The 20-Minute Weekly Used-Car Pricing Meeting
A practical weekly pricing meeting agenda for used-car dealers. Review new arrivals, weak activity, aging risk, markdown decisions, and sourcing lessons in 20 minutes.
Recent Blog Posts
A 45-Day Market Can Still Hide 75-Day Inventory Risk
Market averages can hide aging inventory risk. Learn how dealers can spot local pricing, demand, and turn problems before units become 75-day inventory.
Independent Dealers Need Inventory Discipline as Used Retail Prices Climb
Used retail prices are climbing while sales pace slows. Independent dealers need stronger sourcing, appraisal, pricing, and inventory discipline before chasing the market higher.
Compact Cars Are the Affordability Battleground
Compact cars are gaining strength as affordability pressure reshapes used-car demand. Learn how dealers should decide when to bid up at auction and when to walk away.
How to Know If an Auction Vehicle Is Worth Bidding On
A practical auction buying checklist for automotive dealers. Evaluate wholesale vehicles, estimate profit potential, set a walk-away number, and avoid bad buys.
Wholesale Auction Post Sale Inspection
Post sale inspections help dealers add protection when buying vehicles online and reviewing units they cannot inspect in person.
Buying Wholesale Vehicles Online
Online auctions and digital marketplaces give dealers more ways to source inventory beyond the lane, from simulcast sales to buy-now marketplaces.
Auction Run Lists On Carbly VIN Scanner
Manheim, OVE, and Manheim Express run lists in Carbly help dealers review auction vehicles before they bid.
Online Auction Simulcast Buying Tips
Lots of dealers have been attending auctions exclusively in person. Use these tips to get comfortable participating in simulcast sales and buying online.
CARFAX And Carbly VIN Scanner
Integrate your CARFAX account into Carbly VIN Scanner to further enhance your data and save time.
Kelley Blue Book® Now Available On Carbly VIN Scanner
Carbly VIN scanner is pleased to announce that Kelley Blue Book® is now available, allowing you to pair the Kelley Blue Book data you know and trust with with Carbly's VIN scanner and user-friendly software.
How To Handle Trade-In Negotiations
The trade-in negotiation is still one of the most contentious interactions between dealers and customers. Navigating this successfully is the key to putting more deals together and better referrals.
Real Retail Data for Buying & Selling Vehicles
Real Retail supplies data from approximately 3 million transactions, from almost 50% of the dealers in the US. It takes you behind the scenes, showing what retail prices are really being achieved after the deals have been negotiated with customers.
Know Your Retail Market
When buying and selling a successful dealer doesn't rely on guide book values alone; they also make sure that they properly understand their retail market. Failing to do so can result in poor buys and costly errors. Carbly offers extremely detailed and robust data for your live local retail market.
The Importance of Historical Comps When Pricing
You will often hear people in the trade tell you that they simply follow the prices in their local market. That works if everyone else in your market can be trusted to price their inventory correctly; if not, you're allowing an unskilled individual to negatively impact your ability to make money.
What is Diminished Value?
Put simply, diminished value is a state in which a vehicle suffers a loss in value as a result of an accident or damage, despite correct repair work having been completed. When compared to a similar model with a clean history, a vehicle with a bad...
Manheim Market Report And Carbly VIN Scanner
See how your trusted Manheim Market Report data fits into Carbly VIN scanner.
J.D. Power Values (formerly NADA) - Use and Features
See how your trusted J.D. Power Values (formerly NADA) data fits into the Carbly VIN scanner.
The Increasing Importance of Vehicle History
When appraising vehicles there is no shortage of data and reference points these days. They all have their uses and should not be overlooked but before you get too far into the process, you should start by examining a vehicle history report.
Market Day Supply: Why it Matters
Learn how to take advantage of this critical factor to buy and sell cars more accurately.
Why Used Car Market Trends Are So Important When Appraising
If you're serious about fully exploiting opportunities for profit when buying and selling vehicles, you'll already know that you need multiple data points for complete insight when appraising and pricing. Accurate appraisal requires a nuanced approach that cannot be achieved when only consulting a single source.
Black Book® And Carbly VIN Scanner
See how your trusted Black Book® data fits into the Carbly VIN scanner.
Carbly vs. Autoniq: Pricing Tools for Dealers
Carbly is the most powerful, easy to use and affordable vehicle appraisal app available. Giving live market data for new and used cars, Carbly helps dealers make better buy and sell decisions immediately.
5 Common Dealership Mistakes When Appraising Cars
Buying or selling a vehicle at the right price can be a challenging process, and it all starts with determining what you think is a fair (and profitable) price. Except in very rare scenarios, the appraisal process starts with looking at book values...
Carbly vs. Laser Appraiser
Laser Appraiser is another mobile appraisal app for car dealers. To the casual observer it might seem very similar to Carbly but there are actually quite a few things that set them apart.
Try Carbly when your Autoniq VIN scanner is not working
Carbly offers an alternative when your Autoniq VIN scanner is not working due to a service outage.
A VIN Viper Alternative
VIN Viper was an incredibly popular and broadly used tool before the business closed a couple of years ago. It's easy to see the reason for their popularity. They provided a useful feature set for much less than other available tools. Let's look at...
A Guide to More Accurate Vehicle Appraisals
Whether you're determining the highest price to pay for a vehicle or understanding what you should accept as a floor for offers, finding out the true value of a car or truck can be a complicated business.
