I agree PDF manuals (service manuals would be nice too), and Good images are key. Martin Logan does a good job with this. CJ has a nice section on vintage products - also a good thing.
For a few reasons, most sites will not have the following:
* Suggested retail prices for ALL products
- prices change, thus chances are a possibility of the site getting out of sync with prices, exists. Also, given currency fluctuation, would encourage grey market shopping from countries where the prices may not always be in line 100% with each other.
* An accurate list of dealers and what part of the line each one carries
- Not likely. Too easy to simply spam them all with some bottom-feeder email like "what's your best price, will you sell for $X? "... manufacturers and dealers don't want that. also encourages selling out of territory, a big no-no with manufacturers.
* Links to the dealer's website if they have one
- helpful, but see above.
I like one where you can have a zip-code lookup of your nearest dealer, it gets the info to the buyer without listing all the dealers in a big list.
Other nice things:
-many images, esp. of factory/production.
-updated news page with real news about what is going on there, developments, etc.
-interviews, links/copies of reviews, etc.
-Ed
For a few reasons, most sites will not have the following:
* Suggested retail prices for ALL products
- prices change, thus chances are a possibility of the site getting out of sync with prices, exists. Also, given currency fluctuation, would encourage grey market shopping from countries where the prices may not always be in line 100% with each other.
* An accurate list of dealers and what part of the line each one carries
- Not likely. Too easy to simply spam them all with some bottom-feeder email like "what's your best price, will you sell for $X? "... manufacturers and dealers don't want that. also encourages selling out of territory, a big no-no with manufacturers.
* Links to the dealer's website if they have one
- helpful, but see above.
I like one where you can have a zip-code lookup of your nearest dealer, it gets the info to the buyer without listing all the dealers in a big list.
Other nice things:
-many images, esp. of factory/production.
-updated news page with real news about what is going on there, developments, etc.
-interviews, links/copies of reviews, etc.
-Ed