Kieran @ Cazana

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  3. Posted

    22 hours ago, Arfur Dealy said:

    The thing is a guide is just a guide. I'm for Retail Back, simply research comparative motors within 100 miles then work out your margin.  

    Absolutely, and if you have time to do that it's great, I could look at cars all day, however if you want this to be automated and done very thoroughly in seconds, with extra tools like days to sale, stocking deprecation, specification and conditional difference, you know where to come :)

    22 hours ago, EPV said:

    Any particular reason you can’t answer my question? 

    Apologies EPV, We cant give all of our secrets away on an open forum, competitors are already trying to copy us!

    19 hours ago, SuperLease said:

    Are you saying 600-800k unique vehicles in the market at any one time? That seems like a lot. The most I’ve ever seen on Autotrader is about 480k and there probably not all unique. Which sites are you getting all this data from then? Free trial or not I think these are fair questions as you’ll want paying at some point right?

    Yes for sure, like you say, auto trader lists 480k, think of all the dealers on this forum alone that only advertise a % on AT, or none at all, and all the main dealer approved used stock that isn't listed....

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    5 hours ago, tradex said:

    You don't know what the cars are selling for, only what AT have them up for:D

    We track the same vehicle across multiple sites so we see multiple prices (and price changes). Feel free to try out the tool for free at trade.cazana.com and see what you think of the values.

    4 hours ago, EPV said:

    Kieran,

    Ok I’ll ask another way. 

    Do you combine the following sites;

    Autotrader

    Motors

    Car Gurus

     

     

    We currently see around 650k cars on sale - we reckon there are a total (depending of seasonality) of 800k at any one time on the market so we have solid coverage of the retail market.

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    2 hours ago, EPV said:

    Which sites do you harvest all that information from Kieran? 

    2 hours ago, SuperLease said:

    Ok thanks that makes sense, when you say the market what exactly do you mean though please? Sorry to be a pain but as I would expect all of these valuation providers seem to be the most accurate etc.

    EPV - Whichever ones we are allowed to, just like google :)

    Superlease - The market, as in the cars currently and historically being sold, what better way to work out the value of something, than look at what they are actually selling for/advertised for

    2 hours ago, Dave2302 said:
    3 minutes ago, tradex said:

    "Gross profit corridor in £££'s & %" wtf IS THAT?:wacko:

     

    The most important bit, how much you should make on the car in both £££ and a % of value, aka, your Gross profit 

  6. Posted

    No need to hide behind "algorithms" :)

    We use the market, cars currently and historically advertised to work our Live Retail, Live Trade (both deadlined every 24hrs), Gross profit corridor in £££'s & %, Average days to sell & Stocking depreciation.

    No manual intervention, no editorial, just transparent market trends. 

    Put simply, we know what the car should be selling retail for by looking at the rest of the market for that car/model/spec, then work back from that to work out acquisition cost etc.

    Mobile and tablet friendly, so perfect for auctions and part x's on the go.

  9. Posted

    Found it very useful, met some great guys and girls for the first time, had some interesting and constructive chats and overall people spent the time to engage with us and sign up. 

    It certainly could have been busier, but Tuesday was better than Monday, I think quality over quantity is the way I would summarise it.

  11. Posted · Edited by Kieran @ Cazana

    A good site with some useful info!

    2 hours ago, tradex said:

    Nice find, thanksB)

    and very well laid out too, & £1.99 check with finance check is a good price too.

    Their check with finance is £19.95 for 4 or £9.95 each, the £1.99 one doesn't include finance info :)

  12. Posted

    I was at the Dealer summit yesterday and saw their announcement/presentation, it was very good and its clear they have the right intentions at heart.

    They just seem like a good bunch of guys/dealers trying to help out their peers, they announced that as they now have a good number of suppliers, they can offer the first years membership for free now.

    Im sure this will come out in an announcement email soon.

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  18. Posted · Edited by Kieran @ Cazana

    20 minutes ago, rich89 said:

    I thought Cazana only existed to see a brief history of the vehicle you want to buy?

    Chances are, you would have already found the car for sale and then started looking into its history..

    Hi Rich, you're right - our focus was initially on vehicle history checks but we now get involved at a much earlier stage in the customer car buying process.

    We now have a section on our website which lists vehicles for sale, and at any one time we have over 620,000 vehicles in our database.

    https://cazana.com/uk

    We automatically read stocklists from dealer websites, so it's hassle-free for the dealer :)