Pre-launch: CouponsOffersandDeals is building a directory of dealer-authorized offers and is currently onboarding dealerships. No coupons or car deals are published yet.
About CouponsOffersandDeals
CouponsOffersandDeals (COD) is an AutoNetwork service building a directory of dealer-authorized coupons and offers from franchise auto dealerships. We are pre-launch and currently onboarding dealerships; no dealer offers are published yet. Free consumer guides and calculators are available today.
Your Automotive Concierge
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By appointment only. Wait for COD confirmation and meet your named contact. Please do not walk in.
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Meet one of the dealership’s three COD contacts, including a manager. No handoff to another salesperson.
Prepared. Never pressured.
Be ready to review the written terms and take your next step. Prices and availability can change. The decision is always yours—there is no obligation to buy. “I want to think about it” means exactly that.
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The problem we saw coming for 30 years
Dealers lose 12% of their service customers every year to independent shops and quick-lube chains. For an average dealership, that is more than $500,000 in lost service revenue annually.
The reason is not price. 68% of consumers believe dealer service is significantly more expensive than independent alternatives. The actual average price difference is 8-12%. That is not a pricing problem — it is a perception problem rooted in a trust deficit that has been building for decades.
Meanwhile, every coupon system dealers use today makes it worse:
No tracking — dealers have no idea how many coupons were redeemed or by whom
No limits — coupons get screenshotted, shared, and redeemed without any control
No attribution — impossible to tell which promotion drove which customer
No accountability — anyone at the desk can honor a coupon without verification
Dealers are spending marketing dollars on promotions they cannot measure, cannot control, and cannot optimize. That is not marketing. That is leaking.
The solution Roosevelt built — and why he was the right person to build it
Roosevelt founded AutoNetwork.com in 1986, one of the earliest automotive media platforms built to empower car buyers. In 1996, he built one of the first dealer-consumer internet platforms in the United States — a credit union auto buying program operating across Maryland, DC, and Virginia with computers inside dealerships. The platform connected credit union members with verified dealer inventory and documented more than 20,000 vehicle sales. Kiplinger magazine and NADA's national publication both covered the program.
That same year, Roosevelt wrote the first auto lease used by credit unions in Maryland, DC, and Virginia. The auto leasing market was not built for credit union members — particularly African American buyers who routinely faced predatory financing rates at dealerships. Roosevelt wrote the document that gave credit unions a tool to offer their members fair leasing terms. A financial instrument that did not exist before he created it. Built not because someone asked for it — but because he saw the gap and filled it.
He then spent 11 years shooting video for NADA — sitting inside the most important conversations in the American car business. During that time, AutoNetwork.com became the first media outlet to livestream the NADA main event with an invited keynote speaker. It was also the first to livestream all five of the most important automotive events in the United States — the Detroit Auto Show, the Chicago Auto Show, the New York Auto Show, the Los Angeles Auto Show, and the NADA Convention main event.
Before livestreaming was standard. Before anyone else thought to put the car industry's biggest moments on the internet in real time. Roosevelt did it first — every single time.
His access extended beyond automotive. In 1999, Roosevelt conducted what became the last recorded live interview with John F. Kennedy Jr., at a BMW and George magazine event called Politicians and Pundits. It is the kind of credential that needs no explanation — and a reminder that Roosevelt has spent four decades operating at the highest levels of American media, not just automotive media.
He has since returned to automotive media full time, covering new car press introductions for every major OEM — invited directly by car companies — and building the largest collection of new car press introduction videos in existence at YouTube.com/autonetwork.
Nobody comes to this problem with more context. Nobody has spent more time on both sides of the dealer-consumer relationship. And nobody has a longer track record of doing things in this industry before everyone else realized they needed to be done.
CouponsOffersandDeals.com is what that experience produces.
The consumer audience that already exists
Most platforms launching today have to build their consumer audience from scratch. COD does not.
Roosevelt provides all automotive content for BlackPressUSA.com — the number one African American digital news destination in the United States, reaching 240 African American newspapers nationally. That audience already trusts Roosevelt's automotive guidance through AutoNetwork.com. As COD grows market by market, those readers become the verified, deal-ready consumers driving traffic to participating dealers in every city where those 240 newspapers reach.
African American consumers represent one of the most significant and chronically underserved segments of the US auto market. COD and BlackPressUSA.com together create a direct, measurable channel between that audience and franchise dealers nationwide.
