The trade number,
before the walk.
The trade is the one number you bring to the deal — and the desk expects to say it first. This page posts it first: the trade band for any VIN, read from the five-number basis at values.vin, with source and timestamp on the band and the trade-to-wholesale spread posted as a line. Free. No account.
An agent working your trade reads this same sheet — the number it brings back is the posted band you are reading now.
A VIN is 17 characters and never uses I, O, or Q.
7MMVABDM3RN163785
2024 Mazda CX-50
- 01Trade bandvalues.vin/
7MMVABDM3RN163785the trade number inside the five bands · live comps · source · timestampposts live - 02Wholesale bandvalues.vin/
7MMVABDM3RN163785what a dealer pays a dealer — the number the desk works fromposts live - 03The spreadtrade minus wholesale — the desk’s working margin on your car, posted as a line, not a secretposts live
- 04Conditionappraisal.vin/
7MMVABDM3RN163785miles, title brand, open findings — each moves the band as its own line, never one silent haircutposts live
Figures render live at the address. This page states structure, not quotes — the slots fill from the posted bands for your VIN, never from an invented number.
tradein.vin fee: $0 · every VIN, every visit · no account
the five-number basisauction · wholesale · trade-in · private party · retail — all five bands, with the comps behind them, read free at values.vin
Read. Adjust. Convert.
The walk, before the walk — three addresses, each doing its own job.
- 01Read the bandThe trade number is not a teaser range: it is the band values.vin posts for every VIN from live comps, inside all five numbers — value, source, timestamp, comps attached. Free, no account.
- 02Adjust for conditionThe appraisal act homes at appraisal.vin: miles, title brand, open findings — each posts as its own adjustment line on a record both sides read. The act sets the spread; the record it writes reads in Data.
- 03Convert to cashoffers.vin turns the number into a firm cash offer — basis posted, lien payoff pulled and settled inside the sale. You walk in holding an offer the desk has to beat.
One sheet, both sides of the desk.
Trading it in
you read the band before anyone quotes one
The appraisal walk comes back with one number; this sheet posts where that number sits against the band and the spread. An allowance shuffled into the price is the same deal in a different shirt — the sheet keeps trade and price on separate lines, so the shuffle has nowhere to live.
the trade band · the spread · the condition lines
At the desk
the consumer’s sell is the store’s buy
The same sheet is the acquisition sheet: the trade lands on the record the desk prices from, and the unit’s exit routes to whichever pool yields the best net — dealers.vin · wholesale.vin · auction.vin. The trade feeds the lane; the lane reads this record.
the acv · the recon · the pack
The registers touch at exactly this address: a consumer’s trade and a dealer’s acquisition, one record, read from opposite sides.
Questions with posted answers.
Is this number an offer?
No. It is the posted trade band for your VIN — a reading of the record, sourced and timestamped. This page reads; it does not buy. offers.vin turns it into a firm offer with its basis posted — the stronger thing to walk in holding.
Why does the desk’s number differ from this one?
Ask which band they are quoting from. The spread between trade and wholesale is posted here as a line; a quote below the wholesale band is a question you can now ask out loud.
I still owe on the car — does that change the number?
The band is the band; the payoff is a separate line. offers.vin pulls the lien balance and posts the net-to-you beside the offer, signed and sourced.
Should I trade it in or sell it outright?
The sheet posts both readings — the trade band and the offers.vin path — and the spread between them. The arithmetic is yours to read; nothing here persuades.
What does it cost?
The sheet posts its own price like every other number — tradein.vin fee: $0. Every VIN, every visit, no account.
The number carries.
answers fortradestradeinsserve this address — 301, one door
the free facesvalues.vin · specs.vin · listings.vin · sticker.vin — read free before any paid report; the record deepens at vhr.vin when the deal needs it
For the agent you send
The agent reads the same record you do. Same two routes, three representations — the numbers never differ between them.
motions: B2A2C
- B2A2C — an agent acting for a consumer — everything it does survives being shown to them afterward
curl https://tradein.vin/ -H 'accept: text/markdown' → the markdown twin of this page
curl https://tradein.vin/{VIN} -H 'accept: application/json' → the record as typed evidence objects
curl https://tradein.vin/{VIN} -H 'accept: text/markdown' → the record's markdown twinMachine surfaces on this host: /llms.txt · /icp.json · /.well-known/agents.json · one estate MCP server — apis.vin/mcp (every door a lens; tool results carry the door URL).
Attribution: X-Client-Type: html | md | json | mcp — read for agent-led demand attribution; it never changes the record.
No gate on this door's two routes — keyless reads, no account. Gated actions elsewhere on the estate return a typed OFFER (posted price · hard ceiling) or a NEEDS_HUMAN handoff, never a dead end.