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ON THE WEB: NAAA Members Saw More Cars Last Year

Auctions Embrace Online Challenges

By Jeffrey Bellant

National Auto Auction Association member auctions last year sold an estimated 7.9 million used vehicles worth $72.7 billion, according to the trade organization’s 16th annual survey, which excludes upstream sales.

The survey found that the estimated number of vehicles entering the auctions increased by 6.4 percent, to 14.6 million and the conversion percentage was down 1.7 percent.

BBB Warns of Fake Dealership Sites

The Better Business Bureau of Minnesota and North Dakota (BBB) is urging consumers considering an online car purchase to be extra cautious following three recent incidents involving bogus auto dealer websites, each claiming to be located in North Dakota.

Each site claimed a physical address in North Dakota, and provided one or more North Dakota phone numbers.

The fake sites have brought complaints from consumers from Connecticut to Hawaii.

LAS VEGAS – Building excitement in the lanes and strengthening online relationships with customers are key ways to improve the auction experience, a panel said during the Conference of Automotive Remarketing.

Doug Turner, director of asset management for J.D. Byrider, said giveaways don’t necessarily draw him to a particular sale.

“But we do find value in promotions that create an environment of energy and excitement in the lanes,” Turner said.

Turner said he goes to auctions for the inventory, not for the prizes.

Ford Motor Co.’s Linda Silverstein, manager of remarketing and rental operations, agreed that trinkets wouldn’t make a difference in the number of bidders in the lanes.

“A hat? A jacket?” she said.

“That’s not going to bring someone there.

“But building a community, having a relationship with a customer and making it fun for the customer is what I’m trying to commu-

Photo by Jeffrey Bellant FACING THE FUTURE: Stephanie Gingras, general manager of Dealers Auto Auction of the Southwest, joins National Auto Auction Association President Paul Lips and others in a discussion about top remarketing issues.

nicate,” she said.

She cited the Apple store as an example of how to attract customers to a venue.

The company holds classes and special events that make shopping at the stores into a fun experience for the consumers.

Silverstein said even though the younger generation is more technologically

savvy and do more business online, the manufacturer still has to have a relationship with its customers.

Tony Moorby, principal of Chattanooga Auto Auction, said it’s still possible to have that close relationship with a customer who does most of his interactions online. “(For example), you can become known as trustwor-

thy in terms of your vehicle descriptions and your condition report-writing capabilities,” Moorby said.

Moderator Jim DesRochers, vice president, Dealers Auto Auction of the Southwest, said the wholesale side is fractured, from auction lanes to onlinesales to multi-platform selling.

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Cox Enterprises, Inc. announced that Sanford (Sandy) Schwartz, president of Manheim, also will assume the role of president of AutoTrader Group.

Schwartz’s automotive experience includes serving as president of Cox AutoTrader, comprised of both AutoTrader.com and AutoTrader Publishing. He also has served on the board of AutoTrader.com for many years.

Schwartz replaces Chip Perry, who leaves his role as AutoTrader’s CEO

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Perry, who served as president & CEO of AutoTrader.com, was the company’s first employee in 1997 when he was asked by Manheim to launch the online venture.

Following an acquisition spree in the past couple of years, AutoTrader was scheduled to make an intial public stock offering this year. However, the company withdrew the IPO, citing market conditions.

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Panel: Inventory Woes Remain, Though Auctions Help

By Jeffrey Bellant

LAS VEGAS – An independent dealer panel said inventory remains a key issue, but praised auctions for their role in the industry during the Conference of Automotive Remarketing.

NIADA president Chris Martin, a lease-here, payhere dealer in Fayetteville, N.C., said inventory remains pricey, which affects profit margins. It also affects how deals are structured.

“Our term lengths are increasing a bit,” he said. “People are having trouble making payments.”

In terms of inventory, several panelists said the market has changed the way they stock their lots.

“It’s forcing us to take a fresh look at our whole business,” Martin said. “We’re traveling farther and looking harder for cars.”

Keith Hagler, of Taylor Auto Credit in Taylor, Texas, said the prices of cars have made a major impact.

Hagler, a buy-here, payhere dealer, said not only is he traveling farther for vehi-

cles, he’s also buying vehicles with higher mileage than ever before.

It also means he’s paying higher prices.

“I never thought I’d see the day where buy-here, payhere dealers would pay this much for cars,” Hagler said.

Martin said he even took a big step on the digital front to acquire inventory.

