Trying to sell my car with a bootstrapped website and an idea
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Re: Trying to sell my car with a bootstrapped website and an idea
#2> The car's price will start at $23,000 on Monday, Febuary 20, at 12:00 am
1) Today is not a Monday.
2) It's currently higher that the stated starting price, at $23,300.
Other than that, interesting concept.
Re: Trying to sell my car with a bootstrapped website and an idea
#3> The car's price will start at $23,000 on Monday, Febuary 20, at 12:00 am 1) Today is not a Monday. 2) It's currently higher that the stated starting price, at $23,300. Other than that, interesting concept.
Thanks, for the feedback. I will change that!
Re: Trying to sell my car with a bootstrapped website and an idea
#4Nice. I considered selling a house this way about six months ago, but I ended up selling it to a neighbor. Edit: One idea I had: allow people to reserve a spot on the calendar, perhaps with a deposit. You'll get the benefit of a traditional rising auction that way and it might avoid hard feelings if multiple people jump as the price falls a notch. Would you mind putting your code up on Github?
Re: Trying to sell my car with a bootstrapped website and an idea
#5How are you publicizing the site? Through Craiglist? What's the clickthrough rate?
Re: Trying to sell my car with a bootstrapped website and an idea
#6That is clever! Also you may want to ask the bidder to put down a deposit of earnest money so you know they are serious about their offer. If you like, you can post it on classifieds site HouseOfNothing and I will bulk post it to many other websites through Digi-Go ad submission service to give your ad more exposure.
Re: Trying to sell my car with a bootstrapped website and an idea
#7Isn't it a good idea to remove the license plate number from the photos? We do that here in US.
Re: Trying to sell my car with a bootstrapped website and an idea
#8I ran digital/social marketing for a major import car brand for two years up until Q4 of last year. We built something like this but, it was killed internally by an executive. It is a great idea and my studies say it will raise sales price on cars by 5-8% because of the "fear of losing out" principal.
Re: Trying to sell my car with a bootstrapped website and an idea
#9I ran digital/social marketing for a major import car brand for two years up until Q4 of last year. We built something like this but, it was killed internally by an executive. It is a great idea and my studies say it will raise sales price on cars by 5-8% because of the "fear of losing out" principal.
Great! I hope it works for me, I will be writing a blog post about it on my site at http://cvanderlinden.com once it's all finished!
Re: Trying to sell my car with a bootstrapped website and an idea
#10How are you publicizing the site? Through Craiglist? What's the clickthrough rate?
Craigslist, facebook, twitter, usedvictoria, and auto trader. No stats yet. I will post on my blog at http://cvanderlinden.com with the results of this experiment.