TMCP #571: Jono Shaw, Hemmings Gets Into The Auction Business And Makes It Easy To Get The Car You Want With Frictionless Marketplace
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Robert Kibbe
4.8 • 701 Ratings
🗓️ 22 March 2024
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
This week I spoke to Jono Shaw, President of Hemmings Motor News, to find out more about the new buying service called the "Frictionless Marketplace." For anyone who has bought a car online sight unseen it can be a little unnerving when you "win" the auction and are then left to figure out how to get the car legally, safely, and paid for without the fear of getting completely ripped off. To put it bluntly, this service is meant to put some teeth to the "wild-west" that has become common in buying a car line and put Hemmings into the mix to prevent the possibility of fraud.
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| 0:00.0 | The Muscle Car Place online podcast episode number 571. This week, the top dog from Hemmings is on the show. |
| 0:08.2 | John O'Shaugh is his name. Now, everyone here knows of Hemings, and you've read it and you've |
| 0:12.8 | browsed it for years. And yeah, they have a big YouTube presence now and media content to |
| 0:17.9 | supplement all that history and bring us into the 2020s easily, sure. |
| 0:22.2 | But that's not what he's here for today. That's not what I asked him on for. We're here to talk |
| 0:27.0 | about the reality of buying a car online, but not a new car and not a late model used one, but a |
| 0:33.0 | classic car. And as you know, there are no two classic cars alike. You really never know what you're getting. |
| 0:39.3 | How do you know what you're going to buy? |
| 0:41.3 | The photos look good in the auction. Is it really that nice in person? |
| 0:43.3 | Is it worth what it's selling for? |
| 0:45.3 | Do I have to wire money to someone I've never met? |
| 0:48.3 | What if I get scammed? |
| 0:50.3 | Well, Heming's just happened to come out with something for all that a couple months ago. It's called the Fricksonless Marketplace, the paperwork, the inspection, the shipping, and yes, even the money part are all covered. |
| 1:00.9 | Now I want to buy it. |
| 1:02.5 | I'm afraid to wire this person money. |
| 1:04.3 | I've never met them before. |
| 1:05.5 | All I have is a phone number. |
| 1:07.2 | They say it's Bill on the other end of the phone, but like, how do I know this is, like, legitimate? |
| 1:11.3 | And the car is actually there. |
| 1:16.1 | This is the Muscle Car Place Online Podcast, brought you by National Parks Depot. |
| 1:22.8 | This is the weekly show dedicated to people worldwide who love American muscle cars. If you're buying, |
| 1:30.3 | selling, restoring, even racing them, this is the place for you. Now here's your host, Rob Kibby. |
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