“I actually bought a car over my phone for the first time a few weeks ago,” he said.

Arlan Kuehn, a dealer in S. Sioux City, Neb., said buying has changed a lot over the years. Today, a dealer can’t just show up on sale day and expect to be successful.

“We’re doing our homework a lot sooner,” he said.

That means spending time online getting run sheets and looking at condition reports before going to auction.

But the panel of independents praised auctions.

“The auctions have really been working hard,” Kuehn said.

He and fellow panelists said post-sale inspections have been critical tools to their success at auction.

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Photo by Jeffrey Bellant DEALER TALK: A panel of independent dealers, including, from left, Arlen Kuehn, Keith Hagler and Chris Martin, discuss their top concerns during the Conference of Automotive Remarketing.

“I want (the car) to be ready for the customer,” Kuehn said.

Hagler agreed and said it’s important to get the vehicle on the lot “as quickly as possible.”

Martin said the name of the game is “turning it quickly,” so having a car ready to sell is crucial.

The inventory issues affect other aspects of the bottom

line, such as reconditioning, which is a major challenge for Kuehn’s market.

“Reconditioning is work in the buy-here, pay-here business,” he said. “You want the car fixed (quickly) and done right.”

Martin said the little things are important. Good tires with solid tread on a vehicle are a must, for example.

The panel had some con-

structive criticism for auctions, too.

Although Hagler praised the auctions overall, he said the inconsistency of defining “frame damage” continues to frustrate him.

A damaged frame won’t necessarily drive him away, but he’d like to have a clearer description of the damage. “(For me) it’s a safety issue,” Hagler said.

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NEWS BRIEFS CPS Offers Securitization

This further sale is intended to provide CPS with long-term financing for receivables purchased primarily in the month of March.

The transaction was a private offering of securities, not registered under the Securities Act of 1933, or any state securities law.

All of such securities having been sold, this announcement of their sale appears as a matter of record only.

The creditor also renewed its $100 million revolving credit facility with affiliates of Goldman, Sachs & Co. and Fortress Investment Group.

Under the amended terms, the facility will revolve during the first two years and will amortize during years three and four.

Loans under the facility will be secured by automobile receivables that CPS now holds or will purchase from dealers.

Consumer Portfolio Services Inc. announced the closing of its first term securitization of 2013.

The transaction is CPS’s eighth senior subordinate securitization since 2011.

In the transaction, qualified institutional buyers purchased $185 million of asset-backed notes secured by automobile receivables purchased

by CPS. The sold notes, issued by CPS Auto Receivables Trust 2013-A, consist of five classes. Ratings of the notes were provided by Standard & Poor’s and Moody’s and were based on the structure of the transaction, the historical performance of similar receivables and CPS’s experience as a servicer.

The weighted average effective interest rate on the notes is approximately 1.87 percent.

The 2013-A transaction has initial credit enhancement consisting of a cash deposit equal to 1 percent of the New Auction Set to Open DAA Northwest president Bob original receivable pool balance. The final enhancement level requires ac- McConkey announced recently that celerated payment of principal on the auction is expanding into Westthe notes to reach overcollateral- ern Washington and will be opening ization of 11.50 percent of the thenoutstanding receivable pool balance.

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by Myles Mellor The transaction utilizes a prefunding structure, in which CPS PAGE 25 sold approximately $116.3 million of receivables today and plans to sell approximately $68.7 million of additional receivables during April 2013.

DAA Seattle this spring.

Leading the DAA team in Seattle will be Dave Walker and Jim Kriens.

Walker will serve as the auction manager, with Kriens overseeing sales.

DAA Seattle will feature weekly wholesale vehicle sales on its 16-acre campus.

CarMax Adds Another Store

CarMax Inc. is adding another store in Georgia.

The used-car superstore chain is currently hiring approximately 45 positions for the company’s new store in Columbus, Ga. The new

13,000-square-foot store is scheduled to open on April 20 at 6463 Veterans Parkway.

This is CarMax’s seventh store in Georgia.

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Muscle Cars Normalize After Boom and Bust

By Jenny King

Bob Lorius headed south the first quarter of 2013 in search of cars for his dealership, Ohio Corvettes and Muscle Cars in North Canton.

Though prices for these high performers, built roughly between the early 1960s to the mid-1970s, took a dive along with the national economy five years ago, Lorius figures for customers they are a better bet than the stock market.

