Your parents (and now I) warned you.
If someone promises a deal too good to be true run away.
I received a voicemail from these folks last week. I'm currently trying to sell two cars and was intrigued and pretty curious by the offer to "get more than you are asking" for my car.
Well after trading a few voicemails I spent an hour on the phone with three of their rep (s), the first a "finder" the second a closer, and the third a "tech" guy.
Long story short — I was told they could help me sell my car (s) for about $2,000 more than my current asking price. All they asked was $499 up front, even thought that seemed high I was ready as a) a local consignment dealer offered to sell the car for $500 and b) who wouldn't pay $500 to make $2,000 more than you thought you could make selling it yourself.
Anyway I had never heard of them and was more than a bit suspicious, Googles's second listing was here to a plethora of reports... Before I hung up I asked them to put their offer/agreement in writing and email it to me. I rec'd a form letter that didn't really answer my biggest question which was simply "where are you going advertise and for how long?"
I won't paste that buy will paste my response..
Thanks Katie, I appreciate that Adam gave me the ebay user ID, clearly he has a fair number listings on that site at this time. However, it does not appear that you have sold a single care on ebay? What am I missing? Do you actually sell them on the auctions site? With what seller ID?
Clearly you have a lot of cars listed on your website. Many, many of the cars on your own website seem overpriced, I'm curious how long they have been listed? That information is not at all clear and there is no way to contact the sellers.
Also I don't understand the "top listing" you mentioned? You are selling this Montana
onestopmotors.com/ad_details. Aspx? Ad_id=11092
But I search Yahoo for "1999 Pontiac Montana" on Yahoo and cannot find that car / your listing anywhere? What am I doing wrong?
Further, the more reports I read at Rip Off reports the more confident I am that $500 get's me almost nothing in the way of certainty of "selling" the car, for a "better price."
I can see why so many people are frustrated, if you really could sell a 2002 BMW 325i for $19,650 and/or a 2000 Pontiac Montana for 9,000, a total of $28,650. I'd love to see it happen. Honestly I think you would be better off taking 10% of such a deal vs. A "flat $500 or $900 for both"... I'd pay it... Given my disbelief that it could be done...
I'm thinking your company could earn $2,865 (10% of 28,650) for selling my car at those prices, or better yet I'll gladly sell you both cars for $25,000, you can then sell them for what ever you want and make maybe $3,650 if you get your "suggested price"
Let me know how much you can buy the cars for (hell I might sell them for quite a bit less than $25,000 if you can get a cashiers check). But then I don't think you guys aren't licensed car dealers so really I'm not sure you even could buy both cars if I'd take $2,500 for them.
I guess the lesson is don't over promise — your marks will get a bit to nervous when confronted with the "too good to be true" price you proposed. Good Luck in all your future endeavors, I really think your business model is close to working, and I'd love to have you sell my cars but can't see how you aren't going to anger a bunch of dreamers who get excited that you can sell their car for 20% more than it's value. Hell even a 5% commision would get you $1,400 for my two cars and $1,000 for the BMW alone, if you could sell them.
Don
I didn't expect to ever hear back from them, but surprise!!! Kadie called back today!!!
Now I was simply amazed, I thought the email above was clear enough, but she was still hoping to close the sale... My recollection of the interesting but brief conversation.
Kadie Hi Don, you sent me a long email and I wanted to call back and answer your questions...
Me Kadie, why don't you just respond to the email?
K Well — I'm not a very quick typist so I thought we could talk. First when you searched you need to search the EXACT model, year, make...
Me stop I'd rather you email me the answers.
K Why?
Me Frankly because I'd like to see it in writing, given the contract it's clear I shouldn't trust anything you say verbally.
K Well then maybe you shouldn't use our service then. I wasted a lot of my time the other day trying to explain
I hung up, when she starts to try to make me feel guilty for "wasting her time" I knew she wasnt a salesperson but a telephone scammer looking to make a quick buck or $500
Ps: she then called back, leaving a rambling voicemail message firing me as a customer and insulted I had hung up on her (before she had a chance to pitch me again) she went on about my "fear" and her "integrity", I'd type it but it was fairly non-sensical and typing it wouldn't add much.
Anyway maybe, just maybe I'm wrong, maybe they can "help" sell cars for $2,000 more than retail? Caveat empto
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