Vehicle Acquisition Network Blog

Frank finds himself alone at the auction in this last episode of The Auction. His “friends” have deserted him for greener pastures--in other words, more effective, efficient, and profitable ways to...

Katie “The Kid” (played by VAN Performance Manager Emily Gehrke) hates the auction for more than one good reason. In fact, she tells Frank (VAN Co-Founder Bill Anderson), Katie has 10 excellent...

Everyone’s heard of particularly unsavory vehicles being called ‘lemons.’ But, leave it to 'Frank and the Gang' to compare the fleet of auction vehicles to other fruits. In The Auction Episode 9,...

Everyone plays.

Whether it’s the game of golf, the game of life...or the auction game, people play games whether they mean to or not. 

"People come to the auction for different reasons, says Frank in...

Do you ever find yourself bidding on cars at the auction to avoid returning to the store? And when you do, how often do you find you bought a 'goose egg?'

In this fifth episode of The Auction, Frank...

No dealer wants to leave their cars, let alone their profits on the lot. Ideally, every car you sell turns over into a healthy gross profit. But that's not necessarily going to happen for 100 percent...

The sights. The smells. The sounds. An auto auction is a dizzying array of sensory overload for those who attend...and there’s good reason for that.

If you've ever participated in a dealer auction, you understand the way business is run from an insider's point of view. You also know that no one necessarily fights fair to get what they want. If...

Synopsis: Frank takes “the kid” to her first auction where they run into Stephanie, a UCM from up north who uses math to decide which cars to buy and has a better way to source used cars without...