Atlanta Used Car Prices

Atlanta used car prices can be estimated from the local car dealer resources, or from used car value estimation services, such as Kelley Blue Book or National Auto Reseach's Black Book.

When using local dealer used car values, remember that these reflect not only the car's core value, but also a profit margin for the dealership. And that profit margin varies.

Therefore, the trade-in value, or the value what a dealer might offer if you're selling a car, is different.

Private party values, on the other hand, reflect used car prices if you're selling your car directly.

There are also wholesale used car prices for Atlanta, but they mainly reflect prices for resellers of used cars.

As an example of where to look for used car prices from a range of dealers in Atlanta, look up the prices at cars.com, which has price information on used cars from over 7,000 dealers, plus from individuals selling their cars.

You can also look at some of the Atlanta used car dealers web sites and the prices of their inventory directly. These dealers are listed at such car dealer directories as atlantacars.com (55 dealers listed) and atlantaautonet.com (11 used car dealers listed).

Atlanta Used Car Prices - Estimates

In addition to finding out about the prices at which cars are selling at your area, you may want to use different used car value estimates from companies that analyze the used car markets.

The current market prices you see on sites like cars.com don't reflect the whole picture of used car pricing.

Instead, there are different types of used car values, including wholesale used car values, trade-in used car values, private party used car values, and retail used car values (reflecting the value of the car, plus profit margin for the retail dealer).

You can find results for all these types of used car value for Atlanta, from online resources, for free.

These valuation estimates are provided by such resources as National Auto Research's Black Book and Kelley's Blue Book. Both these databases are available online for free.

Atlanta Used Car Prices - Black Book

For the Black Book, the method used in the valuations includes the company's experts visual inspections of used cars, trucks, and vans sold at auctions throughout North America every week.

The condition of the vehicle, the equipment and options on the vehicle that affect the value, and the mileage and selling price, are brought back to Black Book headquarters.

This data, plus numerous other factors, including weather conditions at the auctions, number of similar vehicles on the market, and the prices from the previous weeks sales are taken into consideration before the values of all the vehicles are updated.

To see Atlanta used car prices, the Black book values are available for free from such online car directories as carquotes.com.

Atlanta Used Car Prices - Kelley Blue Book

The Kelley Blue Book was first published back in 1926.

In 1918, Les Kelley started the Kelley Kar Company.

The Kelley dealership was to become the largest dealership in the world and, along the way, created a need for placing values on used cars, known as "Blue Book values."

In 1926, Les Kelley decided to expand the list of automobile values he had been producing since 1918 and published the first Blue Book of Motor Car Values, showing both factory list prices and cash values.

This Blue Book has traditionally been aimed at dealers. However, in 1993 Kelley Blue Book made its initial venture into the consumer marketplace, by publishing a Consumer Edition of the Blue Book.

This consumer service was later expanded to with the Kelley Blue Book web site at kbb.com.

For example, for the year 2000, kbb.com was the number one automotive site in the nation, and according to J.D. Power and Associates' Autoshopper.com studies, 55% of used car buyers come to kbb.com for used car values.

See the kbb.com web site for a wide range of Atlanta used car prices and value estimations.