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Accounts Program for automotive business users launched

Anton — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 02:34:40 +0000

CarJam is pleased to announce our new Accounts program. This program is ideally suited to business users who do not want the hassle of paying by credit card for each individual report. A top-up system allows you to pre-pay for multiple reports (minimum top-up $100) and from then on simply purchase with no hassles until the time you need to top up again.

In another market changing innovation from carjam.co.nz, the fastest growing automotive site in New Zealand, we are offering a special introductory promotional pricing of $6.85 for Account holders (excluding Dealers Guide module). This compares to our retail pricing of $12 per report and is the cheapest way to buy multiple complete reports for businesses available in the market place today.

Facebook page moving – become a fan of CarJam

Paul — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 08:39:06 +0000

Hey CarJammers time to migrate if you are a fan of ours on Facebook. We need to switch “faces” from carfax.co.nz (our old Facebook page) to a new one for CarJam – please spread the word about the new page here (eventually we’ll have to take down the old page carfax.co.nz).

Affiliate Program launched

Paul — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 07:37:18 +0000

CarJam’s is pleased to announce our new affiliate program. The program offers a unique opportunity to get involved with CarJam and capture additional revenue from your site by directing visitors to carjam.co.nz the fastest growing automotive site in New Zealand – now delivering over 1m impressions per month.

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.

Registration Information for Older Vehicles

Paul — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 09:36:10 +0000

The Motor Vehicle Register was computerised in 1986 by NZ Post. Any vehicle with a live rego in 1988 will be on the current system (the MVR was copied to the current system in 1996). Between 1986 and 1988 Post deleted a small number of records but most 1986 live regos should also be available.

In many cases the chassis number recorded differs due to spaces, dashes etc – this was one of the reasons VINs were introduced. When these older vehicles with incomplete or vague history are presented to an inspector for registration, the NZTA will provide a search service to look for the old registration plate and record. This is only provided for the inspectors and will typically only be done when you present the car for re-registration. As there are some potential security issues if we inspection, VINing and document checking are not all done together.

Downtime

Geoff — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 22:28:58 +0000

We apologise for the downtime experienced between 8pm of November 21st and 9:45am of November 22nd.

Our connection to the NZ Transport Agency was down for 14 hours. We are looking at ways to stop this from happening again.

Carjam is the new black

Paul — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 08:42:32 +0000

OK maybe we are not really that fashion conscious but you may have noticed carfax.co.nz has changed its name to Carjam.

Carjam is offering the same free and paid on line services returning information about vehicles which individuals may be planning to buy or sell as carfax.co.nz, just the name and look and feel of some important parts of the site have changed to reflect growth and a new phase in our development.

The free services include:

odometer history from the NZ Transport Agency database including your average daily/monthly and yearly km’s.
fuel efficiency where available
actual historical fuel costs for this car based on historical fuel cost, efficiency and your average daily km’s. Very interesting reading to most users in this time of high fuel costs.

We now have over 100,000 unique visitors to the site per month and growing rapidly. We moved from 108th to 11th in the Hitwise online automotive industry report in May and we are expecting an even higher placing this quarter.

We are continuing to take a consumer advocacy position and are interested to see what we can do to partner with the automotive community in New Zealand to provide the best services and safest environment in which to buy and sell cars for consumers.

Let us know what you think!

My odometer reading is wrong. What can I do?

Geoff — Mon, 26 May 2008 22:08:09 +0000

The data that makes up a CarJam report comes directly from the Land Transport NZ. The odometer readings are recorded whenever the vehicle is tested for a WOF/COF at a vehicle testing station.

CarJam is unable to make changes to a vehicle’s data. However the vehicle testing station that issued the WOF may be able to help you correct any problems with the odometer reading.

Wow – this wasn’t meant to be happening just yet!

Geoff — Fri, 02 May 2008 23:14:53 +0000

Someone, somewhere out there, learned about carfax and before we knew what was happening the server was overloaded and the site was down. We went from a few friends and family testing for us to serving up one page view every second at peak times. Our little server was unable to cope and needed to be restarted every ten to fifteen minutes. Fortunately for me Anton was on system admin duty and had the job of keeping the server up and running all Monday night.

Monit to the rescue! A great little application that monitors server status and is able to restart misbehaving/overloaded services before they shut down the whole server.

We have since doubled the memory and cpu on the server and it is now coping with the increased load. You’ll be pleased to know that Anton is sleeping better now.

Geoff