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Improve Trade-in Experience for your Customers Using These 4 Tips

Published: November 8, 2013

usedcarsplatterImprove trade-in experience for your customers using these 4 tips, from Subprime Auto Finance News.

Because hammering out an agreeable trade-in value creates negative feelings for potential buyers, AutoTrader.com offered four tips to help dealers ease the pain of the trade-in and increase customer satisfaction.

Site officials wanted to create a strategy for stores because they contend satisfaction with the vehicle-buying process decreases significantly once consumers make the transition from online shopping to in-store purchasing.

AutoTrader said negotiating the value for the trade-in is the activity with which purchasers are least satisfied.

In fact, only 37 percent of consumers reported being satisfied with that step, according to research from the site.

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