From over-MSRP to market correction: steep early depreciation

The corpus spans the whole arc: 2022 auctions of nearly-new cars hammered at or near sticker during the dealer-markup era, while 2024-2026 auctions saw commenters explicitly celebrating a market correction, with low-mile cars selling thousands under MSRP and several reserve-not-met results when sellers anchored to near-sticker money. Commenters repeatedly attributed the weak residuals to the GTI being common rather than bad, and benchmarked auction results against Carvana/CarMax offers and dealer asks. …