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exactly this, kinda. https://onlyusedtesla.com/ I make like $100/day and have 1 online dealer who pays me $500/month. I do all the support on FB messenger. I am working on a better FAQ (have to hire a subject matter expert) on used tesla cars. I launched the MVP using WP, now gonna up the product stack to some new VueJS. I fooled a lotta people using WP for validation. I accept Stripe or Paypal. Main thing is im making money, may not be much but still. I have a google voice number for phone calls.

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Forgive me for asking but how is the site making $100/day while it's in the free beta phase?

I charge $100 / sold vehicle. Dealer and private owner. I need to grab market share then flip it to $100 to post an ad. Dealer just uploads XML (SFTP) file then i import and publish using a WP import plug in.

Is everything manually handled at this point? How do you collect $100 at point of sale? I guess specifically, how do you force the seller to give you $100?

Right now i send them a stripe form. Some pay via paypal. Its all manual. I just started testing $150/sold vehicle. I'm just trying to figure all this stuff out. I don't have all the answers. One guy was like, eBay charges $125 if sold then i was kinda shocked he was comparing my site to ebay, I told him we can also do $125/sold vehicle.

How do you know when a car is sold?

Right now honor system ( customer emails me or pings me on FB messenger) "I sold my car can you please delete my ad?" I ask for the money. i have not figured out a way "how to know" I follow up with customer. I do plan to charge up front.

Haha only $100/day

Props to you that would be my full time pay.

Was going to ask what generates the money but after visiting the site I could probably guess.

Did want to point out in mobile the "view more listings" button could use a margin-top.

Nice layout. The red for sale tag is catchy.

Thanks! im working on the design update. Will improve mobile nav button. Goal is to make the site stupid fast. Stupid simple.

Sorting would be nice too! (nearest to me, price low to high, etc...)

Search / filter. Yup. that's like happening today.

Search / filter

pages for Model s, x, 3

New vehicle notification alert

Market comp

Price drop.

The site looks pretty good and it comes up 3rd on Google when I type in "buy used Tesla."

How did you get this off the ground marketing wise?

Really? oh damn i didn't know. marketing wise: A lot of luck i guess. i got lucky when this guy from green car reports wanted to sell his tesla ( i didn't know) then he's like im gonna write about this and will mention you. I listed his used tesla on my site and sold it, and he saved money. Link to his article here:

http://www.greencarreports.com/news/1111433_life-with-tesla-...

I hired a copy guy for the content ( he's good and gave me title tags)

I hounded users on FB and this tesla motors forum until they banned / changed my profile setting so i can't message private owners to list with me. Then i set up new ID and changed tactics on getting for sale listings from private owners( they have a forum page for it)

Currently car shopping. I wish there was a site like yours for non-Tesla cars! Your site design is very clean and navigable.

Thanks! ;-)

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