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Bruce Hartz (blog) replied to the thread CARFAX - What Are You Thinking?.
Dale, Thanks for the clarification on the fact that you now have the ability to adjust for low ball listings. My assumption was based on...
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Gerald replied to the thread CARFAX - What Are You Thinking?.
Rob-
Amen- It isn't about the pricing objections. But what I can't stand is how these vendors are constantly trying to win influence of...
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David Robertson replied to the thread CARFAX - What Are You Thinking?.
The price of a used car is impossible to be determined by some nation wide service. However, due to the massive amounts of people who...
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Alex Snyder (blog) replied to the thread CARFAX - What Are You Thinking?.
Had a great call with CarFax yesterday. I have a better understanding of how this value system works, and on some levels I think it...
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Troy Shields replied to the thread CARFAX - What Are You Thinking?.
@Rob Thanks and I agree that it was/is ill conceived on CarFax's part. Unfortunately we dealers are dealing with the CarFax's...
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Rob Fontano (blog) replied to the thread CARFAX - What Are You Thinking?.
@Troy with all due respect, This discussion has never really been about what the feature does or how it works. Based on what you are...
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Troy Shields replied to the thread CARFAX - What Are You Thinking?.
Question for the board:
For years some dealers have used the "CarFax One-Owner Car" sticker/designation as a way to justify listing one...
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Mark replied to the thread CARFAX - What Are You Thinking?.
@Troy I sent you that pdf although what @Mitchell posted was exactly what was in the file.
Mitchell Brenner replied to the thread CARFAX - What Are You Thinking?.
That's why I don't believe testimonials. How about putting all the negative blogging going on in their testimonials and give a true...
Mitchell Brenner replied to the thread CARFAX - What Are You Thinking?.
Here's the CarFax spin. We dealers love it according to them:
What Dealers Are Saying About CARFAX® History Impact™
Version: 05/03/10...
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Troy Shields replied to the thread CARFAX - What Are You Thinking?.
@Mark, could you forward me that pdf? I really don't appreciate CarFax trying to make a case off my post. Although I can handle a...
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Mark replied to the thread CARFAX - What Are You Thinking?.
BTW, CarFax is aware of this post - I got a .pdf from an unnamed sales person that included text about "what dealers are saying" about...
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Mark replied to the thread CARFAX - What Are You Thinking?.
We've been happy AutoCheck customers for some time. The "objection" of showing an AutoCheck report vs. CarFax is quickly and easily...
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Patrick (blog) replied to the thread CARFAX - What Are You Thinking?.
@Troy... Sure, if I found a customer to buy all 71 vehicles at the same time for the magical "book value(?)" carfax pricing, then yes, I...
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Troy Shields replied to the thread CARFAX - What Are You Thinking?.
CarFax is just adding value to it services (kind of like we should in the car business). We just want to continue to so the same crap...
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Troy Shields replied to the thread CARFAX - What Are You Thinking?.
@Patrick... you have 71 vehicles that this "devalues" by a grand total of $240 dollars!?
What am I missing here? Either, on average...
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Rob Fontano (blog) replied to the thread CARFAX - What Are You Thinking?.
They seem to be focusing their efforts on defending the product and how it benefits everyone, instead of opening a dialog. It seemds...
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Brian Pasch (blog) replied to the thread CARFAX - What Are You Thinking?.
From a number of clients that have called me,, it looks like AutoCheck will be having the best sales month in the company's history in...
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Rob Fontano (blog) replied to the thread CARFAX - What Are You Thinking?.
This is one of the responses that I got from Carfax.
"The History Impact figure has been on dealer run CARFAX reports for about 3...
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Rob Fontano (blog) replied to the thread CARFAX - What Are You Thinking?.
Carfax is clearly trying to walk a tight rope between client and consumer and so far they are failing miserably.
This new feature was...
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Skip Shakely replied to the thread CARFAX - What Are You Thinking?.
Had a discussion with GM and Used Car Mgr yesterday.... they thought it was for us, that the consumer didn't see that. I showed them...
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Patrick (blog) replied to the thread CARFAX - What Are You Thinking?.
I just printed out the carfax reports from our site. 41 devalue our vehicles by a total of $3080. 30 increase the values by a total of...
Mitchell Brenner replied to the thread CARFAX - What Are You Thinking?.
There is no question that CarFax is taking this in the absolute wrong direction. Many dealers post their cars online with a CarFax...
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dpollak@vauto.com replied to the thread CARFAX - What Are You Thinking?.
Hey Bruce,
I appreciate your concern. I want you to know that vAuto has the technical ability to catch listings on-line that require...
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Bruce Hartz (blog) replied to the thread CARFAX - What Are You Thinking?.
Hey Boss "My customers says our CarFax report told me you need to take another $1440.00 off" your already way to low internet price...