American Auto Transport wants to make sure that your vehicle gets moved the right way. Thus, it is necessary that you know what to look for and what to avoid when you select a quote. One of the most difficult lessons to teach to prospective auto transport customers are the dangers of lowball pricing.

Before you can understand why lowball pricing is dangerous, you must first learn about how auto transporters do their job. The auto transport industry is run almost entirely by brokers. The job of a broker is to find a driver that will do a move at the price that he and the customer have agreed upon. The most important to realize about this relationship is that the broker must hire independent drivers to do the job. Brokers do not own their own trucks, no matter what they say.

What brokers do is act as a middle man. In order for them to get paid, they need to find someone else that can do the service for them. Any reasonable broker will provide accurate prices so that they can get paid. But at the same time, customers are often resistant to paying even a single dollar more than they think they have to. This creates an incentive for brokers to drive their estimates lower and lower so that it's easier to attract potential customers. One of the most common ways to both attract and scam customers is lowball pricing.

Lowball pricing is essentially a bait and switch kind of scam. What some companies will do to execute the lowball is to send you a quote for a price that is hundreds of dollars under the average price. This kind of deal will be naturally attractive to most customers, and a good many of them will call back and get more information on their services. From here, the lowball is a confidence game. A broker who is lowballing will sound totally confident in his ability to move your vehicle for the said price. He may even throw in terms like "guaranteed" to make himself sound more believable. From here, there are a few different ways that a lowball scam can proceed. The broker might ask you for money they proceed to find you a driver, even if you've already contracted. A more nefarious way is for the broker to have a driver pick up your vehicle and then charge you more on delivery. If you're the victim of this kind of scam, then you could potentially be on the hook for hundreds of dollars more than you thought you'd have to pay and could risk forfeiting your vehicle if you don't pay. In short, don't go for the lowball price.

It is extremely important that you have the sense to understand the difference between a good deal and an impossible deal. A good deal should be about $50-100 below the average price of the quotes that you'll get. An impossible price is anything less than that. Don't let your emotions get the best of you; always use your best judgment when having your vehicle shipped.

American Auto Transport is a great option for you if you don't want to deal with lowball pricing. We NEVER offer prices to our customers that will not get the job done. What's more is that we use a solid network of drivers around the nation on flat rates, so there is never any confusion about pricing. So use a company that can get the job done the right way. Use a company that wants to work with you and for you, not against you. Use a company that you can trust, use American Auto Transport. Call us today at (866) 327-7863 and have your vehicle shipped the right way without the hassle!

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