Dealer research

We never left! Hope you are well. are you coming to the CDX open day on 16th in Manchester? Be great to meet some dealers face to face to say hi

Anyone off to the CDX open day on 16th at Manchester central???? Be great to meet and connect

Hmm that's the 2nd person that said that. Can I ask you to simply send a blank email to hello@cazarr.com and we'll manually enter you into the list. Sorry about that and we'll fix whatever the mailing list issue is asap. Did you registered with cazarr.com first 3 months are free plus no contract and no payment info needed. Also all our features are completely free

youved added in an extra "r" is cazarr.com (no r before the Z) Ta

Have you taken a look at cazarr.com? free for vehicles up to £1500, first 3 months free advertising anyway and then 24p a car per day. Loads more but take a look anyway hope it's of use. Ta

Cheers MotorJam

Hi MotorJam and thanks for the message. Thats why we're here to find this kind of info out for release. Could you advise on the comment you put to help us out and give us an idea of this? "There's stuff I do like...are you incorporating that? What about the stuff I don't like about EBay/Gumtree/Motors/Gurus ? What about the stuff I like?" We have a marketing strategy but until we go live with the site on 1 August, theres not alot more we can say until then. After 1st August we may either get people interested or fall flat on our faces. Thanks Dave BHM and Arfur, Obviously we're never going to win you over but all i can say is that we were here to find more info out on what dealers would like from something that could genuinely challenge competitors to give you a "near perfect" solution for dealers from the start that you could get behind. We've had some valuable feedback and also some people who think we are dreamers. I never came here to annoy anyone and can only apologize if i have. If i can summarize what you 2 have said, then basically, everyone is happy with the current options and the market doesn't need anything else and we are destined to fail. I'm really sorry you feel we have offended you by coming on here and (as mentioned before), I wont create any new threads and keep my messages to replying to comments only Thanks Dave

Hi Simon. We have some work to do! What aspect doesn't give you the slightest confidence in us. We need to resolve that asap! We're new and wet behind the ears for sure and wouldn't hide that fact. We know we're an underdog but relish in that. If it doesn't work, we've at least tried it. Not amazing BTW but refreshing! Can we count on you to give us a go? Dave

Hi Arfur, Thanks for the comments. I do understand the sceptasim but we're all in with this and have a refreshing change to others out there. We came here to hopefully get a positive response which we have got but others have also been negative about it. It's the negative people like yourself that we'd love to win over. Can we count on you to give us a go? Thanks Dave

Thanks Mojo121 and thanks for the kind words. Site name is still a secret until 1st August when we go live with the site, message and essentially asking dealers to get involved and get stock on pre launch 1 Sept. How do we get buyers on...Thats what our marketing team have been up to for 9 months working on a 16 week initial ramp up via all channels. Hand on heart truth....its chicken and egg which is why we are here. We need stock on it. if i personally went somewhere and there was no stock. i'd never visit it again so it really important for us to get stock on from the dealers so that people browse. Hope that make sense. Cheers Dave BTW current commitment (whether we get these or not) is approx 20k cars. Its not enough currently. Anyone interested please let us know! lol.

Hi Mojo121. Thanks for the email. We've actually done the emailing a DB around 9 months ago which led us to the product we have today (M and S vouchers plus free to use our service for 3 months). Apologies for flooding and noted. Probably no more posts for us (promise Admin!) as you have given us valuable feedback. I dont think its amateur coming here as this is a very powerful site and gives powerful insights which are just as good as surveys to be honest if not better because conversation flows Can i count on you to give us a try? Cheers

Cmon Tadams, give me a little break sir! lol. We're here asking for help. Believe me, all the doubting etc we've done already (no sleep them nights!) We've remortgaged to the hilt and all the rest of it so we're here to simply get some help and encouragement if possible. I said... "we are due to go live on September 1st with Beta testing for Dealers interested (for free obviously). Website will be live by 1st August with what we do" Could we count on you to give us a go for free? Ta Dave Negative ghostrider. That pattern is full already. We're not into that. To let you into our mind.... Zero 3rd party ads or crappy finance pop ups etc.

Hi Metcars, I said "feels" not "have". Whats your thoughts though? Aye i have. Whats your thoughts? Have we missed the mark?

Hi Tadams, Very new here and apols if we do sound to have limited knowledge (we do have limited knowledge! lol) Thats why were asking the community. Who could hopefully help us. (You gotta start somewhere) Feeds come from your DMS dont they if our understanding as a XML/CSV. My question was, can we see one of them (regardless of whether its to AT or not) Can you help Tadams? Cheers in advance Dave I suppose my question (after reading it back) should be.... How can dealers get their cars listed in bulk on our platform? What we want is to make a no hassle way for dealers to get their stock listed. Any ideas on how this can be done easily? Cheers! Dave Urghh sorry Tadams...last point... Our struggle is....How do we get cars listed from dealers...We have the answer to the customer point (getting traffic to us from the general public) but thats no good if we get the public to us and only 50 cars showing. so we want as many cars listed as possible pre launch. Thoughts?

Do any of these ring true? Any changes to be made? Which one hits the nail on the head (If any) 1. Dave the car dealer just wants to sell cars. He uses Autotrader because it’s the market leader and although he sells cars through it, he feels unappreciated and annoyed by them when they make changes that work against a good paying customer with no thought about them. 2. Dave the car dealer just wants to sell cars. He feels he has to use Autotrader because they are the market leader. Daves has used Autotrader for many years but feels annoyed and frustrated by them making changes that work against him, increasing prices and locking Dave into long contracts. Dave feels like he has no other option but to continue with them.

