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Have a look at the purchase below.  Two Toyota Premios, 2002 that sold in the Japan car auction yesterday. One sold for 207,000yen (about $2500 FOB), the cheaper one, and it had done 46,000kms.  Nice car, wouldn’t mind driving it myself!  Grade 4 and all! The other one, grade 3, 208,0000kms, the more expensive one!… Continue reading Illogical buying! The reason it is safer to buy from the Japan car auctions yourself

Little did he know that he could save money by buying directly from the Japan car auctions!

Talking to dealers in various countries, I often hear a dealer boast “we bid live from our office”.  What he is saying is that he is using the auctions homepage’s log in to purchase cars for himself or his customer. I probably is a good sales pitch for the customer, being able to sit there… Continue reading Bid abroad, or bid in Japan in the Japan car auctions

In New Zealand in the late 1980’s and 1990’s as the import duties for used cars coming into New Zealand decreased and finally disappeared (replaced by a 15% consumption tax), the number of cheap affordable used Japanese cars came flooding into the country.  However, to go with this public appetite for cheap, affordable cars was a… Continue reading Has your cars odometer been changed? Buying through the Japan car auction is the safer way

Brand new Honda vizel selling in the Honda auctions (regularly).  Reaches 2,559,000 for a brand new car. The vizel is a 1500cc Hybrid 4WD, competing against the Nissan Juke but with a hybrid status. These are called “shinkousha” in Japanese basically meaning “near new”.  Due to various reasons the Japanese dealers put them into the… Continue reading Brand new Honda Vizel selling in Honda Auction Monday 3rd

So where should you as a dealer get your used car stock from? You need to obtain them from the same source that the large used car exporters obtain them from: the Japan car auctions.  You need to buy the best vehicles available in these auctions each day, at the price they are sold for… Continue reading Where you source your vehicles. Perhaps the most important question part 2.

I once spoke to a used car dealer in New Zealand.  I asked where he was sourcing his stock (used cars) from.  With his fears that I was a salesman trying to change his status quo, he quickly replied that he sourced his cars from one of the very large importers into New Zealand, at… Continue reading Sourcing your stock. Where from? Perhaps the most important question. Part 1

Provide Auctions (တပတ်ရစ် ဂျပန်ကား လေလံပွဲများ) မှ ဝယ်ယူခြင်းဟာ ပြည်ပပို့ကြသူတို့၏ ကားဒိုင်ကြီးမှ ဝယ်ယူခြင်းနဲ့စာလျှင် ပိုကောင်းသည့် အကြောင်းရင်းများ။   သီးခြား စုံစမ်းစစ်ဆေးမှု သင်သည် Provide Auctions မှတစ်ဆင့် တိုက်ရိုက် ဝယ်ယူလျှင် သင်က ဝယ်လိုသည့် ကားကို သီးခြား စုံစမ်းစစ်ဆေးပေးပါသည်။ လေလံပွဲများသည် ယေဘူယျအားဖြင့် ၎င်းတို့ ရောင်းကြသည့် ကားများကို ပိုင်ဆိုင်ကြသည် မဟုတ်ပါ။ ၎င်းတို့သည် ရောင်းသူ နဲ့ ဝယ်သူတို့ ကြားထဲမှာ လွတ်လပ်သည့် အဖွဲ့အစည်း အဖြစ် ရပ်တည်နေကြကာ၊ သင်က ဝယ်လိုသည့် ယာဉ်ဆိုင်ရာ ဘက်လိုက်ခြင်း မရှိတဲ့ အစီရင်ခံစာကို ထုတ်ပေးနိုင်ကြသည်။ Provide Cars သည် အဲဒီလို ဘက်လိုက်ခြင်း မရှိတဲ့… Continue reading Reasons for buying from Japan car auctions rather than a dealers stock .. in Burmese

Lets compare the two most popular models selling on the market right now. The Toyota Prius versus the Honda Insight: Car Name Prius Insight Grade L G Length (mm) 4460 4390 Width (mm) 1745 1695 Height (mm) 1490 1425 Wheelbase (mm) 2700 2550 Front tyre width (mm) 1525 1490 Rear tyre width (mm) 1520 1475… Continue reading Comparing Hybrid cars, the Honda Insight versus the Toyota Prius