This is not projected traffic. This is an existing audience connected to an existing content relationship — pointed at COD as the platform grows.
The book that started it
"The Color of Our Money is Green: A Buyer's Guide to What Cars Actually Cost" — available at stan.store/RGist — is Roosevelt's definitive consumer guide to what dealers actually pay, what cars actually cost, and how to negotiate from a position of knowledge. It is the intellectual foundation COD was built on. Already known to executive contacts at Toyota and Hyundai. The document that crystallized 40 years of dealer-consumer observation into a platform.
What COD does — and how it is different from every other coupon platform
Every offer on COD is dealer-authorized. That means the dealer submitted it, agreed to its terms, and will honor it when a customer walks in. Not scraped from a website. Not pulled from a national ad network. Submitted directly by the dealer and verified before it is ever shown to a consumer.
For dealers, COD provides:
QR-verified offer delivery — every redemption is tracked and documented
Full control over terms, limits, expiration, and eligible services
Monthly performance reporting — views, clicks, redemptions, and attributed revenue
A new discovery channel for customers who are actively searching for dealer offers but have not found your dealership yet
For consumers, COD provides:
Verified offers that are actually honored at the dealership
Local deals from real dealers in their zip code — not national ads
The confidence to walk in knowing the deal is real before they arrive
The ROI dealers see
At our Standard Tier, the model is straightforward:
10 active service offers. 5 claims each per month. 68% redemption rate. 34 actual redemptions. $250 average repair order.
That is $8,500 in gross service revenue. $6,003 net revenue after platform cost, 240% ROI/Month.
We will build that model with your specific numbers before you ever sign anything.
Who we serve
Car owners & buyers
COD is for anyone who wants dealer-authorized offers without the runaround. Once dealerships in your city join, you can find real coupons for buying a car, servicing your vehicle, or shopping for parts and accessories — all posted directly by the dealer, not scraped from another site.
See which dealerships are honoring an offer before you call or visit
Use plain-language cost guides and the right questions to ask
Ask your COD Concierge for what you need in your ZIP
Franchise dealerships
COD is built for franchise dealers who take their service department seriously — and who are tired of watching marketing budget disappear into coupon systems that produce no data, no accountability, and no way to know if any of it is working.
COD is launching in Columbia, SC as the first market of a national program. If you are a franchise dealer and want to be among the first in your market, reach out directly.
Roosevelt Gist — The Automotive Insider Who Was Always First
Founder, CouponsOffersandDeals & AutoNetwork
The short version
Roosevelt Gist has spent 40 years doing things in the automotive and media industries before anyone else knew they needed to be done. Video podcasts in 1989. Dealer inventory on the internet in 1996. Livestreaming the five most important automotive events in America before livestreaming was a word anyone used professionally. The largest collection of new car press introduction videos in existence. Automotive content for 240 African American newspapers. And now, at 79, building a national verified dealer offer platform powered by AI.
He is not catching up to the industry. He never has been.
The timeline of firsts
1986
Founded AutoNetwork.com, one of the earliest automotive media platforms built specifically to empower African American car buyers and serve anyone who values transparency in the car-buying process.
1989
Produced video podcasts using a dialup modem, conducting live video interviews over phone connections before broadband existed, before podcasting had a name, and before most media organizations had considered the possibility.
1996
Wrote the first auto lease used by credit unions in Maryland, DC, and Virginia. The auto leasing market was not designed for credit union members — particularly African American buyers who faced predatory financing rates at dealerships. Roosevelt wrote the document that changed that. A financial instrument that didn't exist before he created it, giving credit union members access to fair leasing terms and putting a tool of financial equity directly in the hands of the community he has always served.
1996
Built one of the first dealer-consumer internet platforms in the United States. Computers inside dealerships across Maryland, DC, and Virginia. Real inventory entered by each dealer. Credit union members shopping verified vehicles online. More than 20,000 documented vehicle sales — before most Americans had heard of the internet. Kiplinger magazine covered it. NADA's national publication covered it.
1990s–2000s
Shot video for NADA — the National Automobile Dealers Association — for 11 years, attending and documenting the most important conversations in the American car business from the inside.
First to Livestream
The five most important automotive events in the United States:
The Detroit Auto Show — where OEMs make their biggest global product announcements
The Chicago Auto Show
The New York Auto Show
The Los Angeles Auto Show
The NADA Convention main event, including a keynote with an invited national speaker
Every major OEM, every top dealer group, and every automotive journalist in America attends these events. Roosevelt put them on the internet in real time — before anyone else thought to.
