Only owners. Never a dealer in disguise.
Hooptie reads every listing and checks every seller, so curbstoners and lots posing as owners never reach your feed.
Book a demoEvery seller, checked.
All night it reads the new listings, catches the dealer language, counts what each seller has listed and spots the reposts. By morning your feed is owners only.
- 2:14 AM412 new private-party listings read across 13 cities
- 2:14 AM“Financing available, we take trades” · 2018 F-150 hidden
- 2:15 AMSeller with 23 cars this month flagged as a dealer
- 2:15 AMSame photos as a lot listing · 2021 GX 460 hidden
- 2:16 AM2021 RAV4 Adventure · owner, one car · Private seller
- 6:40 AM188 more listings read · 27 dealers kept out
- 7:05 AM2019 Civic Sport · owner, one car · Private seller
- 8:12 AM“Ask about our other trucks” · 2020 Tacoma hidden
Built to catch curbstoners.
Built with independent dealers, around the tricks dealers use to look like owners.
Checks every listing, around the clock.
The minute a car is posted, Hooptie reads the description and looks up the seller, before it ever reaches your feed.
Weighs every signal.
Dealer language, how many cars the seller has listed, and whether the photos were posted before. No single word decides it.
Owners in, dealers out.
Owners get the Private seller badge. Dealers posing as owners are hidden from your feed, and you can still see them if you want.
Every “private sale”, checked.
Owners through. Dealers out.
Every listing is checked as it lands. Owners get the Private seller badge; dealers posing as owners are hidden.
Reads the post like your best buyer.
“Private sale” at the top doesn’t fool it. The financing, the trades and the “other trucks” give the dealer away.
2019 Tacoma SR5, private sale. Financing available! We take trades. Clean title, ask about our other trucks. Call Mike.
A badge you can trust.
Owners selling their own car get the Private seller badge, right on the card.
Dealer language, caught.
Financing, trades, warranties, “our other cars”: the words dealers use give them away.
High-volume sellers, flagged.
One person listing car after car isn’t selling their own. Hooptie counts and flags them.
Every seller, looked up.
Repeat sellers, counted.
Hooptie sees how many cars each seller has listed lately. An owner sells one; a curbstoner sells twenty.
listed in 30 days
Reposts, recognized.
A lot car reposted as “private sale, 1 owner” has the same photos as the original. Hooptie notices.
Duplicates merged.
The same car posted in three places shows up once, as one listing, in your feed.
Report one in a click.
Spot a dealer that slipped through? Report it and it leaves your feed right away.
Your feed, your call.
Owners only by default. Flip the toggle to see every listing with the seller type on each card.
Spend your time on owners.
An owners-only feed.
Dealers are filtered out before you scroll, so every call is to someone selling their own car.
Why it matters for independents.
You make your margin on the buy. A dealer posing as an owner has already priced their margin in.
- Priced for their margin
- Wants to sell you a warranty
- No room to negotiate
- Priced to sell
- One car, one decision
- Room under wholesale
FAQ
How does Hooptie know a seller is a dealer?
It reads the description for dealer language, checks how many cars the seller has listed lately, and recognizes photos reposted from other listings. It weighs all of it, not one word.
Will I ever see a dealer listing?
Only if you want to. Your feed is owners only by default; flip the private-only toggle to see everything with the seller type on each card.
What if it gets one wrong?
Report it in one click and it leaves your feed right away.
Does it slow the feed down?
No. Every listing is checked as it lands, so it reaches your feed already marked.
Your next car is already listed.
By its owner, under wholesale, somewhere in your radius. Be the first one to call.
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