Used automotive market Motorway is altering the hours of its each day stay sale to allow sellers to begin inserting bids from 7pm the night time earlier than, till 3:30pm the next day.

To this point, sellers have been given entry to preview the subsequent day’s sale from 7pm which meant they might choose and save autos that went into the stay sale at 8am the next day upfront. Nevertheless, Motorway mentioned that suggestions from its vendor companions revealed that they would favor to have extra flexibility to begin bidding. 

Sellers can now bid from 7pm the night time earlier than, with the stay sale ending the next day at 3:30pm, half an hour later than beforehand. This transformation will give sellers extra time to bid and make it simpler to safe inventory when handy to them.

Sellers may take advantage of Motorway’s proxy bidding function alongside this new earlier stay sale time. Proxy bidding permits sellers to set a most bid for a car throughout the sale, robotically bidding on their behalf in increments of £50 to allow them to be certain they by no means overpay to safe a car.

Oliver Grummell, industrial director, Motorway, mentioned: “We all know that a few of our sellers wish to get forward and evaluation automobiles the night time earlier than the sale begins. These sellers have been asking us to allow them to bid the night time earlier than as effectively, in order that’s precisely what we’ve enabled. And matched with our proxy bidding function, our good tech can do the heavy lifting for them, with out ever over-bidding. That is simply one of many methods we’re laser-focused on making the vendor expertise even higher at Motorway.”

The group has launched a sequence of recent merchandise and options in 2023 to additional enhance the vendor expertise for buying inventory, together with Motorway Pay – an industry-first resolution that permits sellers to fund a safe on-line pockets after which launch cash to personal sellers immediately to finish transactions.

Motorway has additionally launched different improvements to additional strengthen the platform this 12 months, together with new service historical past filters, buy standing tag filters, surfacing mechanical or electrical injury and MOT information which assist sellers save time when shopping for premium, privately owned used-car inventory.