Thursday, September 21, 2006

New feature - Browse

A new feature has been added to CarTreat.com - browse. Now users can drill down from vehicle to a car advertisement. Start from make and get to what you're looking for without submitting boring search forms.

Happy car trading!

Sincerely,
CarTreat.com

Tuesday, September 12, 2006

Create a nice-looking web page for your car ad

CarTreat.com is finally starting out. It already has several user car ads. And this is great news!

We'd like to say a few words about posting an ad to sell your car. We're going to be honest to myself - CarTreat.com will need to be full of active car ads to start working as a car buying resource as well as car selling.

So we thought about a little alternative usage. Now you can create an account and post your car ad on CarTreat.com just to have a nice-looking page for your car. It's absolutely free and requires a few minutes to complete.

After having created your car ad at CarTreat.com make sure you submitted you car pictures. Another thing that helps is getting a CarFax report beforehand and putting a public link to it into CarTreat's special field. By default your ad will be in PENDING state so you could double check everything before publishing it online. After you're done with putting your ad together just click "Publish" link and your ad will instantanously be published and searchable.

All this been done, go ahead and find your ad on CarTreat.com, click on it and you should see what other users would see - your car ad all shiny and beautiful :) And if you want to post it anywhere else - just copy the link from the address bar - you've got yourself a free web page!

Happy selling!

Yours truly,
CarTreat.com

Tuesday, January 17, 2006

Start selling at CarTreat.com

To start selling follow these simple steps:
  • Create an account with CarTreat.com
  • Login onto your account. You will see your current profile, your ads (published, unpublished, and sold), questions from potential buyers.
  • Note, if you're a car dealer there are additional fields for you to put your dealership's contact information. To identify yourself as a dealer check the box "Are your a dealer?"
  • If you're selling more than 1 car, your car inventory will be automatically created
  • To create a new car ad click on "New Ad" menu
  • Enter the following information:
    • Vehicle Information. Select you car's make, model and year. Check the box if it's new. If you can't find your car fill in the form and we'll update our configuration.
    • Pricing Information. Enter your price here. In Price Comment field you can optionally enter price comments, for example "OBO", "ASKING", "FIXED", etc.
    • Location. Enter your 5-digit Zip-code.
    • Vehicle Features. Fill in as more details here as possible. This will help to sell your car better. If you car has a common feature which is not listed here, please let us know and we'll correct this.
    • Text. Enter short description of you car, model/submodel specifics, point your car's condition, for example - "Like new", "Runs great". List features that are not included automatically, for example "Custom shift knobs", "ski rack", "bike rack", etc. Try to make this description short. Remember, the longer the unnecessary text the less desire there is to read it.
  • After you submit your new ad you'll be redirected to your account page. You should see you car in "My Pending Advertisements" section. This means that you saved your ad, but it's not visible to other people yet.
  • To add images click "Images" link and add up to 9 pictures of your car. The images will be automatically organized into a gallery. Please remember that images should be of JPEG format and less than 200kb in size.
  • You can edit and preview your ad as much as you want
  • When your car ad is ready click "Publish" button. The ad will instantly become visible and searchable for all CarTreat.com visitors.
    If you'd like to pause but not delete your ad, click "UnPublish". If you sold your car, please click "Sold", don't confuse other people who might still be interested.
  • Feel free to ask us any questions and/or send your comments/suggestions. We are listening!
Happy car selling!

Sincerely,
CarTreat.com - Free Car Trading Resource
http://www.cartreat.com