At The
Auction.

The hardest part of buying a JDM car from auction isn't the import paperwork, the homologation, or the shipping container. It's knowing what just hit the block — and what it actually costs.

We've been watching Japanese auction inventory for years. Sifting through Pacific Coast JDM, scrolling USS Tokyo, refreshing JU Aichi. Comparing scores. Watching prices move. Wondering why this one BNR34 is ¥4.2M and the other one — same year, similar mileage — is ¥6.8M.

So we built a tool to do the watching for us. Then we figured: hell, if we want it, other enthusiasts do too.

What it is

At The Auction is a members-only dashboard that shows you the live inventory of Japanese auction cars — refreshed daily. It's not a scraping toy. It's a curated, normalized view of the lots you actually care about, with the noise stripped out.

Every lot card has the basics: maker, model, grade, year, mileage, color, chassis, auction house, and the inspector's score. If you're a paid member, you also see the start and end prices in yen, and the click-through to the lot on the source auction site.

Free members see the list. Paid members see the prices and the click-throughs. Both see the same data, the same scan, the same freshness. The paywall is on the parts that cost us money, not the parts that help you decide what to chase.

What it looks like

Here's the dashboard. You'll see the user's role badge (paid, in this case — meaning prices are visible), the daily scan date, the lot count, and the grid of inventory cards. The filter bar at the top lets you search by make / model / grade / chassis, filter by specific chassis code (BNR34, JZA80, NA1, etc.), and toggle between auction houses.

The same dashboard for a free member looks nearly identical — same grid, same filters, same data. The only difference is the bottom of each card:

How the scan works

Every morning at the same time (right now: 10:20 AM JST), the scanner pulls the current inventory from Pacific Coast JDM — the main aggregator we use for daily freshness. It pulls each lot's basic data (maker, model, grade, year, mileage, color, chassis, score, photo URL, auction date) plus the price and click-through data for paid members.

That data is normalized into a clean JSON structure and pushed to the dashboard. By the time you open At The Auction in the morning, the lot count, the scan date, and the timestamp in JST are right at the top.

If the scanner ever fails, the dashboard shows a "scanner hasn't run yet" message instead of stale data. We don't want you chasing a car that sold yesterday.

Two tiers, both honest

We hate the part of the car community where everything's paywalled. The Registry is free. The articles are free. The car cards are cheap. So we tried to make At The Auction feel the same way.

Free tier — Approved members see the entire inventory, the search, the filters, and the chassis data. They see that a 2002 BNR34 V-Spec II Nür with 77,000 km and a 4.5 score just hit USS Tokyo. They don't see what it costs, and they don't get the link to click through to the auction lot itself. The dashboard's whole reason for existing is in the free tier — knowing what's out there right now.

Paid tier — Members who pay unlock the start and end prices (in yen) and the click-through URL to the lot on PCJDM. The pricing model is still being finalized, but the principle is: you're paying for the data that's expensive to surface, not the data that helps you decide what to chase.

There's no roadmap difference between the tiers. Both see the same scan, at the same time, with the same freshness. The paywall is on the parts that cost money, not the parts that make the tool useful.

Who's in the beta

Right now, At The Auction is a closed beta. Approval is manual — every signup goes through us. We've been letting in a small group of enthusiasts and dealers who actually use the data, getting feedback on the dashboard, and tuning the scanner.

If you want in, sign up. We'll review and approve based on whether you'll actually use it, not whether you'll pay. Most of the people in the beta right now are the free tier — we want to make sure the free experience is solid before opening the paywall to a wider audience.

What comes next

At The Auction is a starting point, not a finished product. Some things on the roadmap:

• More aggregators: Right now we're pulling from PCJDM. Adding USS Tokyo, JU Aichi, and CAA Gifu direct sources would double the daily lot count and let us show the cross-auction price comparison (the "why is this BNR34 ¥4.2M here and ¥6.8M there" question gets an actual answer).
• Saved searches + alerts: "Tell me when a BNR34 V-Spec II Nür under 80,000 km in Bayside Blue hits the floor." Email or push, your call.
• Average-sold-prices table: A separate scanner tracks what cars actually sold for, not what they were listed at. That's the real market data, and it's worth its own dashboard.
• Phase 2 paywall: Once we know the free tier is solid, we open the paid tier. PayPal subscriptions, monthly or annual, cancel anytime. Admin approval goes away — anyone can pay and get in.

If you have feedback on the dashboard, a scanner source you trust, or a feature request — email us at admin@overrevving.com. We're listening.

"If you watch JDM auctions, you already know what the prices should be. We're just building the tool to make sure you see them first."

— The OverRevving Team

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