How Cruizy gets paid

The rule

Paying never changes a car’s score, its scam checks or its place in the normal search results. Paid placements only appear in their own clearly labelled spots. See how ranking works.

From sellers

• Private listing fee, when one applies. Current prices and any launch offer are on the fees page.
• Optional upgrades: Featured (labelled “Featured · paid placement”), Bump, homepage spots (labelled “Sponsored”), extra photos, and bundles of these.
• Dealer plans, monthly with no fixed term, and pay-as-you-go charges per listing or per lead, with a spend cap the dealer sets.

From buyers

• Contact credits if you go past the free allowance.
• Car checks, such as a money-owing check, bought per car. You pay first and are refunded automatically if the check can’t be completed.

From partners

Finance, insurance, inspection and report partners may pay us a flat referral fee per lead or per settled loan or policy. It’s the same whichever product you choose, there are no volume bonuses, and it’s never a share of your loan or premium. We don’t give financial advice and we never take loan or premium money. A plain link to a partner passes nothing about you; if a partner needs your details, we ask first and show exactly what goes.

From advertisers

• Sponsors who buy ad space directly, and house ads for other products from MacG TechnoloG, our parent company.
• A paid services directory, where every entry is labelled “Advertiser”.
• Later, possibly an ad network on some pages. Never on listing pages, and Google AdSense only ever on guides.

Every ad is labelled on the ad itself (“Ad”, “Sponsored”, “Partner” or “Advertiser”), is reviewed before it runs, and follows our ad policy. Ads can be matched to the kind of car or page you’re looking at, never to your plate, VIN, name, contact details or exact location.

What we don’t do

• Hold buyers’ money or run escrow.
• Sell your personal information.
• Let anyone pay to remove a scam warning, raise a score or change the normal order of results.