Market Conditions Commentary
 
This week's sale is nailed and ready to be sailed
by Robert Hollenshead
Jul 17 2013 7:28AM

As of 4AM today we have nailed down the sale for this week and we are ready to set sail.  There are 730 units this week, coming off a week where we sold 850 units sold and looking for a monster next week, it’s almost like there is a factory making the wholesale units dealers want.  As you know there is no factory, just us nuts working 25 hours a day, running Trade in Marketplace and producing more fresh, desirable, first time to the market cars at auction then anyone in North America or in  history.

  As crazy as it seems, week in and week out, year in and out, decade in and out dealers find it to be way more profitable for them to sell us their trades and stay current and clean, then to try to do what we do.  We don’t do what they do, retail cars.  We stopped that 42 years ago.  We wholesale and do it in the purest sense of the word.  No static listing, no buy it now insanity, no Turkish bazar before or after, no tricks…just merch, an auctioneer, me, a pair of balls, and you, under the hammer.   Let the chips fall where they may…it’s the market…pure and simple.  The Romans did it, the slave traders did it, cattlemen did it, and the tulip bulb people do it.   It is the only place you can be sure we know what something is actually worth in the open market. 

The exhilaration of a real auction beats a casino, deep sea fishing, being an astronaut, and hitting a home run all wrapped up into one (when your balls are on the line and have to face the music).  Come to 17545 or tune in.  We are locked and loaded, this is not a practice “buy it now” (for $3,000 over market) session.  This is merch, getting sold, based in logic, volume, technology (CR and Simulcast), and a nut that is committed to the dictates of the hammer.  Let’s match results, winner take all.  Think about the insanity of bidding on 100 to get 3.  Or list 100 to sell ten.   I can guarantee you log into our lanes and there will be zero wasted time and zero peripheral bull dung.  I don’t have enough time to waste any and I am 100% sure you feel the same way. 

Get ready to rumble

Robert Hollenshead