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Marco,


Sorry I missed your post.


Could not agree more with you, but for that you need professionals like you that not only are committed to the product and the dealer but that also have the freedom from their company to do so. Autotrader was not long ago the guy that came to your dealer and told you about the photos, the feeds, the comments, etc, they were internally called ISCs (Internet Sales Consultants) and they truly helped dealers. They moved away from that into a different type of business and a lot of those people moved into other things. I've been for 11 years in WA and not even 1 of the original Autotrader team members still there yet most of them still working in the automotive business as vendors for other companies.


I believe that if I had a dealer and you were my Cars.com representative that I will get more from you than a mere exchange of dollars for leads. Sadly that is not the case for most other companies.