Purchasing a project vehicle online is quite an experience. You see the opportunity on the auction website, body damage, bad transmission etc... You read the discription, check out the photos and try to decide on the sellers credibility using the various reputation and feedback systems. After making all the right moves, you bid on the vehicle and are excited about the amazing bargain. So the next day you hook up the trailer and head out. You get to the sellers location and they take you around to see the jewel. To your amazement their is substantially more damage to the car than was shown in the photos. It seems that the seller had angeled his camera purposefully to avoid letting you see the areas that they didn't want you to see.
The youtube generation is giving everyone the chance to see people in their own environment. It eliminates that anonymous personality that gives someone the opportunity to say and do whatever they feel without social constraints.
VprojectCar has attacked this issue with the inclusion of video upload options on its siteVprojectCar.com. (an online auction for project vehicles). You are given the option to see photos, read discriptions, see seller reputations but you also get to see the rest of the story. You see multiple angles of the vehicle, you can see the wave in the panels or the crooked wheel. I mean, the first thing you do when you check out a vehicle on site is to walk around it, look inside. On VprojectCar, there may even be a video showing the owner himself, explaining the condition or just talking about his love for vehicles. You get a more solid feel of what is going on in your decision.
I've bought and sold a lot of project vehicles at online auction and this added bit of information is of great benefit. No more worries about photoshop edited pics and damage exclusion. I'm registered on Vprojectcar.com as benefitrental and you will be seeing a lot of me on the site.