When Is a Deal Not a Real Deal

Released on = January 11, 2007, 6:48 am

Press Release Author = John Braithwaite

Industry = Automotive

Press Release Summary = CarQuake (www.carquake.co.uk) is a new car deals website
with a difference: it encourages UK franchised dealers to advertise their best
prices direct to the consumer offering the most efficient route to buying a new car.


Press Release Body = But that's not all. it has a very important further difference:
the prices offered on the website are REALLY new cars. This may seem obvious, but
deliberate confusion is rife in the marketplace where prices advertised as 'new'
cars are not all they seem to be.

Competition is so fierce that often online brokers and car supermarkets promise new
cars which are anything but new: they are already registered, are ex-demonstrators,
are sold as fleet (so the buyer becomes the second owner of the vehicle) or are only
available in certain colours. Yet, these businesses use misleading discounts and
marketing messages to deliberately draw buyers in with the express aim to sell them
a used car.

"The thing is - it still affects our credibility" said John Braithwaite, Director
and Co-Founder of CarQuake, "you wouldn't believe how many enquirers still ask if
our cars are imports, or if they are really new cars, or what the cost of
registration is. They're expecting to be disappointed, even though, throughout the
CarQuake site, we only talk about new cars direct from the franchised dealer, and
stress that our prices include all charges to the customer - fuel, delivery, tax,
everything."

"I guess it's because they look at our new car prices and can't believe that they
are real," he continued, "but they are, and the reason why we have the prices we do
is because we cut out middlemen. We put customers directly in touch with the
franchised dealer and allow them to sort the rest out. All new cars come from
dealers. so why interfere in the process?"

It's this kind of irresistible logic which has contributed to the early successes of
the CarQuake website. Browsing round the website, it's clear that this is one
website which won't compromise when it comes to finding the best deals.

Stop Press. ALL prices on CarQuake are NEW CARS, from UK DEALERS, TO ORDER and at
STAGGERING DISCOUNTS. With no nonsense!




Web Site = http://www.carquake.co.uk

Contact Details = For Press Enquiries:
T: 0845 638 3160
E: info(at)carquake.co.uk
M: The Press Dept, CarQuake, Orchard House, Broad Leaze, Hook, Hampshire, RG27 9PF

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