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Originally Posted by Mark Wilson
Eric,
Do you keep your inventory on line?
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I used to! And I likely will again. I'm having my website rebuilt with a different host. My old site took a day to upload inventory and make live. By then the car was already live on other sites (Craigslist is instant), and sometimes already sold. Then it would take another day to remove, and I'd still get calls. So I just stopped. No one visits my website directly anyway, they see the cars on listing sites. My new website is much more about the buying services as people have a lot of the same questions and it might be best to point them there.
Again, although I've got all the licenses, I'm not really a retail dealer in the conventional sense. You could drive by my place and never know we're a dealer, and that's okay with me. It's a nice office warehouse, everything is inside, and the only sign is on the door. No salespeople, dancing air clowns, lights, or streamers, sadly
Right now I have 11 cars in inventory, only two are ready for sale, the rest are getting the mechanicals sorted. That's pretty typical. By the time the two sell, two more will be done, and it keeps rotating like that. I only sell a car or two a week. Quite exciting huh?