Not Every Wholesaler Will Bid Exclusively Online "78% say they want to see and drive the car, BEFORE they bid." 96% say they would bid at the car from a smart phone app if they had the opportunity We are confident that an inspection period for wholesale buyers to review and even drive the cars [...]
Dealers ship their cars off to auction only to find that 50% go unsold. We even have a special name for this; it's called a “No Sale” or NS for short. So what’s next for that "No Sale" car? Run it again? Ship it off to another auction at additional expense? Wait until tax season and [...]
Dealers have to expand their horizon to find the "right" cars to feed their inventories. This means visiting a greater number of auctions and reviewing a larger number of vehicles to find the cars that fit their local market. Because of the finite number of hours in a day and the distance between physical auctions, many [...]
To Sell or Not to Sell that is the Question? There’s a debate going on with managers representing cars at auction. It concerns the battle over sell rate (also known as sell through) vs wholesale profitability and its impact on buyers. It has been described by industry insiders as the great problem with the modern used [...]
As used prices fell 2.5 percent last month, auction volume was on the way up, perhaps playing a role in the continuing depreciation being seen in the auction lanes. According to the latest Guidelines report from NADA Used Car Guide, auction volumes of used cars up to 8 years old reached almost 317,000 units in June, [...]
Auction volume was up more than 8 percent year-over-year in June, and year-to-date figures continued to hold strong, according to the latest Economic Dashboard from the National Auto Auction Association. Specifically, the tally for the month of June climbed 8.3 percent against comparable weeks of 2014. Auction volume for the first half of the year was up 7.3 percent [...]
