Know your line before the hammer falls.
Paste the auction lot and drop in the condition report. Hammerpoint reads the damage, prices the repairs, checks the MOT and service history, and tells you the most you should bid.
2018 Ford Transit Custom 280 TrendSD68 YZO
MOT expiredEngine light onPlus VAT
Maximum bid (hammer, +VAT)£2,375 under CAP average, so you’re unlikely to win it.
£1,900
A real lot, read the night before the sale.
Reads the paperwork
Condition and mechanical report PDFs, photos and the lot page. Every dent, warning light and missing V5 goes on the sheet with a trade repair price.
Does the VAT properly
Plus-VAT and margin-scheme vans are costed differently, and so is a dealer who isn’t VAT registered. Your fees, transport and target profit, every time.
Learns your trading
Log what each van made and what you sold it for. Your own results sharpen every estimate after that.