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We have a car in NYC and one in Miami. But it is useless to have a car in Manhattan this time of the year and very useful to have 2 in Miami. So we decided to bring the Q7 to Miami and I had this crazy idea to ask somebody to do it over social media. I posted it on Twitter and Facebook, said that if anyone wanted to drive our car we would pay for gas and $250. This was intended for somebody who wanted to enjoy driving down the East Coast and get to know this part of America. I told them they could take up to a week although the trip itself according to Google Maps<\/a> is 19 hours of driving. \u00a0Friends told me that I could get a crook or somebody who could destroy our car but I thought it highly unlikely.<\/p>\n

And it totally worked! \u00a0Many people volunteered and I chose this computer programmer who inspired confidence in me over email and via his LinkedIn profile<\/a>. It all went great and the car just made it to our garage in Miami.<\/p>\n

It is not that we saved much money, there are professional services that do this work, ship your car on a train or truck. But I like the sharing economy. That’s what Fon is. For Randall who brought the car it was a great trip he said. He stopped along the way to visit friends and relatives. He loved the Q7. And for us it was so much easier than dealing with a company, filling out the paperwork and legal stuff that normally accompanies all these things. Pick up, drop off.<\/p>\n

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Is there a business here of moving cars instead of renting cars for those who want to drop a car far from where they rented it? For car rental companies it’s all about drop off charges. Maybe that’s the next, albeit smaller AirBnB<\/a>, or ZipCar<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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After writing this post I came across Spanish company Amovens<\/a>, founded by Diego Hidalgo, what they do is not exactly shipping your cars through social means but car pooling. \u00a0Also Socialcar<\/a> which is like a car rental company among individuals.<\/p>\n

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