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Halpin on Autoquake

AUTOQUAKE CEO Dermot Halpin has spoken out about how the online retailer went into administration last week. Speaking at a Google conference yesterday, Halpin said that the cause of Autoquake’s demise was not due ‘to the Internet or the business model, Autoquake went under simply due to a financing issue.’ Halpin praised his team and the [...]

	Autoquake goes bust
ONLINE car retailer Autoquake has been placed in administration, it has been revealed today. The website – which sells used cars online – has a notice on its website stating that it has been placed in administration and that Matthew Bond and Jason Godefroy of MCR are the joint administrators of the company. The statement [...]

	Autoquake helps Tesco?
HAS the Autoquake administration just made Tesco’s rumoured move into car retailing even easier? Quite possibly. The excellent online used car sales site is now up for sale. Lock, stock and click-to-add-to-basket barrel. The website – which received a staggering 5.5m visits last year – called in the administrators yesterday after another round of fundraising [...]

	Autoquake’s xmas comp
CAR Dealer’s Car Supermarket Website of the Year Eward winner Autoquake is launching a special festive competition. The online car supermarket is running a new competition on Twitter – and the winner wins a an early Christmas present. Simply, correctly predict the top-three cars in this year’s European Car of the Year and the winner, chosen [...]

	Car Supermarket Website of the Year Eward Winner: Autoquake
Winner: Autoquake.com Produced by: Autoquake Highly commended: CarShop.co.uk Highly commended: TheCarPeople.co.uk Stack ’em high, sell ’em cheap! It’s the motto of the car supermarket, but with so much stock and so much choice, producing a decent website to highlight it all is very hard work indeed. Nowhere is the importance of countless pictures, detailed descriptions [...]

		Dirty car drivers risk RVs
		HALF of Britain’s car drivers admit they don’t wash their car for 6 months or more in a surprise new survey. This is leaving the trade-in value of their cars at risk as car dealers mark down prices because of damage. Autoquake carried out the survey – which also showed that while 56 percent of [...]
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		Autoquake strengthens
		AUTOQUAKE has appointed three new senior managers with some high-profile industry recruitments. Karl Marriott has joined from Expedia, the world’s largest online travel company. Alan Burns (pictured) has moved to Autoquake from venere.com, along with colleague Mark Brophy. All three recognise the big opportunities offered in automotive ecommerce. Brophy said: ‘The automotive industry is in [...]
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		1 in 3 buy sight unseen
		CAR buying website autoquake.com reports 35 percent of all customers now buy without seeing the car. It’s not low-risk budget motors they are buying either: the average spend is £7500! This shows that car buyers are quickly tuning into the idea of buying cars online. Autoquake says it has helped encourage this with a 7-day [...]
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		Web retailer fund deal
		AUTOQUAKE.COM has just secured another round of multi million pound venture capital fund investment. The online car retailer says it is adding this to the £10 million it has already raised. It will use the cash, from Accel Partners and Highland Capital Partners, to continue growing its UK operations – which have seen sales double [...]
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