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About Askaprice.com
Our goal is to provide the UK car buying market with the most authoritative and independent source of automotive information, making us the premier one-stop-shop for car buyers.
Year - 2002
Askaprice.com, located in Liverpool, Merseyside, was founded in February 2002. Our mission and primary service has always been to provide a useful resource that allows consumers to request free, no obligation price quotes on new or leased cars.
Many of our visitors have bought or leased their new cars at prices up to 35% off list prices, making us one of the most popular car buying services in the UK. HitWise, an internet intelligence service have recently informed us that we are in the top 30 automotive websites in the UK in our category.
The Askaprice.com website was launched in February 2002, and was one of the first independent car-buying and research sites in the UK.
Since this time, Askaprice.com's growth in the automotive sector has been phenomenal. News of our growth has created positive word-of-mouth advertising for Askaprice.com from both dealerships and car buyers alike, and as the company grew, a team of experts in the fields of technology, marketing, sales and account management was brought in to deliver exceptional service and support.
Year - 2005
In order to provide additional resources and information to our visitors, in 2005 we decided to subscribe to CAP data, an official database of manufacturer, model and derivative information for all vehicles on the market, including technical data, NCAP safety ratings, engine performance, list prices, and equipment/features. Although this was bought at great expense, it enabled us to provide unparallelled resources and information to car buyers, and our goal of providing a one-stop-shop for car buyers came a huge step closer to reality.
In 2005 the Askaprice.com team was delighted to be Highly Commended at the Department of Trade and Industry's prestigious 'E-Commerce Awards', held at Bolton's Reebok Stadium. Sponsored nationally by BT and national media sponsor The Sunday Times Enterprise Network , these awards have been designed to recognise and reward those organisations that have demonstrated excellence through the use of the Internet and other Information & Communications Technologies.
The addition of this information allowed us to create our popular Car Research section in 2005, detailing specifications for thousands of current models, as well as a Car Comparison facility to enable you to view up to 4 models side-by-side.
Late-2005 saw the introduction of MotorTorque, a motoring news, features and traffic news service for motorists, car buyers and enthusiasts, that allowed us to supply our visitors with the latest breaking news in the car industry, and after just four weeks we were selected by Google News to supply them with automotive news, demonstrating the authority that MotorTorque was showing.
The year also saw Askaprice.com entering into a partnership with the highly successful Manchester Business School (MBS) Incubator, a joint venture between MBS, Addleshaw Goddard, N M Rothschild and Royal Bank of Scotland. The partnership ensures that Askaprice receives business advice and support, as well as access to consultancy schemes which contribute to all areas, including market analysis/evaluation, financial planning and marketing, as well as unrivalled access to a network of professionals and national companies.
Year - 2006
In 2006, the team at Askaprice decided to create a new resource for Askaprice.com: Car Buyer's Guides, which gives expert advice and comprehensive information on all aspects of buying a car, including financing, insurance, safety and maintenance. This section continues to attract thousands of readers per month.
2006 also saw the introduction of one of our most popular features on Askaprice.com: the UK's most comprehensive Car Dealer Directory. With over 7,000 dealerships in the directory, it is one of the largest sources of dealership information in the UK, containing contact information, local maps, website addresses for new car dealerships in England, Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales. As an additional resource for our visitors, it also enables potential customers to contact any of the dealerships to request quotes for their current stock.
Year - 2007
At the beginning of 2007 our Special Offers section went live on Askaprice.com. This brand new facility enables dealers in our network to advertise their best offers directly to our audience of targeted car buyers, and it is still growing from strength to strength, with over 1,500 of the best available deals on the market, with huge discounts off list prices from the UK's best car dealers.
The Future
Askaprice.com continues to grow at an extraordinary pace, and over the last 18 months we have experienced a 1,300% increase in visitors to our website, as well as the recruitment of additional experts. This expansion has resulted in Askaprice.com outgrowing our office, and we have recently moved into bigger offices in central Liverpool to allow us to continue to grow in the coming months and years.
We continue to expand our service by partnering with some of the top UK's network dealerships in order to provide our visitors with quotes for new cars at rock-bottom prices. If you are a dealership and want to find out more about the benefits of partnering with Askaprice, please visit our corporate section
We are always seeking to improve our service to car buyers to become the ultimate one-stop-shop for car buyers, and we're particularly keen to listen to your ideas or suggestions as to how we can do this. If you've got any comments about how you think we can deliver a better resource, please get in touch with us by emailing Chris Haycock, Askaprice's Online Marketing Manager.