A dealer form goes to a sales team, and a sales team calls.
Filling in a quote request is how a shopper gets a price. Give the form a number you can end, and keep your own out of the follow up calls.
A number for car shopping
Get a phone number for buying a used car that you can burn after the sale.
Give every dealer form and quote request an ExpressNumber number instead of your own. Dealers call it, your phone rings, and you burn the number once you have bought a car.
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The dealer quote form
The form gets a number you can burn, not your own.
Quote request
Ask the dealer for an out the door price
- Grey hatchback from the dealer’s used car page.
- Your name, your email and a phone number.
The phone number on the form(210) 555-0183
(210) 555-0183On the form, named Car shopping
Your own numberStays off the form
Burn the numberBurn it once you have bought a car.
This is how you get a number for car shopping.
- Start your 7 days free and open Create a number.
- Name it after the search, such as Car shopping.
- Put the number on each dealer form and quote request.
- Dealers call it and your phone rings. Burn it in one tap once you have bought a car.
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Your numbers
Car shopping
(210) 555-0183
Forwarding
Dealer quote forms
(816) 555-0116
Texts only
Last year’s search
(571) 555-0149
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Car shoppers give dealers a separate number for three reasons.
The advice is to ask several dealers for a price.
The FTC says to ask for out the door prices in writing from dealers before you visit. One number named Car shopping brings the calls from all of them to your phone, and their texts land in one inbox.
You want the calls to stop after you buy.
Burn the number once you have bought a car, and the dealers you passed on stop reaching you.
How a call reaches you
The dealer calls the number on the form. Your phone gets the call.
A dealerGets your quote request and calls the number on it.
Calls and texts
Car shoppingYour number for this search.
Forwards
Your real phone ringsLike any other call
Texts land in your inboxUnder the name Car shopping
The caller only ever sees the number you gave them.
Burn the number once you have bought.
One number for one search, from the first quote request to the day you sign.
- 1The forms get a numberThe Car shopping number goes on every request
- 2Dealers callYour phone rings like any other call
- 3You compare pricesEach quote is in writing
- 4Burn the numberCalls and texts to it stop at once
This is what the FTC says about buying from a dealer.
Read October 31, 2026, with a link to each page.
The FTC says to ask dealers for out the door prices in writing before you visit.
Its page on buying a used car from a dealer says to use those quotes to confirm that advertised prices, discounts and rebates are actually being applied, and that the vehicle is actually on the lot.
FTC Consumer Advice: Buying a Used Car From a DealerThe FTC says dealers must display a Buyers Guide in every used car they offer.
Its page says dealers have to display a Buyers Guide in every used car they offer for sale and give it to buyers after the sale. The Buyers Guide tells you to get all promises in writing.
FTC Consumer Advice: Buying a Used Car From a DealerThe FTC says a company must stop calling once you ask it to.
Its Do Not Call page says companies can call you if you have recently done business with them or have given them written permission. If you ask them not to call you, they have to stop.
FTC Consumer Advice: National Do Not Call Registry FAQsThe FTC says call blocking is the best defense against unwanted calls.
Its page on blocking calls says the best defense against unwanted calls is call blocking and call labeling, because scammers do not care about the National Do Not Call Registry.
FTC Consumer Advice: How To Block Unwanted Calls
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People ask these questions about a number for buying a used car.
More in the full FAQ.
Create a number in your dashboard and name it after the search, such as Car shopping. It is live in about a minute. Put it on each dealer form. Calls ring the phone you already carry, and the dealer only ever sees the number you gave them.
The paperwork asks for contact details that work for the long run, such as for a recall notice. That is the moment to decide whether to give your own number. Until then, the form gets the Car shopping number.
Tell them plainly that you do not want more calls. The FTC says a company has to stop once you ask. If the calls keep coming, burn the number in one tap and they stop reaching you.
No. Your numbers are receive-only: they take calls and texts, and they never make them. You answer calls on your own phone, and you cannot reply to a text from the inbox.
Yes. Every number has three modes: Forward rings your phone and lets texts in, Texts only stops calls and keeps the texts coming, and Block stops both. You change the mode from your dashboard.
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More ways to use a number
Every rule on this page comes from a public page you can check.
Each one is linked where it is quoted, and all of them were read October 31, 2026.
Put a number on your dealer forms that you can burn.
Hand out a number you can burn. Keep the one your family calls.
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