“I buy cars ready to go,” said Lorius. “It’s cheaper to get a car that is finished than to have it done.”

Materials and labor are increasingly expensive, he said.

Over 90 percent of sales at Ohio Corvettes and Muscle Cars are handled online. Lorius said he owns everything he sells; there are no consignments.

Classic Auto Showplace in Troy, Mich., handles only consignments. Over half of the 70 cars at the metro-Detroit facility in March were muscle cars. Spokesman

Dan Sherman said muscle car prices have not moved much in the last few years.

“We get 40 to 50 walkthroughs a day here,” Sherman said.

The still-slow economy in the area has put a damper on things, he said. About 15 percent of sales are to Michigan residents.

Like Ohio Corvettes and Muscle Cars, Classic Auto Showplace does business worldwide.

Up until the 2008 economic collapse, prices for muscle cars were the best they had ever been, according to Keith Koscak, auction manager and car specialist with RM’s Auctions America, Auburn, Ind. Many thought they were inflated.

“People were not so particular about what they were purchasing,” he said. “They weren’t doing their homework.”

And they were driving prices up on vehicles good and not so good.

Koscak advises retail buyers – and by extension, dealers – to get an accurate his-

STAMP OF APPROVAL: Unveiling the Limited Edition America on the Move: Muscle Cars Forever stamps at the Daytona International Speedway are, from left, DIS President Joie Chitwood III, Muscle Cars Stamp Artist Tom Fritz, NASCAR icons Kyle and Richard Petty and Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe.

tory of a vehicle, check out options, look for vehicles with low production numbers. He suggests muscle car prices now are where they should be.

At the RM Auctions classics sale in early March on Amelia Island, Fla., a welldocumented 1965 Shelby Mustang GT 350, powered by a 306-horsepower 289

KCode V-8 with Holley four-barrel, Borg-Warner four-speed manual and independent front suspension and live rear axle, sold for $242,000.

Another classics sale run

by Gooding & Company the same weekend saw a 1973 Pontiac Trans Am 455 sell for $165,000. It was described as “the last great

American muscle car,” one of only 72 four-speed Trans Am SD 455s built in 1973.

Bob Lichty of Classic Motorcars said that values of muscle cars are rebounding after a “sharp drop” a couple of years ago.

“They are going up as we speak,” said the auction owner and classics retailer in Canton, Ohio.

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Panel Predicts Boost in Volumes, Strong New Car Sales

By Jeffrey Bellant

LAS VEGAS Top forecasters in the automotive industry predicted strong volumes on the used side and increased sales for new cars during a panel discussion at the recent Conference of Automotive Remarketing.

René Abdalah, vice president of RVI Group, said he doesn’t see a slowdown in 2013.

“From our point of view, the market is still strong,” he said.

But the “wild cards” will be gas prices and consumer confidence, he added.

Jonathan Banks, of NADA Used Car Guide, said 2013 would see a change on lease consignment.

“The big difference we see is in lease returns,” he said. “We see a 14 percent increase from 2012.”

Banks expects this to provide some much-desired certified preowned units to the wholesale arena.

Others were also optimistic.

“Overall, there’s a lot of excitement in the industry,” said Ricky Beggs, senior vice president and editorial director of Black Book.

One constant refrain from the panel was the expected strength of new-car sales.

Alec Gutierrez, senior market analyst, automotive insights for Kelley

Blue Book, said new-car sales could reach as high as 15.5 million this year, “possibly approaching 16 million in 2014.”

As a result, Gutierrez expects to see some late-model prices soften, such as those of the 2009 through 2011 models.

Beggs said another change would occur in repossession volumes.

“I think that repos will increase slightly this year and more next year,” Beggs said.

Tom Webb, Manheim’s chief economist, agreed that fleet-lease volumes will rise, but disagreed with some panelists on one point.

“I don’t believe it will have (a big) impact on pricing,” Webb said.

Beggs said the volume of cars isn’t the strongest factor in wholesale values.

“New-car prices have a bigger effect than supply,” Beggs said.

Analysts said the good news in this digital age is there is a lot of data available to them. The bad news is the same: there is a lot of data.

“It’s really about how you analyze and interpret that data,” Banks said.

Several panelists had their own unanswered questions that will affect the market in both the shortterm and long-term.

Abdalah questioned how big a factor credit availability would be in

Photo By Jeffrey Bellant TALKING SHOP: Tom Webb, Manheim’s chief economist (left), chats with Jonathan Banks of NADA Used Car Guide, following a forecasting panel discussion at CAR.

the future.

