'Exorbitant Price' System to Protect Consumers from Sahibinden.com

Second-hand market buying and selling giant sahibinden.com said that they will create new systems aimed at protecting consumers.

With the innovation made by sahibinden.com, where second-hand trading is carried out, only authorized dealers of automotive brands will be able to create brand new motor vehicle ads. In the statements made by Sahibinden.com, the company stated that they will make some important changes in order to increase transparency regarding the motorized land vehicle trade and protect consumers. With this decision, only authorized dealers of automotive brands will be able to publish brand new motor vehicle ads. Sellers other than authorized dealers will only be able to select "Second Hand" as the "Condition of the Vehicle" criterion and enter at least 6 thousand km for "Vehicle Mileage". In addition, on the advertisement detail page where all the information of the advertisements are displayed, the expression "Brand New" or "Second Hand" indicating the status of the vehicle will be moved in front of the "Mileage" information in the ranking. In addition, the advertisement detail page of the vehicle will include the price requested by the advertiser as well as the "2022 Current List Price" determined by the distributor of the same model. In this way, the price requested for the vehicle in the ad and the current list price of brand new will be transparently shown to consumers. Sahibinden.com Top manager (CEO) Burak Ertaş made the following statements about the decision taken: "We have been carefully monitoring the recent problems in the brand new and second-hand vehicle trade and the regulations made by the Ministry of Commerce on the subject. As Turkey's sahibinden.com, we are harmonizing the functioning of our platform with these regulations. On September 15th, we believe that these changes will make our users' car buying and selling experiences even more transparent."