Two months ago Carsales arranged a feed of vehicle ads from two vehicle dealers to our Find It online classifieds site. This came about because Carsales provided the software which the dealers use to manage their inventory. Last week, Carsales turned off the feed and told us they would not provide further feeds. This is a pity because we have 35 dealers who use the Carsales software who want to load their stock data to our site.
I could write more but the threat of legal action by Carsales makes me leave it at that for the moment.
Car ads are free at Find It. We think that individuals and dealers pay too much for online ads. Hence our decision to make them free and to partner with newsagents to help Australians save millions of dollars.