“We are taking for granted credit availability,” Abdalah said.

Beggs agreed, adding that issues like the length of loan terms and the loan-to-value ratio of deals will play a key role.

Tom Kontos, ADESA’s chief economist, said consignors are identifying opportunities on the sale side in

his market.

“Remarketers are better informed (than they used to be),” Kontos said.

While the general tone of the panel was optimistic, Webb warned this trend of increasing volumes and solid prices are just trends, meaning they, too, will end.

“But it isn’t going to end nicely,” he said.

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RSA Moves More Inventory Online as Acceptance Grows (Craig Carrow is the vice president of auto solutions for Remarketing Services of America Inc.) UCN: How many units will you remarket this year?

C a r row: Between online and traditional wholes a l e , w e ’ r e probably Craig d o i n g 55,000 Carrow vehicles this year. It’s definitely going more toward online. More of the off-lease units are being sold off dealers’ lots and we’re seeing a pretty dramatic increase month after month.

cles in the fourth quarter. We handle the portfolio for U.S. Bank and we work with GM Financial.

We’re releasing a grounding tool. So now dealers can ground the car online and turn around and get price information to purchase the car online. If they don’t want it, it goes out to other GM dealers online and then into the physical auction.

UCN: What is driving the move to online?

Carrow: The technology is easier. And more and more companies are doing this now. It helps that a lot more of the business is going through captives, either the captive doing the leasing itself or working with a bank. When there were a lot of bank returns, they didn’t have the dealer population.

The dealers have been asking for this. It’s a lot easier UCN: Who are your big- for them to go online. gest clients these days?

Carrow: We’re expecting UCN: Are more banks a big jump in off-lease vehi- getting into leasing?

Fiserv Inc. named Indiana Auto Auction, based in Fort Wayne, Ind., as its top performing auction of 2012. Indiana Auto Auction finished in second place last year – its first year of eligibility in the annual auction rankings from Fiserv.

Fiserv began ranking auto auctions in 2001 as a way

Fiserv Names Top Auction

to aid lenders seeking the greatest potential return on their outsourcing investment. Fiserv scores auctions in order to identify qualified partners. Rankings are tabulated to reflect overall customer service, operational efficiencies, sale preparation and marketing with the main emphasis on retention.

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Carrow: The biggest trend that we’re seeing is 24-month leasing has become very popular. It used to be 36-year-month leases were the majority.

We’re starting to see more cars as a percentage come back to auction. There are

UCN: How much of total sales do you think leasing can make up?

Carrow: Around 30 percent is tops. Leasing is still not for everybody. But we’ll stay in the high 20s for the rest of the year.

UCN: Where are you seeing growth?

Carrow: People today are more open to outsourcing.

Everybody is under budget pressure. Our full-servicing program is taking off like crazy. We’re expecting that to grow almost 70 percent this year.

Everybody has done pretty well in the auto business the past few years, so we’re seeing more companies come into the business. We know there are even more companies interested, but they can’t get the funding.

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Our origination system is getting a lot of looks. But they’re almost working in conjunction with the captives. They have partnerships. Santander is an example with its Chrysler program.

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The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau released a bulletin explaining that certain lenders who offer auto loans through dealerships are responsible for unlawful, discriminatory pricing.

The CFPB argues that lender policies that provide dealers with this type of discretion increase the risk of pricing disparities among consumers based on race, national origin, and potentially other prohibited bases.

Research indicates that markup practices may lead to African Americans and Hispanics being charged higher markups than other, similarly situated, white consumers, the Bureau claims.

The National Automobile Dealers Association and the National Minority Automobile Dealers Association issue a joint statement in response to the CFPB action. “The guidance issued by the CFPB attempts to force auto finance sources into changing the way they compensate dealers without any indication that the Bureau has examined the effect this change could have on the cost of credit for consumer,� the groups said.

Attorney Tom Hudson said the move was expected. “The Bureau has been signaling this approach for weeks, so there’s

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The CFPB recommends that indirect auto lenders within its jurisdiction take steps to ensure that they are operating in compliance with fair lending laws as applied to dealer markup and compensation policies.

Hudson said the guidance forces finance companies to choose between paying dealers a flat fee for each contract or retaining a dealer participation model that will involve actively policing dealer pricing to attempt to avoid prohibited discrimination.

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As a result, the auctions still struggle with issues like arbitration and condition reports.

