Which one is easier to buy a used car in?
autobytel.com
cars.com
carmax.com
craiglist.com
NO clue, they are a pain in the ass! Sorry for the vulgar language... but its not a pleasant experience in getting a used vehicle...
Autobytel has one main issue.
http://www.autobytel.com/content/Buy/used/index.cfm?id=4;ABTL&dontStoreVehicle=True
Can you search by a certain make? just the make and not caring about the model?
hmm... nope!
which is extremely annoying.
What if a user s looking for any toyota around the price range of 5 grand. A user may know the quality of toyota vehicles and wishes to buy any toyota.
Under the autobytel process, its more time consuming. Check model by model is truly a headache...
Cars.com on the other hand, may understand that mentality. They made their search engine run in that manner.
http://www.cars.com/go/index.jsp
im happy with it, seemed reasonable.
All the other information, well i dont read it... other than the top 10 area.
Pretty much everything else is pointless to me. Might loads of good information, but
it doesnt catch my eye.
Craiglist, well its not good, but its bad. Its just a classifieds area.
Its easier to get in contact with people to buy their respective vehicle. There is no need to get a news paper with craigslist, but you dont know which vehicle has already been sold. Since! most ads are keep for a week i think.
If a car is sold, well you have no idea.
Carmax took buying a car to another level.
Show me all of the makes, models, SHOW ME EVERYTHING!!!! type of approach. Which i appreciate.
they simply tell you this:
let me show every car in my lot!
May not the best approach, but if you do a search based on a price range lets say of 5k,
then they simply tell you this:
let me show every car under 5k!
narrowed it down, and you feel better. A user can compare makes and models, just about everything.
Isnt it lovely?
http://carmax.com/
once again, all the extra information gets overlooked though. I have yet to explore the whole website...
i dont think i will ever either. If i want a used car, well i know where to go and thats pretty much all i wanted to do.
Well, what do you folks think?
anybody search for a used car online before?
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I've never searched for a car online. It sounds like they could take a lesson from the ebay search panel. I mean where you can enter data for only the field you want to search. Its also pretty helpful when you search criteria is too narrow, showing you what elminated how much from your results.
I had a similar experience with attempting to purchase a dress for graduation. The thing i found most frustrating (and google image search does it too) is that many sites limited my search to 10-20 items, forcing me to go through countless pages (42 on the saks site). I can understand loading a page with a small number of images, but the user should be able to select a more image heavy search page if they so desire.
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