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- From: djohnson@ti.com (Doug Johnson)
- Newsgroups: misc.entrepreneurs
- Subject: Finding Used Car Buyers
- Message-ID: <DJOHNSON.92Aug14163210@mycroft.ti.com>
- Date: 14 Aug 92 22:32:10 GMT
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- Reply-To: johnson@.ti.com (Doug Johnson)
- Organization: Texas Instruments VLSI Design Laboratory
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- How do you find people who are buying used cars?
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- We have a business that will inspect a car for a buyer. For $80.00,
- we'll come out to driveway, dealer's lot, wherever, in a well
- equipped van with a certified professional mechanic, and inspect the
- car, search for recalls, estimate any repairs, and estimate value.
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- So far, so good. Our customers seem to be very happy with our service
- and we get a fair number of referrals. We are having trouble
- expanding because we're having trouble finding cost effective ways of
- finding used car buyers. Sellers are easy, they take out ads in the
- paper. But buyers?
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- Our most successful ad to date is one that runs in one of those local
- magzines full of classified ads. A quarter page at the start of used
- car section. We have had steady and increasing calls and sales.
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- Things we have tried:
- Ads in the AAA magazine -- lots of reader response cards, no sales.
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- Ads scattered among used car ads in the daily paper -- little response
- and expensive.
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- We were featured by the consumer affairs reporter of a local TV
- station on the evening news --- a few calls right after the show,
- then nothing.
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- Any suggestions? Thanks -- Doug
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