Just a quick shout out to the guy who I believe is the source of this approach, Jason West.any ChatGPT power users here will LOVE this hack (below). High performance ChatGPT requires a well constructed prompt (gives GPT context). The hack below asks ChatGPT to help construct and iterate the prompt. GrandPa Joe's#MindBlown. .
still likes the idea.
Missed the mark in my opinion: they are checking IP to see if in US. Not a good way of doing it and no way to tell if perhaps i have a property etc. in the US and I'm looking for a car. They immediately redirect to the attached. Cant see why you wouldn't at least tell them its a US based site, but give the option to click through.
Especially Canada -> US. Not unusual to buy US cars and visa versa. We've bought literally 100's just ourselves from US past couple years.
I agree, while I've never done a US to Canada consumer sale, I've been at dealerships that have stores in both countries and move vehicles around, or buy inventory from Canada import it to the states. I also didn't realize you were in Canada and that's how it looks for you. When I think about "who I would limit from viewing my dealership website", random countries like Somalia, Yemen and Moldova come to mind.
Joe Pistell, former Cars.com head of marketplace, returns to automotive digital retail strategy work and shares experimental ideas on vehicle merchandising, including AI-generated detailer imagery, richer safety feature data from build sheets (revealing hundreds of naming variants per feature), and mobile-first VDP design. The thread draws comparisons to Carvana and CarMax, with Pistell arguing their tightly integrated ops-and-engineering feedback loops allow them to iterate far faster than fragmented dealer website vendors, making sales productivity — not lead volume — the true measure of a great dealership website.
