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GreenBayAutos.com
allows car shopping without any driving
By Steve Laux
Dot Com Magazine
Spring
has sprung. This means it is time for many of us to start
looking for a change in our transportation. Yes, looking
for a car and spring seem to go together. What better time
to do it than the weekend? The only problem is if you are
like most car shoppers, you like to look at as many lots
as possible to find the best deal on that one-of-a-kind
car. This takes time. If you plan on visiting every lot
in the Green Bay metro area, you can kiss the next few weekends
of spring goodbye.
This
is not the case if you are lucky enough to have found GreenBayAutos.com.
With thousands of autos from area dealers online, GreenBayAutos.com
allows you browse through actual in-stock inventories. Their
slogan is "If it's on the lot, it's online," and
after you visit the site you will know why.
Everyday
it seems as if a new national automotive Web site emerges.
What most users are finding discouraging is the lack of
local autos contained within these sites. It is fine if
you find the perfect car, but are you really going to drive
to St. Louis to pick it up?
GreenBayAutos.com
has solved this problem for the online car browser by offering
a site that is nothing but local dealers. Inventories of
used autos are online from Bill Boettcher, Brennan Buick,
Broadway, Denil Wall, First Chrysler, Gandrud, S&L Motors,
Van Boxtel, Van Drisse, and Van's Honda.
Visitors
to the Web site are given many choices when searching for
used autos. Searches can be made by make, model, year, color,
and price range. The search function displays all matching
autos from all area dealers. These matching autos are displayed
with an actual digital photograph, and informational text
such as amenities, make,
model, color, price, miles, VIN number and link to dealer's
Web site.
At this point, a visitor can choose to send an e-mail directly
to the dealer to inquire more about the vehicle or go directly
to that dealer's Web site to search more of their inventory.
Each dealer in
GreenBayAutos.com has its own Web site with inventory, maps
to the lot, contact information, New Car Showroom, and Specials
Page. Some
even have coupons and scheduling for their service departments.
Another feature on GreenBayAutos.com allows users to find
an auto dealer within their geographical area by using the
Dealer Search.
There is also a page with links to every major auto manufacturer's
Web site.
GreenBayAutos.com
first hit the greater Green Bay area in the summer of 1999.
It is a combined effort of World Wide Wheels of Chicago,
IPS
Solutions and The Green Bay News-Chronicle. The idea was
to create a site that had actual inventories of the local
dealerships online in a
way that made it easy for the public to search for specific
autos.
GreenBayAutos.com keeps the inventory on the site current
by downloading the complete listings from dealers three
times a week. Photos are then taken by IPS Solutions or
individual dealers and
uploaded to the site along with vehicle data.
So if
you are looking to get behind the wheel of a newer vehicle
this spring, go to the beach, hike in the woods, and go
fishing. Then, when you have a few minutes, log on to GreenBayAutos.com
and find the car of your dreams.
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