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I used to do that when I was at a smaller Mercedes store. Would manually pre-load the inventory into Homenet and ad a disclosure to let the customer know the car was inbound and would be fresh off the truck. Would try and take a photo of the "same" model and trim and place a watermark over the photo with "arriving soon". This would also get the inventory onto cars.com and autotrader.com sooner.


I admit it was easy to admin since I was a smaller Mercedes store and it sure paid off.


Next step was to use one of the 5 comments fields in Homenet to signify it was a "arriving soon" vehicle so I could have all of these vehicles show up in the arriving soon page.  I love AUTOMATED processes. I just never got around to it before leaving.