far-flung interest) waking me up, bugging me at work, etc. Finally called Auto Trader to ask WTF and get them to take it down. Woman did it manually after 30 minutes on the phone and said it would be down within the hour.
Damn if that ad isn't still up and I'm still getting calls about it 6 months after the sale.
I'm 99% sure that craigslist is doing it to boost their search engine ranking because thousands of people have looked at the car (probably 99% dreamers, etc.), and so they can say they have more cars available at a given time. That's just as skammy as what those listing agencies were doing. No thank you.
Cars.com did not generate a single non-scammer lead.
Craigslist and Ebay. I've bought 5 cars that way (including several high-end) and never had an issue.
