We’ve been working hard at this for the past 6 months, and it’s finally here – you now have the ability to list your new and used cars on this paultan.org website as well as our new auto classifieds site, oto.my.
It all started when we noticed there were many new car dealers who were listing their phone number in the comments section of new car stories. Car dealers are increasingly turning to the internet these days to reach a far larger amount of car buyers than a print classifieds could ever reach, and via the internet, you can also get your ad up faster.
Later, when Harvinder tried to sell his E270 CDI, he sold it within 3 days by just posting it onto our Facebook fan page, and it was long gone before a popular classifieds site finally put up his listing online 5 days after he paid for his listing.
So we saw there was a clear need for a way to sell your car on the internet that was quicker and also more efficient than what is already available in Malaysia. And we saw that dealers were already trying us out, but rather than have this dealer information scattered all around the site, we decided to have a proper place for car dealers to reach our readership, which has grown in the past 8 years to become the true #1 automotive site in Malaysia, with the nearest competitor coming in at only half our readership.
And we’re not just pulling these numbers out of the air – they are based on data audited by Effective Measure, which have been appointed by the Malaysian Digital Association to be the defacto standard for internet audience measurement in Malaysia.
When you list on oto.my, not only will your listing be available on oto.my, it will also be featured on this website, which means you’ll potentially reach up to 1,000,000 unique readers every month.
Our listings are also intelligently targeted, which means if a reader is viewing a story about a BMW, a reader will only see BMWs for sale on oto.my, which is highly targeted thus increasing the chances for your car to be sold.
We’re in beta test mode now, so you’re free to list your car for free. We plan to have premium listings in the future. Please share with us your thoughts and feedback on the service and how we can improve your experience, as both a buyer and a seller. Here are some of the key features that you’ll enjoy when you list your car on oto.my:
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sounds promising
Very smart strategy. Kudos for coming up with this simple yet brilliant idea in the amalgamation of services. Foresee great potential in this strategy. Mudah can do with some improvements. If oto could learn from existing issues and avoiding potholes exhibited by other similar sites such as dated user interfaces and lack of organization, this could very well be a huge commercial success. Keep up the good work paultan team!
Thanks for the comments! We’ll work hard to continuously improve our services.
Paul…umm just my suggestion…since malaysians are getting better knowledge on cars lately…i think you should add another list of let say mini section under the ‘body type’?car such as viva should be considered as mini instead of hatchback…
Awesome! Very quick. Crisp clean look. My car went up on the site in 3 minutes from the time I hit the ‘publish’ button. Great stuff!
Thanks for the comments Dino, hope you have a continuous good experience with the site. Feel free to let us know if you face any issues in the future.
is it free?
It’s free for now, and probably for the next few months, while we are in the testing phase.
good, another channel to look for used car…
more prefer if you standardized some “must” hv pic. eg, actual pic of the mileage recorded n etc…
besides the actual pix of the milage recorded, it would be great if the seller can take some time just to fill up the form correctly and carefully… e.g. is that possible for a 2001 Toyota RAV4 to has a milage of 0-4999km? http://www.oto.my/used-car/32/2001-toyota-rav4-2.0-longwheel-base this is practically IMPOSSIBLE, unless the car is fitted with a COMPLETELY NEW engine! Actually, I had spotted there are quite a few of them making the same mistakes. Perhaps, the site needs a moderator… just my 2 cents worth.
It is timely. Thank your very much Paul!
would be a nice feature if used cars and private sellers can be listed out separately.
am seeing horizontal and vertical scroll bars for the listing, not like the one in your screenshot.
am using firefox 11. appears okay on my Google Chrome/
Can email us screenshot to [email protected] ?
done. check your email.
Great Job guys!
It would be best if you could also add sections for sellers to post up car parts and tyres for sale as well.
Dear Paul,
Pls add Inokom in your list of make
Thanx in advance
done!
Great stuff! A very smart strategy to leverage on this site’s strength especially on the intelligent targeting feature. Best of luck for oto.my venture!
Thing to improve: Server slow. loading up picture quite slow.
What ISP/connection are you running on?
Bookmarked!
What is the benefits of premium listing?
At what rates you guys planning to charge for premium listing?
Thanks, it is still under consideration and we will announce when ready.
Is it possible for you to add a link to/share button like post it to facebook or something like that? easier to share car link.
Working on it! :)
Great one. Seems intuitive enough to use.
One problem though. If we’re viewing by Body Type, say SUV, and I want it to max RM100k, the search criteria will no longer filter by Body Type anymore and list all car type below 100k.
Thanks for the feedback, we’re working on this now.
nice3x… it search and load picture fast too… i like it.
Make it free and you shall be rewarded in the long run..
Few tips for Oto website:
1) Another great option to dispose old car: use Weight Scale (scrap iron)
An old junk Tiara or Savvy with 650-700kg nett weight of scrap iron could only worth RM4-5K only.
Compare it to common market selling price around RM8K, at least willing buyer/seller can runding-runding for the best price.
Market price and Scrap iron price weightage are two inter-related factors!
2) For used car, additional info must be disclosed for interested buyer are:
-any Puspakom test done,
-green card transfered to car dealer or not (pending on new rule on temporary green card)
-history of service schedule done,
-any accident previously (with JPJ records),
-any outstanding road summons,
-car plate number transfer service (from previous car)
3) Car financings, insurance service
-best offer from banks to finance used car (or use personal loan?)
-transfer of NCB for lower car insurance
4)In case of cheating by sellers/car agents
-would Oto website liable for witness in Consumer Tribunal claim?
-shall we tie-up the cheating seller/car agent under mango tree upside down…pour fire ants slowly…until he confess his cheating crime…must be fun eh???
Congratulations Paul and team,the site does look crisp and clean and loads very quickly. I like the fact that the search function is also fast – thumbs up!
look good, easy and fast. I think your real competitor is Mudah. Need work hard here. Kinda a interested. What your server spec? check mampu sites. how fast they are.
only for car? would be great if got section for bike too :D
Two wheels bad!
/jk :P
Hey paul, nice site. Liked the layout, easy to use.
Is it me or my Ipad, that I cant zoom in on the page? Too bad everything has to be so small as I cant zoom in….
Paul, I visited the website. It is good however it will not make me to stay long instead I feel like leaving ASAP because I am using IPad and I can’t resize the whole page. It make me hard to read. I hope this will help.
Dear Paul,
Please add Smart in your list of make.
Thanks in advance.
Would be great if it automatically detects smartphones therefore loading it mobile style….
Awesome website! Thanks Paul! It would be more awesome if it has both cars n bikes. Just a suggestion ;)
you have not included in your list on a few toyota’s including (celica,mrs,supra,soon to come ft86 just in case). Btw good effort from your side.
Hi Paul,
Great site. Has long been awaiting for such site in Malaysia.
Please add a filter to separate between private seller (i.e. individual seller) and company seller (car dealer). Car dealer are usually more aggressive and tend to post many adv in order to sell their car. In the end, the adv will be flooded with numerous car from dealer.
I have nothing against the dealer advertising it in oto, but sometimes we prefer to buy from private seller as we can trace the history of car better. We may also get better price because for some private seller, making profit is not their prime objective.
Thanks and great site.