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How Dealerships Can Move Aging Inventory Faster

Turn speed and gross protection aren’t a tradeoff — they’re the same goal. Dealerships can move aging inventory faster without cutting price to the bone by catching at-risk VINs early, instead of discounting late once a markdown is the only lever left.

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What Is Aging Inventory Actually Costing Your Store?

Every VIN that sits too long is a capital problem, not a marketing problem. It gets worse from there: 74% of inventory sees zero VDP views after that first markdown, which means the discount often doesn’t even solve the exposure problem it was meant to fix.

$1,800average markdown
20+extra days to sale
$1,300+in holding costs
26Kdealerships
5MVINs
100Mshopper actions daily

Why Doesn’t Cutting Price Fix Aging Inventory?

A markdown treats price as the problem. Often, it isn’t. Vehicles that get diagnosed correctly before any price action see a 12% to 15% lift in lead rate — solid, but modest, because a blanket discount doesn’t address whatever’s actually keeping shoppers away.

69%

of the time, once a VIN needs a first markdown, it needs another one after that. Cutting price late doesn’t stop the bleeding — it’s usually just the first cut of several.

Move The VIN, Not Just The Price

Channel-Level Advertising

Spreads budget across a lot the same way for every vehicle.

VIN-Level Demand Activation

Routes real in-market shoppers to the specific VDP of the vehicle that’s actually at risk.

The difference shows up directly in results: VIN-specific campaigns produce a lift in lead rate, well ahead of what a markdown alone delivers. Correctly diagnosing exposure versus price versus demand — VIN by VIN — is what makes that lift possible.

From At-Risk To Sold, Without The Fire Sale

Step 1

Daily VIN Risk Scoring

Every vehicle on the lot is scored against live shopper demand, pricing position, and market data, so risk surfaces around day 15 instead of day 45 or 60.

Step 2

VIN-Specific Promotion

At-risk vehicles get routed to net-new, in-market shoppers through targeted campaigns built around that specific VIN.

Step 3

Continuous Monitoring

The platform re-checks each VIN every seven days, so the next action — whether that’s another push, a merchandising fix, or a price adjustment — is based on current data, not a stale report.

Built On Automotive Data

Every recommendation is grounded in scale. That depth is what separates a genuine diagnosis from a generic AI model guessing at patterns.

26,000+dealerships
5M+VINs
100Mshopper actions per day
12+years of VIN-level history

It also works inside the systems already running your store — your CRM, DMS, and inventory feed — with no rip-and-replace and no new dashboard added to the pile.

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about moving aging inventory and protecting gross.

Markdowns are the default move because they’re easy, but they eat the gross you’re trying to protect and often don’t fix the real problem. The platform diagnoses why a VIN is stalling first — whether it’s weak exposure, a merchandising gap, or a genuine local demand issue — then recommends the right corrective action for that specific vehicle instead of a blanket price cut.

See Which Of Your VINs Are At Risk Right Now

No more guessing which vehicles actually need help, or waiting for a report to tell you after the fact. A demo shows you a prioritized list of your own at-risk VINs — and every recommendation stays approval-gated, so no dollar or listing changes without your sign-off.