Date:         Mon, 20 Dec 1999 11:18:07 -0800
Reply-To:     Stuart MacMillan <stuart@COBALTGROUP.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Stuart MacMillan <stuart@COBALTGROUP.COM>
Organization: The Cobalt Group
Subject:      Re: Dealer Bid Idea
Comments: To: Jeff <jeff@ELECTROPONICS.COM>
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This could be done.  The company I work for is the sole VW endorsed
provider of Web sites to VW dealers, and we have built sites for 95% of
the US VW dealers.  All have email, and we will be doing the same for VW
Canada next year.

You can find dealers by location at the corporate Web site:
http://www.vw.com.  The dealer locator is in the drop down for "cars."
All dealers in our program have email addresses and a parts request
form, so you can do this yourself pretty easily for as many dealers as
you want.  I'm not sure a blanket email to hundreds of dealers would be
any more effective, but some do offer Internet discounts.


Jeff wrote:
>
> Hey Volks!
>
> As my dear Brownie sits idle in the cold, and I toil from the basement on my
> internet schtuff, I had an idea.
>
> If I could collect email addys of all the VW dealers, I could make a form to
> submit a part for bid. ie, my Coolant Bleeder Assembly. Put the year, model,
> engine (someone help with what fields I would need to have), the part number and
> or description. Put your email addy in, push the button and wait for all the
> responses from internet savvy dealers. Any caveats with this? Just like our dear
> list vendors, the dealer doesn't have to be local anymore either, and when we
> need a dealer only part...
>
> Of course this would be a free service to the list. It could save us some big
> money, which is something I gave up when I started this internet biz...
>
> So if you have suggestions, post them to the list, and if you have email addys
> of dealers, send em to me!
>
> Going for the second cup of coffee,
>
> JW
>
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>   jeff@electroponics.com  |  http://www.electroponics.com/
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