Why Do Dealers Turn Down $29,000 on a 12-Day-Old Car and Then Wholesale It at 90?

John, really the last couple days...

And some kind of one-off conversations.

And of course this morning while we were backstage for a few minutes before we came on, like always, I mean, we are in the trenches.

each and every week, each and every day.

And we're seeing all the latest things coming up.

I shouldn't say all, we see a lot of latest things coming up.

And we're with our dealer partners.

We are with the automotive community in the trenches.

So we get a firsthand look at what the headlines say.

Are they translating inside the retail dealerships? What do these things look like from the indirect side of the automotive industry that we sit on with LotPop? All of these things coming across the waves, John, what are some of the most recent headlines that are floating around out there that we can actually validate or that we should, as an industry, be really thinking about?

Well, it's always great to be on with you guys, first and foremost.

And you know what? I'm going to start this out with a question that we always ask our new dealer partners before I get to what you asked me about, Chris.

And that is, can we all agree that that uh the best time to make the most money or the highest amount of profit gross profit and net profit is when our inventory sells in the first 15 to 30 days because without a

shadow without a shadow

we've asked that question all three of us to dealers and i don't know about you guys and i'll ask you guys have you ever heard a dealer disagree with that no no i haven't

Well, not verbally.

Their actions would disagree with it.

However.

Yeah.

Just posing that question.

100%.

100%.

Chris, have you ever heard

anybody at a dealership ever disagree with that? Have you ever heard somebody say, I don't agree with that?

Not