What's new for dealers in JDMBUYSELL v4

The new JDMBUYSELL went live on 28 May 2026. This post is a short reference for the dealers whose accounts came across with us — what was carried over, what’s new, and where to look for the things that changed location.

The front door is the same: jdmbuysell.com. Your existing email address is your login. If you previously signed in with Google, Facebook, or Apple, those options still work.

What was migrated

Every dealer who was active on the previous site at the time of cutover was migrated, along with:

• Inventory — every active listing, with the same photos, prices, descriptions, and contact details.
• Message history — buyer-seller conversations are preserved, threaded by listing.
• Dealer profile — business name, location, website, social handles, logo, founding year, verified-dealer status.
• Reply-rate stats — the historical reply rate and reply time from the previous site come over as the fallback signal. The new site recomputes these on a rolling 180-day window once you have enough on-platform conversations to measure (see the dealer page section below).

What to do on first login:

1. Open your dashboard.
2. Confirm inventory totals match what you expect — the dashboard shows active listing count.
3. Open the inbox and confirm prior conversation threads loaded.
4. Open profile and confirm business name, location, contact details, and logo. Phone number is one of the fields used by the SMS feature below — set it here.

If anything looks off, reply to the launch announcement email or open a ticket through the JDMBUYSELL support center. Migration corrections are easier to make in the first week than later, when fresh activity has accumulated on top.

Reply to inquiry emails directly

When a buyer sends you a message on JDMBUYSELL, you receive an email notification. On the new site, you can reply to that email from your inbox and your reply posts back to the conversation thread on the platform. The buyer sees your response inside their own JDMBUYSELL inbox the same way they would if you had logged in to reply.

What this changes:

• No login needed to reply. Open the email, hit Reply, type, send.
• Threading still works on-platform. The buyer’s view inside their dashboard shows the thread continuing — they don’t get an email from your personal address.
• Your personal email stays hidden. The reply-to address on the notification is a JDMBUYSELL-managed address with a signed token; buyers can’t see or harvest your inbox.

There is no setup. The feature is live on every notification email the new site sends.

If you reply from an email address that isn’t the one on your dealer account, the message will be rejected with a short note explaining why. Use the address that matches your dealer profile.

SMS notifications for new messages

The new site can text you when a buyer messages you on a listing. This is opt-in — your phone number must be present and verified in your dealer profile, and your notification preferences must have SMS enabled.

Setup steps:

1. Open your profile.
2. Enter a mobile phone number that can receive text messages.
3. Confirm the verification code we text to that number.
4. Open notifications and toggle SMS on for new-message alerts.

What you’ll receive:

JDMBUYSELL: Alex Buyer messaged you about 1995 Toyota Supra Twin Turbo. Open: jdmbuysell.com/m/abcd1234

The link is a short URL that opens the conversation. You can reply either by following the link or — on most carriers — by responding to the email notification that arrives at the same time.

Standard carrier rates apply. Reply STOP at any time to opt out from the carrier side. The system honours opt-outs immediately and does not retry.

Your public profile is featured on the dealer page

jdmbuysell.com/dealers is the public dealer directory. Buyers browse it to find which dealers carry the kind of inventory they’re looking for, and to compare response signals before reaching out.

Your profile is already there. It includes:

• Business name, country/region, founding year
• Logo and brief description
• Current active listing count
• Reply rate and reply time over the last 180 days
• Google rating, when available
• On-platform JDMBUYSELL reviews, when buyers leave them

The directory is sorted by a composite quality score built from a handful of signals:

• Reply rate — share of buyer conversations the dealer responded to in the rolling window
• Reply time — median minutes to first reply
• Customer rating — your Google Business rating; on-platform JDMBUYSELL reviews are surfaced on your dealer page alongside Google and will fold into the ranking as on-platform review volume grows
• Active listings — current inventory volume

Dealers with zero active listings appear below dealers with any inventory, regardless of their reply or rating signals — that ordering is a separate tier ahead of the composite score.

What you can influence directly:

• Reply rate and reply time — answer buyers, and answer faster. The 180-day window means improvement compounds over months, not days.
• Active listings — keep stale inventory cleaned up; the count is current, not lifetime.
• Google rating — the score reads what Google publishes for your business profile. Independent of the platform.
• On-platform reviews — buyers who completed a conversation with you can leave a review on your dealer profile. Both rating sources show on your dealer page; the on-platform one is closer to a JDMBUYSELL-specific signal.

Optional: have us pull inventory from your website automatically

If your website has a public inventory page — vehicle listings rendered on a public URL, or a feed in JSON, XML, or CSV — JDMBUYSELL can pull from it on a schedule rather than have you upload listings one by one. Whether we can support a given site depends on how its inventory page is built; some are straightforward to ingest, others aren’t.

There is no self-service form for this yet. To start the conversation, send us your inventory page URL through the JDMBUYSELL dealer onboarding page and we’ll take a look at whether your site is something we can support.

Questions, feedback, things that look wrong

Reply to the launch announcement email, or open a ticket through the JDMBUYSELL support center. The first week after a migration is when small issues are easiest to fix; flag anything that doesn’t look right while it’s fresh.