Choosing a Website

  1. As described in the introduction, choosing a website is very important when purchasing a used car.

    There are many used-car dealer websites in Japan, but included among these are a great number of fraudulent sites.

    Well then, how can you find a safe website?

    Methods for verifying the trustworthiness of a website include making sure that it has a proven track record, it has a large number of vehicles in stock,and it provides many photographs.

  2. A proven track record means that many people have used that particular used-car dealer website.

    If many people have used it, that means that the site is trustworthy.

    You can check the track record of a site by looking on a website that provides statistics on sites with high numbers of hits in your country.

    Being ranked highly on a statistics site not only provides proof that a used-car dealer website has a proven track record, but also indicates that it offers a lineup of used vehicles well-suited to your particular country.

    As for web statistics sites, there is a website called SimilarWeb.

    If you check the SimilarWeb rankings, you will see a site named Be forward.jp mixed among the higher-ranked sites like Facebook and Google.

    Be forward.jp is a Japanese website that sells and exports used cars.

    The fact that a used-car sales and exporting site is highly ranked alongside the social networking services and search engines that are used by almost everyone is a testament to its proven track record of use by a large number of citizens.

    Incidentally,the closest competitors occupy positions far below in the rankings.

    Be Forward is approaching its 10th year of operation.

    The fact that it has been able to expand its business this far is due solely to the relationships of trust that it has built with its customers.

    "If it's Be Forward, then they will definitely deliver your car to you" is the word circulating among its customers, and at present it would almost not be an exaggeration to call Be Forward a "brand name" that has grown to be well known in the countries of Eastern Africa.

    The number of Likes on its Facebook page surely indicate that.

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  3. stock [Be Forward data valid as of August 7, 2014]

    In order for you to select the used car most suited to your preferences,it is critical that the used-car dealer website has a large number of vehicles in stock.

    Some buyers may think the best approach is to purchase a used car by comparing it to those on other used-car dealer websites. However,each used-car dealer website uses its own criteria for appraising vehicles, resulting in price variation.

    This means that prices may differ among used-car dealer websites even for vehicles of the same make, model,and mileage, so comparisons based on these factors do not prove very beneficial.

    For this reason,used-car dealer websites that offer a wide selection of inventory are best because they allow meaningful comparisons of cars within the same site.

    By the way,it seems that Be Forward has about 12,000 vehicles in stock.

    Other used-car dealer websites carry around 1,000 vehicles-a mere ten percent of Be Forward's inventory.

  4. photographs [Be Forward data valid as of August 7, 2014]

    The most important information for purchasing used cars over the Internet is photographs.

    Photographs are your only source of information about a used car you purchase online.

    Because of this, there is a chance for discrepancy between the used car you had imagined and the vehicle that actually gets delivered. The more photos there are,the more information you have about the used vehicle and the better you are able to keep such discrepancies to a minimum.

    Furthermore, numerous photographs of the cars in their inventory lends credence to the fact that a particular used-car dealer website is not fraudulent and does in fact possess the vehicles.

    Conversely, a small number of photos means that there will be quite a few areas that are not captured.

    Those areas of the car not reflected in photographs might be stained or severely damaged.

    There is even a chance that the used-car dealer website is not in possession of the car in the photographs-The photos could be of another person's vehicle, uploaded to the site without permission.

    In short, a scant number of photographs means that there is a danger that your used-car purchase will end in failure.

    Be Forward strives to provide around 30 photographs of each vehicle to allow its customers to make their purchases with confidence.

    Photos are provided of the undercarriage,tires, interior, monitor, and serial number, as well as of course the car's front, rear, right,and left sides along with shots at an angle.

    This allows inspection of all the nooks and crannies of the used car,almost as if the car is right in front of you.

    A serial number is a consecutive number given to a vehicle at the production factory and serves as the identification number for that car.

    In other words, providing the serial number of a car is proof that the used-car dealer website is actually in possession of that particular car.

    When browsing the Be Forward website, you may notice some used cars for which only about two or three photographs have been provided. Those photos are ones taken by the auction hall before Be Forward won the car in a used-car auction.

    After about a week, Be Forward will upload around 30 photographs of each car taken from various angles,allowing for a detailed inspection.

    In addition to these three points,some other tricks for finding a trustworthy used-car dealer website involve checking things like the number of shipping companies that it deals with, its sales numbers, and its response time, as well as verifying the company's existence through a third-party agency.

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