Paul Lips, president of the National Auto Auction Association, said providing accurate condition reports remains critical to the auction’s relationship with its customers, along with promoting post-sale inspections and following up with online buyers.

Lips said with so many customers online, it puts pressure on the auction to service those customers when they call on sale day or need information on something like arbitration.

Moorby said the nature of the auction business is changing radically.

“I don’t think people are going to rely on us to create that sense of enjoyment and sale-day sentiment,” he said.

Moorby said the industry has to embrace technology to grow.

“This may be a touchy thing to say,” Moorby said, “But the way I see our association (NAAA) is that it’s inward-looking, almost to a point of having its head in the sand.”

Turner said online sales rely heavily on condition reports and seller’s disclosures.

So unless he has faith in and experience with the seller, online purchases and arbitration remain

complicated processes, he said.

In response, Stephanie Gingras, general manager, Dealers Auto Auction of the Southwest, said it’s up to auctions to “uncomplicate the process.”

Turner said one trend he’s noticed over the past few years is the steady increase of buy fees at auction.

“One factor in that is it’s been a seller’s market,” Turner said. “We sell at auction, too. But while I see our sale price remaining relatively flat, our buy fees keep creeping up.

“Right now, I don’t like it, but I have no choice.”

Silverstein said the trend of higher and higher fees is a problem.

“As it gets so expensive, (someone) may start to say, ‘that’s a lot of money. Is there a more efficient way to get that to a dealer?’” Silverstein said.

In fact, Turner said these factors have an effect in the instructions he gives to buyers that go to auction for J.D. Byrider. Turner will use several sources to determine the value of a car he sends a buyer to acquire, but there’s another part to the equation.

“Our first question anymore is, ‘where are you buying that?’” Turner said. “If it’s from an auction, we back the (bid) of that vehicle down $200 or $300, depending on what the fees are.”

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Updating guidance known as Dot Com Disclosures, which was released in 2000, the new FTC staff guidance, “Dot Com Disclosures: How to Make Effective Disclosures in Digital Advertising,� takes into account the expanding use of smartphones with small screens and the rise of social media marketing. It also contains mock ads that illustrate the updated principles.

Like the original, the updated guidance emphasizes that consumer protection laws apply equally to marketers across all mediums, whether delivered on a desktop computer, a mobile device, or more traditional media such as television, radio, or print.

If a disclosure is needed to prevent an online ad claim from being deceptive or unfair, it must be clear and conspicuous. Under the new guidance, this means advertisers should ensure that the disclosure is clear and conspicuous on all devices and platforms that consumers may use to view the ad. The new guidance also explains that if an advertisement without a disclosure

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The 2000 guidance stated that to help ensure clear and conspicuous disclosures, advertisers should consider the disclosure’s placement and proximity to the relevant ad claim, its prominence, whether audio disclosures are loud enough to be heard, and whether visual disclosures appear for long enough to be noticed.

Although the 2000 guidelines defined proximity as “near, and when possible, on the same screen,� and stated that advertisers should “draw attention to� disclosures, the new guidance says disclosures should be “as close as possible� to the relevant claim.

Like the original guidance, the updated Dot Com Disclosures calls on advertisers to avoid using hyperlinks for disclosures that involve product cost or certain health and safety issues. The new guidelines also call for labeling hyperlinks as specifically as possible, and they caution advertisers to consider how their hyperlinks will function on various programs and devices.

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Honda is recalling 183.756 model year 2005 Pilot vehicles manufactured July 29, 2004, through August 29, 2005; model year 2005-2006 Acura MDX vehicles manufactured September 16, 2004, through September 22, 2005; and model year 2005 Acura RL vehicles manufactured March 1, 2004, through June 29, 2005.

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Sudden inadvertent braking, especially without illumination of the brake lights, may increase the risk of a vehicle crash.

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Honda’s recall campaign numbers are S87, S88, and S89.

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Auction Association’s Warren Young Fellowship award.

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Stanley is president and owner of Carolina Auto Auction in Williamston, S.C., and owner of Indiana Auto Auction in Fort Wayne.

Stanley started in the auction industry in 1960 as a ringman, before becoming an auctioneer for Capitol Auto Auction in Columbus Ohio.

He purchased the auction in 1969, renaming it Ohio Auto Auction.

He later sold the auction and briefly retired. The auction today is Manheim Ohio.

