Especially at tax time when people get large chunks of cash in the form of IRS tax refunds, but other times as well, we keep a lot of traded-in cars at our dealership that we would usually send to auction. My store does not deal with wholesalers. Our company won’t allow it.

In a nutshell, this means we have to pay our own shop, the recoup the money we paid them when we sell the car to you. I have worked at stores that regularly send used cars out to other shops to recondition. These saves money as outside shops will bid on the work and give a big store like mine a real price break so we can still fix things on a car and be able to resell it at a profit which is the reason any business except the government is supposed to exist.