Keep your Trade Me listing. Add us.Every enquiry answered in under a minute.
UsedCarsNZ acknowledges every buyer enquiry in seconds, qualifies the buyer with a clearly labelled AI assistant, and hands you a warm lead. Nothing substantive goes to a buyer until you approve it, and we measure the results on a dashboard you can hold us to.
The Problem Dealers Face Every Day
Speed to lead is the one lever a dealership controls, and the one most yards are not set up for.
Enquiries wait hours, not minutes
Most online enquiries land while the sales desk is busy or closed. Around six in ten arrive after hours. By the time someone replies, the buyer has moved on.
Buyers enquire with several dealers at once
The first yard to answer usually gets the conversation. The rest are competing for a second look that rarely comes.
One platform, rising fees
Trade Me Motors holds most of the market and has restructured dealer listing pricing upward. There is no real alternative to add alongside it.
Nobody can show you the numbers
How fast do your enquiries actually get answered? How many turn into appointments and sales? Most dealers are guessing, and every platform asks you to take its word for it.
How It Works
You keep doing exactly what you do now. We sit on top of your existing enquiry flow.
Connect your enquiries
Set one auto-forward rule so a copy of each Trade Me enquiry email reaches your private UsedCarsNZ address. About three minutes, once. Co-list your stock here too, at no cost.
Instant acknowledgment, 24/7
Every buyer gets a short, templated reply within seconds, sent as your dealership. Not written by an AI model, so it never says anything about the car.
Qualified, then drafted for you
A clearly labelled AI assistant asks about budget, finance, trade-in and timing, then drafts your reply. Nothing substantive is sent until someone at your yard approves it.
Warm lead, measured result
The lead lands in your inbox with the conversation attached. First-response time, enquiry to appointment and appointment to sale are all recorded on your dashboard.
Proof, not promises
We publish the numbers
Every acknowledgment, appointment and sale is written to an append-only log that nobody, including us, can edit. Your dashboard and our public metric both read from it. The public number stays hidden until there are enough measured responses for it to be honest.
Median first response
From the moment an enquiry arrives to the moment the buyer hears back.
Enquiry to appointment
The share of enquiries that turn into a booked viewing or test drive.
Appointment to sale
The share of those appointments that end in a sold vehicle.
Why Dealers Join
Built for New Zealand dealerships that want faster enquiry response, a number to prove it, and no change to how they work.
Under a minute, every time
The acknowledgment fires automatically, including for the majority of enquiries that arrive after hours. Your buyer hears back before they contact the next yard.
Your own conversion dashboard
First-response time, enquiry to appointment, appointment to sale and time on market, computed from an append-only event log. Export it as CSV whenever you like.
A human approves every real reply
The AI is always labelled as an AI and never makes claims about a vehicle, its price, warranty or finance. Substantive replies go out only after you approve them, and the database enforces it.
Free pilot, flat pricing after
The two-month pilot costs nothing and either side can end it on five working days’ notice. If it continues, pricing is flat and simple. No per-lead charges, no upsell ladder.
Co-list here at no cost
Add your stock to UsedCarsNZ alongside Trade Me. Each listing and your dealer page are built to be found by search engines and AI assistants. Bulk import is built with our first partners from their real stock exports.
Direct founder access
Founding dealers talk straight to the person building this. Your feedback sets the roadmap, and you get new tools first.
What the AI will never do
A misrepresentation from an automated reply is your liability under the Fair Trading Act and Consumer Guarantees Act. So the assistant is deliberately boxed in.
Always labelled as an AI
Every automated message says it comes from your AI assistant and that a person replies to anything about the vehicle itself.
Never a claim about the car
The assistant does not describe condition, history, price, warranty, finance terms or availability. Those come from you, in a reply you approve.
Approval enforced in the database
A drafted reply cannot be sent until an authorised person at your dealership approves it. That rule lives in the platform’s database, not in a policy document.
Buyer data handled under NZ privacy law
Forwarded enquiry emails are processed under the pilot agreement. Raw emails are kept for 30 days for troubleshooting, then deleted automatically.
Read our privacy statement.
Join the Founding Dealer Program
A free two-month pilot: every enquiry answered in under a minute, a dashboard that shows your real numbers, and a direct line to the founder.
Frequently Asked Questions
Everything you need to know before joining the Founding Dealer Program.
Still have questions? Get in touch when you register.