PRIVATE-PARTY SOURCING FOR INDEPENDENT DEALERS
Auctions are a franchise game.
Private party is yours.
Franchise stores can outbid you at auction because they make their gross on the back end. Hooptie finds private-seller cars under wholesale minutes after they list, so your margin is made when you buy.
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Under wholesaleALERT SENT
2021 Toyota RAV4 Adventure
33,950 mi · Bradenton, FL · Private · Clean title · 1 owner
Asking$27,400
Wholesale$30,580
Retail$34,900
Valued on 2021 RAV4 Adventure AWD, 33,950 mi, from the VIN
UNDER WHOLESALE
−$3,180
Every listing, every minutedone
Find every car in your radius
150 mi around Tampa · 38 cities
412 new listings, every marketplace
Dealer or private seller
61 dealers and reposts removed
RAV4: owner, one car, “no dealers please”
VIN, condition and title
Plate FL · KXR 4821 → VIN decoded, AWD 2.5L
Photos: no visible damage, even tire wear
Clean title in hand · 1 owner · no accidents
Wholesale and retail value
Wholesale $30,580 · Retail $34,900
Asking $27,400
Under wholesale · alert sent
$3,180 under wholesale
Sent to your phone 2 minutes after it listed
HOOPTIE nowUnder wholesale · 2021 Toyota RAV4 Adventure
$27,400 · $3,180 under wholesale · private seller · 18 mi
Auctions weren’t built for independents. Franchise stores can pay more for the same car.
A franchise store doesn’t need much front-end gross on a used car. It makes money on the financing, the service contract, the service lane and the next trade-in, so it can bid a car up past where your numbers work. You make your money on the car itself.
WHERE THE GROSS COMES FROM · ILLUSTRATIVE
Franchise storecan bid up the car
Front
F&I
Service contract
Service lane
Next trade
Independent dealerhas to make it on the car
Front
AT AUCTION
- You’re bidding against stores that make their gross after the sale
- Buy fees, transport and recon come out of your front end
- Every buyer in the lane sees the same car at the same time
- Your max gets passed, or you win it and the margin is gone
PRIVATE PARTY, WITH HOOPTIE
- No bidding war: you’re talking to one owner
- No buy fee and no transport: drive it home
- Priced under wholesale, so the margin is made when you buy
- You see it minutes after it lists, before the other buyers
Every private-party deal in your market. Found, vetted and priced before you open the app.
Every marketplace. One feed, refreshed every minute.
Marketplace
Classifieds
Listing apps
Local listings
One feed· every marketplace, vettedRefreshed 24s ago
2019 Honda Civic SportNEW
12 mi · $17,900$1,620 under
Clean title 1 owner Private seller
2021 Lexus GX 460
27 mi · $41,500$3,940 under
Clean title 1 owner Private seller
2020 Jeep Wrangler Sport
9 mi · $29,900$2,760 under
Clean title Modified Private seller
Every listing vetted. Read, checked and priced against wholesale.
Reading the seller’s description
Selling my wife’s RAV4 Adventure AWD. One owner, always garaged. Clean title in hand. No trades.
Hooptie AI · vetting
- Private sellerNo dealer language, not a dealer repost
- TitleClean, in hand
- Ownership1 owner
- VINPulled from the listing, decoded
- ConfigurationAdventure AWD · 33,950 mi
- Red flagsNone: no flood, rebuilt or “parts only”
- Price$3,180 under wholesale ($30,580)
VettedIn your feed
Dealers filtered out. Only owners selling their own cars.
2021 Toyota RAV4 Adventure
Owner, 1 car listed
2018 Ford F-150 Raptor
“Financing available, we take trades”
2020 Jeep Wrangler Sport
Owner, 1 car listed
2021 Lexus GX 460
Same seller, 23 cars this month
Alerts that beat the other buyers to the phone.
9:41
HOOPTIE 22m2020 Jeep Wrangler Sport
Price dropped $1,000
HOOPTIE 6m2019 Honda Civic Sport
$1,620 under wholesale · 12 mi
HOOPTIE now2021 Toyota RAV4 Adventure
$3,180 under wholesale · 18 mi
Price drops and sold cars, watched for you.
Hooptie AI
- Saved Wrangler dropped $1,000: you were alerted
- GX 460 came down as sold: removed from your feed
- Morning report emailed: 14 new under-wholesale cars
✓ Nothing missed. No action from you.
Hooptie AI
You sell cars. Hooptie does the searching.
- Reads every new listingEvery minute, around the clock, in every city you buy in.
- Spots dealers posing as private sellersDealer language, reposts and high-volume sellers are kept out.
- Works out the exact carYear, make, model, trim and mileage, from the post.
- Pulls the VINFrom the listing when the seller posts it, decoded and on the card.
- Prices it against wholesaleAnd retail, before you ever open it.
- Matches your Deal EnginesOnly the cars you actually buy, in the radius you buy in.
- Alerts you firstOn your phone the minute a match lists.
