List Your Car for Sale Online for Free

MarketingLautochase101 @ autochase.com.au on 14/12/2024 - 01:51
Last edited 14/12/2024 - 02:24 by 1 other user

Hey Everyone!

I don’t know about you, but I was so over the hassle of selling a car online. Between the ridiculous fees on Carsales and the endless parade of "Is this available?" messages (followed by crickets 🦗) on Facebook Marketplace, I felt like there had to be a better way.

So… I built one. 🎉 It’s called AutoChase (www.autochase.com.au), and it’s a brand-new platform where you can list your car for free—no hidden fees, no sneaky upsells, just simple and straightforward. I created it for people like us who just want to sell their car without all the BS.

It’s still fairly new, so I’d really appreciate your feedback! If you like what I’m doing, it’d mean the world if you could help spread the word—share it with friends, family, or anyone who’s looking to sell their car.

Let’s make selling a car less of a headache for everyone. 💪

What’s been your worst car-selling experience? 👀

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Comments

  • kerfuffle on 14/12/2024 - 05:35
    +4

    Here's some feedback: don't spam

  • charlierg on 14/12/2024 - 05:54
    +1

    How do you make money?

    • Marketingautochase101 @ autochase.com.au on 14/12/2024 - 06:54
      -4

      im not looking to make money out of this, its purely to help those individuals/dealerships that cannot afford those crazy fees else where.

      • coffeeinmyveins on 14/12/2024 - 07:13

        Why do you want to help dealerships make money for free?

      • pegaxs on 14/12/2024 - 07:15
        +5

        lol @ helping dealerships that can’t afford it. Let’s break out the tiny violins for the poor, struggling dealerships…

      • geekcohen on 14/12/2024 - 14:12

        Should be free for individuals and dealerships should be paying.

        • Marketingautochase101 @ autochase.com.au on 14/12/2024 - 16:21
          -1

          its free for everyone

  • Dollar General on 14/12/2024 - 06:05
    +1

    Sellers need buyers that’s why they end up using the main players.

    How many buyers browse your site?

    • Marketingautochase101 @ autochase.com.au on 14/12/2024 - 06:54

      I've just launched this :)

      looking to advertise on google ads, social media and ect…

      • simplystu on 14/12/2024 - 10:18

        you seem green …
        so please atleast read my other replies within this thread.

        I was in your shoes … prob around 12+ years ago.

        100% don't go google ads (unless you want to waste $$$) … maybe once your brand is better well known - then maybe.
        If targeting younger ppl - @Insta "may be" a way to interact … but IMO more a side hustle.

        Since car related … how about attending some car shows / events +++ handing out flyers (advertising website) … there's one happening pretty much EVERY weekend … Would be a great way of drumming up business.

        The "old school" way of doing things.
        Just saying !!!

        • Marketingautochase101 @ autochase.com.au on 14/12/2024 - 16:40

          what events can i join? I'm actually very keen to do so

  • Euphemistic on 14/12/2024 - 06:29
    +2

    Good on you. Unfortunately since the main players have been at it for a while this is going to take a buttload of advertising to get a suitable amount of traffic.

    Its not just carsales and faceache. Theres a number of others plodding along with limited traffic. Theres a reason people dont use the others, not enough traffic or not enough listings. Look how gumtree has dropped out of favour.

    • Marketingautochase101 @ autochase.com.au on 14/12/2024 - 06:55
      -4

      Thanks 🙏

      my main target is those small dealerships that cannot afford crazy fees of carsales and there is many of them.

      • simplystu on 14/12/2024 - 10:45

        cerrtainly hope these aren't the small (no-branded) dealers ….that seem seem to do a dodgy.
        EG. my recent purchase of a 2nd hand MG3 - from a MAJOR dealership (John Hughes).

        JH Dealership at time said that it was blocked in by several other cars, so I couldn't take it for a test drive
        JH salesperson said it was "exactly like every other MG3 they had on the lot" +++ JH name stands behind every car they sell.

        After purchase … found several things wrong with it (brakes/engine + constant knocking in rear RHS suspension) … yet JH denied it when contacted them.
        Sold "as is" … :( :( :(

        Soo … if a MAJOR dealership is like that … I'd hate to imagine some of the dodgy practices that smaller dealerships do.

