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Show HN: InstaMotor – Taking the pain out of selling your car

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Re: Show HN: InstaMotor – Taking the pain out of selling your car

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Post by seany »

ValG wrote: post #93
mattsfrey wrote: post #88

Having to enter a phone number to create an account resulted in a closed browser tab. Might want to consider this factor, can guarantee theres plenty more where I come from.

thanks for the note Matt. I think you're right and it's something we've debated before. In the end we decided to leave it in there. The first thing we do when you get started with us is call you to schedule the photo shoot for your car. We come to your place to do this at your convenience, but we need the phone number. We'll re-evaluate this over the weekend. Thanks for the feedback, we really appreciate it!

This is a total non starter for me as well, at least have 100% email as an option. I don't pick up numbers I don't have in my address book, so you would get my voice mail, which would result in me emailing you anyway.

Re: Show HN: InstaMotor – Taking the pain out of selling your car

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Post by nlh »

sharkweek wrote: post #134
nlh wrote: post #132

Great idea - good luck guys! Related note for the HN community, while we're on the subject: Unless you have time & money to burn, you really should never never never trade your car into the dealership. It's the worst price you're going to get along the used car supply chain. And even if you think you're getting a good price, it's because you're probably pairing it with buying a car (and paying too much for the car yo…

I just listened to the This American Life episode "129 cars" about a month in a car dealership - SUPER fascinating look at the industry, with a lot of insider information: http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/513/1...

Totally. That episode is one of my favorite TALs ever (second to 'Summer Camp', which despite having been done in the 90s is still totally relevant).

In fact, I used a lot of the knowledge from '129 cars' to help with a recent purchase of a Jeep (not from that dealership, sadly). I'm going to write up a blog post about the experience - I learned a lot and it should be helpful to others.

Re: Show HN: InstaMotor – Taking the pain out of selling your car

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Post by chandraonline »

sharkweek wrote: post #134
nlh wrote: post #132

Great idea - good luck guys! Related note for the HN community, while we're on the subject: Unless you have time & money to burn, you really should never never never trade your car into the dealership. It's the worst price you're going to get along the used car supply chain. And even if you think you're getting a good price, it's because you're probably pairing it with buying a car (and paying too much for the car yo…

I just listened to the This American Life episode "129 cars" about a month in a car dealership - SUPER fascinating look at the industry, with a lot of insider information: http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/513/1...

My favorite episode as well. After this episode when I recently bought a new car I did the research (used the step-by-step of this fighting chance package I found googling) and bought a car on the last day of the month about 1500 below dealer's invoice price after accounting for all hold backs. Felt really good to get some of that money back I have lost to dealerships over the years.

Re: Show HN: InstaMotor – Taking the pain out of selling your car

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Post by markhall »

chadwickthebold wrote: post #28

One point - take a look at the copy on your pricing slider. 'You Earn' makes it sound like that's all I'm going to get out of this deal. It took me a second to realize it was the difference between the dealership and instamotor.

I agree. The wording is critical and I had the same impression

Re: Show HN: InstaMotor – Taking the pain out of selling your car

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Post by gregcohn »

nlh wrote: post #132

Great idea - good luck guys! Related note for the HN community, while we're on the subject: Unless you have time & money to burn, you really should never never never trade your car into the dealership. It's the worst price you're going to get along the used car supply chain. And even if you think you're getting a good price, it's because you're probably pairing it with buying a car (and paying too much for the car yo…

And of course if the dealer themselves took the trade-in, as is often enough the case at a prime-brand dealership where they do a lot of leasing, they get all the markup in that value chain.

Re: Show HN: InstaMotor – Taking the pain out of selling your car

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Post by _sy_ »

greggman wrote: post #133

I thought this was an awesome idea and tried to post it in my facebook feed to show my friends. Unfortunately http://www.instamotor.com/ ends up with the excerpt "Landing Page Template for Bootstrap" and http://www.instamotor.com/#/ has no picture. I've found, or it least it seems to me, when there's no picture none of my friends click the link. Apparently you need to add these tags? https://developers.facebook.com/d…

Thanks for the heads up! I'm on it and will be pushing an update to in a few minutes. Mind if I ping you then?

edit: I updated the header but still no update on Facebook. I'm assuming it must be cached. I will try to create a Facebook page to see if that clears it.

Re: Show HN: InstaMotor – Taking the pain out of selling your car

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Post by everettForth »

Just curious, I actually have a car valued at around $20,000 that I want to sell. I posted it on craigslist, and realized that I don't have time to deal with all the crap.

Some dealer called me and left a message saying that they would sell my car for me for $200. Are they lying? Are there other hidden fees? Why should I pay InstaMotor $1000 instead of $200 to this other guy?

One advantage, I see is that I get to keep and drive my car. Except my car is parked in a lot, and I only have 1 keyfob to get it out.

Re: Show HN: InstaMotor – Taking the pain out of selling your car

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Post by dm2 »

My biggest question is about the test-drive. How do those work?

What stops someone from taking a 1 hour test-drive? (and wasting you gas on their errands)

If someone gets in an accident during a test-drive who is liable? Do all insurance plans cover this?

What does remote-key access mean? "We verify all buyers and schedule flexible test-drives with remote key access."

How quickly do you plan on expanding to other states?

Your site has a 1px left margin which is making a horizontal scrollbar which is annoying me.

@media screen and (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 0) html { margin-left: 1px; }

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