Market Conditions Commentary
 
There are a few things in life that are undeniable.
by Robert Hollenshead
Mar 27 2013 7:13AM

There are a few things in life that are undeniable.

An evening on the beach in Grand Bassam in Ivory Coast.  The sun fills the horizon, the smell of burning charcoal, the hot sea breeze and the wildness of the jungle around you is  a tattoo on the brain that undeniably  never fades away after decades.

The Bohemian atmosphere you feel walking the Rambla in Barcelona is undeniable.

Traveling up the Amazon from Iquitos, Peru, breathing  the air which is actually not just air, but is sweet, you heard me the air is sweet, your lungs can’t get enough, is undeniable.

The fact that you can drive from the driest desert, the Atacama, the  to the highest point a car can pass on earth, La Oroya, the birth place of the Amazon, while eating the best food anyone can imagine, is undeniable.

The fact that the 17545 is the greatest wholesale marketplace on earth is a simple undeniable fact. 

When you can bring 600 cars in a day and sell them all from $500 to $200,000, 52 weeks a year, decade in and decade out,  I think it is safe to claim the strongest market on earth.  I realize I sell at least 100 units a week that get re-shuffled to another little market and they get sold there for a wholesale profit…I know that.  That means you should be paying attention…because I am selling…everything.  And I know that if you had access to the “arbitrage” data  you would see that dealers make huge profits off my cars in other markets, undeniable. 

I watched cars get sold this week at Adesa Louisville that I sold to a buyer in Kentucky six months ago sell for $1,500- $2,000 more…six months later.  This is a fact that is undeniable.

When I hear people comment or write that cars are scarce I bust into a belly role as they are talking stones, just have no connection to the real world.   Come to 17545 and watch  4,000 no-sales per week (just not in my lanes).  That’s not scarce,  that’s undeniable and absolute proof that there are plenty of cars, every week, 52 weeks a year in the 17545.  Nothing, and I mean nothing, scarce here.

So many great customers have told me the auction won’t pay their hotel bill.  OK, I want you to come.  If the auction won’t pay your hotel bill,  I will.  I love meeting fellow gambler degenerates like myself.  It’s a co-validation thing that none-car buying pinheads simply wouldn’t understand (we are an obnoxious, maniacal, semi-animalistic, hyper-competitive, on the verge of (in the Freudian sense) obsessive compulsive (undeniable even if the truth hurts your feelings, I got over that 30 years ago and a terrible divorce) breed.  So, if you buy 8 or more units from me, I will pay your plane ticket as well.  Plus I want to meet the thousands of cats that I have been selling on simulcast to.  Another undeniable fact.

 The fact that I may be retarded and will do anything to snap you out of your stupor to realize that we have the most cars, desirable cars (not reshuffled auction imposters or rentals), trades, (remember that word, trades?) of any location on earth.  You don’t need to play with your puttz on Open Anything or OVanything.  Come to the Big House or get on Simulcast and not only see the cars you want, but actually buy the cars you need, 100% of the time. 

This is Manheim Pa, where selling real cars all started.  Getting lulled into buying second and third grade means of acquisition  finding picked over second (or third) shelf merch is easy.  All you have  to do is listen to the all the pundits that never successfully bought and sold anything other than a typewriter. 

All you got to do is come out or log and watch the show and hold on to your undies cause we found them and we will be selling them…that is an absolute undeniable fact.

The last thing that is undeniable for today is the fact that I have more cars, a better selection of cars, a group of cars that can’t be found anywhere at one place at one time and they will all have new owners by 4PM on Friday is absolutely undeniable. 

Dig in.

 


2 Readers' Comments

1
Mark Kreider
17545
PA 
12 years ago
The heck with 17545, I'm calling my travel agent!

2
Robert Hollenshead
MANHEIM
PA 17545
12 years ago
Not yet brother, we got work to do.