Bid to a number, not a feeling.

Every wholesale lot graded against a live auction feed, two independent market-value sources, and your own sales history — fused into one Buy, Watch or Avoid call and the most you should pay, with the projected gross behind it. The decision stays yours. The guesswork doesn't.

Try it · grade a live lot

Watch a max bid get defended.

A live lot, right here. Hit Evaluate and watch it resolve to a Strong Buy, a defended maximum bid, and the gross behind it. Then drag the reconditioning cost and watch the bid re-price to protect that gross — proof it's a real model, not a book value.

Two market sources, reconciled

An appraisal and mileage-adjusted sold comps — agreeing, or the safer one wins.

Gross & ROI at the max bid

Every landed cost accounted for, before a dollar is committed on the block.

A ceiling, never an order

The number to bid to. The call to make it stays with your buyer.

2021 Ford F-150 XLT
84,200 km · Ontario · Grade 3.8
In stock: 2
● Active · ends in 38mCurrent bid $19,500

A live wholesale lot. Grade it against your store before the lane opens.

The homework, done before the lane opens.

Your buyers hit the auction with a gut feel and a phone full of tabs. GhostDrive GhostBuy hands them the number — and shows its work — so the desk shows up ready, not scrambling.

One defended number

The max bid is the lower of two independently-derived ceilings, minus a risk reserve, floored to a bid step. An optimistic source can never inflate it.

Two sources, one verdict

A live valuation and recent-sold comps regressed to this exact car's mileage — reconciled. When they disagree, the desk takes the safer anchor and widens the reserve.

The gross, before you bid

Projected front gross and ROI at your max bid, with recon, transport and fees flowed into landed cost. Change a cost and the bid re-prices in front of you.

Confidence you can read

A 0–100 score built from named factors — source agreement, comp depth, freshness — so you know exactly how much to trust the call, and why.

Do you already stock it?

Every lot cross-checked against your own lot, so you don't buy the third of a nameplate you're already sitting on — and aging.

Grade anything, not just the feed

Paste a VIN and a mileage and run the same engine on a trade-in or a private lot that isn't at auction at all. The homework, on demand.

Before you even bid · what to buy

Buy what sells. Skip what sits.

The desk reads your own sales history to separate "customers want it" from "you're already long on it" — days of supply, days to sale, 90-day momentum, net after recon — then matches the gaps to live lots. You're short three trucks that sold 29 last quarter, and long on a sedan that's aged past 90 days. It shows you which.

The gaps, ranked

Where you're short of natural carry, weighted by how fast it actually moves.

Demand vs. what you hold

What shoppers are asking for, checked against what's already aging on your lot.

Matched to live supply

Each need tied to the lots at auction right now — so a gap becomes a shortlist.

Vehicles you need● from your sales
Buy
Full-size pickupsold 29 / 90d
9 days
Buy
Compact SUVsold 41 / 90d
14 days
Watch
3-row SUVsold 12 / 90d
31 days
Long
Midsize sedan2 aged 90d+
94 days

What the desk decides, and what it refuses to.

GhostBuy is for the person who has to defend an acquisition afterwards — the used-car manager or buyer who will be asked, three weeks later, why that unit is still sitting.

The desk produces one number and shows its work. A live lot is checked against two independent market-value sources, against what your own store has actually sold, and against the cars already on your lot — so you are not bidding on the third example of a nameplate you are long on and aging. Drag the reconditioning estimate and the maximum bid moves with it, because the ceiling exists to protect a gross, not to flatter a purchase.

It also works before the lane opens. Your own sales history separates what customers are asking for from what you are already carrying, ranks the gaps by how fast each one really moves, and ties them to lots running right now. And when the car is not at auction at all — a trade standing in your drive, a private lot, a unit somebody offered you at the counter — a VIN and a mileage run the same engine on demand.

What it refuses to do is bid. There is no auto-buy, no bot in the lane, and no recommendation that commits money on its own. GhostBuy hands your buyer a defended ceiling and the gross behind it; the decision to go one more time stays where it belongs, with the person standing in the lane. The difference is that afterwards, the number they bid to is on the record and can be argued with.

Questions dealers ask.

How do you decide a maximum bid at a wholesale auction?
Work back from what the vehicle will retail for: subtract the front gross you need and the landed cost (recon, transport, fees), and separately check what the market says the vehicle is worth wholesale. The maximum bid is the lower of those two ceilings, minus a risk reserve for condition and price spread — so a single optimistic number can never push the bid up.
What is a vehicle acquisition tool for dealerships?
It's software that grades wholesale auction lots for a dealer's buying desk — pulling live auction data, market valuations and recent sold comps, and combining them with the store's own sales history to recommend whether to buy and the most to pay, with the projected gross and return shown before the buyer bids.

Give your buyers the number.

Book a private walkthrough and we'll grade a live auction lot against real dealer-group data — the valuation, the sold comps, and the defended max bid behind it.

or email hello@ghostdrive.ai

Run by the dealer who built it. About 30 minutes. No access to your DMS required.