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One Stop Motors Doles Out Advice for Selling a Car Online

BY One Stop Motors | 03-31-2010 | 12:46 PM
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One Stop Motors, the online marketplace for selling automobiles, offers consumers five basic tips for successfully selling a car online.

One Stop Motors, the web’s most reliable new and used car marketplace,
isn’t just great for their automotive offerings. Their expertise runs
deep with knowledge on the “how to’s” and “do nots’” of selling a car online.

Alan Gill, the customer service manager for OSM, states that “consumers who want to sell their car online
need to ensure they provide as much information as possible about the
vehicle and themselves. The first element that needs to be established
between the buyer and the seller is trust, if information is sparse or
missing, you can be sure that the consumer will be wary.”
To make sure that consumers are doing all they can to successfully sell
their car on the One Stop Motors website, Gill recommends the following
tips for building consumer trust and optimizing a seller’s listing:
• Use an Enhanced VIN decoder for every vehicle manufactured after 1981 that ensure an effective posting of all vehicle standard & optional features.
• Upload a current photos
and a video of the car to be sold. Narrate a virtual tour of the car .
Ads with videos currently sell at a rate 5 times as those without.
• Use ‘Or Best Offer’ in pricing strategy; include a competitive price as well as an acknowledgement to accept the buyer’s best offer.
• Offer a complimentary Autocheck report; Autocheck is one of the most reputable and trusted names in the used car business.
• List at least 2 forms of communication; some consumers prefer phone, some prefer email, list both if possible

These tips are more geared towards consumers selling their cars on a
Craigslist type of website. One Stop Motors offers sellers a broad
spectrum of online sales tools, and OSM will not only build a complete
vehicle profile, but they will maximize its visibility by using SEO
techniques and promote through their affiliate websites. They also
handle all buyers in a quick and efficient manner ensuring that they
take the hassle out of the consumer’s hands.

For more information on how One Stop Motors can make the process of
selling a car online a little bit easier, check out their online sales tools and offerings here: http://www.onestopmotors.com/plat.aspx

About One Stop Motors
One Stop Motors specializes in the sale of used cars online. The
company offers value added tools such as shipping, financing, extended
warranties, insurance, marketing and advertising support for sellers
and fraud protection for buyers.
http://www.onestopmotors.org

Contact:
Michael Juarez
Customer Service Supervisor
877-566-6686 (office)
customerservice@onestopmotors.com
http://www.onestopmotors.com
http://onestopmotors.blogspot.com/