{"id":6962,"date":"2008-06-12T15:36:42","date_gmt":"2008-06-12T15:36:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/web-democratizes-auto-repairs.html"},"modified":"2008-06-12T15:36:42","modified_gmt":"2008-06-12T15:36:42","slug":"web-democratizes-auto-repairs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/web-democratizes-auto-repairs.html","title":{"rendered":"Web Democratizes Auto Repairs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" vspace=\"5\" hspace=\"5\" align=\"left\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/uploads\/repairpal.jpg\" \/>It is amazing to see how the internet has changed industry after industry. The latest to feel pressured by the power of a mouse, broadband connection and monitor is your local mechanic who now needs to worry that his\/her prices are outrageous compared to other mechanics. As this article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.webware.com\/8301-1_109-9966636-2.html?tag=nl.e404\">states<\/a>, auto repair is one of those areas where the consumer is really at an informational disadvantage.<\/p>\n<p>The new site focusing on democratizing auto repairs is called <a href=\"http:\/\/repairpal.com\/\">RepairPal<\/a> and it is in beta at the moment and in some ways may even be a guide for mechanics who aren&#8217;t charging enough for their repairs.<\/p>\n<p>If the site helps you, be sure and comment or drop me a line as I am very interested in seeing how the web is changing business after business.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is amazing to see how the internet has changed industry after industry. The latest to feel pressured by the power of a mouse, broadband connection and monitor is your local mechanic who now needs to worry that his\/her prices are outrageous compared to other mechanics. As this article states, auto repair is one of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,118],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6962"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6962\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}