But in 1990, he and his wife, Patty, purchased Carolina Auto Auction and later bought Indiana Auto Auction. “I’m so honored,� said Stanley, as he accepted the award. “As I look among the great remarketers in this (industry), I would never think that I could win this award. I thank you very much.�

Stanley thanked his wife and his staff at both of the auctions.

ARI’s Graham started with the company in 1973.

He has worked in new vehicle purchasing and also served as director of ARI’s maintenance department while rising through the ranks.

He has been credited with ARI’s innovation and involvement on the Internet.

Graham, a former IARA president who now serves as chairman of the board, was grateful for the award. “When you get in this position, you have to thank all the people that you’ve worked with, who gave you the opportunity to be out (here) working in the great remarketing industry,� he said.

He specifically thanked Jennifer Schade, ARI’s vehicle remarketing manager, for her support as well as others in the industry.

NAAA President Paul Lips presented the 65th Warren Young Fellowship award to Myers.

Lips said during Myers’ time with Capital One, he has managed the group’s vehicle remarketing program through “expansive growth,� utilizing 44 auction locations across the nation, while developing and implementing a vehicle inspection program for the company.

Myers also serves on client advisory boards for Manheim and ADESA. Since 2004, the Warren Young Sr. Scholastic Foundation has helped 120 students with college scholarships, while raising $1.25 million and awarding $40,000 annually in scholarships, Lips said.

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Eric Freeman, president, Freeman Motor Co., Portland, Ore.: “We’ve been in business 23 years.

“We have one indoor store and we have a service facility down the street.

“At our sales facility, we carry about 100 cars indoors. We service about 200 cars a month at our service facility.

“Our store is 25,000 square feet.

“We are a retail European car dealership. So we carry Land Rover, Mercedes, BMW, Audi and Range Rover – brands like that.

“Our average retail price is $23,000.

“Right now, our average sales are 92 units a month.

It’s similar to this time last year. The beginning of the year is always a good time for us. “(For inventory) we buy cars all over the West Coast.

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“Our average model year is 2008. Average mileage would be in the 50,000-mile area, overall. “(Supply) does have an effect on getting our inventory. If you’re someone who is paying $20,000, $30,000 or $40,000, you want to start out with a lower-mileage car.

“We carry 60 percent cars and 40 percent sport utility vehicles.

“On the service side, we really look like a new-car store. We have eight lifts.

“Over the last few years, we began to develop our service business. The reason is, over the last four or five years, our front-end gross has dropped. Our service business has been a great source for us to begin to make up for some of that front-end loss.

“We spend a lot on reconditioning. One reason is we sell a (more expensive) car. Our cars are inspected when we buy them. Then after we ship them in, they are re-inspected. Then any needed repairs are done.

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“Our recon is about $860 per vehicle.

“For marketing and advertising we use a little bit of print, simply because we like to use a whole spectrum (of advertising). We also use AutoTrader and Cars. com. We have our own website.

“One recent vehicle we sold was a 2009 Maserati Quattroporte, with 11,000 miles on it. We sold that car for $59,900.”

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Jim Millner, owner, Millner Motors, Charlottesville, Va.: “I’ve been in business for seven years. I have one location.

“We keep, on average, about 60 units on our lot.

“We get our vehicles primarily from local auctions, Manheim auctions in Harrisonburg and Fredericksburg. Two or three years back, I would have been able to get a lot of inventory from new-car dealers. But they’re keeping a lot of that inventory now.

“Last year, I think we sold an average of 37 per month.

We’re doing well this year.

We sold 47 in February and we’re on track (at press time) to do in the 40s for March.

“We do a little bit of everything (outside of buy-here, pay-here).

“We have financing programs for subprime, for middle-of-the-road and for prime customers.

“Percentage-wise, we’ve been selling 1/3 cars, 1/3 SUVs and 1/3 trucks. But the trucks have been harder to find.

“The average mileage is probably in the low 100,000s – 100,000 to 105,000.

“The average model year is around 2005, 2006.

“I don’t have a service shop. I used to have one, but I decided to devote more time to (sales).

“We’ve got a couple of good local shops that do our state/local inspections and our mechanical (work).

Then we have guys in-house who do the cleanup and detailing.

“I would say recon costs are about $500 to $600 per

vehicle. That’s gone up a bit. People trade in cars for a reason. It’s usually because they need something (fixed).

“But we send them through the shops and if there’s anything that needs to be fixed, we do it.

