Cars are short? And the "time machine"

Simulcast is King now and will be the world wide ruler of our future, so get used to it now.

Trash isn't all the way back and cars are not quite as scarce as the sideliners and cheerleaders are reporting

Trash lit up this week just as I was complaining we missed the credit bandit market

Can't play with Mother Nature. Just like Nature, the automobile business has natural cycles. They stuck the nose in and now we're paying the price

How much does a mark on Car Fax change the value of a car?

The launching pad of ideas: Auto Trader, the market, and a quick thought on the incredible misunderstanding of the power of industry transforming technology and Simulcast (with a large S out of respect)

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by Robert Hollenshead

by Robert Hollenshead

by Robert Hollenshead

My spies around the country are all echoing the same thing.  Trash has caught  some wind under its wings over the past week,  but there is a limit.  It is 7G trash, not 15G trash.

Even though I have been selling at 95% conversion over the past month, the general market, and merch  supposedly  scarce (?!@^*<>+_?), is not balls to the walls red hot.  The scarce part is such a joke.  Reading and listening to the sideliners espouse this as if they had a clue is Saturday Night Live funny.

When  the world’s largest auction no-sales 4,000 cars a week, where does the scarce part fit in? In my opinion the market is very lack luster and we are making buyers into sissys.  If you get out of bed and put your Chucks on, there are thousands of cars for sale.  But picking over inventory on line that converts at 5% is creating brain freeze.

I have guys coming from the hinterlands that buy and take 40-50 More...

by Robert Hollenshead

Thank the maker, tax time is finally here.  Make no mistake, as soon as I wrote the blurb the market flipped and junk is on.  We sold out today and the market was strong from bell to bell.  My lane was jambed all day.  Everything was ripping from $100,000 down to $1,000.  I need everybody to prey hard that it stays this way for the next few months.  I'm dead, so I'm done.   More...

by Robert Hollenshead

Where's the credit challenged tax market?  It turned up missing this year.  It's the one we count on every year for the past couple of decades.  Normally on the wholesale side you could feel it starting just after the Thanksgiving break. Guys would come out of the woodwork starting to stock up for the tax check buyers, the ones that have an average credit score of your parakeet's i.q. 

I've been standing on the auction block over the past 8-10 sales, looking at units that are perfect for that market.  Normally you can't see the car because of the crowd, and nobody's home.  I didn't get it. I didn't see a flicker in November. OK, maybe December.  No December.  For sure January, no January.  Thank God, February.  No February.  There is a regular Army of guys that pop up like tulips this time of the year, digging in More...