About Used Cars NI

Discussion in 'Used Cars NI' started by usedcarsni.com, Apr 16, 2010.

  1. usedcarsni.com RMS Trader

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    Hi All,

    Used Cars NI is the biggest and best source of used car sales information on the internet for the Northern Ireland buyer, with more than 20,000 vehicles online. The website has over half a million user visits per month and growing. As well as used cars, we have new car offers, vans and trucks, caravans, motorhomes, farm and plant, motorbikes, damaged repairables and breakers.

    Our prices for private sales are :

    Car on web : £9.99
    Car on web + magazine : £11.99
    Van, truck, caravan, motorhome : £9.99 (£7.99 for vehicles < £1000)
    Bike, farm/plant : £4.99

    For website trade advertising rates, call us on 028 9032 4065.

    The Used Cars NI magazine is in the shops every two weeks with 242 pages of vehicles, all categorised by make and model. The cover price is £1.99 and we supply 800 newsagents all over Northern Ireland, as well as some in the Republic of Ireland.

    Magazine display advertising : £200 per full page

    We'll be updating Really Mean Sounds with news of updates to our service, special offers etc. We'd be really happy to hear your feedback on the site and magazine, and any suggestions you have to improve it.
  2. pablo RMS Moderator

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    FWIW autotrader is losing it big time, crap website and terrible pricing. All the best to yous!
  3. Marc RMS Moderator

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    goodluck... if you dont mind me asking, is Anthony Kieran still involved with this? I seem to remember a few years ago he was working at this.
  4. usedcarsni.com RMS Trader

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    Hi Marc and Pablo,

    Thanks! Yes, Anthony is a director of Used Cars NI. He is not so much involved with day to day running of the site now as he manages another business in the group called Media Lightbox (Upload files, store files online, Media Lightbox).

    Cecil
  5. yaris-rick RMS Regular

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    Good luck to you, remember you gave us a talk in QUB last year
  6. Gaz RMS Administrator

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    Best of luck, our family business advertises on it and I've had to email Emma Marley there a few times, always very helpful and prompt responses. Some competition for AutoTrader will do no harm!
  7. stevieturbo RMS Regular

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    Cant say Ive ever advertsised on it...but Ive bought a couple of vehicles.

    Better, simpler website that AT, and the fact its cheaper to advertise is a bonus for sellers.

    AT is a ripp off.
  8. worky RMS Regular

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    Please don't move away from your simple interface, I really hate AT now to slow and clunky with too much flash going on.

    All the best.
  9. plexo RMS Regular

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    great website i found my car on here only thing i can suggest is to show the date posted?

    a friend said he was phoning up for some and he was told the car was sold off months ago..
  10. OLLIeCrX RMS Regular

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    have my dads car for sale on this atm... simply because i refuse to pay autotrader the ransom they want!!! And so far the responses have seemed promising

    good site, easy navigated and has a decent variety of motors
  11. usedcarsni.com RMS Trader

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    Hi Plexo,

    Thanks for this comment, we'll look into it. It wouldn't happen with a private sale as these automatically drop off the site after 28 days. With dealer cars we have less control as some dealers do actually have a lot of old stock, and just because it has been on a good while doesn't mean it is sold. We put a lot of effort into making sure dealer stock is updated on time and correctly, and have a system for flagging up dealers who haven't changed their stock recently which helps a lot, but I think we'll need to look at this again and see if there is anything else we can do to tighten it up.

    Cecil
  12. Andy044 RMS Regular

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    Another thumbs up for Used cars ni, the website is so much easier to use than AT,

    Will be advertising a car with you shortly, high hopes for it selling, RMS discount? lol,

    The sites expansion in to other sub divisions was a great move (y)
  13. neil1280 Banned

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    happy days hate that rip off autotarder i hated giving them my money before usedcarsni came about
  14. usedcarsni.com RMS Trader

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    Simple interface

    If we do, shoot me.
  15. usedcarsni.com RMS Trader

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    Emma

    Emma is on maternity, due any day now ^:o). Stephen is the main contact at the moment, but you might also get Melanie or Lee if you call.
  16. Coog RMS Moderator

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    No discounted rate for RMS members? :( :p
  17. Steveo@modifiedni RMS Regular

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    Bought and sold all my cars on here. Love it, dont even bother with Auto Trader anymore. Keep up the good work and as said keep the pricing and structure of the site the way it is.
  18. usedcarsni.com RMS Trader

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    RMS members

    Do you think we're made of money?? :|

    What we would like to do though is run a few competitions for RMS members and give out free gifts as prizes. Any ideas?
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    car cleaning gear a good prize?
  20. Jonto RMS Regular

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    brilliant site used it 3 or 4 times and bought cars that were advertised on it

    dont change a thing (y)
  21. usedcarsni.com RMS Trader

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    We were a bit worried about this one so we did a random survey today by picking 40 cars from the site at all different prices and calling up about them. Luckily every one of them was for sale.

    The other thing we did was review the different processes we have for making sure the stock is kept current, and all of them are working OK. We can't guarantee that you won't find the odd car that has been sold for a while on the site, but we can tell you if it happens it will only be the very odd one, and if you let us know about it we will look into it.
  22. StevenMc29 RMS Regular

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    Just seen the new salvage section. Seems to be a handy addition
  23. dellboy RMS Regular

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    Have just put my scooby on it a few days ago, it said if you do not get the car sold it stays on the site free. How long does it stay on for. Perhaps I have read this thread wrong but it says the car drops of the site after 28 days or so ??????
  24. usedcarsni.com RMS Trader

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    You get an automatic email after 28 days and if it's not sold you can click on the link in the email to keep it on the site for another 28 days.
  25. dellboy RMS Regular

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    Thanks for that autotrader do that FOR LOADS MORE CASH
    I wonder which is best hmmmmmmmm

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