What Car Arena can do for you

Isn't it funny the way we all adore our new car and go way out of the way to keep it in tip top condition. Then, as time goes on, and we grow so tired of the car that it's only the mechanic's bill that stops you giving it a 'motivational nudge' with your right foot!
We all grow tired of our cars but if its not heading for the scrap yard selling it can drive the best of us to distraction.


However you plan to sell your car Car Arena can help.

Weather you plan to sell the car privately, part exchange it or sell it online the bottom line is you need to know the market value of the car to be sure you're getting offers for its real value or at least the price you need to set when selling it privately.
Now the dealers probably won't tell you what a car 'books at' and even if they did you'd be very lucky to sell it for that value but the car arena can give you many valuations for your car from dealers for free.

What you may not know is that virtually all dealers base the price of their vehicles, both buying and selling, on price guides set by just a few organizations, also the prices from each of these organizations (as you would expect) are not wildly different from one another. So when a dealer quotes you a price for the car he's probably not going to be too far off what the dealership down the road will offer you, it all depends on how interested they are in your car.

Car arena can't tell you the booking price of a car but what you will get its lots of offers from lots of different dealers, which will give you an idea of the true value of the car.
If you get just 20 offers back for around £4,500 its a safe bet that amount is the market value of the car wherever you plan to sell it. Which should help as if someone where to offer you £6,000 no questions asked you would have to ask yourself why? Perhaps you are just lucky and the car buyer needs your Make / Model of car? Or perhaps they're up to something else altogether.
Either way Car Arena has given you 20 offers already, which you could sell to if things aren't going to plan, and you also know pretty much what the car is actually worth.

Using the Car Arena

In order for the dealers connected to Car Arena to buy your car a small amount of information is needed. Here we'll try to explain what and why is needed to sell your car via Car Arena:

First we need your Registration and Mileage - these two allows us to identify the vehicle, if the DVLA information is correct, and generate a 'book price' for the car. This is the starting price a dealer would be looking for when trying to give you a part-ex price for your car. Usually the dealers use CAP and/or the Glasses guide.

Next we ask for a little more information - Vehicle condition, finance status, type of usage, etc...
This information is needed for the dealers to generate an 'underwrited value' - i.e. a value they can offer you for the car that is gurantteed if the information you supplied is correct.

Our next step is to ask you for any recent photographs you may have of the car, however this section is optional and can be skipped. We decided to add this section as it will help dealers give an accurate value for the car and in some cases may allow them to bid higher for the car.

The final step is to provide the car arena with your contact details. As we're asking dealers to value your car we can't just generate an instant value. We have to wait until the car dealers themselves log onto the system and value the cars they are interested in.
Dealers have to provide a value for your vehicle, which is then emailed to you, and then they will be give more detailed information should they wish to follow up the leed.

At any time after posting your car onto Car Arena though you can stop any new dealers seeing your vehicle details or remove the car from the system altogether via the valuation logon.

Development Update

While the backend work is ongoing to make life easier for the dealers we've also been doing some SEO work to get the car arena website listed in the correct search engine result pages.
Google hasn't indexed everything at this time but we've already seen some positive results and was surprised to see the traffic on the pre-launch site shoot up to more than 50 unique visitors per day overnight!

So far so good

The Car Arena project is coming on well now, for the past few days we've been busy building some pre-launch SEO links back to the site and some search engine friendly features along side some tools for member dealers to be alerted to new vehicles they may interested in when not logged into the site.
And we've been keeping an eye on how google reacts to the content. We found that we'd hammered the keywords like 'Sell my car' and 'Buy my car' so hard in the content that google saw it as spam! So we've mixed the keywords up a little to capture a broader range of key phrases.

On the business side of things Car Arena has whipped up quite a bit of interest from dealers, there are already a hand full of them fully registered with the current system just waiting for the valuations to start pouring through when the advertising is switched on.
So all seems to be going well so far, next week our focus will be finishing some of the outstanding tools for the dealers, more SEO work and preparing for 'launch' sometime in September when the advertising is switched on.

New portal for selling your car online

Car Arena is a new unique portal designed to help sell your car online.

The Car Arena website is a unique way to sell your car online. Unlike other sites of its type the Car Arena does not just send your vehicle details to one dealer for them to make an offer but to all registered dealers across the UK.
Any car added to the system could receive potentially hundreds if not thousands of offers for the vehicle in just a few hours of posting details on the site.

The website charges its registered dealers for the opportunity to bid on cars so vehicle owners can submit a car on the website for free, with no hidden costs and are not obligated to accept any offer. This way anyone who is thinking how can I sell my car quickly? Has nothing to loose by submitting their vehicle details to the portal and dealers have access to a large, much needed, resource of cars.

Currently this website is still under development and but this blog will be kept up to date with key developments until its launch when focus will switch to running this new portal.

This week and next we are focusing on implementing controls for dealer so that they may value vehicles easily and not miss out on opportunities that arrive while they are offline.