- Watches price drops and sold carsSaved cars that drop get flagged, sold ones leave your feed.
While you slept Live
- 2:14 AM412 new listings read across Tampa, Sarasota and 11 more cities
- 2:14 AM61 flagged as dealers and kept out of your feed
- 2:15 AM2021 RAV4 Adventure priced $3,180 under wholesale
- 2:15 AMMatched Tampa Bay · Trucks & SUVs · alert sent
- 6:52 AMSaved Wrangler dropped $1,000 · alert sent
- 7:00 AMMorning report emailed · 14 new under-wholesale cars
- 7:21 AMGX 460 marked sold · removed from your feed
- 8:05 AMVIN found in a listing and decoded · 2019 Civic Sport
See what’s under wholesale near you
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Private party is scattered
Six marketplaces, dealers posing as owners, no VIN, and no idea of the condition.
Now it’s one feed
Every marketplace, every listing vetted: dealer or private, VIN, condition, title and value.
marketplace · vehicles near you
classifieds · cars+trucks · by owner
- 2017 Tacoma TRD Off-Road - $31,500
- 2016 Silverado LT crew cab
- 4Runner SR5 clean title obo
- 2015 Accord EX-L - $11,900
- Tundra 1794 must sell
listing · 2019 Tacoma SR5
$28,900 · “private sale”
Financing available! We take trades. Ask about our other trucks. Ask for Mike.
buy-leads-FINAL(2).xlsx
Vehicle
Asking
Private?
VIN
RAV4 Adv
$27,400
?
Wrangler
$29,900
yes
ask
GX 460
$41,500
dealer?
F-150
$42,800
Civic
$17,900
?
ask
check all 6 apps again before bed!!
Refreshing all nightvalue-lookup.com
Enter VIN to see value
VIN: “ask me”
VIN must be 17 characters
“runs great, minor stuff, priced to sell”
is the title clean?
seen 9:42 PM
app.hooptie.io
This morning, before you got to the lot- Every private-party marketplace in one feed, refreshed every minute
- Dealers posing as private sellers read out of the description and removed
- VIN found from the license plate and decoded
- Condition checked from the photos and the description
- Clean title confirmed · priced $3,180 under wholesale
One feed. Every listing vetted.
Set your buy box once.
The cars come to you.
Deal Engines search your market around the clock and send you only the cars you’d actually buy.
Search Trucks & SUVs within 150 mi of Tampa, FL
If it's 2018–2025 under 70,000 mi
And it's a private seller under wholesale
Alert me the moment it's listed
Deal Engines, working for you 24/7.
Makes, years, mileage, price and radius. Three engines on every plan.
$27,400$29,900$41,500$17,900MapList
38 cities · 50 mi radius · every marketplace
Every city in your radius.
Up to 200 miles, every marketplace, every listing on the map.
Built for independent dealers. Whether you buy every car yourself or run a small team.
You don’t have a franchise back end to make up for a thin buy. Hooptie puts you in front of the owner first, with the wholesale number already on the car.
OWNER-OPERATORS
You run the lot and buy the cars. Hooptie watches the market while you work.
Bought this month
9
Wk 1
Wk 2
Wk 3
Wk 4
BUYERS
A feed of cars worth buying, and an alert the minute one lists.
Call the RAV4 seller · $3,180 under
Listed 2m ago
Civic Sport dropped $500
Saved yesterday
Meet the Wrangler seller
Sat 10:00 AM
WHOLESALERS
Buy under wholesale, so every car has room in it before you sell.
2019 Honda Civic Sport · 52,300 mi
Bought$17,900
Wholesale$19,520
Retail$23,400
Illustrative figures.
Why dealers switch to Hooptie. In their own words.
Switched to Hooptie
I came off [another tool] because Hooptie is just cleaner and faster. The VIN and market values are right there, and it only shows me real private sellers. Now I'm first to every 911 in the country. Liked it so much I added a second engine for every Porsche.
“Hooptie gives me an edge in a highly competitive market. The platform constantly surfaces fresh opportunities and hidden deals that I'd otherwise miss. As someone sourcing vehicles daily, it's become an essential tool in my arsenal.”
“We used to buy almost everything at the auction. By the time a car crossed the block it was priced like retail, and the condition reports never matched the car that showed up. Hooptie changed our whole game plan. Now we buy from the owner, under wholesale, and we know what we're getting before we drive out to see it.”
One plan. Try it free for a week.
Everything Hooptie does, for $249 a month. No contract, no setup fee. If it doesn’t find you cars in the first week, cancel and you won’t pay a thing.
$249/ month
First 7 days free
- 3 Deal Engines, up to 200 miles each
- Every major marketplace, refreshed every minute
- Dealers and reposts filtered out
- Wholesale and retail value on every car
- VINs pulled from listings
- Instant alerts on web and iPhone
- Price-drop and sold alerts
Your next car is already listed.
By its owner, under wholesale, somewhere in your radius. Be the first one to call.
7 days free, then $249/mo. Cancel anytime.