Hardly a day goes by when I don't talk to friends and family about cars and try to steer their purchases in a direction of my liking. No doubt many of you do the same. And no matter how many different ways the Web gives us interact with content, nothing ever replaces frank conversation with a real human being.
So Edmunds.com, parent company of Inside Line and great uncle of Straightline, is now giving you (or your hapless/helpless friends) a chance to do just that. We've set up a new Twitter account @EdmundsLive, and you can Tweet questions (yep, 140 characters or less) to three of our car-buying experts and they'll give you answers.
Or, just send them a twitpic of the monroney on the car you're looking at, plus your zip code, and they tell you what the True Market Value (TMV) price (i.e., a fair price to pay) of that car should be for your area.
There's no charge to talk to an Edmunds guy, so other than a fear of Twitter, there's no reason not to take advantage of our new EdmundsLive service. Moderators are on-call 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Eastern time Monday through Friday, and from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. ET Saturday.
dougtheeng says:
10:14 AM, 06/ 8/11
'talk to a real human via twitter' --> lol
blueguydotcom says:
10:23 AM, 06/ 8/11
Twitter -- still haven't seen a useful implementation of this thing.
throwback says:
10:59 AM, 06/ 8/11
sigh, has twitter actually replaced talking now? As a non-twitter user (i think there is 8 of us) I guess I will end up talking to myself.
blueguydotcom says:
01:02 PM, 06/ 8/11
Throwback, no twitter is just this year's myspace. Remember when digg was around? Or when chat rooms were the thing? In the 90s instant messengers were all the rage...now not used. A couple years ago skype was changing business. It'll pass into the internet junk pile in a year or two...
v8vader says:
11:33 PM, 06/ 8/11
ooooooooo! hire me to do this job!