Carousell & status partner up to educate buyers of used vehicles
Those shopping for a used vehicle on on-line marketplace Carousell going to recently have a clearer idea of the quality & condition of the vehicles on offer. The Consumers Association of Singapore (status) & Carousell are encouraging sellers to send their vehicles for professional evaluation before listing them for discount. final year, status received two,335 complaints, by 61 per cent involving a pre-owned vehicle. The secure checklist, that status released final year, is aimed at helping consumers know what to look out for while buying a pre-owned vehicle. Mr Sanjay Shivkumar, head of autos at Carousell, said its marketplace has about twelve,000 listings of Fresh & pre-owned vehicles.Watchdog pushes for system to identify non-defective used vehicles on Carousell
as informed in status said yesterday that it is working by Carousell to prevent consumers shopping for 2nd-hand vehicles in the on-line marketplace. status said it is too working by Carousell on a system that going to identify pre-owned vehicles that have gone out of a professional evaluation. while released, those found to be in a satisfactory condition going to be identified in Carousell's listing by a level & Functional Evaluation (secure ) checklist mark. while the Fresh system is released, vehicles found to be in a satisfactory condition going to have a secure checklist mark. final year, slightly further than half of all complaints about the industry linked to defective vehicles, pre-owned & brand Fresh.collected by :Haily Jackson