Company Offers Cars as Mother’s Day Gifts

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Company Offers Cars as Mother’s Day Gifts

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[cnxvideo id=”655413″ placement=”ros”]Why buy candy or flowers for Mother’s Day when you can get mom a car? A company is offering to steer people to a new or used vehicle as a much more expensive present than what people typically spend.

Auto Liquidator has set up a site to help people find “the best Mothers Day car sales they can possibly find.” This includes the ability to find new and used cars by brand and location. The site allows people to search for cars that already may be on sale as part of deals that manufacturers have set for May, among others. Some of these vehicles are already on sale for Memorial Day, which falls on May 29 and is only 15 days after Mother’s Day this year.

The Auto Liquidator pitch is that mother will appreciate a car much more than traditional gifts, which are virtually always much less expensive. The National Retail Federation reports that the average spending for the holiday will be $172.22 this year. The company says:

What better way to show your mother how much you appreciate her than by getting her deals on new cars? You are sure to be her new favorite child when she is driving around town in one of the best new cars of the year.

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According to Cars.com, the average price for a new car in the first quarter of 2017 was “$31,400 after incentives.” And that is not the entire cost. Quadrant Information Services reports that the average cost to insure a car nationwide is just over $907.

The Auto Liquidator site has many features traditional car-buying sites do. It allows people to search both new and used models by make, model and year. It also has listings from all 50 states. And it uses these features to entice people to use the site:

Just waltzing on in to a dealership is not the ideal way to find a low price for these holiday sales. The real way to get the best cheap new cars is to utilize the internet resources you can find right here. We make it easy to find the best deals on the 2017 new cars you want to drive.

Consumer Affairs reports that people can buy a car in a single day, which is called “spot delivery.” That means there are two days left to buy mom a gift that will last much longer than flowers or a box of chocolates.

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About the Author Douglas A. McIntyre →

Douglas A. McIntyre is the co-founder, chief executive officer and editor in chief of 24/7 Wall St. and 24/7 Tempo. He has held these jobs since 2006.

McIntyre has written thousands of articles for 24/7 Wall St. He is an expert on corporate finance, the automotive industry, media companies and international finance. He has edited articles on national demographics, sports, personal income and travel.

His work has been quoted or mentioned in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, NBC News, Time, The New Yorker, HuffPost USA Today, Business Insider, Yahoo, AOL, MarketWatch, The Atlantic, Bloomberg, New York Post, Chicago Tribune, Forbes, The Guardian and many other major publications. McIntyre has been a guest on CNBC, the BBC and television and radio stations across the country.

A magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College, McIntyre also was president of The Harvard Advocate. Founded in 1866, the Advocate is the oldest college publication in the United States.

TheStreet.com, Comps.com and Edgar Online are some of the public companies for which McIntyre served on the board of directors. He was a Vicinity Corporation board member when the company was sold to Microsoft in 2002. He served on the audit committees of some of these companies.

McIntyre has been the CEO of FutureSource, a provider of trading terminals and news to commodities and futures traders. He was president of Switchboard, the online phone directory company. He served as chairman and CEO of On2 Technologies, the video compression company that provided video compression software for Adobe’s Flash. Google bought On2 in 2009.

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