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Trying to sell my car with a bootstrapped website and an idea
- kbenson 14y ago> The car's price will start at $23,000 on Monday, Febuary 20, at 12:00 am 1) Today is not a Monday. 2) It's currently higher that the stated starting price, at $23,300. Other than that, interesting concept.
- cvanderlinden 14y agoThanks, for the feedback. I will change that!
- wittjeff 14y agoNice. I considered selling a house this way about six months ago, but I ended up selling it to a neighbor. Edit: One idea I had: allow people to reserve a spot on the calendar, perhaps with a deposit. You'll get the benefit of a traditional rising auction that way and it might avoid hard feelings if multiple people jump as the price falls a notch. Would you mind putting your code up on Github?
- cvanderlinden 14y agoI will definitely do that in the future. Needs some cleaning up though since I built it and launched it in only a few hours. Rush job to get it on the Internet.
- jawns 14y agoHow are you publicizing the site? Through Craiglist? What's the clickthrough rate?
- cvanderlinden 14y agoCraigslist, facebook, twitter, usedvictoria, and auto trader. No stats yet. I will post on my blog at http://cvanderlinden.com http://cvanderlinden.com with the results of this experiment.
- cybernomad99 14y agoThat is clever! Also you may want to ask the bidder to put down a deposit of earnest money so you know they are serious about their offer. If you like, you can post it on classifieds site HouseOfNothing and I will bulk post it to many other websites through Digi-Go ad submission service to give your ad more exposure.
- cvanderlinden 14y agoYeah, there is the risk that the bidder is just messing around with me, so the deposit might be a good idea. Thanks for the tips about spreading the news, that will definitely help.
- blufox 14y agoIsn't it a good idea to remove the license plate number from the photos? We do that here in US.
- cvanderlinden 14y agoI don't think it's a big deal. Not much theft, and otherwise what can people do with my licence plate? I drive around with it in public vision all day.
- blufox 14y agobtw, love the site. Its clean and simple. and great photos too.
- cvanderlinden 14y agoAppreciate the feedback very much, thank you! Thank my friend for letting me use his expensive property to shoot the photos.
- bksenior 14y agoI ran digital/social marketing for a major import car brand for two years up until Q4 of last year. We built something like this but, it was killed internally by an executive. It is a great idea and my studies say it will raise sales price on cars by 5-8% because of the "fear of losing out" principal.
- cvanderlinden 14y agoGreat! I hope it works for me, I will be writing a blog post about it on my site at http://cvanderlinden.com http://cvanderlinden.com once it's all finished!
- chewxy 14y agoDutch auction over a long period. You know this is equivalent to a sealed first bid right? Interesting nonetheless.
- cvanderlinden 14y agoDutch auction! I didn't know there was a name for it! Very cool!