The survey covering June ended today. July was not an easy month. The response rate was running two to three percent below the norm for much of the month. Not good, as this would have nearly cancelled out all of the people who joined in the last three months. And I’m not much for running unless it gets me somewhere.

Then, toward the end of the month, we ran a special email asking members why they hadn’t responded.

The #1 reason: the car had been sold. And so we learned that we need a more obvious way for people to report when they buy and sell cars.

Thanks largely to that email, we ended the month with over 12,000 responses, and a response rate a few tenths above the norm. Quite a comeback.

The payoff: 257 full results, and another 249 partial results, in mid-August. Including the first for a 2010 model.

Ten other models fell a single response short of the minimum. A late response might still tip them in.

Results won’t be out before mid-August because I’ve still got a lot of data to clean. When that’s done, July will finally be over. And we can then start looking forward to October…