A variety of circumstances surrounding our development make us unique in the guidebook industry and contribute to the quality of our product.

Our History

Having grown up, as a business, on Jerome Avenue in the Bronx was certainly a huge plus. We don't believe there has ever been another place like it. In the late 1920's, Murray Galves and a partner discovered that it was easier to make money buying and selling cars from dealer-to-dealer than it was running a cab company on Jerome Ave. That beginning spawned a 20-block area that was composed almost entirely of wholesale car dealers. New and used car dealers from all over the east coast and, to a lesser degree, from the rest of the country frequented the "Avenue" as they stocked their lots with trade-ins that found their way to Jerome Avenue. Most of these cars were purchased from the hundreds of new car dealers in the Northeast who were too busy selling new cars to bother about used. It was a great environment to learn the intricacies of the wholesale automobile business and the perfect place for the birth of a guidebook.

Our Location

In the early 1990's, the majority of dealers from Jerome Ave. moved 10 miles west to our current location in the adjoining boroughs of Teterboro and Hasbrouck Heights, NJ. Although we are no longer engaged in the business of buying and selling vehicles, we moved with the dealers and continue to benefit from the closeness that being in the center of the nation's largest independent wholesale complex provides. These guys are sharp and outspoken. We can't walk out our doors without getting feedback from the dealers who sell here or come to buy here. Whatever happens within the automobile industry that might affect wholesale pricing, we know that we will be among the first to hear of it. We welcome their feedback and include the best of them in our team of consultants. We are the only guidebook in the industry that has the advantage of being located in the midst of an active wholesale marketplace, and that goes a long way to making us uniquely good at what we do.

Our Perspective

Because of our history and our location, we price from a trade-in perspective. That is the price-point within the wholesale spectrum that reflects a dealer’s position when he appraises a vehicle as a trade-in. As a trade-in the dealer will typically do one of three things with a vehicle:
 

•	Sell it to a wholesaler: This involves little or no expense on the trading dealer's part. The buyer is responsible for transporting the vehicle to his location and the selling dealer usually does nothing to prepare the vehicle for sale. But the wholesaler is buying the vehicle to sell it to another dealer and make a small profit, and that has to be taken into account in the trade-in pricing perspective.
•	Sell it at a dealer auction: This involves some expense on the dealer's part. He will have to transport the vehicle to auction, pay registration and selling fees, and sometimes do minor reconditioning to prepare it for sale. These expenses have to be taken into account and they are one of the reasons why we intentionally position our values below what a vehicle is sold for at auction.
•	Sell it from his retail lot: This involves some expense on the dealer's part. Dealers typically do a thorough cosmetic detailing and basic mechanical repairs to a vehicle they plan to sell retail. These expenses have to be taken into account in the trade-in pricing perspective.

We think the trade-in perspective works best for dealers AND consumers. It is the reality of the marketplace that each is dealing in. The dealer needs to own a vehicle at a price-point where he can sell it in one of the three aforementioned ways. Unless the consumer plans to sell his vehicle privately, he is also dealing at the trade-in level. Balance occurs because the market is competitive and dealers know that if their pricing is too low, they will lose deals, and if it is too high they, will lose money. Our pricing also has to reflect that balance.

Our Focus

We don't do mobile homes, motorcycles, airplanes, snowmobiles, boats, heavy-duty trucks, residual values, etc. We are not in the business of marketing and advertising. We do trade-in values for automobiles, and we think that our focus helps us to do it better than anyone else in the industry.

Perhaps none of these factors by themselves would be enough to qualify us as unique, but taken together we think they do. We also like to think that they help to make us "uniquely good" at what we do. We are so confident that we can help you too, that we offer the Galves Money Back Guarantee. You have nothing to lose and lots to gain!

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