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Originally Posted by porschenut
Good point. I think it took BAT a little while to catch on, but they only had to compete with eBay, which is an awfully low bar. Pcarmarket has to compete with a well-established BAT and that's going to be a hell of a challenge.
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BAT ran a blog for several years writing about old oddball cars observed on classified ads and such (Barn Finds is similar) the short articles were interesting and I suspect they accumulated subscribers. I recall the owner posted a personal vehicle for sale, then eventually a couple random cheap cars perhaps from subscribers. The viewing audience was established in advance from the blog and the sales appeared to be a success. There were no $100k cars in the beginning.
It would seem pcar has a long road ahead in order to gain a sizeable viewing audience, and we have no idea if the cars represented are from genuine sellers or those pulled in from friends posing as inventory. Heck, we can't even tell if the bids are genuine or smoke. I suspect BAT would terminate an auction if a host of receipts with altered mileages were pointed out.