No. You stay in control of every deal. We give your team the listings, the tools, and the workflow to find, contact, and close private sellers directly, and on the plans that include coaching, an Acquisition Coach works with your buyer every other week to sharpen how they do it. You're still deciding what to buy and what to pay. You're just doing it with a lot more shots and a lot more structure.

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VETTX is the world's first private party acquisition system. It's not just software, it's people, process, and software together: the listings, the workflow, and the coaching your store needs to buy cars directly from private sellers in your market, at volume. It was built by Nick Patterson, a former used car manager who took a private-party buy center from break-even to $2M a year. It works for franchise dealerships and independents alike.

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VETTX aggregates private-party listings, filters out the junk with AI, and routes real sellers into one buying workflow. Your buyer can call, text, email, and message sellers from a single screen, automated and at scale, without ever leaving the platform. Every conversation logs against the vehicle, so nothing gets lost and your whole team can see it. One buyer on VETTX usually does the work of three buyers doing it by hand.

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Pricing depends on your market, its size, and how much help you want. Every plan includes the full software and your base market. From there it scales: a bigger market costs more, and adding an Acquisition Coach, a Strategic Advisor, or a recruited buyer moves you up a plan. There's also a one-time implementation fee that covers onboarding and training your team, including training any new buyer you hire later, at no additional cost. Every store is different and so is every market. If you want a number, see if you're a fit. We'll run a market analysis and quote your store specifically.

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That's the most common reason private party fails at a store, and it's fixable. Our Buyer Recruiting Program sources, screens, and places a dedicated private-party buyer for you. We do the hunting and hand you two or three finalists to choose from. If the buyer we place doesn't work out in their first 90 days, we replace them free. One dealer group tried private party twice without a dedicated person and got nowhere. With a buyer we recruited, they're now doing more than 20 cars a month.

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Every other channel you buy from has a ceiling. Trade-ins and the service drive cap out at whatever walks through the door. The auction has gotten more expensive every year, up roughly 35% since 2019, with everyone bidding on the same cars. And about three out of four instant-cash-offer leads have no real intent to sell. Private party is the one channel where you pick the car, the price, and the timing. Around 45% of used cars in this country sell driveway to driveway, according to Cox Automotive. In a typical market that's about 2,000 private-party cars a month. Visit the "How it Works" page to see how we compare to our competitors.

That's most of the dealers who start with us. You get our 50-page playbook, a structured onboarding, and on coaching plans an Acquisition Coach who has actually run a buy center, working with your buyer every other week. If you hire a new buyer a year from now, we train them too, at no additional cost. And if you don't have anyone to put in the seat yet, we'll recruit one for you.

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We won't guarantee a number, and you should be skeptical of anyone who does. What we'll tell you is what you get: more sellers to work, better cars with less recon and faster time to line, and more margin per unit. Some dealers use VETTX to buy over 600 cars a year. Others are thrilled picking up 5 extra units a month. It depends on your market, your buyer, and how hard you run it. Watch how one dealer bought 647 cars last year.

It's actually a good sign. Most of our top-performing dealers are aggressive and run several tools, KBB ICO included. Private party should be a large part of your acquisition strategy, not the whole thing. VETTX also pulls those inbound sources into the same pipeline, so your buyer works everything from one screen instead of jumping between tools.