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Doing Your BIDDING

COMPILED BY MICHELLE KEADLE-TAYLOR W Buddy Automotive Innovations, LLC

“Buddy Automotive is a leader in Inventory and Bidding software specialized for the Auto Recycling Industry,” said Mike Lambert, co-owner, Buddy Automotive Innovations, LLC. “Bid Buddy uses your yard data to evaluate, recommend, and prepare bids from online auctions and other sources. The result will be accurate profits based on your overhead and cost to process cars.”

According to John Johnson Jr., the other co-owner of Buddy Automotive Innovations, LLC, the software includes several unique features such as IAA Data Service, a specialized VIN decoding software only

ith the constant flux in both salvage availability and a facility’s inventory, its not as easy as it used to be to track supply, demand, sales and trends. Thankfully, some technology companies have given auto recyclers options on how to manage it all, and make more informed buying choices at

auction. Several of them responded to Automotive Recycling’s request for information on bidding apps that strive to make the work of an auto recycling salvage buyer a little easier. Here’s a quick look at them.

available in Bid Buddy, for easier interchange selection within the bid. Bid Buddy also includes automotive recycling consultant Jim Counts mathematical algo- rithms which will reportedly project an auto recycler’s needs based on their history, parts data and personal- ized settings.

For those recyclers who are part of a group or trade with other yards in their area, the Auction Parts & Pricing Service (APPS) is designed to help save time when their partners are bidding the same auctions. CompNine VIN build sheets, Eden and Hotlines are also integrated into Bid Buddy (subscriptions addi- tional).

“Are you using Inventory Buddy?” asked Johnson.

The information in this article was provided by each company. Neither Automotive Recy- cling magazine nor ARA endorses or favors any bidding application com- pany, nor can we validate any claims by the companies.

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