"Please send me more information"

How do you react when you receive such a request (usually by Email - In this case a Private Message from this website)?

Not sure about you, I hit the DELETE button. People that send such emails are referred to as "Tyre Kickers" (Definition: "A person that has no purpose in life and has all the time in the world to waste other people's time").

To all my legit members, I hereby grant you permission to ignore such requests. We are here for one purpose: To make money on a sustainable level with no time to waste with Tyre Kickers. Take a look at the following example:

SAMPLE ADVERT

"10 Flatdecks Required to start 1st March. JHB to DURBAN- Payment 30 Days - Rate: Flat Rate R15,000 per round Trip. Diesel for your own account". Contact Mark etc."

RESPONSE 1: From Sam

Mark - I seen your ad on the internet - Please send me more information. Sam.

RESPONSE 2: From Eddie

"Dear Mark, We are a well established transport company based in Pietermaritzburg and amongst our fleet we have 6 Superlink flatdecks. From our own resources we cannot provide all 10 Flatdecks - We are however in a position to bring in other trucks with your permission. I would like to confirm the following:

1. Is the rate inclusive or exclusive of VAT?
2. What is the contract period?
3. Where are you based so that we could take discussions forward?

We look forward to hearing from you.

Regards
Eddie
With Full Contact Information"

Who will Mark respond to?

You know the answer.

People please make this website a legitimate marketplace. Get rid of tyre kickers by not responding to them. This website is free and my time is limited to police all the activities on this website.

This website was launched just over 2 months ago - We have to date around 3000 members with 20 to 30 people signing up every day. For our major keywords, we are number 1 on Google, Yahoo, MSN etc. - We have close to 2000 people visiting this website everyday. My emails are around 600 per day from the website. I had to upgrade my Hosting Service to a Gold Account to host this service - All FREE to you - My wife still thinks I am nuts!

But this is my contribution to the Industry I love most...And I have a mission - To make this an attractive and high growth industry full of legitimate transactions.

I rather have 200 to 300 legit traders than have 3000 tyre kickers. Do your bit and I will continue this great website.

Happy Trucking!
Silvan Pillay
Wednesday 17 February 2010