thoughts on carsales, page-8

shuffler925 that will be difficult. As a real estate business owner we pay realestate.com a sizeable subscription because they are the biggest and have the most traffic. Likewise carsales has their huge market share with cars. This is how we get locked in because why would I as a business owner then want to pay even more fees for a secondary internet advertiser. REIQ has just tried to introduce a fee for listing a house on their site. Up till now it was free and the inquiry we received through their site is non existent. All the agents I have spoken to are going to boycott the site and refuse to load to it. While homesales.com is free at the moment, I fear the same backlash would happen if they tried to charge a fee. Best that carsales stick to cars and leave the other sites they own as freebies.

Again as mentioned above business owners/customers of car sales pay a healthy fee already to go to the best site that reaches everyone.