While prices for truck decreased last week by a higher figure than Black Book had seen in a month, auction observers watched more vehicles of all segments roll over the block without the hammer falling.

Multiple Black Book personnel reported that no-sales moved higher last as November closed and December began. A lane watcher in Texas told Black Book Market Insights that, “The market trend here is slow, plenty of attendance and consignment but a lot of no-sales.”

Over in Nevada, a similar scene unfolded as Black Book personnel reported back that “Demand seems to be on the older model mid-size sedans and SUVs but still a high number of no-sales.”

In Washington, the market was described as “soft” but the Black Book representative indicated “Vehicle volume is high in this location.”

However, not everywhere were dealers and wholesalers thinking about shopping on Amazon rather than purchasing what was coming down the lanes.

For example in Arizona, the story from Black Book was, “Steady market here with low mileage clean cars doing well.” And in Tennessee, “A good sale today with trucks and SUVs both in strong demand.”

Furthermore from Illinois, the auction observer reported, “Sales have been strong here over the past few weeks with SUVs and midsize sedans remaining in demand.”

Perhaps playing a role in pushing demand for some of those units is softening prices, especially for trucks

Black Book reported overall, volume-weighted truck values decreased by 0.68 percent last week. The reading was higher than the average depreciation rate of 0.47 percent seen during the previous four weeks.

In truck segments, editors noticed prices in the full-size crossover/SUV, minivan and full-size van segments declined the most, dropping by 0.90 percent, 0.82 percent and 0.77 percent, respectively.

On the car side, Black Book determined overall, volume-weighted car values decreased by 0.56 percent last week. The reading was same as the average depreciation rate of 0.56 percent spotted during the previous four weeks.

In car segments, editors mentioned prices for the prestige luxury car, sporty car and full-size car segments declined the most, sliding by 0.99 percent, 0.97 percent and 0.89 percent, respectively.

“So far this year, light trucks have performed better than the car segments in value retention. However, last week we saw a different trend with larger drops in truck segments,” said Anil Goyal, Black Book’s senior vice president of automotive valuation and analytics.

Looking at all of November’s price activity, Black Book indicated that overall vehicle depreciation came in at 2.3 percent.

“Although crossovers and SUVs have done well, the smallest versions of this segment have underperformed,” editors said. “Sub-compact luxury and mainstream crossovers experienced the most depreciation last month at 3.5 percent or higher.”