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bpulseadmin posted the thread Kelley Blue Book's Kbb.com to Launch All-New Online Vehicle Classifieds in Automotive News, Press Releases, and Events.
Kbb.com New and Used Car Inventory Listings Program Provides Confidence to Consumers, Efficiencies to Dealers
IRVINE, Calif., May 29...
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bpulseadmin posted the thread Cobalt Launches 2nd-Generation Mobile Dealer Web Interface in Automotive News, Press Releases, and Events.
SEATTLE, June 2, 2009 — Cobalt (www.cobalt.com), the leading provider of digital marketing services for the automotive industry, today...
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Tobias Sedillos replied to the thread AutoTrader Doubles Exposure by Adding ESPN/ABC.
Exciting news. I just helped a very nice lady who works for Autotrader own a 2006 Lexus GX 470 (Bobbi N.). This is one idea of many...
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bpulseadmin posted the thread AutoTrader Doubles Exposure by Adding ESPN/ABC in Automotive News, Press Releases, and Events.
AutoTrader.com will double its media exposure this year by adding ESPN/ABC to its broadcast media advertising mix.
The buy, which...
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ashamed replied to the thread Pricing Games on Classified Inventory Websites.
regrettably I am an ISM for one of "those" dealerships. I have to say it is an unending battle and YES we were blacklisted! Cars.com...
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Travis Thompson replied to the thread Pricing Games on Classified Inventory Websites.
I was the local cars.com rep for the Columbia, SC area, now I'm the ISM for a Toyota Dealership here, and I will tell you that Cars.com...
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Keely (blog) replied to the thread Pricing Games on Classified Inventory Websites.
I am the Director of Fraud Prevention Strategies and in my world "abuse" is considered fraud and I thought it would be important to...
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Stu Chapman replied to the thread Pricing Games on Classified Inventory Websites.
Matt Watson said:
"I also see dealers list their inventory for like 1,000,000 dollars so they have the highest price and come up first...
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Muller Toyota replied to the thread Pricing Games on Classified Inventory Websites.
This is kind of like white hat vs. black hat SEO in my opinion. Black hat will work for a short time but end up costing you everything...
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Alan Bechler replied to the thread Pricing Games on Classified Inventory Websites.
Is it really up to the classified site (or any advertising venue) to police these dealers? I sold newspaper advertising to dealers and...
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MBR Marketing Auto Dealer Supplies replied to the thread Pricing Games on Classified Inventory Websites.
Honesty and openness is the best policy. Misleading pricing may result in more calls for some dealers, however in the long run those...
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Craig Belowski replied to the thread Pricing Games on Classified Inventory Websites.
It is amazing that although the number of truly transparent customer-centric dealerships has increased over the last few years, the...
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Glen Garvin replied to the thread Pricing Games on Classified Inventory Websites.
To Toby's point earlier, there are still all kinds of games being played. I wonder what percentage of dealers still keep stale inventory...
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Ryan Leslie replied to the thread Pricing Games on Classified Inventory Websites.
William is right on. We do attempt to police this kind of stuff, but the reason why may surprise you.
The dealerships that use...
William Bryant replied to the thread Pricing Games on Classified Inventory Websites.
Silly... my old used car manager used to want me to do that stuff.
But I'm almost glad they're still around, because when those...
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Alex Snyder (blog) replied to the thread Pricing Games on Classified Inventory Websites.
I don't have ATC's make-up, but when I go on the site I sure do see a whole lot of BHPH stuff. If it is less than 2% they're sure...
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Cargurrl replied to the thread Pricing Games on Classified Inventory Websites.
Alex BHPH is less that 2% of Autotrader.com's business so I am not sure where you get your information from.
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Jorge (blog) replied to the thread Pricing Games on Classified Inventory Websites.
I've worked for both companies and they do enforce it when the dealer is caught. It's impossible to monitor all listings. Most are...
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David K replied to the thread Pricing Games on Classified Inventory Websites.
The way the life style has changed, dealers need CARS.com and ATC more then Cars.com and ATC need dealers. When you go shopping for a...
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Jorge (blog) replied to the thread Pricing Games on Classified Inventory Websites.
There are 3 million vehicles listed on both ATC and Cars.com. It is policed and corrected when it is brought to their attention...
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Ad Hustler replied to the thread Pricing Games on Classified Inventory Websites.
Yea...ok...like cars.com is going to blacklist a dealer. They aren't google. They need the dealers probably more then the dealers need...
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Alex Snyder (blog) replied to the thread Pricing Games on Classified Inventory Websites.
Toby Albergotti - one thing I can gladly say I don't know much about is the buy-here pay-here game. There are a lot of them in my neck...
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Andrew DiFeo replied to the thread Pricing Games on Classified Inventory Websites.
I mentioned this to my Autotrader rep last week that I don't think it should be allowed by their site, while he agreed, it sounded like...
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Toby Albergotti replied to the thread Pricing Games on Classified Inventory Websites.
This is a great point. I am not a dealer but, I run into this with many of our Dealer customers. The pricing of cars becomes a covert...
andwrig replied to the thread Pricing Games on Classified Inventory Websites.
Jeff
I know cars.com has sent an email to its dealers (at least in my area) that misleading prices with down money in the fine print...