“The majority of our advertising is through our local newspaper. They have weekly editions of the newspaper that go to outlying counties. We use that on a consistent basis. The key to our newspaper advertising is consistency.

“We do a little bit of radio to our core demographics.

I also consistently do cable TV. It’s good bang for the buck. And you can target specific cable channels to your demographics.

“Our average retail price is $12,291. That’s up from last year.

“We recently sold an 2004 Acura MDX. It had 162,000 miles.

“We sold that for $8,995.

It was a trade-in. but it was kept in great shape. It was clean. It had good tires, good leather (interior) and the right equipment.”

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Brook Phillips, vice president, Mid-America Auto Auction, Wichita, Kan.: “We’ve owned the auction since 1982.

“We have five lanes. We’re running four to five lanes.

“Volumes are down, but percentages are up. We’re running about 450 units per sale. The last six weeks our percentages were about 70-plus.

“We’re a 90-percent (dealer) consignment auction. About 70 percent come from new-car-store trades. From what I’m hearing, new-car dealers are selling new-to- used vehicles at a two-to-one (ratio).

“Also, as the tax money was coming in, a lot of the new-car stores were keeping the cheaper stuff that they’d normally wholesale.

“On average, we’re drawing 300 to 350 bidders in the lanes. But that’s always been consistent.

“We’re drawing those dealers from Kansas and the surrounding states: Oklahoma, Missouri, Ne-

braska, Colorado and some from Texas.

“The dealers’ moods have been pretty good. In this region, we don’t have the big swings in the economy, like with the housing boom. But we also didn’t have the big housing bust either. Aircraft is the big industry here and it’s been pretty good.

“Our repossessions are probably actually down as a result.

“Most of our non-dealer consignment is made up of repossessions. We also have fleet–lease, but that’s made up of rental units. Most of that is damaged stuff from the rental companies.

But that sells at a 90 percent rate.

“Overall, the first three months this year have been as good as I’ve seen in the past five years.

“The average price coming over the block hasn’t changed much over 10 years. Believe it or not, we’re right in that $4,500 to $5,000 range. That’s the easiest car to sell. That’s what everybody wants. “(In terms of what’s hot),

Compiled by Jeffrey Bellant it really has more to do with the price range than the type of vehicle.

“I’m selling imports and I’m selling domestics. Anything in that $5,000-to$8,000 range is really hot.

Because we’re going into spring, minivans have really started to pick up.

“In terms of mileage, everything’s pretty consistent up to 140,000 miles. Anything more than 140,000 is getting pretty tough to sell.

“I made a joke with someone from one of my newcar stores recently. I said, ‘You know, 150,000 miles is the new 100,000 miles.”

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Lori Pidgeon, general manager, EPI Auto Auction, El Paso, Texas: “We’ve been in business two years.

“We have four lanes. We run three lanes during our weekly sales and we run four lanes once a month for promotional sales.

“Lately, sales percentages have been really high, like a lot of auctions. Sales percentages have been run-

ning in the high 60s.

“But there never seems to be a lot of volume this time of the year. I know auctions are showing a decline in that.

“Our volume is still up about 25 percent compared to this time last year.

“We’re drawing about 175 dealers in the lanes.

“The majority of dealers are coming from Texas, Phoenix and New Mexico.

“We also draw dealers from Mexico – from the Chihuahua and Juarez areas. We are a border town.

“The mood of dealers is good. There doesn’t seem to be any kind of recession here like there was in the northwest where I came from. I spent 21 years in Portland and then I was two years in Spokane. I joined the Bob McConkey group and (came down here).

“We do have a large dealer consignment, but we also have government sales for the GSA, VSE and GTB. “The VSE handles seized vehicles and the GTB (handles customs, border and forestry vehicles).

“The volumes run close

to 225 a month from those entities.

“On an average sale, dealer consignment makes up about 70 percent of my volume.

“Fleet-lease is probably 25 percent of a sale, on weeks we’re not selling the (government vehicles).

“For the GTB units, we’ll have a little bit of everything. It’s a good mix.

“Right now, repossessions are a little lighter.

Title companies are really big here.

“We run an in-op sale every other week.

“We’re running about 30 units. That’s probably about a 50 percent sale.

“We have everything posted on Auction Pipeline and we do the Wi-Fi pictures on absolutely everything.

“Our average price in the lanes is about $7,000, but some of the big equipment stuff adds to that.

“I’m feeling positive about 2013, but I think 2014 is going to be the big (increase) in lease returns.

