Buyer Recruiting
Every great buy center starts with one badass buyer.
Our recruiters screen hundreds of candidates and send you the two or three worth your time. You hire them. W-2, your payroll, your building. We train them and stay on them until the volume shows up.
Why the seat matters
One person. One job.
When nobody owns the seat, you don't get ten cars a month. You don't get five. You get zero, and the store writes it off as "private party doesn't work." The Private Party Playbook breaks down how top stores structure the seat.
20+ cars a month
Evans tried private party without a dedicated person. It stalled. Our recruiting team sent three finalists, they hired one, and that buyer has held 20 or more a month since.
1 → 3
Dennis Dillon grew one recruited buyer into a team of three
647
cars they bought off the street in 2024
Not your UCM's eleventh hat
A used car manager working private party part-time competes against buyers who do it all day. Every car they miss is gross going to the store down the street.
Your managers spend 30 to 60 minutes
Set expectations, turn appraisals around same day, make the final call on offers. The buyer does the rest. That is the whole management load.
The most profitable seat in the store
Nobody in the building has a better gross-per-expense ratio than a strong buyer. One full-time hire can feed the whole used car operation.
How it works
Hundreds go in. One comes out.
Our in-house recruiting team has placed buyers at single rooftops and 10-store groups. You never touch a job board.
We sit with your team on market, comp strategy, and what a win looks like in 90 days.
Recruiters work the pipeline: resumes, phone screens, and the traits that predict a killer street buyer.
Only candidates worth your time reach your desk. You make the hire. They're your employee from day one.
Onboarding, platform training, and coaching from people who have done the job. Buying in the first weeks, not the first quarter.
The recruiting department
A full-scale operation, not an add-on
An in-house recruiting department
Full time, full scale, and growing
Recruiters who screen for one seat all day: the street buyer. They work every search end to end, sourcing, screening, and phone interviews, and they keep hiring because the placements keep coming. Competitors treat buyer recruiting as an add-on. At VETTX it is a department, one piece of how the whole system works.
The Proof
Stores that hired the seat, not the software
647 cars
Dennis Dillon started with one recruited buyer and zero street purchases. That buyer became a team of three, and last year they bought 647 cars off the street.
Bryan
UCD, Dillon Automotive
Zero experience to a car a day
Toyota of Newport put a brand-new buyer in the seat. Sixty days in, he was averaging more than a car a day, on a 21-day turn.
Ryan
Buyer, Toyota of Newport
Remote Buying
Allie, recruited by us, works fully remote and still bought 45 cars across June, July, and August. All of it from her home office.
Allie
Buyer, Breneman Ford
If you were thinking it, someone else asked it
FAQ's
We hear this more than anything else. So look at what happens when stores do it: Dennis Dillon's first recruited buyer became a three-person team buying 647 cars a year. Evans stalled without the seat, hired one of our three finalists, and has held 20+ a month since. The seat pays for itself faster than any other hire in the building.
Yours. W-2, on your payroll, in your building, building relationships with sellers in your market. We recruit, screen, and train. You own the hire and everything they build.
If a placed buyer fails inside their first 90 days, we run the search again and place a replacement free. And they don't ramp alone: every placed buyer gets trained and coached by people who have done the job.
Stores are usually live inside two weeks, and new buyers make their first purchases in the first weeks on the platform. Toyota of Newport's zero-experience hire was averaging a car a day by day 60.