Carsales launches carfacts service
Carsales.com Ltd has announced the launch of new sub-brand Carfacts.com.au, which is intended to help consumers buying and selling vehicles to check the car’s financial, legal and safety history.
The service can be accessed via the classified pages of Carsales.com.au and CarPoint.com.au, as well as on the standalone site Carfacts.com.au.
The reports will cost consumers $25 and are intended to offer more security by providing certification to comply with the Federal Government’s new Personal Property Securities Register (PPSR).
CarFacts point of difference is that it combines publicly available data with historical sales information from the carsales.com Ltd network.
Excellent initiative for buyers and indeed sellers
What a rort.
Why not make the vendor pay once? Instead of having potential buyers pay multiple times for a report to say the car has not been stolen or defaulted on.
Same goes for housing property reports. The vendor should pay for the report and associated insurance.
The vendor can either sell with a report backed by associated insurance, or they sell it with neither.
This is nothing new. CarHistory.com.au has been doing this for years!
The difference is that CarHistory don’t have CarSales data (like odometer reading and the like)