Breakfast team gets the lowdown on buying a used car from our consumer commentator Troy Churton.

Watch the Episode TVNZ Breakfast: Tips for buying a used car.

CarJam got a plug too!

What secrets is the bloke selling your car not telling you? CarJam got a plug too!

Watch the Episode: “FairGo: The secret life of cars”

The advice is: never buy a vehicle without a vehicle report. And you all know CarJam is the best and cheapest!

• Using CarJam it is not possible to find an exact address unlike using NZPost which provides the full name and street address. We only provide name and suburb which a seller should know in order to prove they are the owner
• The CarJam price ($9 or $7.4 for registered users) gets you much more information that just ownership history you get at NZPost of course!

Continue to read “Trade Me car thieves growing net savvy“ article at New Zealand Herald.

Thanks to seeing the article, I dug deeper and found out that the car had been in an accident and had been written off.  The dealer, posing as a private vendor, continued to lie to me when I asked him if the car had been in an accident.  When I asked if I could arrange for an AA inspection he offered to organise an “inspection” through another company for me… just like the guy featured in the article.  Buying the vehicle report from your website was the best $14 I ever spent!!

About Lance Wiggs
Lance is an independent consultant providing management, strategy, growth and valuation consulting to industrial, media and internet based businesses. More about Lance on his blog. His blog is a great source of useful information.

CARJAM (New Zealand’s number 1 source of vehicle reports) and the TSI group of companies (New Zealand’s number 1 provider of Dealer Management Software) are proud to bring to the public, for the very first time, access to the same information used by vehicle dealers nationwide to understand and assess the value of the vehicles they trade.

Ever wondered how dealers establish their pricing? Now you can find out exactly what a vehicle is worth in the eyes of the industry directly from CARJAM at http://carjam.co.nz, this is not a guess at the value from an uninformed source, the Dealers’ Guide is based on hard data sourced directly from within the automotive industry and compiled by TSI.

Not only is the data the most accurate guide to New Zealand trade pricing for the public, its the best value with an introductory price of just $5 when purchased as part of a standard CARJAM report.

Established in 1959, to provide Estimated and Actual pricing statistics for the Motor Industry, the Dealers’ Guide has grown to become one of New Zealands largest collections of Motor Vehicle Sales Statistics.

Click here : http://www.carjam.co.nz/cms/dealers-guide/ to learn more about the Dealers’ Guide and how it can help you assess the true value of any deal trade or private.

About CarJam: http://www.carjam.co.nz/cms/about/

About TSI Group: http://www.tsinz.co.nz/aboutus/

The Sunday Star Times ran the story “Car dealer conceals crash histories” on August 23rd 2009.

It includes the following advice to buyers in side panel of  the print version to check CarJam to look for any evidence in reports of vehicles being written off:

How to spot a car that’s been in a crash
Have the vehicles ownership history checked out by doing an AA LemonCheck or visiting carjam.co.nz. If it says anywhere on the history “registration has been cancelled”, that is a telltale sign the vehicle could have been written off by an insurance company.

Check how AA and CarJam prices compare.

Referrals are tracked from the originating site for the duration of the session in which they visit and all reports sold as a result of that visit result in a payment to the originating site.

Read more on our Affiliate Program.

As the largest reseller and supplier of aftermarket automotive parts in New Zealand and Australia, Repco processes thousands of retail and trade transactions every day.

CarJam is New Zealand’s foremost consumer-oriented vehicle report delivery system. Every 24 hours, it delivers tens of thousands of free vehicle reports to on-line customers. This high capacity for activity makes CarJam’s developer connection the
perfect partner for Repco New Zealand’s requirements.

Mark Brunton, Executive General Manager of Repco New Zealand said, “It’s a pleasure to work with CarJam and we look forward to a highly successful system integration and the ongoing benefits to both organisations emerging from this partnership.”

CarJam agree, “We are tremendously excited to see a huge household name like Repco understanding and connecting to the exploding opportunities for data efficiencies available with modern integration methodologies.”