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To be clear, you are saying that dealers are feeding ACTUAL TRANSACTION DATA back to TrueCar?  I am not talking about the price of the vehicle on their website.  I am talking about the details of the actual transaction.


So the vehicle is on the website for $20,000.  Anyone with a desire can find out what every like vehicle is priced at by scrubbing website data, paying for a feed, looking on any number of 3rd party sites etc.  BUT, the vehicle on the website is actually sold for $20,000 less a $5,000 trade allowance that had a $4.000 ACV which makes the NET sale amount $19,000.  The only way TrueCar gets this data is from the dealer......or they don't really have it.