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I love this concept.
But you're checking the value of your car a year before you sell it, and you're expecting to get that amount? When you actually sell it a year later it shouldn't be worth that same amount. Am I looking at that incorrectly?
+Jeff Andrews No, you are not incorrect.
However, car pricing has variables, and "a seller who has clearly taken care of the car, and has maintenance records to back it up" tends to drive the price higher for that car than for a car (which is 'most of them') that don't have those things.
This is particularly true once you start looking at cars that are 7 or more years old, and are in the 'long tail' of depreciation.
Example: On Autotrader, within 200 miles of Denver, private parties only, sample taken today:
A 2005 Accord is selling for between $8999 and $12,500, with an average price of $10749.
A 2004 Accord is selling for between $9400 and $11,000, with an average price of $10,200.
So if you buy a 2005, and keep it up (with receipts!) until next year, you should be able to sell it for slightly more than the average price, and recoup some, if not all, of the year over year depreciation.