In conjunction with hitting the 30,000 cars for sale mark, we’ve updated our car classifieds website oto.my with some new features to give you a better user experience.
Here are some of the enhancements that we have made:
Ultra fast page loading
Page loads are now powered by an ultra fast page load technology called AJAX that powers some of the most popular web interfaces on the internet such as Gmail.
Try browsing browsing search results page by page and you’ll notice that new listings are loaded instantly into the interface without having to reload the webpage.
New search results design – Table View
After conducting some surveys, we found that different people had different preferences on how they wanted to browse through their search results. So other than the original ‘List View’, we’ve added two new search result designs.
This is the Table View, which presents a more condensed view of your search results. We’ve put all the more important details on the left half of the screen so it’s easier for your eyes to scan through the available cars for sale.
Thanks to our new page load technology, the view changes instantly and oto.my will always remember which view you last used and present to you that preferred view again.
New search results design – Grid View
This design is called the ‘Grid View’. If you’re browsing oto.my on an iPad, you might like using this view to give you the feel of browsing through a classifieds magazine.
The images loaded are bigger in this view, so you can have a better view of the car in the search results before you click to view more details.
Revamped layout for mobile website
We first launched the mobile version of oto.my in August 2012. We now have a new version of the mobile site, which features some enhancements. We’ve done away with the floating dock at the bottom to allow you to view more of the search results and listing details.
The options that were previously in the bottom dock can now be accessed by tapping the Menu option on the top right of the screen. The listing results pages have also had a minor redesign to fit more listings on one page.
That’s it for now. What do you think of the new features? Which is your favourite search results design – Table, Grid, or the original List view?
Let us know your feedback, and don’t forget to list your car on oto.my if you have one for sale. You will get plenty of exposure as all cars on oto.my will appear in the For Sale sidebar on Paul Tan’s Automotive News whenever a relevant story appears.
Visit oto.my now to look for your next car or sell a car.
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On iPad, the sort by is not working in full desktop mode.
Can Oto have a category just for private sales only. Many of us just want to deal direct with the owner instead of dealing with car salesmen who are mainly cheats and full of lies.
I feel sad that whenever I go to Mudah or Carlies, all the ads there are done by car salesman who, when you call, are very rude and abusive. And they lie through their teeth. I think its high time that we create a marketplace just for owners to deal and sell cars directly. Just like lowyat.net, it is nice to create a category where we can also swap cars. Say, one to one swapping. Many of us, just want to swap to another car of our liking. So, willing buyer, willing seller. Willing swapper, willing swapper. Some may opt to top up if the swapping is of different value.
Oto must be strict about ensuring only private sellers sell the cars in this category and any car salesmen purportedly trying to look like a private seller should be banned.
Many of us, are fed up to the core dealing with car salesman. They are rude, abusive and lie. Most car salesman all tamper with the odometer of the car also giving us a false impression of a car being in perfect condition.
Paul Tan’s site can facilitate the buying from Private Sellers and Swappers by setting up a division just to help the private sales and swapping. Of course with a fee. So, we know, that we can go to someone trusted who can facilitate the sale and purchase of 2nd hand cars. Why we go to the current crooks and do trade in is because they do all the paperwork for us. In return, these crooks sometimes give us very bad trade in values for our cars or 2nd hand values for our cars. Many Malaysians do not know how to buy and sell a car involving all the paperwork. It would be nice to have a division set up by Paul Tan just to assit us buyers. Most of us, the moment we hear that we have to go Puspakom etc, we freak out and decide just to give our car in to the used car dealer. And this used car dealer, most of the time, gives us like RM10,000 less for our car.
Maybe a section for trusted runners will be good as well. Been conned the first time I sold my car (they told me i got saman). I was naive.
Thank you for your feedback Michael. :) At the moment, we do have a category for private sellers under the “Individual” tab. You raised some very good points in your post that we should definitely take a look into. I shall discuss this with the team. :)
– Benjamin, oto.my
Sorry but the search button just couldn’t work.
Have tried reloading it few times.
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