AU2010100486A4

AU2010100486A4 - A unique way of bringing automotive dealers and buyers together

Info

Publication number: AU2010100486A4
Application number: AU2010100486A
Authority: AU
Inventors: Christos Daniel
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 2010-05-19
Filing date: 2010-05-19
Publication date: 2010-06-17
Anticipated expiration: 2018-05-19

Description

1 Description This innovation relates to a new way of bringing automotive dealers and consumers looking for a new or used vehicle together online. The large number of automotive classified websites creates a number of avenues for car dealers to advertise vehicles for sale and for buyers to browse these sites along with traditional magazine and newspaper listings. This makes it rather difficult and very time consuming for car buyers to find and go through all of these sources to eliminate the unsuitable vehicles in order to find the car they are after which hopefully has been listed by the dealers in that particular source. Currently those buyers looking for a vehicle need to go through all of these different sources trying to find the car they are after. They then spend hours and hours wasted on visiting dealers with vehicles that don't quite match what they are after Automotive dealers have a similar problem with these multiple sources in that they need to pay in order to list their vehicles every where a potential buyer may look. This is extremely expensive paying for listing fees and subscriptions and very time consuming in having to create multiple add listings in multiple locations. These problems for the consumer and the automotive dealers are overcome by a new way of bringing automotive dealers and buyers together. This is done in reverse to traditional online classifieds in that the consumers looking for a vehicle create the advertisement. Consumers specify what exactly they are looking for from as detailed as make, model and engine or as broad as a vehicle type, e.g. four wheel drive. They can also specify the price they would like to pay, kilometres all the way down to colour. On the other end of this system we have a network of automotive dealers from all over the country, these dealers can browse and search these listings as well as receive email and sms notifications when consumers add listings that may match a vehicle a dealer has in stock. Dealers can then respond to these listings presenting the consumers with a vehicle that resembles what they are looking for. For example, an Audi dealer can receive an email or sms the instant someone submits they are looking for an Audi, this allows dealers to jump on these potential leads before they have even had a chance to get the car on the lot, let alone create any advertisements for it.

2 This allows consumers to get dealers from all over working to find them the vehicle they are after, consumers can pick and chose from dealer responses and potentially have dealers bidding for their sale, getting them the car they want at the best possible price. Consumer details are also protected from dealers with all communications going through the site with personal contact details hidden, this prevents spam and potential harassment from pushy dealers. Buyers also have the ability to rate dealers on the site, this helps to improve dealer integrity and consumer confidence in the dealers on the site This also provides dealers with a searchable list of consumers who are ready to buy allowing dealers to save time and money from creating multiple advertisements and only creating responses for vehicles they have a buyer for. This provides dealers a view into market trends and to what vehicle types are in depend and which ones are not, potentially arming dealers with vital information when they are trading in other cars or purchasing particular vehicle types from wholesalers. The ability for dealers to search this list or to be alerted automatically when certain vehicles they may already have in stock is an incredible benefit to dealers, with the rising cost of advertising and an ever increasing number of sources available for consumers, bringing buyers and sellers together in this fresh unique way has the potential to revolutionise the online automotive classifieds industry and providing immense benefit to both consumers and automotive dealers

Claims

1. A website where consumers looking for a vehicle can submit their listing consisting of what type of vehicle they are after, specifying make, model and additional vehicle specifications. Dealers can then register on this website providing them access to search and respond to these listings with vehicle offerings. Dealers provide the consumer with details of a vehicle they have matching the consumers criteria, they can also upload pictures for the consumer to see. The consumers can then compare dealer offers and decide which one is the better car for the better price with dealer's bidding for the consumers purchase.

2. The website of claim 1 wherein the website allows consumers to provide details of vehicles they are after to a list available to more than one dealer, seller or retailer.

3. The website of claim 1 wherein dealers can subscribe to receive access to details of potential leads or car buyers

4. The website of claim 1 wherein dealers can receive sms and email notifications of consumers looking for particular vehicles

5. The website of claim 1 wherein consumers can provide ratings and comments on different automotive dealers for other consumers to review

6. A website substantially as herein described with reference to the accompanying description