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Is there some service provider/tool for this that is widely used in the used car industry? Or just convergence on a common approach?
by prova_modena 5y ago
Is there some service provider/tool for this that is widely used in the used car industry? Or just convergence on a common approach?
- moron4hire 5y agoIt's basically the service provider thing. Essentially, almost every used car lot in the US uses the same company for their website. They get their own domain and branding and it's mostly a unified database of cars across the country. And it's not cool. They figured out a lot of dark patterns, like "number of photos, regardless of quality, is a strong driver to sale", so they started duplicating photos in a set to bump up the total photo count. They figured out they could reuse walk-around videos for any same make/model/trim/color across the country and nobody would notice when they walked in the lot the different door panel dings and such. Or they'd display a car that matches your very specific search, that was actually hundreds of miles away, to get you on the lot just to say "damn, we just sold it, but we got this other one in a different color". I worked for them for about 3 months before I literally couldn't stomach it anymore. I threw up in my driveway, went to work, and gave my notice.