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The Acquisition Secret Behind This General Manager's Best Month Ever | Industry Spotlight

Sep 29, 2026 · 35m

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In this episode of the Industry Spotlight, joining host Sam D'Arc are Rick Vrablik, General Manager at Nielsen Automotive Group, and Babak Mofrad, President at AutoVision to discuss how an 11-store group that shares every used car across every rooftop sourced, appraised, and priced its way to a 400-unit record month just five months after switching appraisal tools. Rick admits he fought the shared-inventory model at first, then explains why it forces managers to put the right money on every trade. He walks through the phone plug-in check that exposed nine hidden problems on a trade-in he walked away from, and Babak explains why market day supply, the number dealers have trusted for 15…