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Should We Drop AutoTrader?

Jason L. Laughlin

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Apr 11, 2011
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Hey everybody, we're considering dropping AutoTrader from our list of vendors. We've been a long time AutoTrader customer, but we have not seen the performance we'd like to for the type of money we're spending with them.

Our Used Cars Manager strongly supports keeping them, but we're not all of the same opinion. His salespeople have done a terrible job of marking advertising sources, so according to our CRM, we're only selling about 5 vehicles a month off of it.

Has anyone else dropped AutoTrader recently? If so, how has that affected your used car sales?
 

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A dealership questions whether to discontinue their AutoTrader subscription due to perceived poor ROI relative to their monthly spend, though incomplete tracking of advertising sources in their CRM makes actual performance unclear. The original poster notes internal disagreement on the decision, with their used car manager favoring retention while others want to drop the vendor. The thread seeks peer experiences from dealers who have dropped AutoTrader and the impact on used vehicle sales, with limited responses generated.

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