We call the price before the car sells.
Then the car sells, and we publish how far out we were, right or wrong. Each call is graded on the figure published before the auction closed.
On average the calls sat 8.1% under the sale price: we have more often called too low than too high.
Correct means inside three per cent of the sale price, line ball inside ten, wrong beyond that. Each call is graded on the figure published before the auction closed, and the rule has not changed.
Ended without a sale (11)
No sale means nothing to grade a call against, so these are kept out of every figure above. They stay listed because the call was published, and a car finding no buyer is worth knowing about.
10 of 19 calls that published a range sold inside it. Ranges written before 7 September 2026 were too narrow; calls since then use widths measured on recorded sales.
Every range, against the sale price
2 calls published no range; theirs are rebuilt at ten per cent either side of the figure called, and marked.
Send the advertisement and Nick prices that exact car: what to offer, what it is worth if it checks out, and when to walk away. $249, usually back within 48 hours.
before the hammer.
One email each Monday: every price published that week on a live Australian lot, the reasoning behind it, and what happened to the ones that resolved. The misses are set in the same type as the hits.
Sent by CarQuant, carquant.com.au. One email a week, every Monday, and you can stop it by replying to any issue. The address is used for the call sheet and nothing else, and it is never sold, shared or passed to a dealer.