Market Values

Anyone can print a number. The hard part is being able to say where it came from. The idea is a value with its evidence attached — the sales it was drawn from, the condition it assumes, the market it applies to — and no number at all until those three exist.

What works today

What is a concept

No valuation, estimate or comparable-sale data exists.
VWX holds no sale records, and prints no figures.
The card below is a shape with the numbers left out.

Written example — not analysis output

Everything below is an illustration.

The shape of a range card

A 1967 Beetle, good condition, no options recorded.

Low: —
Mid Range: —
High: —

Three cells, no numbers. The numbers are the part we do not have.

What a supported method would need

Sourced comparable sales.: Real sales of real cars, each one traceable to where it was recorded. Without them there is no range, only an opinion.
A stated condition scope.: "Good" has to mean something specific, written down before the sale is compared, not chosen afterwards to fit the answer.
A defined market.: A car sells for different money in different places. A value that does not say where it applies does not apply anywhere.

What it would never do

It would not price your car for an insurer.
It would not tell you what to pay.
It would not print a figure it cannot source.

Envisioned

A range that names every sale it was built from.
A condition scale written down before anything is compared.
A stated market, and silence outside it.
No range at all where the evidence is thin.
VWX will not authenticate a vehicle, and will not share anyone's contact details without their consent.