VanIsle Trader.com...Used Vehicles for Sale on Vancouver Island

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VanIsle Trader's HOT Prospects List

2009-01-27T08:13:00.000-08:00

Tired of running all over the place looking for a new vehicle? With the price of fuel these days it can become quite expensive looking for a new car.

Now VanIsle Trader.com offers you the opportunity to receive information on where the vehicles you're interested in are located. Just add your name and contact information to our new HOT Prospects List and soon offers will be rolling in.

We'll redistribute our list to a growing number of local dealerships who'll then contact you with information on any vehicles they have matching your description. If you want to see more of the vehicle, then you can visit the dealership to see if it is something you're interested in. If not, just keep waiting for the right one.

Get your name on the list NOW!

Selling a Used Vehicle Online

2005-03-26T15:58:00.000-08:00

Online it's the words you use that will attract buyers for your used vehicle. It's very important to use complete words which are properly spelled.

Make sure you display the year, make, and model of your vehicle like this:

1994 Ford Explorer XL

Include the engine type and size. Many people are concerned about the rising cost of gas these days and engine type and size is very important to them.

Include the color of the used vehicle and the mileage if known. State unknown or give your best guess.

Include as many details as you can by selecting the correct button on the form. The more information you provide, the better targeted your inquiries will be.

Be honest about the condition of the used vehicle. There's nothing worse than driving the length of the island to look at a used vehicle that's supposed to be in good shape and then find it's a piece of junk. Be honest, some people don't mind fixer-uppers.

Include your price and if you're willing to accept offers.

Under additional information include as many details about the used vehicle as you can. List any recent repairs you've done or custom features it may have. Remember it's your words that'll attract interested people so be sure to include as much information as possible.

Contact Information and Internet Scams

You can provide whatever contact information you choose. If you aren't comfortable putting your name on the ad you can omit it. Generally a phone number is adequate. Most times a buyer will be local and doesn't mind phoning for more info or to arrange a viewing.

If you're planning on using an email address, use a throw away address. Don't use your primary email address. Email addresses are harvested from websites by Spam-bots and classified ad sites like this one are prime targets. You'll more than likely be contacted by someone running Internet scams.

There is no avoiding them, so just be aware and onguard. These people generally don't like using the phone and will usually contact you by email. These scams are usually run from overseas and can be identified by poor use of the English language and they're usually in a hurry to close the deal. They'll sometimes also mention an agent who will arrange shipping. If you receive an email that seems suspicious, just ignore it. Don't answer.

If you want to sell your used vehicle online, you should open a new email account just for this purpose. Once you've sold your vehicle then you can delete the address. The best place to get a email account for this purpose is Yahoo or Hotmail.

Be sure to include your city. This helps buyers find vehicles nearby and also helps us to target our visitors from the search engines a little better. We really don't want people from overseas finding the site.

Here is a properly constructed ad for a used vehicle.

1994 Ford Explorer XLT
Engine Size/Type: V-6 4.0 liter
Colour: Steel Blue
Mileage: 170,000 km
4WD
4 Door
5 Speed Standard Transmission
PS/PB
AM/FM Radio/CD Player
Condition: Good
Price: $7995.00

Additional Information: No rust, great on gas, cruise control and air conditioning. Locking hubs and manual transmission is rare in these vehicles. New BF Goodrich snow rated radial tires. New clutch, newly rebuilt transmission.

First name: Ken
Last name: Bryski
E-mail address: 94Explorer@hotmail.com
City: Nanaimo
Phone: 754-4026

Click here to go back to the listing page.

North Island Auto Show Classic, Ironwood Mall,Campbell River

2005-02-13T08:00:00.000-08:00

Subject: North Island Auto Show Classic,
Ironwood Mall,
Campbell River -
March 5 & 6, 2005

Attention: Ken Bryski

Good Day Ken!

I am writing to inform you and your readers that we are hosting a new event in our area - the North Island Auto Show Classic on March 5th & 6th at the Ironwood Mall in Campbell River on Vancouver Island.

Both Saturday and Sunday will be filled with all makes and models of vehicles focusing on new trends and styles. On Saturday, we are hosting a Meet & Greet with the Auto Dealers and a Car Rally. In addition, on Sunday, we're hosting a Show & shine Classic in our front parking lot ($10 per entry). The weekend will be
filled with prizes, prizes and more prizes! I would like to convey this information on the website for Van Isle Trader.

Please contact me with any questions you may have -

Cheers, Kealy Donaldson,
Promotions Manager,
Ironwood Mall,
Campbell River
250.287.2557
kealy@donaldson.net

How To Use VanIsle Trader For Buying or Selling Your Used Vehicles...

2005-01-20T01:43:00.000-08:00

You can browse our listings or use the Google search bar at the top of the home page. Set it to search our own listings or you can search the web.

