A Saturday review of 118 units
This example is illustrative. It follows how a used-car manager at a franchise store reviews pricing with dassi, with the numbers changed.
A pricing review is mostly reading. For each unit you look at what you paid, what you’re asking, how long it has been on the lot, whether anyone has called about it, and what the market column says. Then you decide whether to move the price. Doing that for a hundred-odd cars takes the afternoon, which is why it tends to get done for the twenty oldest ones.
The instruction asked for every unit over 30 days or without a lead in 14, a proposed price that reaches a good-deal rating, and the margin before and after. It also said not to change anything.
dassi read the grid, found 46 units that met the rule, and opened each one. What came back was a PDF with 46 rows.
Reading the table
Twenty-seven rows showed a proposed price that still left a positive margin. Twelve showed a negative one. Those twelve stayed in the table with the margin in red, because knowing a unit can’t reach a good-deal rating without losing money is useful on its own. That’s a wholesale conversation, and dassi doesn’t make that call.
Six units had no photos. Their prices were fine. The listings were invisible. They went on a separate list for whoever handles photos.
The manager’s reply was one line: apply the positive-margin changes, leave out the unit on the do-not-reprice list. dassi went back into the tool, changed 27 prices, and each time the tool asked for a reason it picked the code the manager had named.
What it doesn’t know
dassi sees the screen. The margin in the table is the list price minus the cost shown in the tool. If your store adds recon or a pack that lives in another system, say so, or the numbers will look better than they are.
It doesn’t know why a car isn’t selling. A unit with forty page views and no leads might be overpriced, or might have a photo of a cracked windshield as its first image. dassi can look at the listing and tell you what it sees, and it still takes a person to walk out to the lot.
The market rating comes from your tool. If the tool is wrong about the market, the proposal will be too.
Running it every week
Saved as a Skill, the review starts from one sentence. Each week the list is shorter if last week’s changes worked. We’d keep the two-step shape, table first and changes second, even after it has run cleanly a dozen times. Price changes go live quickly, and the minute spent reading the PDF is the only check between a typo and your website.