America's smartest, fastest,
most accurate buyer.
Every online auction vehicle, priced to your gross before it runs. Used-car acquisition is the hardest job in the store, and it falls to one person who can only see a fraction of what runs. On the online auctions VinSnipe covers, it evaluates every vehicle, models the recon and the gross, and bids the ceiling — automatically, every hour of the day. Now in beta with two of the largest auctions in the United States, and adding more every month.
Your buyer's process, run on every car — not the ones he had time for.
A traditional buyer physically reviews under 200 vehicles a sale and bids on 40 or 50. On the auctions VinSnipe covers, it runs the same discipline on every vehicle that launches — screen, recon, price, bid — and only bids where your numbers clear.
ScreenYour rules, not ours
Every launched vehicle is matched against your make, model, year, mileage, region, colour, seller-type, guarantee-light and exclusion criteria. Fully customisable, down to the store.
Recon130+ dealer-specific factors
The auction's condition report, announcements, photos and OBD diagnostics are parsed against your reconditioning cost table. The fix is priced before you own the car — no surprises in the shop.
PriceTo your gross target
Licensed valuation, transport, fees, floorplan and your target front-end gross are modelled into a single number. That is the ceiling, and it is computed before the lane opens.
BidAuto, or alert-and-approve
A proxy bid at the ceiling — or a skip, logged with the reason. Fully automatic if you want it, or a text to your buyer to approve each one.
Where it runs the lane. Where it backs your buyer.
VinSnipe is built for online auctions that publish a full condition report — that is what lets it price recon and bid without a human. Where an auction doesn't, it still screens and prices every vehicle; your buyer supplies the one thing a model can't see.
VinSnipe runs it end to end, no human required.
The condition report, photos and announcements give the model everything it needs to price recon and set a ceiling. Every vehicle is evaluated; every one that clears is bid.
- In beta: two of the largest US auctions
- Screen, recon, price and bid — automatically
- Every lane, every hour, no headcount
- More online auctions added every month
We do everything except the walk-around.
Where the auction doesn't publish a complete condition report, one number can't be trusted to a model: recon. So VinSnipe does all the rest and hands your buyer a printed list — every vehicle on the run list, screened against your rules, with valuation, transport, fees, floorplan and your gross target already computed.
- Every vehicle screened and priced before the sale
- Your buyer or appraiser walks the lane and adds recon
- The moment they do, the max bid is complete
- Same guardrails: nobody bids past the number
Your buyer costs $300–$500 a car. And sees a fifth of the auction.
Salary, health care, the demo, the gas card, payroll tax, unemployment. Fully loaded, that is what a typical buyer costs per vehicle acquired — and the real cost is every car they never got to look at.
| On covered auctions | Traditional buyer | VinSnipe | Multiple |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vehicles reviewed per sale | <200 | All of them | ∞ |
| Listings evaluated (48h, one store) | 370 | 19,247 | 52× |
| Vehicles bid (48h) | 81 | 644 | 8.0× |
| Vehicles purchased (48h) | 6 | 9 | 1.5× |
| Cost per vehicle acquired | $300–500+ | <$400, always | — |
| Hours of coverage | ~40 / week | 168 / week | 4.2× |
Three weeks in beta. More than twice the cars.
One dealer group runs two stores in New Hampshire. We took every auction purchase in the 23 days before VinSnipe went live and the 23 days after. Same buyers, same auction accounts, same stores. Real intake data, July 18 to September 1, 2026.
43 vehicles in the three weeks before. 93 in the three weeks after. The two human buyers bought exactly as many as they always had — VinSnipe added fifty on top.
From six purchases to sixty-three on a single national marketplace, through the accounts the dealer already had. Fifty were placed by VinSnipe.
Before, every car came from New England, New York or New Jersey. After: California, Texas, Florida, Arizona, North Dakota.
A regional buyer became a national one in three weeks — because something was finally looking at the whole lane.
Auction and wholesale purchases only; trades and consignments excluded. Distances are great-circle miles from the seller's address to the receiving store. Two of 138 rows could not be placed on the map and are left out of every figure above.
You set the throttle. It sources to your capacity.
Daily, weekly or monthly caps
Tell VinSnipe how many cars you want, and when. Control your backlog from the buy side rather than reacting to it in the shop.
Sources to your bottlenecks
Service slammed? It buys more frontline-ready units. Body shop has capacity? It goes and finds gross and service revenue for them.
Protection from buying mistakes
Every bid is capped at a pre-computed ceiling. Spend limits, category exclusions and a kill switch sit above it. It cannot buy on gut, on fatigue, or on the wrong lane.
Trained on your history
It studies what you actually buy, sell and make money on, so the ceiling tightens to your store's reality every month.
Front-end gross, locked in first
Target gross is an input to the ceiling, not a hope after the fact. If the car cannot clear your number, it does not get bid.
Grows with the operation
One store or a group, one covered auction or all of them — same rules, same guardrails, no additional headcount.
Fully licensed. Independently audited.
Licensed partnerships on every valuation and history pull, and native DMS integrations. SOC 2 Type I audit in progress; Type II to follow.
Licensed data and integration partners. All trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
Every dealer. Five weeks out.
Ten cars a month or a thousand — VinSnipe scales to your operation and you set the throttle. The queue runs about five weeks; every week you wait is a week of auctions your store never fully saw.
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