If you see a vehicle you like, contact the owner through whatever means they provide. If they want you to provide a phone number or email address, you can leave it by clicking on the comment link below each posting. We don't recommend using a main email address. We recommend opening a My Yahoo account. See below for more information...

If you see a car that you think your Mom or little sister might like you can email the ad to them by clicking on the email icon at the bottom of each posting or ad.

Don't post any links to other websites or any vulgar or obscene material. I get notified of every comment or posting immediately. I'll remove anything I don't like and will record and report your IP address. If you have pictures of your vehicle on your own webspace, you can provide a link when submitting your ad. Place it in the 'Additional Information' section. If it goes somewhere other than to pictures of the used vehicle, I'll delete the ad.

You can submit any type of vehicle for sale as long as it's used. Motorcycles, ATV's, trailers of any type, boats, on to motorhomes will all be listed as RV's for now. I will set up other listings as I need them.

For now, you can submit for free as long as you are aware that all ads will be submitted at my own discretion. If you make me mad I won't list you.

It's up to you to make sure that your ad is correct. Read it over before you submit, because I will only give it a quick glance to make sure that your IP and phone numbers jive.

You can check our privacy page to see how we collect data and what we do with it.

When you fill out the form to place your ad, you'll be asked to provide some information about yourself and your used vehicle. You can give out as much or as little information as you choose.

I recommend providing as much information about the car as you can. Webspace is so cheap, you could provide a bookful of information and it won't make a difference to how much space we use. It does make a difference to the readability of the page though, so keep it with in reason. I'll notice abuses and cut them off.

Providing Information About Yourself

This is a stickier problem and why this website hasn't been promoted harder in the past. I don't think I have to tell anyone about email. Believe me; trying to market anything on the web opens you up to an onslaught. And believe me I've had enough.

In the past when we've tried placing ads, people found they were being contacted by some pretty seedy characters. Most often by email, but then that was really all we had.

With this system, you don't really have to provide any personal information at all. Just ask anyone interested in the vehicle to leave a comment on your ad letting you know how to contact them. Then just check back every few days to see if anyone has visited and left you a note.

If you don't mind leaving a phone number, which I think is perfectly safe, go ahead. It's up to you how much or how little information about yourself you offer.

If you give an email address I suggest you use My Yahoo.com. You can open an account just for this ad or for any online email communication. That way if SPAM gets too bad, just delete the account. There really is no way of getting away from it if you put an email address on the web. So be careful about which email addy you use. Don't use a good one.

How It All Works...

VanIsle Trader.com owns the website and the content contained on it. Google owns the system that manages it all. We both earn money from advertising on the website.

A seller finds our site and decides to list a used vehicle. He clicks on the sellers link and finds a link to the submission form. After checking a few boxes and providing some information about the used vehicle and how to contact each other, an email is sent to me.

I look at it when I have time. In most cases it will be very soon. Sometimes within minutes. Sometimes it might be days. I give it a very quick scan and then upload it. It goes live within seconds.

Then our new technology, which some of you may have heard about, kicks in. It's called XML or RSS. What it does is sends out each posting to hundreds of news services. More and more of these news services are springing up all the time.

Once they receive this notice then they resend it to all the search engines. Because the search engines trust these news services so highly, they know that the content is timely and very valuable. This information begins to show on the search engines rapidly.

Now those of you looking around this website right now might say, well there's nothing here. But just wait. I just started setting this up this morning. Oh, the website has been here for a few years, but just sitting not taking listings. We just started taking them again today.

If you got a vehicle for sale, you've got nothing to lose. It's free...I told how to list without providing any information. Do it as long as it's free. If it starts to get too busy with junk, I'll have to start charging or excluding.

Oh, one more thing, when adding more information try to use accurate spelling and proper names of items or accessories. People search on these things and if your ad mentions them correctly and spelled properly, yours will be picked up. Mention everything, you never know what option someone is looking for.

How To Read or Subscribe to The Ads

You can use the old bookmark method or you can save us in your favorites menu. But that's the old fashioned way. You don't want to be doing that.

We're not going to be emailing nothing or anything to anybody. Maybe if I'm feeling extra generous, I might email you about your ad if I see something that could be fixed up.

The cool way to see our ads is to subscribe to our news feeds. You will see little icons with the letters XML in them. Those are our newsfeeds. We have 4 total. We have this one on the home page. It will generally discuss the website, anything I hear up and down the Island and maybe just about anything. We'll have to see about that...

And right now we have 3 other feeds as well. One for used cars, used trucks and one for used recreational vehicles. Others may be added if warranted.

I wrote about how to set up a newsreader account with Yahoo which works really great. I've got two different readers I use and I'm not even going to talk about the other one.

I really like Yahoo...

Anyway the article is on another one of my websites. Another page will open. If you have pop-up blockers, you may have to hold down your control key while you click.
RSS, XML, Yahoo...oh, my...

Good nite, it's been a looooooooooong day...