Car Auction Goes Online

More and more human activities are done online; it’s no wonder that conventional businesses also increasingly migrate to that realm. An example of this is how
More and more human activities are done online; it’s no wonder that
conventional businesses also increasingly migrate to that realm. An example of
this is how car auction can now be done online.
This digitalization is supported byinternet
penetration in Indonesia. A survey by the Indonesian
Internet Providers Association (APJII) in 2016 showed that 132.7 million out of
256.2 million Indonesians were already connected to the Internet.
Online auction is very similar to online shopping. Buyers and sellers do
not have to meet face-to-face; they only need to do transactions in front of
computer, tablet, or smartphone screens.
Nowadays, online auctions of various goods arequite common in trusted
social media platforms. The one offering goods for auction will determine the
starting price, and then bidders start to submit their bids that will continue
to ascend until no participant is willing to bid further.
Now, what if the goods to be auctioned are secondhand cars? Our auction
house, IBID-BalaiLelangSerasi—under PT SerasiAutoraya (SERA) and part of Astra
group—provides a site that facilitates customers in finding cars through
auction.
Our site does not only display some of the cars that are going to be put
up in auction. It also provides schedule of auctions held in various cities
including Jakarta, Bandung, Surabaya, Banjarmasin, and Balikpapan, because IBID
auction house already has branches in many cities in the country to bring
itself closer to customers.
Auction might also be held fully online. If we want to join the online
auction, we can check the special page at http://ibid.astra.co.id/online.
“We also hold fully-online auctions, only on the website. We will
announce the dates, and we usually can sell 20-30 units in one auction,” IBID
Auction House Chief Operation Officer Daddy DoxaManurung explained.
The sales figure of 20-30 units in one online auction shows the trust
given by car-searching customers to IBID’s auction website, thanks to the
transparent information provided on the site.
This information transparency, according to COO Daddy, is possible
because every car put up in auction through IBID auction house has been
appraised by IBID’s system-backed appraisal teams.
“Our homework is indeed to convince people to trust online auction.
That’s why we work hard to prove that we are indeed trustable; if a car is
graded A, it is truly of A-grade; if it’s graded B, then it is truly of
B-grade,” COO Daddy DoxaManurung explained further.
The appraisal is carried out right after the car is registered to the
auction. Appraisal staff will, using a tablet, input the results of appraisal
of the car’s exterior, interior, and engine, including its electrical system.
The results are given in grades from A (the highest) to E (the lowest).
The higher the grade, the better the condition of the car isand the less repair
it will need.
IBID already has a good system running, but digital-wise, it will be
improved even more next year.
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