Sudbury Auto Auction Utilizes New Simulcast Auction Software
TAMPA, Fla. and HALIFAX, Nova Scotia, Jan. 31, 2005 -- Auto Centrix, Inc. (ATCX.PK) announced today that Sudbury Auto Auction has implemented Auto Centrix's real-time simulcast auction software, and has successfully broadcast their latest auction to their clients and customers. Sudbury Auto Auction is a full service auction facility offering the only wholesale automobile auction and re-marketing center in Northern Ontario. Their auction and re-marketing facilities offer vehicle transportation, conditioning reports, vehicle re-conditioning and financing to their customers. Auto Centrix's simulcast auction software includes real time audio and video broadcasting over the Internet whereby a bidder from anywhere in the world can interactively bid, along with the bidders physically at the bricks and mortar auction house, on a vehicle being auctioned.
"We are very pleased to have a well respected auction house such as Sudbury Auto Auctions using our software," stated Auto Centrix President and CEO, David Highmore. Dale Harnden, President and General Manager of Sudbury Auto Auction stated, "We are very pleased with the launch of the simulcast auction and received very positive feedback from our dealers."
Auto Centrix, Inc., which operates a "bricks and mortar" automotive auction under the Dominion Auto Auctions name, focuses on various technological mediums which facilitate the purchase, sale and re-sale of vehicles, thereby lowering the costs, expanding the geography, and expediting the sale processes, while securing the integrity of the vehicle information. The products and services have been designed with the flexibility and scalability to interface with their clients existing systems. ACI currently holds the worldwide rights to an online real-time simulcast auction system currently being used across Canada and a Proxy Bid Salvage Auction software.