vAuto Replacement

[Jlewis74]

Curious as well.

I've felt for a while now VAuto is missing/hiding sales and current inventory data. Haven't had the time to prove it out but the correlation between wholesale and retail pricing suggests some are looking at a different picture than just VAuto. (Fully understanding VAuto isn't the end-all solution for pricing and acquisition)

My guess, ACV is pulling in their own internal auction data on top of MMR. The big question is where the sold data and current listings are coming from?

Also Vauto does not know when or for what amount any vehicle sold for, they see it fall offline and take the last listed price as the selling price.

 

[Ryan Everson]

MarketCheck's scraping data most likely powers a lot of these tools.

 

[willandre]

Also Vauto does not know when or for what amount any vehicle sold for, they see it fall offline and take the last listed price as the selling price.

Wow, that's presumptuous. And probably wildly inaccurate.

 

[BillVaughnAlWestNissan]

Here we are 6 months later. We ended up choosing VinCue. We couldn't be happier and won't look back.

 

[sarahcharise]

Look into Carketa. They do basically everything vAuto does at a fraction of the cost.

 

[russe197]

Maxdigital could not provide a demo link. But to be honest he had a struggle using/showing it to us. Blamed his internet connection.

I’d say the MAX demo was one of the worst ones. Theg had many issues getting through the whole thing. Reports were like very blah. Just spits out white excel spreadsheets. They have signed up many large dealer groups (maybe they got some volume discount). I’d think that would be a rough go if you signed up for that one. He actually apologized to me via email because he said it wasn’t his best demo.

I still tried to judge it based on what was there. Not much IMO.. I saw enough.

Then with VINCUE there is a ton of information but the layout is super busy and missing some crucial pricing elements to make decisions.

But my big thing was reports and being able to price fast and efficiently. If you price your inventory once a week or whatever the case. A lot of these websites are built on some janky code base. So the demo does not do you justice. It’s like me showing you pictures of a car but not letting you drive it.

VAuto was fine before we switched to Dealerslink; I did sacrifice a couple things. But I wanted to ditch COX automotive solutions. They think they have all the “data”; but at the end of the day we own our data; it’s our commodity to control. What we gained was speed and my ability to price 100 cars in one click if I wanted to. Nobody has that. VAuto I would have to open up 20 tabs and wait. Price them all, close them out, one by one. Now I got more of my time back.

Hey Jeff,

I know this post was from over a year ago... but VINCUE listened to the feedback. We revamped the layout at the beginning of the year based on feedback like yours and it looks exceptionally different... specifically in reporting and during the appraisals themselves.

If you ever want to take another look, let me know.

~JR
VINCUE
202-664-3630

 

[Drcberk]

Dive into the reporting area of V-Auto. Aside from more data than literally everyone, at least to this point, is going to be hard to beat.