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Hello all,


I received a nice "Happy New Year" email from Carguru's stating that my rate would be increasing Feb 1st by 100%.  I can continue with Carguru's at this new rate or my account would be cancelled.  Carguru's has taken us from $750.00 monthly to $2620.00 and now in Feb to $5640.00. All in just under two years. Inventory has not changed significantly.  I tried to negotiate the last rate hike and they had a "take it or leave it" stance.  They definitely bring us a significant amount of our business but at this rate i'm not sure what to do.


I'm not here to bash CarGuru's.  They definitely do a great job. I just cant understand these HUGE rate increases.  When i signed up I was told the rate was based on inventory.  Then i was increased because I opened up two additional locations which I've since closed.  Now the hike is due to the traffic they bring us?


Has anyone has the same experience with them?  If I drop them will these leads find us on another 3rd party platform?  I'm basically everywhere else!


see copy of email attached