- Seller
Guarantee — This program provides buyers with added protection when purchasing
a passenger vehicle, requiring its members to put forth their best efforts to
build buyers' trust. Sellers must both guarantee the vehicle condition is as described
in the listing and work directly with the buyer to ensure satisfaction with the
vehicle.
- Escrow.com is eBay Motors' escrow partner. This service will
hold your payment and send it off to the seller only after you've inspected your
merchandise and given your approval. Sellers have the same opportunity to inspect
and approve a returned item before the buyer gets refunded.
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Significantly more vehicles are sold on eBay
Motors before lunch than a typical dealership sells in a year. |
As
important for many women as safety is access to information that will enable them
to get the best deal. Fortunately for them, eBay Motors recently signed a partnership
with Kelley Blue Book (www.kbb.com)
that provides shoppers on the eBay Motors site with the resources to research
and compare different models and ballpark prices. Once a buyer has decided what
model she wants, it takes just a few seconds to find out if any are for sale on
the site. In any given month, the site offers over 28,000 cars, from Acura to
Volvo and everything in between.
For
women especially, taking the plunge and buying a car online has the potential
to be downright liberating. Many women dislike shopping for cars — often because
they don't feel sufficiently knowledgeable or because they are uncomfortable
negotiating.
"For
three weeks straight I dragged my son — who is a mechanic — to the dealership
to look at vehicles with me and it became an exhausting process," said Sheila
Petrin, a teacher from Lakeport, N.H. "It did help me to find out
what car I wanted, and some ballpark prices, but I wasn't ready to have to buy
it from a dealer. I didn't have enough information at the time to get a good price."
Recent
research in fact supports the idea that women do pay more when buying a car offline.
And according to a recent study, this may be because a significant segment of
the car-buying public — a segment that tends to include women and minorities —
may be at a greater disadvantage than other consumers in the confrontational process
of comparison shopping and haggling over the price of a car. (CONTINUE...)
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