Friends and Valued Customers,
I am flabbergasted to have to tell you that Manheim has
notified me that they are not willing to host our Thursday sale. It was a
great success due to all of your participation and I want you to know I deeply
appreciate it. I hope you all did well with the cars you bought.
I needed to find a way to sell more cars due to the fact
that I am unable to get numbers at Manheim on Friday’s even though, as
you all know, I bring multiples more and sell many multiples more than
any seller in the country. Necessity is the mother of
invention and my invention a one off Thursday sale worked perfectly.
Thursday at 1PM turned out to be the right time and day, but Manheim is not
going to host it.
It makes no sense to me as every dealer I spoke to
the attended or participated on simulcast loved it. It was a zero wasted
time, every car getting sold arena and it was original, never done before, and
now will not be done again, at least at Manheim. Who am I to try to
understand why, but if any of you can shine some light I would love to hear
from you. I suppose the theory is that it is better to list 300 on OVE to
sell 20 than bring 300 units to one place and selling them all, under the
hammer, on simulcast, at current market value on the spot.
The result is I will have 600 units on Friday, eight
straight hours on the auction block and make you wait for hours for the run
that matches your profile to come in.
Thanks again for being part of what could have been a great
thing for all of us, but trust me, I am not going to end it here, more
adversity, will create more inventions.
Robert Hollenshead