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Using VinSolutions MotoBlast to sell cars on craiglist

If you don't have time to manually list cars on craigslist.....VinSolutions MotoBlast will post your entire used car inventory without any manual intervention.  Feel free to contact me with any questions.  Below is a craigslist ad posted by MotoBlast:

Using a dealer.com website to sell cars on craigslist

Here is another example of creating your own ad and posting it on craigslist.  This example was done by using a vehicle from a dealer.com inventory and clicking "Print" and then...

1) Cancel the print function and copy the car
Note: Because craigslist only excepts 30,000 characters, I needed to delete some of the pictures and not include the optional list, etc

2) Paste it in an html editor.  Take a look and make sure all is well.

3) Click on the <> so that it changes everything to html.  Copy all of the html

4) Paste it in the cragislist ad

5) This makes a very nice ad.

Note the: "Copy and paste John Doe in the search box and you will see ALL the cars I have listed!"

Selling cars on craigslist

Here is another example of creating your own ad and posting it on craigslist.  This example was done by using a vehicle in VinSolutions VinManager.

1) Copy the VinBrochure of the car you want to list 
Note: Because craigslist only excepts 30,000 characters, I needed to delete some of the pictures and not include the optional list

2) Paste it in an html editor.  Take a look and make sure all is well.

3) Click on the <> so that it changes everything to html.  Copy all of the html

4) Paste it in the cragislist ad

5) This makes a very nice ad.  I created the below ad doing that

How to sell cars on craiglist with more than four photos

How to create a craigslist ad with more than 4 photos

1)      Go to craigslist.org

2)      Click on Login

3)      Login or click on sign up if you don’t have an account yet

4)      Now go to Go to www.photobucket.com

5)      Click on “Join Now” to create an account

*Please read the bottom of this post for a disclaimer

 

6)      Once you create your photobucket account, login

7)      Click on “Choose files” below “Upload images & video”

8)      After uploading pictures click on “Save and continue”

9)      Go to the bottom of the page and check “select all” and then click on “Generate HTML and HTML code”

At this point there are two ways you can display your photos on craigslist.  The first one is displaying thumbnail photos that when clicked on will open up a new window and take them to your photobucket account.  There they can look through larger photos of your listing, view a slideshow, etc.

10)      If you want to do it that way, click on the 1^st set of codes i.e. the one labeled: “HTML clickable thumbnails for Ebay, Livejournal, MySpace, etc. – recommended .”  The links will automatically be copied.

 

Examples of thumbnail:

OR The second option is to display large photos right in your listing. 

 

10)  If you want to choose this option, click on the 2^nd codes i.e. the one labeled: “HTML images for Ebay, Livejournal, MySpace, etc.”  The links will automatically be copied.

 

 

11)  Login to your craigslist account

12)  Write a Posting title.  Example: 2005 GMC Denali AWD

13)  Price

14)  Specific Location

15)  Write a detailed description of your vehicle in the box titled “Posting Description”.

16)  Paste the code in the box titled “Posting Description” right below your description.

17)  Click Continue

 

18)  Look the ad over and click on "continue" at the bottom.  If you need to make any changes, there is a “Edit” button as well.

NOTE:  If you know basic html like typing <b> for bold before and after sentence, you can type away.  Or if you have an html editor, you can paste everything in there first, edit and then paste into craigslist.

*I spent some time emailing photobucket to make sure this complied to their Terms of Use and they said "We would recommend that a few cars per week be your limit for posting to
craigslist."  In regards to using photobucket for craigslist and ebay they said "we have many users that use the site primarily for this."  So don't abuse it.  Keep it to a few a week and delete the ones out of their system when they sell.