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CarWoo Team Just Boarded An RV To Tour Zappos HQ

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Unsolicited feedback: "we know the best dealers and the ones to avoid altogether" from your "About" copy rubbed me the wrong way (I'm actually about to go buy a car this week is why I paid attention). If I'm not the one talking to the dealers, then I'd rather think all the dealers in my area are bidding, not just the "carWOO"-approved ones.

What about the ones that have a history of consistently bait-and-switching consumers?

Btw we are definitely soliciting feedback, so let er rip.

Don't hold back. You won't hurt our feelings.

CarWoo doesn't serve my area (I checked recently, since I just bought a new vehicle), but I definitely view dealership filtering as a positive. I don't want to do business with somebody who consistently ranks poorly in satisfaction surveys.

That said, I'd appreciate if there was some copy, somewhere in a FAQ, explaining what they mean by that.

Yeah, I don't know. You could convince me. But I didn't bring it up because I want my CarWoo experience to be better (I am weird in that I enjoy the actual process of buying cars, and so am I a poor candidate). I brought it up because you don't usually get a chance to convince people, just their first visit to the page, and this copy (not the idea, the copy) rubbed me the wrong way.

I'm just a data point.

This type of car-buying service is really convenient. When I bought my car a few years ago I used a service called CarBargains and ended up saving around $4k. IIRC CarBargains cost $200 vs CarWoo's $39.

Also, we're hiring interns for the summer (for engineering, design, and marketing positions). Let me know if you're interested.

where are you located?

Burlingame, CA (Bay Area)

Our CEO will be on the radio in Pittsburgh tomorrow.

Funny, I'm on my way to Vegas in my RV right now. I don't have a big Virtualmin banner on mine, though...but maybe I should.

Give us a ring if you wanna meetup! Fellow HN'ers always welcome.

Get to work.

First code push already from the RV!

http://blog.carwoo.com/first-code-push-from-the-road-build-a...

'Way to not run the tests Erik.'

Nice.

Is it just me or does the "woo" in their logo look strikingly similar to Woot.com's?

It's just you. It's not the same typeface at all.

Awesome stunt, this is even better than the donut operation!

Woa how'd you know about that?

> But we might be drunk. Come on - we dare you. We are the Zappos of car buying.

Declaring something to be true doesn't make it so. If you are awesome you shouldn't have to tell us. Unless people are saying "How are those guys so awesome?". Then you can tell us.

Also this makes it look like Zappos employs a bunch of drunk kids in RVs who make impulsive road trips.

And I'm not sure how I feel about piggybacking on someone else's brand. What if these guys suck, how does that fare for Zappos? Also if the Zappos brand goes through drastic changes what does that mean for CarWoo?

You bring up some valid points - we definitely don't have it all figured out and this will be an interesting experiment.

Feel free to give us a call and chat: 877-417-4966. We are good at accepting feedback!

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