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Permalink Reply by Angela Stockman on July 13, 2011 at 1:33pm

We use Homenet Auto.

Permalink Reply by Clifford VanMeter on July 13, 2011 at 1:37pm

We use Carsforsale.com for this. They do a great job on the data feeds and inventory. They pull our inventory to our website and we've also used them with Dealix. Best part? The feeds are free on the Carsforsale.com side.

 

Clifford VanMeter

Marketing Mgr.

Express Auto

http://expressauto.com

Permalink Reply by Lisa Soller on July 13, 2011 at 1:38pm

I was going to suggest HomeNet as well.  Their prices seem reasonable, and they have a decent customer service team if you need help with setup.

Permalink Reply by David Blassingame on July 13, 2011 at 2:36pm

Dealer Specialties - Mark Stringfellow - markstringfellow@autofind.com

Permalink Reply by Brad Hensley on July 13, 2011 at 3:03pm

We use three or four different companies that have this capability depending on what all options that you are looking to do.

 

HomeNetInc does not have a website option but can do this feed for you and they are no longer associated with Craigslist postings.

 

HomeNet use to subcontract out through CarGiGi, they are the #1 Craigslist posting tool.

 

Carsforsale.com is SUPER CHEAP! That is a good thing, BTW. They can provide a web option and do these feeds and I believe that they charge 99.00/month.

 

EbizAutos has probably the best website option for the bang for your buck on this and also can do the feeds for you with ebay & craigslist integration.

 

Dealer.com has the most intensive CRM backend tool along with all the previous options but it can get pricey (its who we use cause all the tools though). 

 

Hope this helps.

Permalink Reply by Karl Jensvold on July 13, 2011 at 4:05pm

Carsforsale.com is a good company but the only fault is with their Craigslist postings is when you click on the link it takes you to your car on their own carsforsale.com site rather than your own inventory page. Their service is good but that reason we switched to Auto Search Technologies and they are search engine gurus which will help your site show up sooner on Google. They can do all the feeds to your autotraders and cars.com for around $100 per month.

We use Auto Search Tech for one of our sites but we have a local company advancedautodealers.com for our primary site who is a small one man operation but I can sit down with him anytime to make changes and share ideas. Whoever you go with do it soon since the internet is where the action is and customers depend on your site being accurate and updated. The best money I have spent is the $8 per hour for the local college kid keeping the inventory up to date on the sites. He loves doing it and all we do is double check his work to make sure it is accurate.

Karl Jensvold
Winners Circle Auto Center
Lincoln NE
www.winnerscircleautos.com

Permalink Reply by Ben Misra (secondarypro) on July 14, 2011 at 1:14am

We use carsforsale and ebizautos. both work great to send pics and data to most sites.

 

Craigslist is just harder to do...extra steps..but that is a craigslist thing.

Permalink Reply by Sandi Floyd on July 15, 2011 at 1:58pm

we use autoclick - they are adept with both franchise and independents....

Permalink Reply by Stefan Precup on July 15, 2011 at 5:13pm

The cars.com and autotrader feed almost anybody can do it for you; if you are serious about ebay and craigslist I suggest you take a look at eCarlist http://www.ecarlist.com/. We also take our photos in house and i find their Inventory Manager to be one of the best... if not the best.


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