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It’s really about just giving customers some guiding points so they can make good decisions.

For Daz Scale and his team at premium second hand Cat dozer dealer Makin Traks, based in Yandina on Queensland’s Sunshine Coast, 2020 was the year that online sales really took off in a big way.

“Pre-COVID, we probably had 50 per cent of our customers come into the yard and look over the machine, and check it out and start it and drive it and things like that,” he says.

“Now it’s something like 10–15 per cent of people actually look at the machine,

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