autotrader fee

[sam62 1]

heloo

autotrader have quoted me £301 a week for 20 cars on autotrader for sale as a car dealer. also another £79 a month for autotrader mail the option where i can buy and sell cars from and to traders only. is it really worth to spend this money on selling cars in autotrader and are you really gets serious buyers of autotrader? any body use autotrader mail to source cars ? have you  really found cars for sale on autotrader mail for a trade price? thank you all

[GreenGiant 287]

I've said enough about AutoTrader so won't be commenting (bad for the blood pressure) - you pays your money (lots of it!) and you takes your choice. Just don't expect them to do you any favours or listen to your complaints. Or answer any questions. Or play fair with you regarding transparency of pricing.

AutoTradeMail does not seem to be any use at all nowadays. It was when it was independently-owned, but then AutoTrader got hold of it and, as is their way, got greedy and are now flying it into the ground.

Have a look at www.cartotradedotcom - same guys who started ATM, without the greed and the bad attitude. And without the greed.

Did I mention the greed?

[sam62 1]

thanks GREEN GIANT for the explanation yes its seems like allot of money autotrader charges but the most of car dealers advert there  ? what about ebay ..seems much cheaper especilay in classified add

[Motorman 0]

Try Motors.co.uk. Met their rep at auction.  Nice girl and seem upfront about their costs. Different levels of packages like AT but seems so much better value! Failing that lots more out there to choose from at a fraction of the cost! 

[sam62 1]

yes motorman its seems like every body moving to motors.co.uk and bye for autotrader 

[PrestigeDiesels 5]

We have reduced our Autotrader bill to the bear minimum now as we are seeing a poor response and our bill is huge for the amount of cars we have. Sometimes we pay them more than we pay ourselves.  We were on Motors for 6 months and no enquires, not a sausage . I also know Umesh at specialist cars has just come off Motors for the same reason. 

All is not doom and gloom though! We have sold cars from Facebook before but with no advertising and I think we got lucky. After hearing Jim Reid's Podcast on Facebook I realised this is the place to focus on.. So the last week we have done just that advertised 3 cars for £20 each and guess what, we have sold 2 cars with finance!  More than we have sold off Autotrader in a week!

This is the way forward for sure! You can target the market and people you want to see your post... Don't get me wrong it can be tricky and you get many enquires that are weak but eventually you will succeed with persistence.  It has been a steep learning curve and without the help of Jim Reid I don't think we would see the response we have had so far.  If anyone wants any help please feel free to call us,  Jim Reid is by far the expert but he has given us some amazing pointers.

 

Jim Reid On Facebook and selling cars through Facebook £173k additional NET profit made from Facebook in one year £1600 spent

A must listen for all dealers! This could be the future ;-)

 

[PrestigeDiesels 5]

To add we also use www.cartotradedotcom and its well worth looking at ;-)

[Steve92 80]

To add we also use www.cartotradedotcom and its well worth looking at ;-)

is that free or chargeable