Check a listing before you call, before you visit, and before you make an offer. Walk into every negotiation knowing whether the number is genuinely fair.
About
A market read you can actually act on
ValueYourCar was built to close the information gap in used-car transactions — giving buyers and sellers a shared, evidence-based price reference before the negotiation begins.
Why this was built
In 2024, I was buying a used car for the first time — for myself. I had a budget, a shortlist of models, and what felt like a reasonable plan. What I didn't realise was how much I didn't know.
Used cars are complicated. It's not just price and mileage — it's fuel type, transmission, how a car compares to others in its category, and what it will actually be worth when you sell it. That last part mattered a lot to me, because I knew going in that whatever I bought now would eventually be replaced by an electric car. Resale value wasn't an afterthought — it was the whole game.
Browsing AutoScout24 and Marktplaats, the same questions kept piling up. Why are two nearly identical listings priced €2,000 apart? How much of a premium does an automatic actually carry — and is that gap different for a Yaris versus a Golf? Why do Yarises hold their value better than Polos, which hold better than Fabias? Is that a real pattern or just noise in the listings I happened to see?
For a while I tried to track it myself — copying listings into Excel, building my own comparisons. It worked, barely. It was slow, clunky, and every time the market moved I was starting over. No existing tool filled the gap either. They'd give me an average, maybe a rough range — but nothing that accounted for the specific combination of factors I was looking at, or showed me where a listing actually sat relative to the real market.
With a background in engineering and data analysis, I decided to just build it properly. I scraped the listings, ran the analysis, and ended up with something that could give me a confident, data-driven answer before I walked into a dealer's office. It sat on my laptop for a while. Then I thought — there must be a lot of people in exactly the same position. The used-car market is crowded, pricing feels increasingly opaque, and most people end up just trusting whatever number the dealer puts in front of them.
This tool exists so you can walk into that conversation knowing the market — not just hoping the number sounds right.
Pricing is minimal, just enough to cover hosting. If you have feedback or ideas, I genuinely want to hear them — [email protected].
Who uses it
See what comparable cars are actually selling for in the Dutch market right now, so you can price competitively without leaving money on the table.
Trading in, buying from a dealer, or evaluating an inherited car — a data-backed price reference removes the guesswork from any conversation.
Why used-car pricing is harder than it looks
Two nearly identical listings can have a €3,000 price difference that is entirely justified — or entirely unjustified. Transmission type alone shifts value by thousands for many popular models. Mileage matters differently at different ages. And the listings you see online include cars that sat unsold for months with inflated prices, mixed in with cars that sold immediately at genuine market value.
A simple average of what you see on Marktplaats does not separate those signals. It blends stale listings with fresh ones, outlier pricing with real comparable sales, and one-year-old cars with three-year-old cars. The number you end up with feels meaningful but is not a reliable anchor.
ValueYourCar filters down to comparable vehicles with similar make, model, year, mileage, fuel type, and transmission — then anchors the estimate on the cluster most similar to your specific listing, rather than spreading the weight across all of them equally.
The data behind it
The platform is built on 157,000+ Dutch used-car listings sourced from AutoScout24 and Marktplaats, spanning 2014 to today. Data is deduplicated, filtered for anomalous pricing, and refreshed regularly so the estimate reflects current market conditions rather than a stale benchmark.
Coverage is strong for popular makes and models — the kind of volume-market cars that make up most Dutch used-car transactions. Coverage is lighter for rare configurations, niche trims, and very old vehicles where comparable market data simply does not exist at scale.
How the valuation works
1
You submit a listing
Make, model, year, mileage, fuel type, transmission, and asking price.
2
We find comparables
Our engine looks for comparable vehicles first in a tight year and mileage band, then widens carefully when the market sample is too thin.
3
We anchor a fair value
A distance-weighted comparable model, with outlier filtering and fallback logic, produces an estimated market value and a confidence range.
4
You get a verdict
The asking price is compared to that estimate and translated into a plain-language market label — from great deal to significantly overpriced — that you can use in a real conversation.
The method works well for popular models with dense market coverage. For rare variants, heavily modified cars, or vehicles with fewer than 10 close comparables, the estimate range will be wider and should be treated as a rough guide rather than a precise anchor.
How we think about the product
Outputs help you act. You should not have to decode jargon before you can negotiate.
Every result is anchored to comparable listings, filtered pricing logic, and visible market context.
When data is thin, we say so. A wider range with a clear reason is more useful than false precision.
Free vs Premium
Start with a free market read. Upgrade to the premium report only when a car earns deeper work.
Free analysis
- Estimated market value
- Confidence range (low – high)
- Market verdict (great deal → overpriced)
- Valuation method transparency
- No account, no sign-up required
Premium analysis — from €4.99
- Everything in free
- Full price distribution chart
- Most relevant comparable vehicles
- Buyer and seller framing
- Negotiation anchor and strategy notes
- Resale trend and depreciation outlook
- Save to personal dashboard
The company
ValueYourCar is a Dutch company (KvK: 98377736) based in Den Haag, The Netherlands. It was built by one developer — data and engineering background, real frustration with how opaque used-car pricing is — with a friend who helped on the design and infrastructure side. No bigger team behind it, just a tool built to solve a problem that was genuinely annoying.
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Questions or feedback? Reach us at [email protected] or via our contact form.
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