        • Marketingautochase101 @ autochase.com.au on 14/12/2024 - 16:34

          you should have been covered by a mandatory 3 months warranty unless the car was really old or had 170K + kms

          you could make a complaint to the relevant authority

  • onetwothreefour on 14/12/2024 - 07:51

    Good luck with it OP. Website looks good but needs more filters like transmission and better location filters. NSW is a big place so I wouldn't want to click on every ad in NSW only to find out the cars are 1000km from me. Have a look at some of the bigger websites and see what filters they have.

    • Marketingautochase101 @ autochase.com.au on 14/12/2024 - 16:22

      Thanks for the feedback! currently working on filtering options

  • Jaduqimon on 14/12/2024 - 08:33
    -2

    Isn't Facebook market place free already

    • Marketingautochase101 @ autochase.com.au on 14/12/2024 - 16:23

      yeah but a lot of scammers if you haven't noticed already

      • Jaduqimon on 14/12/2024 - 16:26
        -1

        and how would your site stop scammers if its free to sign up and message people?

        • Marketingautochase101 @ autochase.com.au on 14/12/2024 - 16:31
          -1

          email verification, phone number verification, instant removal of scammy posts, if a 2020 car costs 10K… it will be removed off our site

        • Marketingautochase101 @ autochase.com.au on 14/12/2024 - 16:33

          our website doesn't have a dedicated messaging, buyers will need to contact the sellers using their phone number which scammers won't since their phone number is tied to them!

  • foxmulder on 14/12/2024 - 08:33
    +2

    Rather than create a new login, can login with google?

    • Marketingautochase101 @ autochase.com.au on 14/12/2024 - 16:23

      thanks 🙏 will look into implementing this!

  • Shoocat on 14/12/2024 - 08:45

    Ok, so you aren't out to make money, that's noble. But how do you cover your operating costs?

    Advertising and running a high traffic website (which is where I assume you want this to go) isn't cheap…

    • Jaduqimon on 14/12/2024 - 08:52
      +3

      He is trying to make money. Just spamming ozbargain to get traffic to his site to rank higher in search.

      • simplystu on 14/12/2024 - 09:32

        +++ ppl still studying in university.
        seems to be more about creating a website (gaining backend/coding experience) … more than anything else.

        OP … please do elaborate - what exactly are you studying at university???
        just saying.

      • Shoocat on 14/12/2024 - 10:34

        If his plan is to make money then taking on massive established players with an offering that is nothing new isn't the way to do it…

        People can already sell their car for free outside those big platforms, but as said above the majors have the market share, which is why people pay.

        • simplystu on 14/12/2024 - 11:01
          -1

          yet OP is going about it wrong way … EG. they personally said themself … google ads / social media / etc.
          The lazy arsed - Gen Z way … these days.

          As I already said in another post …

          Since car related … how about attending some car shows / events +++ handing out flyers (advertising website) … there's one happening pretty much EVERY weekend … Would be a great way of drumming up business.

          The "old school" way of doing things.

          • Marketingautochase101 @ autochase.com.au on 14/12/2024 - 16:29

            @simplystu: Not a "lazy arsed - Gen Z"

            i have worked my butt off for this and i've literally just started this, advertisement is coming soon hopefully.

    • Marketingautochase101 @ autochase.com.au on 14/12/2024 - 16:24

      im trying to get free organic traffic, the cost of running a website is not that high unless you do crazy amount of advertisement. Im planning to run ads later on to cover advertisement costs

  • Gunnar on 14/12/2024 - 09:00
    -3

    What’s been your worst car-selling experience?

    Your site (or rather my soon to be worst experience)

    • Marketingautochase101 @ autochase.com.au on 14/12/2024 - 16:36

      thanks

  • simplystu on 14/12/2024 - 09:28

    what platform did you use to code with?

    how often will you maintain this platform?

    how do you source your Ads ???
    100% certified sellers ? and how exactly do to verify/VET sellers/buyers ???

    screen scraping from other sites ??? - I certainly hope not !!!

