Could you please add a form for "Notify me when InstaMotor is available in my area"? Just with email and city. I almost signed up before I saw it was only available for the Bay area.
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
#72I've bought and sold a lot of cars the past few years. I have never once considered a dealer trade in offer. I've had relatively easy and good luck with selling my car online through Craigslist and Autotrader which I imagine is what they will probably do to unload the cars. I like the idea of the service but I'm wondering what the difference is between dealer trade in pricing and market pricing. Even if I have to sac…
Great questions Josh, Dealer trade-in pricing generally uses a standard called "black book". They base the pricing on the type of car the the condition of the vehilce. The discount of retail to black book varies, but can be huge (4k+). When dealers buy a car off trade-in, they have to price in the fact that they have a lot of overhead to get the car sold. Dealers also price risk into the car value, if it's not a desi…
I think Josh is trying to point out that comparing your price to a dealer trade-in price is a bit of a joke since trade-in price is always a 'low ball' based on market value.
I actually came in the thread to post the same thing because I saw that on your web site and chuckled.
It would also help to list prices you guys sold cars at, not just 'X' over 'trade-in' price.
The way numbers are presented and compared makes you look a bit sketchy to somebody who knows a thing or two about vehicles.
Re: Show HN: InstaMotor – Taking the pain out of selling your car
#73Hi Guys, Val here from InstaMotor. We’re trying to be to car dealerships what airbnb is to the hotel industry. We’d love to get some additional feedback on the service. Any feedback provided is super beneficial. We’re specifically looking for some feedback on: 1. When you get to the site, within the first 30 seconds, do you understand what we do. Why or why not? 2. If you do understand what we do, would you ever use…
Should offer to detail the car as well (for a price), that can drastically increase the sale price. Perhaps you could find some mobile detail guys that you could contract out. Make it the gold package or something.
Re: Show HN: InstaMotor – Taking the pain out of selling your car
#74You should really move the "Now Serving The Bay Area" message above the fold. I would have signed-up and used you right away (want to sell my Honda Element).
I usually assume these type of startups aren't targeted at us out-of-towners. Also the background pic of the Golden Gate Bridge also helps...
It's not the first startup splash page to have the GGB on it. I don't even notice anymore.
Re: Show HN: InstaMotor – Taking the pain out of selling your car
#75One 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.
Hey Chad, Thanks for the note. Yeah you're right. We'll make the update to clarify that. We had it as "saved" before, but that didn't seem to make sense. Still trying to find the right wording, but we'll update it today or over the weekend most likely. Thank you!
Placing my bet that "extra cheddar" wins your series of A/B test here.
Re: Show HN: InstaMotor – Taking the pain out of selling your car
#76"We charge As an engineer, that really bothers me.
Re: Show HN: InstaMotor – Taking the pain out of selling your car
#77How long have you been running this service?
I recall about 3 months ago, a post on HN where someone posted a bunch of idea's they had but didn't have time to execute. This was one of them. Did instamotor flow from that?
Re: Show HN: InstaMotor – Taking the pain out of selling your car
#78One 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 did the exact same thing. I typically don't make "me too" replies, but I hope the extra data point is helpful in this case. Great idea, this looks like something I'd be interested in using sometime in the future.
Totally piggy backing on this comment. Don't usually make me too comments but this was something that had me scratching my head for a second. Otherwise looks great!
Re: Show HN: InstaMotor – Taking the pain out of selling your car
#79You should really move the "Now Serving The Bay Area" message above the fold. I would have signed-up and used you right away (want to sell my Honda Element).
Hey Callmeed. Thanks for the note. We've actually debated this back and forth a little bit. Right now we (admittedly) have a ton of stuff on the front page, we didn't want to clutter it too much. We'll re-evalute this based on your suggestions and might make some updates today.
I would like to second the suggestion. More people live outside the Bay Area than you might think. :-)
Edit: Great idea, by the way. I would love to use this service here in Phoenix.
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#80I was curious on how the test drive scheduling worked. It says "schedule flexible test-drives with remote key access." It sounded a bit unclear to me, and I'm not sure how that works.
I think the idea is excellent and would use it when I decide to sell my car.