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Get competing car quotes from dealerships and negotiate a lower price
An agent filled out web forms at 8-10 dealerships and emailed competing quotes against each other, reaching a deal that saved over $4,200 in three days.
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Use case overview
An agent filled out web forms at 8-10 dealerships and emailed competing quotes against each other, reaching a deal that saved over $4,200 in three days.
Reported experience
What they did
Aaron Stuyvenberg used MoltBot, an open-source self-hosted agent that can control a browser and email. He told it to research fair prices on Reddit, contact 8-10 local dealerships, collect quotes and play them against each other. It filled out dealer web forms and sent rival quotes by email. Calls and texts were redirected back to email.
How it went
After three days he reached a deal and saved over $4,200. He only went to a showroom to sign the paperwork. The source is a secondhand account; Stuyvenberg's own post has the details.
Worth knowing
MoltBot has had prompt-injection incidents via email. Use a burner email and phone number, and run it on a separate machine, not your main laptop.
Example prompts
Find [number] dealerships near [zip code] that have a [car make, model, trim] in stock and request out-the-door quotes using my email [email]. When quotes arrive, draft replies that use the lower offers to ask other dealers to beat them. Show me each form and email before submitting or sending, and finish with a ranked comparison of the quotes.
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