1999
Conducted what became the last recorded live interview with John F. Kennedy Jr., at a BMW and George magazine event called Politicians and Pundits. One of the most significant interviews in American media history, conducted by an automotive journalist operating at the intersection of culture, politics, and media.
Ongoing
Invited directly by car companies to cover new vehicle press introductions — closed events where OEMs unveil new models to a select group of journalists before they reach showrooms. Has built the largest collection of new car press introduction videos in existence, available at YouTube.com/autonetwork.
Ongoing
Provides all automotive content for BlackPressUSA.com, the number one digital destination for African American news, reaching 240 African American newspapers nationally. The single largest African American automotive media distribution network in the United States.
2026
Published "The Color of Our Money is Green: A Buyer's Guide to What Cars Actually Cost" — available at stan.store/RGist. The definitive consumer guide to what dealers actually pay, what cars actually cost, and how to negotiate from a position of knowledge. Already known to executive contacts at Toyota and Hyundai.
2026
Launched CouponsOffersandDeals.com, a national verified dealer offer platform built to solve the $500,000 annual service revenue loss problem facing franchise dealers across the United States. Columbia, SC is the launch market for a national program.
What Roosevelt built — and why it matters now
Dealers lose 12% of their service customers every year to independent shops and quick-lube chains. The reason isn't price — it's perception. 68% of consumers believe dealer service is significantly more expensive than independent alternatives. The actual price difference is 8-12%.
Meanwhile, every coupon system dealers use today has no tracking, no limits, no attribution, and no accountability. Customers screenshot coupons, share them without limits, and dealers have no idea which promotion drove which customer or what revenue it generated.
Roosevelt has watched this problem compound for 40 years — from dealership floors, NADA conventions, OEM press events, and the pages of 240 newspapers. CouponsOffersandDeals.com is the answer he built from that vantage point: a verified, dealer-authorized, QR-tracked offer platform that gives dealers full control and full visibility, and gives consumers the confidence that the deal they find online will be honored when they walk in.
The platforms
AutoNetwork.com
Expert car reviews, POV test drives, 360° walkarounds, auto loan calculators, pre-approval estimators, vehicle comparison tools, and dealer savings — everything a car buyer needs before they walk into a dealership. 6,000+ videos. 40 years of content.
YouTube.com/autonetwork
The largest collection of new car press introduction videos in existence. Decades of OEM events, auto show coverage, and expert reviews.
BlackPressUSA.com
All automotive content, reaching 240 African American newspapers nationally through the number one African American digital news destination.
Stan.store/RGist
"The Color of Our Money is Green: A Buyer's Guide to What Cars Actually Cost" and additional consumer resources.
CouponsOffersandDeals.com
Verified, dealer-authorized offers from franchise dealers. Launching in Columbia, SC as the first market of a national program.
The through line
In 1989, Roosevelt was doing video podcasts on a dialup modem because he believed that access to information was the difference between a car buyer who got a fair deal and one who didn't.
In 1996, he wrote the first auto lease used by credit unions because he believed that fair financing wasn't a privilege — it was something the right document could make available to everyone. Then he put dealer inventory on the internet because he believed consumers deserved to see what dealers saw.
In the 2000s, he livestreamed the events that shaped the automotive industry because he believed the people who couldn't get into those rooms deserved to know what happened in them.
In 2026, he's building a verified dealer offer platform because he believes that a coupon a consumer can trust is the bridge between the dealer perception problem and the dealer revenue problem — and that nobody has built that bridge correctly yet.
Forty years. One conviction. The color of our money is green — and it spends the same at any dealership in America when you know what you're doing.
Roosevelt Gist
AutoNetwork.com | CouponsOffersandDeals.com
YouTube.com/autonetwork | BlackPressUSA.com
Stan.store/RGist
Columbia, South Carolina
Part of the AutoNetwork Platform
COD is part of the AutoNetwork ecosystem, which has helped consumers understand vehicles and ownership for years.
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COD provides direct access to dealer-authorized offers when it's time to act.
What We Promise
Real dealer offers
Clear redemption paths
Named contacts
No scraping
No gimmicks
If a dealer lists an offer on COD, it's meant to be used.
Frequently Asked Questions
Quick answers about how COD works for car buyers and vehicle owners.
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