How Mobility is Playing a Huge Role with Vehicle Remarketers

by Jon LeSage, Editor of Used Car Market Reports, the Industry's Only Weekly Summary of Vehicle Remarketing

Remarketers have experienced a radical shift in the used vehicle buying, selling, and inventory management process in the past couple of years.

This has taken shape through growth in upstream channels, diverse online auctions, and mobile applications for devices playing an increasingly important part of the process.

Manheim’s Rumon Lasker talks about the vital role mobile is playing now for remarketers in the video above.

Check out detailed coverage of where Manheim has been going through myMobile, and how big the numbers have become lately.

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