Market Conditions Commentary (Archive 2013-August)
With nearly 40 years in the wholesale automobile business, our founder Robert Hollenshead offers his insights on the market and where it is going -- info to help your business succeed!
by Robert Hollenshead
8/28/2013 4:08:22 PM

Don’t forget to take advantage of BidNez this week.  The winners last week are laughing all the way to the bank.  There are 600 units to analyze and price.  It will help you understand the market, who sells cars, where they are, and if you are smart, you win make a nice chunk of change that isn’t offered anywhere else in your world this afternoon.  Dig in Bidnex.com

Next week we will be changing the payout to a purse where ebvery user will get a piece of the purse.  Pay attention. 

Have fun, bid well, sell better.

Bob

Robert Hollenshead

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by Robert Hollenshead
8/23/2013 5:09:04 AM

Thanks to all the dealers that participated in our 1PM sale yesterday.  The sale was fast, clean, and felt very much like a factory sale.  It looks like the 1PM start works well for everyone so that’s where we will be every other Thursday, the opposite week of the Manheim High Line sale.  It looks like it is a good time slot for buyers as there isn’t any auction in the country running at that time that is selling what I would call a “new car dealer” profiled unit, low mile, clean car fax, and logically arranged. 

If you actually take the time to look around the country at what is available at auctions it is shocking.  What I see is a hodge podge of high mile, painted up, miss matched runs of cars that is near industrial waste with 165,000 mile mixed up with rental pigs and shop flunked rejects, it’s unbelievable.  Anything that might be interesting has a hit on Car

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by Robert Hollenshead
8/20/2013 5:12:42 PM

Here we go.  We have 210 units for a cute little sale at 1PM EST this Thursday the 22nd of August.  We selected a very nice group of varied domestics, all low mile clean Car Fax units.  Then we pinched a very nice grouping of imports that include: Lexus, Toyotas, Mercedes, Rovers, Porsches, Audis, BMWs, Bentley, Volvos and more.  They are all low mile, clean Car Fax units. 

The sale will be ripping, not begging.  It won’t take more than a couple hours and if anyone is paying attention, I will be selling everything.  I hope you come out to the sale as we will be serving great food and refreshments and all Trade-in Marketplace dealers will be getting a $100 cut on the hammer price for each purchase.  You must be a current TIM dealer to qualify. 

For Friday we have an additional 450 units

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by Robert Hollenshead
8/15/2013 7:54:36 AM

On Aug 14, 2013, at 1:39 PM, Robert Hollenshead <bob@buybooktech.com> wrote:

Congratulations to Jim Johnson of Minnesota.  Jim, the winner of last week’s contest won $5,000!  This week, if you are smart, can be your week to win!

$5,000 To The Most Highly Skilled Auto Pro and Bid Nez proves who that is!

Knowing how much cars are worth is a real skill.  As an auto professional who appraises and buys cars every week, BidNez reveals inventory and shows you on a one to one basis what you know...and don't know.  It also reveals where they are, who sells them, what they are worth.   The results prove it as well as pay off.  And again this week, that skill can earn you as much as $5,000.

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by Robert Hollenshead
8/7/2013 6:18:38 PM

We’re stacked up and ready.  10 in the AM in the wholesale center of the world, the 17545.  Win, lose, or drawl, these suckers will all have new owners by 2PM.  Good luck.

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