Did you know that Bidmate stores your bid history? Bidmate is our salvage buying tool for the Checkmate IMS, and it now saves your previous bids so you can reference them if the vehicle is rerun.
If you evaluated and bid on a vehicle in a previous auction run (within the last 6 months), and then that vehicle is rerun, Bidmate can show you your past evaluations and bids.
Over time, as you as you evaluate vehicles and record your bids, you're creating a reference for yourself. Over the next 6 months, if you're ever evaluating this same vehicle again, you can easily refer to your past evaluation and bid amounts (which can help you decide how much to bid on the rerun!).
Bid history information is available in a few places in Bidmate:
Vehicles Screen
The Vehicles screen is where you have the list of all the vehicles in an auction. There are 3 columns here that show bid history information:
A. Bid History column shows how many runs you previously either evaluated and/or recorded a bid for this VIN (not including the current run). (This count includes evaluations/bids in the last 6 months by you or any of your teammates who were logged in to the same Checkmate yard you’re currently logged into.)
B. My Bid shows your own current bid amount for the vehicle. Winning Bid displays the amount of the bid that won this vehicle for the current auction run. (This could be your own bid, or someone else’s bid. To see a Winning Bid here, it must be entered in Bidmate on the Bid screen.) Double-clicking in either of these columns opens the Pool Run History Window, where you can see detailed bid history info for the vehicle's recent auction listings.
