About CarSales - Information sourced
from CarSales website at
www.carsales.com.au
carsales.com Limited is an Australian unlisted public company based in
Melbourne, with more than 400 shareholders, including a 49.6 per cent
shareholding by PBL Media and many individual Australian car dealers and
automotive industry entities. Its first revenues were reported in the financial
year 1998.
In November 2005, Carsales acquired the on-line classified assets of ACP
Magazines in exchange for 41% of the stock in carsales.com.
Today, the Carsales Network includes the clear market leaders in automotive
classifieds, construction and equipment classifieds, marine classifieds and
motorcycle classifieds.
Carsales is the first company to have made the BRW Fast 100 for five consecutive
years, also being in the Deloitte Technology Fast 50 in 2004, 2005, 2006 and
2007.
Advertising on CarSales
carsales.com.au offers two levels of private advertising; standard ads for
only $30* and premium ads for $59*. Both ads stay on the site until your car is
sold with no more to pay. You can choose to pay by credit card, BPay, or by
cheque/postal order.
*A $5 handling fee applies if you choose the cheque or postal order payment
methods.
A standard ad provides you with one photo on your summary ad and up to 5 photos
on your large detailed ad. A premium ad includes an attention grabbing display,
3 photos in your summary ad and up to 9 photos in your larger ad, and is given
priority listing. You can edit or change both types of ads as often as you wish
and get statistics on how many people have viewed them. As well as appearing on
carsales.com.au, your ad will also appear on our partner sites, which include
www.racv.com.au and www.redbook.com.au.
Is it secure? carsales.com.au uses secure 128-bit encryption to process your
credit card details and believes this to be very secure. Your bank or credit
card issuer has strong measures in place to protect you from any harm when using
your credit card on our website.
How well does the advertising work on carsales.com.au?
The popularity of carsales.com.au continues to grow. Through partnerships with
other leading Internet sites, carsales puts our customers' cars in front of a
potential audience in the millions and millions. We are the number 1 Automotive
website in Australia according to accredited website rating agencies.
Some key facts about how popular carsales.com.au is:
Each day browsers on carsales.com.au initiate approximately 150,000 searches for
cars
They then click on and display an average of 270,000 full page ads for cars per
day
Each month we display over 54 million full pages of information
Around 1 in 15 of all Australians using the Internet use carsales.com.au every
month
Independent ranking agencies confirm our No. 1 position every month
How fresh are the listings of cars on carsales.com.au?
We update our listing of used cars many times throughout the day.
Most cars listed by dealers are updated automatically by the computer systems
operated by the dealerships. Private advertisers can remove their ads as soon as
their car is sold, 24 hours 7 days a week. They can also add photos, change
their prices and edit their ads as many times as they like. If ads are not
accessed by the seller for some time, we follow up and ask them to remove the
ad. carsales.com.au has the most extensive and freshest list of cars anywhere in
Australia.
Associated Sites: http://www.bikesales.com.au/
http://www.boatsales.com.au/
http://www.truckhub.com.au/
http://www.rvpoint.com.au/
http://www.ihub.com.au/
http://www.quicksales.com.au
For further information:
Greg Roebuck
Managing Director and CEO
Carsales.com Ltd
(03) 9093 8600
Rochelle Burbury
Access Public Relations
(02) 9375 2384
0408 774 577
rochelle@accesspr.com.au
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