Defaults are a starting point. We recommend adjusting them to reflect your actual transport rates, typical reconditioning costs, and profit goals.

It appears directly above the bid input field on each ADESA Clear listing. You can also click Edit next to it to quickly adjust your profit target for that vehicle.

No. If you manually edit costs on a specific listing, those values are locked in and won’t change when you update your Profit Settings.

CarValue prices are only available for vehicles listed on ADESA, and we do not currently provide a separate calculator or pricing tool for other vehicles.

All prices are re-calculated once a week to take new transactions into account.

No, the CV Wholesale price is a gross estimate before:   Auction fees Transportation costs Reconditioning expenses Holding costs Additional overhead

Even vehicles that have the exact same Year, Make, Model, Trim, and Odometer can have different price predictions based on: Installed options Sale location Grade, sale light, or other vehicle properties

The CarValue Spread is calculated by subtracting the current bid from the CarValue price prediction. Since we always know the bid amount on an ADESA Clear vehicle, we will update the spread as the bid increases. These updates happen in real-time as you adjust your bid amount, so that you…

CarValue predictions are based on millions of real transaction records. On average, across all ADESA transactions, CarValue Wholesale predicts prices at roughly 100% retention, and CarValue retail tracks closely to retail price indexes. However, individual predictions will not always be correct, and actual selling prices will vary.

Unlike other guidebooks, CarValue™ does not calculate the wholesale price as a weighted average of recent transactions for the same year/make/model/trim. Instead, CarValue uses Machine Learning to predict the sale price of a specific VIN based on the overall ADESA market. This is possible because CarValue takes all transactions at…