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FEBRUARY 17, 2025

We talked with their used car manager, Bryan Bough, about their private-party buying program. They didnt just tweak their existing process; they completely reinvented how they acquire used cars. Higher Margins: The dealership earned an average of $7,000 per car by combining front-end sales, financing and service revenue.

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OCTOBER 21, 2024

While some dealerships are happy sending their used car manager to the auction, others who aren’t satisfied with that approach need to get a little scrappy and think outside the box. Finding a good used car buyer is one of the biggest hurdles dealers face when trying to explore alternative acquisition channels.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2024

When using a private-party management software, dealers see up to an 84% reduction in acquisition costs and two to three times total purchases per month. Bryan Bough, used car manager at one of the largest auto groups in Boise, Idaho, recently said to us: “If you’re not buying cars from the public, you’re making a huge mistake.

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

While dealerships focus on reconditioning used cars, the efficiency of the PDI process for new cars is equally vital. When cars spend less time in the PDI phase, they can be delivered to customers faster, reducing inventory holding costs and improving overall dealership profitability. Here’s how: 1.

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JUNE 6, 2024

If you want to manage inventory holding costs and bolster your earnings per share, consider how your used car reconditioning operates. Cars get sale-ready within three to five days of acquisition. You’re buying the wrong cars if this isn’t consistently happening. When recon is run well, it is dialed in and efficient.

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JANUARY 4, 2024

Dealers today enjoy more predictable used car results because they leverage strategic reconditioning software’s robust efficiency metrics called time-to-line or T2L, a process we introduced to the market in 2010. The profitability of used cars has been, until now, primarily determined by demand and availability.

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JANUARY 24, 2024

After pouring countless amounts of energy into the never-pretty process of getting used cars through the shop faster and on the lot for sale — then what? It’s common knowledge that the real rewards and internal gains only come when the car finds its new owner.

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