The SaveOnCar Impact Report

Every negotiation on the platform leaves a paper trail: each dealer offer is parsed into an out-the-door price with its fee breakdown. These are the anonymized totals across all of them — no dealer names, no customer data, just what happens when dealers compete and junk fees get called out.

Under the hood

Junk fees challenged per deal = total challenged ÷ deals negotiated, so the three numbers always add up.

Methodology

• Negotiated off the first offer is the gap between the first dealer offer we parsed for a deal and the best out-the-door price reached, averaged over deals with at least two parsed offers.
• Junk fees challenged sums every padded fee our parser flagged in a dealer offer — nitrogen tires, VIN etching, doc-fee excess, dealer add-on markups.
• Dealers engaged counts the distinct dealerships we contacted per negotiation.
• All figures are aggregates across the whole platform. Nothing here identifies a dealer, a customer, or an individual deal. The report regenerates daily.
• Averages only appear once at least 3 deals qualify, and the report switches to a plain deal count instead of the full breakdown until at least 5 deals have closed platform-wide — early on, a 1- or 2-deal average isn’t a reliable number to show as fact.