New Website

ta2kev

Hey all,
I currently in the process of setting up a new website, and I'm looking for some opinions on it. It's based on a carzone or cbg format, the difference is that you are searching for a car in a breakers yard, rather than on a forecourt. The idea is, if you have, for example, a 2003 Almera, and you need a back light, you can just go on to the website and do a search for the car and it will list every breakers yard breaking that model. The breakers will also give a description of the damage and / or a photo of the car. I'm in the motor trade myself and I know that I personally would find this service very useful.
Anyway, that's the jist of it, any comments or opinions would be greatly appreciated.

madson

thats a great idea, it can be such a pain ringing around breakers yards looking for parts.
good luck with it.

ds20prefecture

Excellent idea. Good luck with it.

camarobill

that would take off id say,very good idea;)

Owen

Great idea, but the execution could be difficult. Especially with breakers yards. Take a visit to the scrap yard outside Farran in Cork, that man is one of the biggest breakers around, and he'll never go anywhere near a computer, or employ anyone else to do so.

folkswagen

if the breakers can get the details together for autobiz then they can do it for your site I'd imagine:)

Great idea:)

MercMad

Great idea............good luck with it !

ta2kev

Thanks for everyones comments, I really appreciate your comments and support. I'm in the process of doing a deal with a website designer and contacting breakers yards to gain feedback. I know this whole concept will be alien to a lot of breakers but as everyone knows the internet is the first port of call for most people looking for something that they can't just walk into their local shop and buy. If you had put the idea of a website for listing cars for sale 5 years ago, lots of people would have said it would only work for big garages, but look at it now, it's now a case of having to use the internet. I use autobiz myself to source parts and it is helpful, but it's a monthly publication. The idea of the website is that it up to date, this is of course down to the breakers keeping it that way. One example I can give is, around a month ago i needed a window reg for a Peugeot 607, I priced a main dealer and was quoted €645 +vat. I tried every breaker listed in Autobiz and nobody had one. I then had to go through every number in the golden pages, cold calling. This took up a lot of my time, and also resulted in 20 or so breakers yards getting phone calls looking for parts for cars they didn't have.
I'm sure breakers get ons of these type of calls every day, you can even tell by their tone of voice. I would be the same if I was getting phone calls all day looking for cars that I wasn't selling.
Anyway I've gone on for long enough, thanks again

Itsfixed

Yeah great idea - such a pain ringing around. Trying to find a rear door for a mazda 323 but finding that the guys who answer the phone don't have a great phone bedside manner.