Marion Leighton

Costa Mesa, CA (USA)
Role(s):
Founder/Owner/Principal

Orange County Professional Auto Brokers Inc.

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Location: Costa Mesa
Industry: Automotive
Year Founded: 1994
Number Employees: 1-10 people
Description: We sell good quality used vehicles locally, nationally and internationally at excellent prices. We target consumers from all normal market segments seeking low-end domestic vehicle to high-end imported vehicles and some exotic and collectables. Our company was incorporated in 1994 in California and has been in business continually since then. We are a California licensed and bonded dealer. Our business was established by Gerald Leighton, a 40 year veteran in automotive sales and Marion Leighton who has been working in commercial finance and administration for over 30 years. Our internal operations, including Customer Service, Sales and IT are run by Daniel Salzedo, who has over 15 years professional experience in these fields. We have well-established sources of financing, from both banks and credit unions, and have an excellent finance department who are able to get even customers with weak credit financed despite the current market conditions. We have excellent relationships with after-market warranty companies that enable us to supply warranty plans on many older and higher-mileage vehicles. Our sales are driven by Internet marketing, especially Ebay, and whilst purely local retail dealerships are failing in the current economy, our sales are getting stronger due to continuing demand for good quality vehicles at competitive prices. As weaker dealers drop out of the market, we are able to purchase vehicles at more competitive wholesale prices and pass these savings on to the public. We have been selling on Ebay since 2000 and have been a Top Seller on Ebay Motors since 2004. (Ebay user name “ocpabi_sales”) We have achieved a Titanium-level Power Seller rating (the highest possible) with a 100% feedback rating due to our excellent service to hundreds of satisfied customers, most of who buy their vehicles sight-unseen from us and have their vehicles shipped to them both nationwide and worldwide. On average 30% of our sales are made to customers outside of California. We also get many local sales leads from customers who first see the vehicle listed on Ebay and come to see us because of our exceptional feedback profile.