Get found by local buyers. Join hundreds of independent dealers already listed. No contract, no setup fee.
Takes 2 minutes. Your listing looks after itself — we update your stock automatically. Add your feed URL to unlock full photos and complete specs.
The honest version, including where we are not the right answer.
You do not list cars here. You list your dealership.
There is no upload form and no stock to maintain. Claim the listing we already hold for your dealership, or add it if we have not found you yet, and we index the cars from your own website. They appear here automatically and update themselves when your site changes. Sell a car, it drops off. Add one, it turns up. No cap, no per-car fee, nothing to keep in sync.
| Where | Cost to a dealer | Who the buyer ends up talking to |
|---|---|---|
| Local Car Sales | Free. No contract, no commission, no per-car fee | You, on your own website |
| Facebook Marketplace | Free | You, but inside Facebook, alongside private sellers |
| Gumtree | Free or paid tiers for traders — check current pricing | You, inside their platform |
| eBay Motors Pro | Paid — check current pricing | You, inside their platform |
| Auto Trader | Paid, by contracted stock level | You, via their lead system |
| PistonTraders | Free to be listed | You, on your own website |
Where we are not the right answer
If you need volume of buyers today, Auto Trader reaches far more people than we do and we would not pretend otherwise. If you sell mainly to private buyers browsing casually, Facebook Marketplace will out-reach us. And PistonTraders indexes dealer stock the same way we do, currently at larger scale. We are free, so there is no reason to choose between us — but if you are only going to be in one place, it should not be us yet.
Being listed is free and always will be. These are the differences if you decide you want more than that — what each level gets, not what it earns you. We do not publish claims about sales.
| Unclaimed | Claimed — free | £19 member | £79 CarDealerCMS | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Listed on Local Car Sales | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Your whole forecourt, no cap | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Buyers click through to your site | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Stock updates itself from your website | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Position in search results | Bottom | Above unclaimed | Above claimed | Top, plus Featured |
| Facebook network posting | Eligible | Ahead of unclaimed | Ahead of claimed | First pick |
| Verified dealer badge | — | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Monthly activity report | — | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Help with your listing | Phone & email | Priority phone, 24–48hr | ||
| Your own website and domain | — | — | — | ✓ |
| DVLA lookup, AI descriptions, SEO | — | — | — | ✓ |
| What it costs | Free | Free | £19/mo | £79/mo includes the £19 |
Anyone is welcome to ring 0800 6444 199 with a question, whether you pay us anything or not — it is hands-on help with your own listing and stock feed that comes with the paid tiers. Facebook placement is priority in a queue, not a guarantee — one car per page per day, and the car needs a usable photograph. Ranking and posting order are set in code, not by hand: CarDealerCMS dealers first, then £19 members, then claimed, then the rest.
Local Car Sales works differently from a classifieds site: you do not upload cars. We index the stock already on your own dealership website, so once your dealership is listed your cars appear automatically and update themselves as your website changes. There is nothing to upload and nothing to keep in sync. It is free, with no contract, no commission and no per-car fee. Facebook Marketplace and Gumtree allow free or low-cost listings but are built around private sellers and you post each car yourself. eBay Motors Pro, Auto Trader and most trade portals charge per listing or by subscription — check their current pricing directly.
Being listed is genuinely free and stays free, and there is no cap on how many cars you can have listed — your whole forecourt shows, whether you pay us anything or not. Most dealers on the site pay nothing at all. Two optional paid things exist: Local Car Sales membership at £19 a month, which ranks you above unverified dealers and puts your cars higher in the queue for our Facebook pages; and CarDealerCMS at £79 a month, a full dealer website which includes the £19 membership. Neither is required.
Those are general marketplaces where dealers compete with private sellers, and buyers message inside the platform. Local Car Sales is dealer-only and it does not hold the buyer: every car links straight through to the dealer's own website, so the enquiry is yours. It is an index of dealer stock rather than a place to transact.
No, and we would not suggest it. Auto Trader is far larger and reaches buyers we do not. Treat Local Car Sales as free additional exposure that runs alongside whatever you already pay for, not a replacement for it.
Priority placement above every unverified dealer, a verified badge, no listing cap, your cars ahead of unverified listings in the queue for our Facebook pages, and a monthly report of how many buyers we sent you. It is month to month with no contract.
Website Designer Derby, a sole trader business owned by Peter Hallford, at 47 Western Drive, Heanor, Derbyshire, DE75 7DP. Telephone 0800 6444 199. The same business runs CarDealerCMS. Local Car Sales is not a car dealer, a finance broker or a motor trade professional, and is not connected to any similarly named motor trade company elsewhere in the UK.
They click through to your own website and contact you there. We do not sit in the middle, we do not take a commission, and we do not sell your enquiries to anyone.
Small independents. The median forecourt listed has 17 cars, 96% of listed dealers hold 100 cars or fewer, and three quarters of the stock comes from those smaller dealers. It is not car supermarkets or franchise groups — that is what the name describes.