Why Choose Provide Cars?
Smart car dealers use Provide Cars’ access to the thousands of cars, trucks and buses that pass through members-only auctions in Japan every day to get the great deals that give them the edge in their local markets.
Our professional, multilingual staff and advanced online system take the risk out of exporting, letting you concentrate on growing your business.
Give our system a test drive for 14 days here.
Members of the Japan Used
Motor Vehicle Exporters
Association since 1998
(Certificate No. JMVA-151)
Bidding
With Provide Cars, you get the chance to bid on cars, trucks, buses and other vehicles at auctions all around Japan from Hokkaido in the far North to the islands of Okinawa in the far South.
Obviously, it would take a large number of staff to be able to cover such a large number (90 or so locations) every week, so it is fortunate that Japan has led the way in live online auctions. Our staff sit in front of a bank of monitors linked to different auctions’ online systems. Our own proprietary online system keeps them up to date with which customers bids are coming up at which auction so that they can efficiently move from bidding on one car to the next.
Live Bidding
Bidding can be very hectic as a number of auctions will each be auctioning a number of cars simultaneously in different “lanes” on different monitors. When a car comes up on the screen, it may take only a few seconds before it is sold. Other times, bidding might continue for as long as 30 seconds or so as people round Japan and at the auction itself click their buttons to push the price up.
As soon as the car is auctioned, we enter the result and then go on to the next bid.
(Check out this video of us bidding live on a Nissan GT-R to get a better idea of how it works.)
Negotiation
If the car has failed to sell in the live bidding, we may then be able to make an offer for it in negotiation if we can do so within the customer’s budget.
For example, let’s say you bid 340,000 Yen max on a particular car. We bid on it live, and it fails to sell (”passes”) at 257,000 Yen. We contact the auction and find out that offers can be made from 287,000 Yen. This is within your budget, so we immediately enter an offer at 287,000 Yen.
It would be rare to get the car for this lowest possible offer price, although it does happen sometimes. In this case, though, the auction staff person contacts us and tells us that the owner was hoping for something more like 310,000 Yen. This is still within your bid, but we try to talk him down anyway. In the end he accepts our offer of 300,000 Yen, and we have the car for 40,000 Yen less than your max bid.