Some operators consider their buy-here, pay-here dealerships to be “no-frills” businesses. That happens to be the moniker SVR Tracking gave its latest GPS tracking device. This week, the provider of asset management solutions for the automotive industry released SVR Repo, ... [Read More]

Buy-here, pay-here dealers might be seeing vehicle shoppers fresh off a bankruptcy filing if they haven’t already. According to data provided by Epiq Bankruptcy, there were 217,420 total bankruptcy filings during the first six months of 2023, representing a 17% ... [Read More]

One of Byrider’s franchisees started the second half of the year by expanding its footprint in Kentucky. Byrider announced this week that franchise ownership group Garber Ventures opened a location in Elizabethtown, Ky., representing Byrider’s seventh location in the Blue ... [Read More]

Gene Daughtry’s travels take him from Texas to Connecticut and elsewhere, examining buy-here, pay-here dealership operations and offering recommendations to sharpen collections, reconditioning and other business segments. The senior consultant with AMS Consulting was in Las Vegas last month for ... [Read More]

For the second time this year, Cherokee Media Group’s Nick Zulovich had the opportunity for an in-person conversation with Agora Data’s Steve Burke on the Auto Remarketing Podcast. Connecting at NIADA’s annual convention in Las Vegas, Burke described how dealership ... [Read More]

The buy-here, pay-here business is all about numbers — especially when times are tight. So with the economy wavering and uncertainty all around, a panel of successful BHPH dealers talked about numbers in a session at last week’s NIADA Convention ... [Read More]

For independent dealers who want to work with NextGear Capital, there’s now an app for that. The company announced on Thursday that it has developed a mobile app for its account portal with plans to unveil it at the National ... [Read More]

Alan Ram’s Proactive Training Solutions is poised to launch a newly updated sales training course tailored for independent dealers. Dubbed, “Accelerate U,” the firm highlighted the new program is designed to help dealers leverage all their leads and create proactive ... [Read More]

On the last day of May, the Federal Trade Commission acknowledged it received a petition to regulate spot deliveries by dealerships and auto finance companies. The experts at Ignite Consulting Partners offered their reaction to this effort championed by six ... [Read More]

Bankruptcy filings continue to increase from the reduced volumes experienced during the three years of the COVID-19 pandemic. That’s the primary finding according to data provided by Epiq Bankruptcy, which said total bankruptcy filings in May spiked 23% year-over-year from ... [Read More]