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CarsDirect.com is perhaps best known for their upfront pricing website. However their because they own a network of web properties that generate over 20 million visitors a month, they are also a great avenue to advertise your used cars. The following information is taken directly from their website. * We know our auto leads are high quality because 62% of them convert to sales within 6 months (Experian 2007). * Over half of our traffic is organic * We use a proprietary quality assurance system to filter our auto leads * Get features such as: Dealer ScoreCards (for new and used leads), expert customer service, and extensive branding opportunities. * CarsDirect recently received top honors with the Diamond Award win from the Dealers' Choice Awards with Best Value in New Vehicle Leads * CarsDirect has also received accolades from: Yahoo Internet Life, TIME Magazine, Forbes, PC World, and MSNBC.

CarsDirect Connect is the CarsDriect lead program for dealers. CarsDirect was the pioneer at up front pricing. Their website allows customers to search and configure the vehicle they want and perform a host of research related tasks allowing them to find the car of their dreams. What Makes CarsDirect unique is that they publish not just the invoice, and MSRP but the actual potential sales price as well. This way the customer knows exactly what to expect WITHOUT submitting a lead or their personal information. What this process does is filters out customers who are just submitting lead information to get the price (since the price is already visible) and delivers serious buyers only to dealership. Once the customer decides they want the configured vehicle they have two choices: work with a CarsCirect specialist or contact the local dealer directly. If they choose to contact a local dealer, the lead is passed right through to a CarsDirect partner store, this is the CarsDirect CON

CarsDirect was the pioneer at up front pricing. Their website allows customers to search and configure the vehicle they want and perform a host of research related tasks allowing them to find the car of their dreams. What Makes CarsDirect unique is that they publish not just the invoice, and MSRP but the actual potential sales price as well. This way the customer knows exactly what to expect WITHOUT submitting a lead or their personal information. What this process does is filters out customers who are just submitting lead information to get the price (since the price is already visible) and delivers serious buyers only to dealership. Once the customer decides they want the configured vehicle they have two choices: work with a CarsCirect specialist or contact the local dealer directly. If they choose to work with a CarsDirect specialist, their inside team brokers the deal and once ready passes the sale to one of its partner dealers. This is the program called CarsDirect Direct