“But it’s looking good to us.”

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Big Sale Offers Cars, Cash

Photo Courtesy of Charleston Auto Auction WINNER: Gregg Parkhurst, with Parkhurst Auto Sales, shows off his big prize at Charleston Auto Auction’s anniversary sale.

Charleston Auto Auction’s two-day anniversary event in March culminated in its largest sale ever.

On March 14th Charleston Auto Auction hosted a “Lender/Vendor Event”. It featured live music, catered food plus numerous companies offering services to benefit Charleston Auto Auction dealers.

The following day, the auction hosted its 12th anniversary sale, which featured more than 1,500 vehicles, 800 dealers and $50,000 in cash giveaways. A record set for dealer attendance and a record was set for online attendance with 180-plus dealers signing on for the simulcast sale.

There were over 500 franchise dealer trades from more than 35 new car stores and institutional accounts ran more than 400 units.

Independent dealers and wholesalers consigned more than 600 vehicles.

Twenty-one dealers were awarded a total of $50,000 in total prizes.

“What a great sale,” said Laura Taylor, general manager. “We sold a record number of vehicles (1,002) and we had our best turnout ever.”

Hyundai Names Top Auction

Hyundai Motor America has named Manheim Pennsylvania as its 2012 Auction of the Year.

The annual Hyundai Auction of the Year award is presented to the best performing auction in terms of sales, customer service, efficiency, quality and overall performance. This is the third time Manheim Pennsylvania, a Hyundai partner for more than 10 years, has won Auction of the Year.

“We appreciate our partnership with Manheim Pennsylvania and its outstanding management team,” said Gary Knapp, senior group manager, fleet and remarketing, Hyundai Motor America. “They continue to put forth great effort while making sure

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Tim Van Dam, auction vice president and general manager, returned the compliment.

“We value our close working partnership with Hyundai and are honored to be recognized with this award. We look forward to continuing to build upon this success.”

We invite news items and top-quality photos from our readers to be considered for “Around the Block.” Please include the name of a contact person and a telephone number.

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Winterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been hanging on as long as tax season this year. The clocks went forward a couple of weeks ago and daffodils havenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t even been in full bloom yet. Letâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hope that the green that unfolds here soon is retail dol-

behind what already happened at retail, then itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s predictable to a great extent.

The auction industry handled some 14.6 million vehicles last year and is headed for an even better 2013, according to Frank Hackett, the

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After our spring conference in Las Vegas, the remarketing business seems to be fairly resilient. The wholesale auction business doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t enjoy the peaks of retail activity, but then it doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t suffer the troughs quite so badly either.

The activity curves are much softer and tend to have a twomonth or so lag. As the lag is

National Auto Auction Associationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s CEO, following the annual survey of its membership. The members were also responsible for about $1.1 billion in payroll last year and over $4 million handed over to various charities.

You can read this news in other parts of this august publication, but I thought it worth pinpointing some of the highlights. Typically, the wholesale auction business goes about things in a fairly quiet and organized manner.

The vehicle redistribution capabilities achieved by less

than 400 auctions and related businesses are masterful, indeed. There is still an enormous willingness to invest in its own future â&#x20AC;&#x201C; growing and changing in a chameleon-like way to blend in with the surrounding requirements of its customers. It may not look too dynamic on any single day, but it acts with greasedwheel efficiency in balancing markets and demands and therefore prices.

As new technologies grow within the industry, then perhaps some of the new talent will think laterally enough to develop stuff that applies to other markets too. I distinctly remember back in the mid-â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;90s that our VP of strategic planning looked at our new Internet sales platforms and said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;We could sell anything from here to anywhere in the worldâ&#x20AC;Śâ&#x20AC;? That was before eBay or Amazon.

Ironically, that same premise could spell a whole new future for any distribution business, including ours â&#x20AC;&#x201C; outsiders looking in and licking their lips at hitherto unseen opportunity. That means all the way from retail car sales â&#x20AC;&#x201C; at least used ones, new cars being somewhat

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The real judgment is, which to put together to gain the biggest share of market the quickest. Success goes to the fleet here â&#x20AC;&#x201C; pun not intended.

Competition in the auction business is heating up to supply the independent operators with some new, mobile applications that work equally well for the customer and the supplier.

If anyone who attended the above-mentioned conference didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t come away with a sense of foreboding, then they missed about 80 percent of the important meetings, seminars and panel discussions.

I, for one, came away with a

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