Advert volumes

[Philip Nothard 26]

Has anyone seen or heard anything relating to the volumes of vehicles on the sites.

[Wheelerdealer1 91]

Do people actually look at motors site ?

[Philip Nothard 26]

Obviously can't answer that one without too many assumptions but they have attracted 254K adverts from both the trade and consumers? 

 

It's just intriguing that there's been a 46K drop in less than a months; whereas other sites have remained within a +/-6% deviation? 

[sparky 274]

Do people actually look at motors site ?

 

 

I'll let you know in a month or three! Motors seems to have come on leaps and bounds since the last time I used it and is a lot more price friendly. I'm not expecting Auto Trader style results from them but nor I am annoyed (yet) about a huge DD at the end of the month.

[Andy Entwistle 96]

Its that time of year where a lot of people are off sunning themselves, i know footfall has dropped with most dealers i speak to, maybe this is why? 

 

My question would be, is this Consumer or trade related? I can understand a drop in consumer ad's if people are away on holiday, maybe Motors is more susceptible to Consumer fluctuations ?

[Gavin@Rousdon 137]

Maybe a couple of big dealer groups have pulled out, special offers have come to an end and people haven't renewed. It does seems a large drop off but they are in a market fighting Autotrader so unless what they are offering is too good to not have they will always be the first victim when a business looks to cost cut.

 

How much is 'Motors@ a month to use? Does anyone know?

[sparky 274]

Maybe a couple of big dealer groups have pulled out, special offers have come to an end and people haven't renewed. It does seems a large drop off but they are in a market fighting Autotrader so unless what they are offering is too good to not have they will always be the first victim when a business looks to cost cut.

 

How much is 'Motors@ a month to use? Does anyone know?

 

 

I've just signed up for 25 cars per month at a cost of £216 + Vat per month.

[umesh 336]

I do advertise with motors the cost is about 1/10 of AT ! But then again the number of enquiries /sales ratio seems to be the same!  Although I ask every lead / enquiry /sale - where they saw the car advertised 1st - this doesn't always give a true answer !

Motors have a 'wisper' when you get a call " This is a lead from motors.co.uk please introduce yourself........ " which is great { I did suggest to AT Many ,many , many years ago! BUT they've never added it as a feature? why?"}

 back to answers - I had a customer tell me he had seen a car on AT - He then went on to my website and called me - this was wrong as that particular car was only advertised on motors - so regardless of how much I ask ? you never know exactly .. the way this customer had found this car was in fact Google " Typing in make/ model / transmission - stoke on trent " and hey presto ! obviously motors link must have come up at the top !

we ALL have to second guess where we think we ought to be advertising that the customers maybe looking at ?

[Wheelerdealer1 91]

Interesting post, I'm tempted to go with motors if it was cheaper, or maybe if they had a good intro offer, but am I brave enough to leave out AT or ebay ? Hell no

Also I've stopped using gumtree now, anyone else dropped it ? Are you missing it?

[c_cars 56]

The likes of Motors and co know they are never going to compete with Autotrader and they were trying to sell it to us as an additional rather than a replacement; can any of us honestly justify ditching AT or eBay?

 

Was quite sold on the Motors idea but had just signed with AA Cars / Vcars the week before and to be fair Im getting a few extra enquiries and have sold a handful of cars from it.

[Wheelerdealer1 91]

What's the deal vcars gave you if you don't mind Chris