How to use GoAuto to buy a new car

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Step 1: Find a car to buy
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Step 2: Contact us via the application form on each page of GoAuto
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Step 3: Our friendly Response Team will be in touch with you by phone
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Step 4: GoAuto Connect prepares a written buyer profile
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Step 5: Dealers are sent your Buyer Profile for consideration
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Step 6: GoAuto emails to you the price and availability offers from our dealers
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Step 7: You contact the dealer with the most appealing offer or GoAuto follows up with you to make an appointment with a dealer of your choice
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Step 8: Follow-up courtesy call from GoAuto
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Step 1: Find a car to buy

GoAuto.com.au has great articles to help you work out the best car to suit your purse and your purpose.

When you have made up your mind on the car you want, or have a couple of really firm choices on your list, move to Step 2

Step 2: Contact us via the application form on each page of GoAuto.

Our friendly GoAuto Response Team works with you to generate a GoAuto Buyer Profile. This GoAuto Interview is designed to help participating dealers to start off on the right foot so they fully understand from the very beginning how they can best help you at this point of your purchase of a new car.

Step 3: Our friendly Response Team will be in touch with you by phone

GoAuto's friendly Response Team will be on the phone to chat with you about the car you want to purchase.

Step 4: GoAuto Connect prepares a written buyer profile

Our friendly GoAuto Response Team calls you to generate a buyer profile. This GoAuto Interview is designed to help participating dealers to start off on the right foot so they fully understand from the very beginning how they can best help you at this point of your search for a new car.

Just so you are prepared, Our team will be interested in:

What make and model you are interested in buying
What variant you would most like to buy
The features and equipment you will want to include in the car
Desired colours and trims
How you would like to pay for the car
Details on whether you are trading your current car with the dealer or selling it elsewhere
What would be the most suitable time for you to view the car at the dealership
When would be the best time to take a test drive
Would you would like the test car to be brought to your office or home or would you prefer to view and drive the car at the dealership

The interview is important so that our participating dealers know the exact car you want. This means they can come back to you with a fair price offer on a suitable car they have in stock.

Or, maybe, they might even offer you a similar great demo car at a great price because they are clearing it from stock.

Step 5: Dealers are sent your Buyer Profile for consideration

After our interview, our GoAuto Connect Response Team emails your written Buyer Profile to the nearest participating new car dealerships which are working with us to ensure you are looked after professionally.

At this stage the dealers do not know your full name and contact details because we want the dealers to respond with firm written Drive-Away offers at a fair price on a specific car based on your interview profile.

Step 6: GoAuto emails to you the price and availability offers from our dealers

GoAuto prepares up to five of these offers - with complete details of the dealerships and an image of the car - which are then separately forwarded to you by email.

You can then choose which of the offers are the most appealing and you can then contact the dealer direct to arrange to see the car or have a test drive.

Step 7: You contact the dealer with the most appealing offer or GoAuto follows up with you to make an appointment with a dealer of your choice

Once we have sent all the dealer offers to you, the GoAuto Response Team will be back in touch with you within a couple of days to assist you to make appointments with any of the responding dealers; if that will help you. Note: It is important that you keep your appointments with dealers.

From this point we will leave you to make your own arrangements with the dealer or dealers.

Step 8: Follow-up courtesy call from GoAuto

We report in writing to the dealers on the success of your inquiry and your satisfaction with the courtesy and respect shown to you.

From this point we will leave you to make your own arrangements with the dealer or dealers.

If you are still in the market, the GoAuto Response Team will let the dealer know or put you in touch with other dealers.

This allows us to make sure our participating dealer network is looking after our GoAuto readers.

GoAuto can help you buy a new car

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