Market History: used car market analysis for dealers
Vehicles like yours that sold or were delisted in a period you pick: typical last asking price, days listed, busy price bands and the dealers who moved them.
Most used car market analysis for dealers stops at what is for sale today. Market History is the other half: what already happened to vehicles like yours. It lists the comparable cars around your store that sold or were delisted in a period you choose — that is, cars that stopped being advertised on every website we read. We cannot tell whether a car sold or was pulled, and we never see a sale price, so every figure on the tab is a last asking price, not a transaction.
You set the period on the window bar at the top. Two handles count days back from today — the left one is the oldest day, the right one the newest, and the far right is today. Chips replace the window with a ready-made one: 30 days, 60 days, 90 days, 6 months or 12 months, which is as far back as our source keeps. The cars for sale today never move with the slider; those live on Market Now.
Everything under the bar is cut to that window: three headline numbers, the sold comps themselves as a sortable list with a Map view and Export CSV, a price distribution in four-thousand-dollar bands, a price-against-days table that works as a market days supply read for each band, the dealers who moved those cars, and the same departures grouped by day, week or month. Your own sold cars ride along in a separate block with the only real sale prices on the page. The steps below walk each piece in the order the tour shows it.
01 Market History — what already happened
- Market History shows vehicles like yours that sold or were delisted.
- That means the car stopped being advertised — we cannot tell which, and we never see the sale price.
- The badge counts them for the period you have picked.
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Market History is the other half of the story: what already happened to vehicles like yours. Sold or delisted means a car stopped being advertised everywhere we look, so we cannot tell whether it sold or was pulled. We never see a sale price, and the badge counts the departures in your period, say two hundred and twenty-six.
02 Pick the period
- The left handle sets the oldest day, the right one the newest; the far right is today.
- Chips from 30 days to 12 months replace the window; twelve months is as far back as our source keeps.
- The vehicles for sale today never move with the slider — those live on Market Now.
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Everything on this tab is cut to the period you set here: the left handle is the oldest day, the right one today. The chips jump to a ready window, from thirty days up to twelve months, which is as far back as our source keeps. The cars for sale today never move with the slider.
03 What happened, in three numbers
- How many vehicles like yours sold or were delisted inside your window.
- typical last asking price — the middle: half asked less, half asked more.
- typical days listed — the middle number of days they stayed advertised.
- not counted (lost sight) — a website stopped reporting those days, so those cars are in no number here.
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Three numbers answer the question: how many vehicles like yours sold or were delisted, their typical last asking price, and the typical days they stayed listed. Typical means the middle, half asked less and half asked more. Hold your own price and days on lot against those two, say thirty-one thousand and seventy-nine days.
04 The cars themselves
- One row per departure: Gone since, seller, distance, Last asking, vs you, Days listed.
- Map shows where they were advertised from; the tick boxes narrow the list only.
- Columns picks the columns; Export CSV saves exactly what you see.
- Click a car that shows Open › to see its own price history.
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Under the numbers sit the cars themselves: one row per departure, with the day we last saw it, the seller, its last asking price and how long it was listed. Click any heading to sort, for example last asking, high to low. Click a car that shows Open to see its own price history.
05 Which price bands are busy
- Each bar is a four-thousand-dollar price band, labelled by the price it starts at.
- Blue is what is for sale today; orange is what sold or was delisted in your window.
- The pills above name three middle prices: today’s market, your price, and what the departures last asked.
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This chart shows where the money sits: each bar is a four thousand dollar price band, with today’s market in blue and your window’s departures in orange. Find the band your own price falls into and read the two counts. Eight still advertised against twenty-three gone tells you how fast that shelf clears.
06 Price against days listed
- For each price band: how many sold or delisted, and the typical days they were listed.
- The sentence above names the band that moved fastest — what happened, not a forecast.
- The button carries that band’s price straight into Market Now.
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This table puts price next to speed: for every four thousand dollar band, how many sold or were delisted and the typical days they stayed listed. If the thirty-six to forty thousand band went in twenty-four days, that is what happened in your window, not a promise. The button carries that price to Market Now.
07 Which dealers moved them
- One row per store: how many sold or were delisted, their typical last asking price and days.
- For sale now is what that store still has advertised today; it does not move with the slider.
- Click a dealer to see their cars — what is still for sale, and what left.
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This is who moved the metal: each row is one store, with how many of its cars sold or were delisted, what they typically asked last, and how long they were advertised. For sale now is what that store still has today and does not move with the slider. Sixteen still advertised is usually where the next price cut starts.
08 Day, week or month
- Bars count the departures in each period; Group by switches day, week, two weeks, month.
- The chart below plots what they typically asked last, with your own price drawn flat across it.
- A grey not counted — lost sight pill marks a day a website stopped reporting; those cars are in no number here.
- Click any bar or dot to list the cars behind it.
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Now the same departures over time: each bar counts the vehicles that sold or were delisted in that period, so a typical week might show two. Group by changes the size of a bar, day, week, two weeks or month, without recalculating a number. The chart below plots what they typically asked last against your own flat price line.
09 Your own sales
- The only real sale prices on this tab — the cars you sold yourself.
- Days on lot is your own time with the car, next to the market’s typical days advertised.
- For this vehicle: every price change we hold, and where each one came from.
Your own sold cars ride in the tables but are never counted in the market numbers.
Transcript
Everything else on this tab is an asking price; this block is the exception, your own sold cars at the prices you really got. It sets your days on lot against the market’s typical days advertised, so sixty-one against seventy-five means you turn faster than the field. It fills in as you close deals.
10 Trims, and how we count
- Other trims — every trim in this window with its own count, price and days.
- How we count is the rulebook: what sold or delisted means, where prices come from, why some cars are not counted.
- Under five vehicles we print no middle price or days — one listing would swing it.
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Two foldouts close the tab. Other trims breaks the same window down by trim, so you can see whether another trim moves faster than yours, though under five cars we print no middle numbers. How we count is the plain English rulebook: what sold or delisted means, where prices come from, and why some cars are left out.
Frequently asked questions
What does "sold or delisted" mean in Market History?
A car stopped being advertised on every website we read. That can be a sale, a move to another lot or a listing simply taken down — the data cannot tell them apart, so the tab counts them together and never claims a sale price. Every price on the tab is the last asking price we saw.
How do I read market days supply for my price band?
The price-against-days table lists each four-thousand-dollar band with how many cars sold or were delisted and the typical days they stayed listed. Put that next to how many are still for sale in the same band on the distribution chart: for example, eight still advertised against twenty-three gone in ninety days means that shelf clears in a few weeks; the reverse means a slow band. The button on a row carries that band's price into Market Now so you can see where it would put you today.
Why does a number say "not counted (lost sight)"?
On some days a website stops reporting, so we lose sight of the cars on it and nobody can say what happened to them. Those days are marked with a grey pill and the cars are left out of every count, typical price and days figure — they are neither "sold" nor "for sale". The rule is spelled out on the tab under How we count.
How far back can I look, and can I export the sold comps?
The window goes back up to twelve months, which is as far as our listings source keeps. The list of cars that left is sortable by any heading, filterable by the tick boxes and a Map view, and Export CSV saves exactly the rows and columns you see. Your own sold cars sit in their own block with your real sale prices and are never mixed into the market numbers.
See it on your own inventory
A demo runs on your live listings, not a sample lot: your cars, the competitors around your store, and the target price for each one.