Anonymous
8/5/2025, 6:40:41 AM
No.28552241
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I think I finally understand the used market
After a few months of working in a dealership, I think I understand how used vehicle values work.
tldr: Ultimately the pre-owned market exists to fuck over poorfags.
At every level, used vehicles are priced tens of thousands above what the risk involved ought to make the car worth.
People think its the dealers but that isn't the case. None of them have any value added or competitive advantage. No one dealer provides that much of a better service than another that a $400 price cut wont lose them their business to the next guy. There's nothing unique about what they do, they're just a storefront. And they'll all undercut each other in two seconds.
Its the people selling their cars at 40-60k miles demanding way more than they ought to get for it. Those people kick the can down the road to the next person, who still knows theyll get 10k-20k$ for it at 100k miles, even if its basically worthless at that point, given that many of those cars (unless you really know what you're doing) will be scrap in a year or two.
The only person getting fucked by the price inflation, really, is the poorfag paying $16,000 for the 2014 Jeep Grand Cherokee, who will drive it to expiration. The fact that they're typically the only ones dumb enough to do this is what props the entire rest of the market.
tldr: Ultimately the pre-owned market exists to fuck over poorfags.
At every level, used vehicles are priced tens of thousands above what the risk involved ought to make the car worth.
People think its the dealers but that isn't the case. None of them have any value added or competitive advantage. No one dealer provides that much of a better service than another that a $400 price cut wont lose them their business to the next guy. There's nothing unique about what they do, they're just a storefront. And they'll all undercut each other in two seconds.
Its the people selling their cars at 40-60k miles demanding way more than they ought to get for it. Those people kick the can down the road to the next person, who still knows theyll get 10k-20k$ for it at 100k miles, even if its basically worthless at that point, given that many of those cars (unless you really know what you're doing) will be scrap in a year or two.
The only person getting fucked by the price inflation, really, is the poorfag paying $16,000 for the 2014 Jeep Grand Cherokee, who will drive it to expiration. The fact that they're typically the only ones dumb enough to do this is what props the entire rest of the market.
