How we score a price
Every listing site says its pricing is based on real market data. Here is ours, on a car that is on a lot right now — including the listings we threw out, and a car we refuse to score at all.
The rules
How does SilentAutoBroker decide whether a car's price is fair?
Used cars are never scored against MSRP. A window sticker from a car that has depreciated for eight years is not a deal — it is arithmetic. Used vehicles are compared only against what similar cars are listed at today.
Does SilentAutoBroker compare cars of the same trim?
Same trim, where the listing states one. A Wrangler Sport is not comparable to a Rubicon — trim is the biggest price difference after year and mileage. But many listings never state a trim at all, and treating a blank as a mismatch would empty most comparison sets rather than sharpen them. So an unstated trim counts as unknown rather than as different, and the car is kept.
A real car, scored
Can I see a real example of a scored car?
Picked from live inventory when this page was last rebuilt. Open it and check every number.
And a car we will not score
Why do some cars have no deal score?
Also from live inventory. It has a price and it is for sale — we simply do not have enough honest comparables to tell you whether that price is fair, so we say nothing instead of guessing.
If you are a dealer
How does SilentAutoBroker score a dealer's own inventory?
The same rules run on your inventory, and you can see them here rather than taking our word for it. We never call one of your cars overpriced without a comp set we are willing to show, we never build that comp set out of sold inventory, and when there is not enough data we print nothing rather than something unflattering and unfounded.