Where the listings come from
The Australian marketplaces RideRadar reads, why coverage is uneven, and what "read, not partnered" means for you.
RideRadar reads the marketplaces where Australians actually advertise vehicles. Its index is only as good as that list, so the list is worth stating plainly.
The sources
Read, not partnered
RideRadar has no commercial relationship with these marketplaces. It reads what they publish, the same way a search engine does, and sends traffic back to them. None of them pay for placement here and none of them can buy it.
General marketplaces — where most private and dealer stock sits.
- carsales — the largest single source of dealer and private car listings in the country.
- Gumtree — mostly private sellers, and the source with the widest price range and the most variable listing quality.
- Drive — dealer stock, well structured.
- OnlyCars — dealer and private.
Motorbikes.
- bikesales — the bike equivalent of carsales, and the backbone of the two-wheel index.
Auction and disposal houses — vehicles being sold under a clock rather than at a fixed price.
- Pickles, Manheim, Grays, Slattery — ex-fleet, ex-lease, repairable write-offs, and government disposals. These behave differently from fixed-price listings and are labelled as auctions in results, because the price you see is a starting point rather than an asking price.
Marketplace platforms.
- eBay — read through eBay's official API, the one source here accessed under a formal developer agreement.
Why coverage is uneven
Some marketplaces publish their inventory in a form that is complete and straightforward to read. Others expose only part of it, paginate in ways that cap how much is reachable, or mix categories so thoroughly that separating real vehicle listings from parts and accessories takes real work.
The honest summary is that RideRadar's coverage of a large source is close to total, and its coverage of a small or awkward one is partial and improving. When a result count looks lower than you expected for a niche category, that is usually why.
What we keep, and what stays at the source
Only what a result card needs: make, model, variant, year, price, odometer, body, transmission, fuel, location, a thumbnail, and the link back.
Everything else — the full description, the rest of the photographs, the seller's name and phone number, the vehicle's history, the transaction itself — stays with the marketplace that published it. RideRadar never becomes the place where the deal happens, which means it never becomes a place that holds your details in order to make one.
Always check the original
A RideRadar card is a pointer, and pointers go stale. Price, availability, and condition are whatever the source listing says at the moment you open it — not whatever we last read. Treat the card as a reason to click through, never as a substitute for doing so.