Show HN: What's My Car Worth?
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Show HN: What's My Car Worth?
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Re: Show HN: What's My Car Worth?
#2please check out our new "what's my car worth" feature and share any feedback you have.
after you get a valuation there is an optional "sell my car" service where you can request offers from multiple local dealerships to get the best price when selling your current vehicle.
we are actively making improvements to this sell my car online functionality and greatly appreciate your input...
whether it's regarding issues with the valuation estimate we provide for your vehicle...
or user flow feedback like "please move VIN to the notify dealers page i don't want to share that just to get the market value estimate"
:)
thank you!
dan
Re: Show HN: What's My Car Worth?
#3I won't be using this service as it requires a VIN, for no apparent reason, other than accumulating a valuable list of people who are in the used car market. If the purpose is to accurately evaluate the resale value, a zip code would be more useful and less invasive.
Edit: I appreciate the quick response, and it does resolve my objection. Good luck!
Re: Show HN: What's My Car Worth?
#4I won't be using this service as it requires a VIN, for no apparent reason, other than accumulating a valuable list of people who are in the used car market. If the purpose is to accurately evaluate the resale value, a zip code would be more useful and less invasive. Edit: I appreciate the quick response, and it does resolve my objection. Good luck!
yes agree we have a plan to move that to notify dealers step which is optional maybe remove altogether however... there are dealers willing to make an offer to buy your car without an inspection right now and at some point they will need your VIN to finalize the offer and come pay you and pick up your car. great feedback and we will move VIN asap.
Re: Show HN: What's My Car Worth?
#5I won't be using this service as it requires a VIN, for no apparent reason, other than accumulating a valuable list of people who are in the used car market. If the purpose is to accurately evaluate the resale value, a zip code would be more useful and less invasive. Edit: I appreciate the quick response, and it does resolve my objection. Good luck!
right now zip code is used in the valuation...
field is hidden on step1 but displayed on step 2.
we previously had it on step 1 but moved it to step 2 because then you can change the zip (defaults to your location) but if you want to try and sell your vehicle in another state (and easily select nearby dealers to request bids from) zip on step2 allows that.
Re: Show HN: What's My Car Worth?
#6I won't be using this service as it requires a VIN, for no apparent reason, other than accumulating a valuable list of people who are in the used car market. If the purpose is to accurately evaluate the resale value, a zip code would be more useful and less invasive. Edit: I appreciate the quick response, and it does resolve my objection. Good luck!
In theory having the vin means not needing to provide any option info? It’s not like a vin is secret. You can see them through the windshield… Or is there some other security / value imbalance that I’m not aware of?
Re: Show HN: What's My Car Worth?
#7I won't be using this service as it requires a VIN, for no apparent reason, other than accumulating a valuable list of people who are in the used car market. If the purpose is to accurately evaluate the resale value, a zip code would be more useful and less invasive. Edit: I appreciate the quick response, and it does resolve my objection. Good luck!
In theory having the vin means not needing to provide any option info? It’s not like a vin is secret. You can see them through the windshield… Or is there some other security / value imbalance that I’m not aware of?
we are removing VIN right now.
then you can get a free appraisal without providing any detailed information but if you are going to engage with a dealership and want them to bid on your car in many cases without them ever seeing it... then you can optionally provide this directly to the dealerships interested in buying your car.
VIN is not required to provide a market valuation estimate and we respect hirundo's privacy concern.
separating market valuation from sell my car.
Re: Show HN: What's My Car Worth?
#8Yeah vin is a problem should be optional
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#9hirundo:
What's My Car Worth? Sans VIN... now live:
Thank you for your feedback.
Re: Show HN: What's My Car Worth?
#10Yeah vin is a problem should be optional
thank you we just made this change: https://driverbase.com/sell