Providing online non-downloadable computer software platforms for displaying and sharing user data, photographs and images, and for searching and locating other users and interacting with them to provide recycled automobile parts; promoting and setting up regional alliances comprised of independent automobile part recycling companies to market recycled auto parts; promoting and/or marketing to insurance companies recycled automobile parts provided by auto part recycling companies and/or alliances of auto part recycling companies; providing a quality assurance program for recycled auto parts; promoting cooperation between independent auto part recycling companies with respect to the sale of recycled automobile parts.