Dealership Check for Traders: B2B terms · on-site · volume discounts

The dealer service from checkdenwagen.de is a structured inspection order for commercial buyers: you register one or more vehicles, an inspector from our nationwide network assesses the vehicle on-site at the seller's, and delivers you a digital report within 24 hours with findings, paint thickness measurement and OBD diagnostics. The report is not an opinion but a structured documentation of the actual condition — with which you either renegotiate the purchase price or decline the purchase with good reason. For dealers who commission inspection orders regularly, we offer individual volume terms that we set out in a short preliminary conversation. The foundation is our nationwide inspector network: no fixed field-service employee, but local inspectors — that means short distances to the vehicle and predictable response times.

Not every vehicle you want to buy justifies a full on-site check straight away. Our listing check analyses the offer for price plausibility, photo red flags, warning signs in the listing text and public vehicle data — before you commission an inspector or drive out yourself. For high-throughput dealers, the listing check is the cost-efficient first stage: vehicles with obvious price anomalies or recognisable warning signs drop out of the inspection process early. You receive a written assessment with concrete points — and then decide whether an on-site check is a sensible next step. This reduces not only unnecessary inspection costs but also the internal effort that arises when an inspection order on an already problematic vehicle has to be aborted.

The full on-site check is the core element of the dealer service. Our inspector travels to the seller's location — whether a private individual, another dealer or an auction site — and assesses the vehicle systematically: bodywork, interior, chassis, engine bay, tyre condition, paint thicknesses and OBD fault read-out. The report is available digitally within 24 hours and contains photos, measured values and a structured list of findings. You do not have to be present at the appointment — you commission, our inspector carries it out, you read the report. This is particularly relevant for dealers with several purchasing processes running in parallel: no staff member tied up on-site, no travel effort. For vehicles where you are on-site yourself, a purchase support service by our inspector is also bookable as a complementary option.

Used-car dealers rarely buy at list price — the room for manoeuvre comes from well-founded reasoning. Alongside the technical findings, our report also includes an estimate of the repair and restoration effort for the defects identified. This is not a workshop's cost estimate, but an experience-based assessment of the costs to be expected on the basis of the findings — sufficient as a basis for negotiation with the seller. In practice this means: when our inspector documents brake wear, an oil leak and a scratch in the front wings, you have a factual argument for a price reduction — not just a subjective impression. Many dealers report that the inspection costs paid for themselves through a single successfully renegotiated purchase price.

Dealers with regular inspection volume receive individual terms from us, which we set out in a short preliminary conversation or by email. The starting point is your average inspection frequency per month. Above a certain minimum frequency, we offer reduced single prices or a flat-rate agreement — depending on whether you commission listing checks, on-site checks or a combination. We do not set upfront quotas that you have to draw down: the volume terms apply to inspections actually called off. The details — concrete tier thresholds and price levels — we clarify in conversation, because your volume, your vehicle segment and your geographic concentration determine the sensible structure.

Our inspectors are not tied to the success of a purchase or sale. You receive a finding that describes the actual condition of the vehicle — regardless of whether that is favourable for you as the buyer or for the seller. That is the key difference from an internal visual inspection by one of your own employees, or from the appraisal of a dealer who profits from the vehicle. For your purchasing, this means: the report can be used vis-à-vis the seller without calling your own expertise into question — you are citing an independent third party. For your accounting and documentation, it means: the finding is in writing, dated and reproducible. In the event of complaints after resale, you have a traceable purchase record.