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Auction Sourcing · Parts Risk · Recon · Margin
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Research Use Only
April 2026

Est. 15 min
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Profile
Process
Backorder
Financial
Tool Fit
01
Dealer Profile
About You
Q1.1
What best describes how you operate?
Q1.2
How many vehicles do you buy per month at auction?
Q1.3
Which auction channels do you use? (Select all)
Q1.4
What vehicle types do you mostly target?
Q1.5
Do you use floor plan financing?
02
Acquisition Process
How Do You Decide What to Bid?
Q2.1
Walk me through how you decide what to bid on a vehicle at auction.
Q2.2
What tools or data sources do you use to estimate repair costs before bidding?
Q2.3
How much time do you typically have to decide on a bid?
Q2.4
What information do you wish you had at bid time that you currently don't?
03
Parts & Backorder Risk
Parts Risk & Margin Impact
Q3.1 KEY
Describe a situation where a parts backorder or sourcing delay had a significant impact on your margin or turnaround time.
Include: year/make/model, part needed, where you sourced it, how long it took, what it cost you.
Q3.2
What category was that part?
Q3.3
Where did you try to source the part?
Q3.4
How often does a car sit waiting on a hard-to-find part?
Q3.5
Are there specific makes or models you've learned to avoid because parts are hard to find?
Q3.6 KEY
If you had known the part would be hard to get BEFORE you bid — what would you have done differently?
04
Financial Impact
What Does It Actually Cost You?
Q4.1
What's your typical target gross margin per unit?
Q4.2
Target days-to-flip vs. what actually happens?
Q4.3
If a vehicle sits an extra 2–3 weeks waiting on a backordered part, what is the typical margin impact?
Q4.4 KEY
Have you ever broken even or lost money on a car because of a parts delay? What happened?
05
Tool Fit
What Would Actually Help You?
Q5.1
How do you currently track your bids and watch units at an auction?
Q5.2 KEY
If before you bid, a tool showed whether parts are in stock or backordered, and flagged makes with known availability problems — would that change how you bid?
Q5.3
What would make you NOT trust a tool that gives parts availability info?
Q5.4
Rate how valuable each feature would be at bid time (1 = not useful · 5 = essential)
Parts availability signal (in-stock vs. backordered)
Not useful
Essential
Bid ceiling reference based on repair cost + margin target
Not useful
Essential
Make/model backorder risk flag (e.g. "Chrysler FCA — high parts risk")
Not useful
Essential
Floor plan cost calculator (days-to-flip impact on margin)
Not useful
Essential
Q5.5
What would you pay per month for a tool that reliably reduced acquisition risk and protected your margin?
Q5.6
Anything else about sourcing cars or managing parts that you wish was easier?
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