Your bid competes with a marketplace listing the seller can see on their phone. Andover shows you both sides daily: what the retail market is doing, and where committed dealer offers sit against it, matched on exact spec.
The gap between a dealer bid and marketplace retail runs 40 to 60 percent, and it is not constant. It moves by model, by storage tier, and by week. Pricing that spread from instinct is pricing it late.
The person holding the phone checks Swappa before they accept your offer. Your bid is being benchmarked whether or not you benchmarked it.
You can see your own numbers. You cannot see where the other direct buyers are sitting on the same spec today, which is the number that decides whether you win the unit.
A model depreciating fast and one holding value need different bids, and the difference shows up in days rather than quarters.
Committed offers are priced against other committed offers, never averaged into marketplace retail. Pooling the two drags the median down and makes legitimate listings look like outliers, so we do not do it.
The marketplace price the seller is looking at, matched on the same model, storage, condition and lock, refreshed daily.
Where a model is heading, so a bid that is right today is not underwater in three weeks.
Work backwards from the sell side. Set your own fees, shipping, prep and target margin, and get the highest price you can pay and still hit it.
Available now: the full pricing platform across every model, storage, condition and carrier lock, all six marketplaces, depreciation, full history and the Arbitrage Finder.
Being built: a vetted group where direct buyers and wholesalers post and match inventory directly. Applications are open now so the group is qualified before it opens, and the network tier is not billed until it is live.
Tell us how you buy and sell. We verify every applicant before approval, because a network nobody checked is worth nothing to the people in it.
Apply for accessVolume, conditions you handle, payment terms, channels, and a sample price list. Ten minutes.
A real person reads it. We are building a vetted group, not a signup list.
Full platform access on approval. Billing starts when the trading surface opens, not before.