In canadameet December 2010 the New Zealand Transport Agency (

The short version: 1. Where a vehicle is not already in our cache (free data) registered users can use three free Basic reports per month which will pull current data from the Motor Vehicle Register, at Carjam’s expense. 2. Where a vehicle is already in the cache and the WOF and rego are still current, we display canadameet the expiry dates. No update needed by User. 3. Where a vehicle is already in our cache and the WOF and rego are expired, we no longer show any dates, as this was confusing many users. In those instances, a User will now have to purchase a report at their own expense to access canadameet up to date information from the Motor Vehicle Register. These changes have become necessary as Carjam is currently paying for the “free” reports and is no longer able to absorb that cost in delivering millions of reports canadameet per month. canadameet 4.Users can choose and allocate a certain number of vehicle plates as ‘favourites’. Carjam will then pay for these select plates to be regularly updated so the users will no longer have to ‘update’ them manually and the user will be sent alerts canadameet to remind you that a WOF, rego or COF is nearing expiry.
In canadameet December 2010 the New Zealand Transport Agency (“NZTA”) began imposing a fee of 16c for queries from CarJam to the Motor Vehicle Register (“MVR”) for Basic vehicle information like WOF, COF, rego and basic vehicle details – previously these queries had been free allowing CarJam to provide unlimited free basic reports to the public.
To provide the maximum amount of free data to the public despite these government charges CarJam puts all the queries we do into a cache of data which we can provide at no cost. Its like recycling old reports.
Of course some of the data in these cached reports like WOF, rego, license gets stale and needs to be refreshed. Refreshing these stale reports requires a registered user to purchase a full report – we use the money paid for these reports to fund the hundreds of thousands of free reports we provide to users – those “free” reports canadameet actually cost 16c as mentioned above.
Very disappointed at not being told that a Visa Debt Card from my Bank could not be used to purchase information about a Car I wanted to buy. When I signed up with you and allowed you to use my Facebook to gather information and it was written that I would receive ‘Free’ Car Reports. I haven’t had any ‘Free’ reports I asked for nor have I been able to use my Bank Visa Debit Card.
You get 5 extra free basic reports. I have just checked your registration and you have 8 now which is 5 more than original 3. As for the payment problems we are pretty sure you can use your Visa Debit Card.
hi how do i go about getting the free report on the kia at hamilton turners coming up this week for auction. when i click on your “get free report” canadameet it says something about the url not working??
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Hi I’m trying to look up CDJ864 and use one of my free basic report and it won’t work it only shows i have 3 available and it should show at least 6 as i brought a report plus the 3 a month and any how i don’t have them and i can’t canadameet get a basic report what do i do can you sort this problem out for me
Hrm, was under the impression that there was a free report. All I got was the original page before signup that said the car is legal and wasn’t wanted canadameet by the authorities. On clicking to go to the free report I had to sign up for one of two paid reports. This doesn’t seem like fair advertising to me.
The free reports are delivered as described in the post above – sorry for any confusion there is certainly no intention to deceive, we work hard to provide free info where we can even though we have to pay the government for it.
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