Hi community. Hope everyone is good. We know this is a tall ask but.... We are looking for help to "see" what a car feed to AT looks like? Is anyone willing to share a feed with us so we can take a look? Anything shared with us wouldn't leave our internal development lab. We just need to try and upload a feed to our app and see if it uploads perfectly. We're a startup looking to offer an alternative to AT. (I know many people have said we will never make it and we're wasting our time but please, if you can, help us! lol) Thanks in advance everyone! Dave

Roger that metcars. be in touch. Thanks again for all the feedback and responses everyone! Dave

Hi Tradex and Metcars.... I did say....." Anyone that is interested be kind and honestly (considering we are a business) tell us how long this free period should be" You tell me? On other posts BTW i've said im here to offer a free period in return for feedback Cheers Dave

Hi Gavin, Cheers for the comments and i know how this sounds. We're probably another one of the many others that have tried. We have something different (i dont blame you for thinking we're garbage because im sure the previous ones said "we have something different" too!) All we can do is show what we've got and go from there. We're dealer focused. All i could ask is that when we do go live, to take a look at the USP and use us for free for 3 months. If we're garbage, i'll be the one on the streets and youll be the one throwing 20p at me saying " i told you so" Hope not though! Anyone that is interested be kind and honestly (considering we are a business) tell us how long this free period should be.

Cheers Max, First of all, its not a wind up. Release 1st August as a web holding page explaining exactly how were different and to sign up for an alert on the launch. That TBH is pretty much aimed at dealers. Launch is 1st October. I should say we're App first focused...again this was based on research. No ads with what we're doing. No finance quote things etc. The reason we are on here (and other forums) is to honestly find out what this app should do for dealers and what it shouldnt do. What AT does well, but what it doesnt do well, then make that for you. If we miss then so be it. We've given it a go. Dragon side. honestly thats what i thought but....my thinking was this. That would, at best, be 3/4 public messages about investment then radio silence and they move on (but still have a lions share of us). so we'd be giving away alot of the company for 3 or 4 public messages. people soon forget about what so and so said a month ago...hope you see where im coming from. Of course those kind words would be mint, but as soon as the dust settles, we're on our own with hardly any compan owned by us. Cheers Dave. P.S Would you give us a go for free?

Hi Max, Cheers for the message. Short answer is yes. Yes as in, we have a better offering to dealers (not just our charges) and yes as in the Public because AT isnt perfect (thats also what dealers have been telling me here) We dont have the budget of AA, Motors etc. but we dont need the budget either. There are more cost effective ways to reach audiences. I know what dealers want in the end.......Cars being sold! and thats the number 1 priority. Do you need to be charged 3k for the privileged? no you dont. I suppose though, the proofs in the pudding. We're un tested and potentially living in cloud cuckoo land but you've got to try and take on the big players, worst case we miss and lose everything, then get a job, either way for dealers another potential competitor may give AT another nudge at the fact, they need to change something for you guys. We've got to try. My passion is cars, I use AT EVERY DAY, just browsing cars, i thought there was a better way and here i am. I've put everything into it, remortgaged, actually said no to investment from "a dragon" (was that stupid? possibly but i thought, if they are interested, others will be). If we didnt try we'd never do anything. Its a dream that i'm trying to bring to life! Cheers and have a strong week Dave

Cheers Trade vet! Really appreciate the positive words. We're not here to take dealers for all they've got. We think there is a better way to do this and.... Ask dealers what that should be Make that site for dealers Get dealers uploading cars (for free for 3 months, longer if dealers think it should honestly be longer) Get the general public on Sell cars!!! Cheers and any other comments (bad or good) are welcome! Have a strong rest of the week Dave Of course you can...theres a catch...we just ask for £5k upfront first BTW we're joking. Only thing we will ask you for is feedback on your thoughts on it and if you'd change anything. Be in touch as we get closer. Thanks for giving us a chance.

Hi Gavin That sounds mint! We can only try. I do honestly know what your saying BTW. Its what we've thought about for the past 18 months, We're s*^%ting it but confident too. we need Dealers to help us. we've got something which is different to AT. What dealers think of it is another thing, thats why we're here to recruit Dealers to try it and give us feedback. The whole process was for this to be built around dealers using their input. On the marketing side. AT spent approx £15 million on Marketing last year. They are an old dinosaur in this new digital world (albeit a T Rex!) The amount we budgeted to spend on marketing is a miniscule amount compared but.... New school advertising vs Old school advertising is stupidly good value for money. not just in terms of cost but in terms of targeting a very specific audience. Why do you need to carpet bomb EVERYONE in the UK. Why not just people who are looking for cars? but then even better why not spend advertising money on people who are specifically looking for a Ford Focus? Traditional ad spend (tv, papers, magazines etc) costs £28 per 1000 people (approx) Digital spend (online) costs £2.50 per 1000 (approx) but is HIGHLY targeted Cheers Dave

Henry Ford “If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.”

Hi Gavin. Cheers for the feedback. Mint info there by the way with "good price" thing and also finance ads. That's already NOT on ours. However....How come it has to be free for 12 months? Why not 3 months or 6 months? We're playing around with 3 months currently to get stock on and TBH get feedback from dealers on what we can add, change to make it work better for them. 12 months is a bit of an ask? I dont know if any competitors of AT offered that initially? BTW i dont know so im just asking! Feedback im getting is majority wish there was a valid alternative to AT, but may not give us a chance even if it was free? Thoughts? Cheers again - Honestly, all the comments are mega cos we're crafting this as you give us feedback! Dave Sorry i should of also said.... For dealers willing/wanting to drop AT they need to be confident the newcomer is providing the same amount of leads (obvs if not more) to even consider dropping AT Cheers Dave