    • Jaduqimon on 14/12/2024 - 09:40
      -1

      The site claims 1000+ listings. Looking at his current listings it seems all scrapped from other sites lol

      • Marketingautochase101 @ autochase.com.au on 14/12/2024 - 16:36

        yes its just a filler, im hoping to get 1000+ listings soon

    • Marketingautochase101 @ autochase.com.au on 14/12/2024 - 16:27

      yes the sellers have been verified via email, also as soon as they sign up we verify the phone number.

      it is not scraped from other sites.

      i didn't use a no-code platform, im a computer science student, i coded this with a language from scratch

  • Baysew on 14/12/2024 - 09:31
    +3

    Is this website still available?

    • simplystu on 14/12/2024 - 09:43

      trying to understand your sense of humor.
      they do already have an @Insta A/C setup … so guessing they are set on the name.

      yet … didn't they didn't even bother to secure the .AU or even the .COM domain names.
      ROOKIE MISTAKE … uni students.

      • Switchblade88 on 14/12/2024 - 11:59

        The humour is that tyre-kickers will still spam you with inane messages, regardless of platform. The OP didn't solve this problem like they allege.

      • Marketingautochase101 @ autochase.com.au on 14/12/2024 - 16:27

        the .COM domain cost is too high for me at the moment….

  • Hardlyworkin on 14/12/2024 - 10:12
    +3

    If you are looking to appeal to the Ozbargain community; just focus on a site that exclusively sells Camrys or high yield investment vehicles.

  • JIMB0 on 14/12/2024 - 10:22

    Wow, it has both Toyota and toyota cars listed.

    • Marketingautochase101 @ autochase.com.au on 14/12/2024 - 16:31

      yeah the users make those mistakes typing Toyota and toyota as the brand, currently working on fixing this so that Toyota and toyota = Toyota

  • thriftysach on 14/12/2024 - 12:17
    +1

    Had a quick look on your website, there is nothing to filter between private and dealer cars?

    Maybe think to include this otherwise it seems very cluttered and useless

    • Marketingautochase101 @ autochase.com.au on 14/12/2024 - 16:28

      Thanks, will look into this

      • joka on 14/12/2024 - 17:28

        This must be the cheapest testing and marketing crew anyone would have access to. Everyone is doing the work for free!

        • Marketingautochase101 @ autochase.com.au on 15/12/2024 - 01:41

          no one is working on this but me, no other employees

  • joka on 14/12/2024 - 15:02

    And how do you pay support staff and developers and testers and marketing fees and project managers when your site becomes too big to be a one man show?

    • Marketingautochase101 @ autochase.com.au on 14/12/2024 - 16:21

      eventually i will be running ads, it doesn't need more than 1 person to run a website.

      • simplystu on 14/12/2024 - 16:26

        since you are online NOW … are you going to reply to the other comments ???

        • Marketingautochase101 @ autochase.com.au on 14/12/2024 - 16:28

          im replying as fast as i can

      • geekcohen on 16/12/2024 - 05:47

        it doesn't need more than 1 person to run a website.

        So you will quit your full time job just to run the website then?

        • Marketingautochase101 @ autochase.com.au on 16/12/2024 - 10:46

          I don't see how i would need to go full time on this, the website runs itself, i dont need to do much, besides providing support here and there

          • geekcohen on 16/12/2024 - 11:46

            @autochase101: Okay, check back in 12 months from now and let us know.

            The business I work for was originally a blog by the owner, who was just a consultant in a specific area. It's now a full e-learning platform with a Dedicated Content Team and a Dev Ops team. So you might think it will run itself, but then it becomes bigger and requires a lot more.

            • Marketingautochase101 @ autochase.com.au on 16/12/2024 - 11:57
              +1

              @geekcohen: yeah perhaps you're right. I have no idea what lies ahead, if it gets big then i will probably start hiring people.

  • 8anddrank on 16/12/2024 - 16:04

    Tried to sign up, clicked on verification email. Password didn't work. reset password link didn't work. Sent another verification email. Nothing happens when I click on it. Gave up.

    • Marketingautochase101 @ autochase.com.au on 16/12/2024 - 17:36

      Hey there, I can see that you signed up but looks like you haven't verified your account. I've gone ahead and verified your account. You can login now, make sure you use the password you entered when you signed up

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