# VIN listing history: a MarketCheck AI Desk data tool > Every listing of a VIN over the years: prices, dealer hops, days on market. $0.02 per call. MCP tool `get_car_history`, scope `data:get-car-history`. Index: https://ai.marketcheck.com/data-tools Every price is an advertised asking price, never a transaction price: MarketCheck observes listings, not settlements, and a sold figure is the last advertised price before a car left the market. ## What it returns Every online listing record for a VIN, newest first: the advertised asking price and the miles at that point, the seller website and name, the city and state, whether it was listed as new or used, and the dates the record was first and last seen. A price or mileage change opens a new record, so a car that was re-priced seven times shows seven rows at the same dealer. Fifty records a page; a long fleet history runs to a second page. ## Use it when - You are vetting a car: how many times has it been re-priced, how many dealers has it been through, was it a rental. - You need the lowest advertised price of record for a VIN and where it was listed, for a claim or an appraisal file. - You want the sticker it sold new at, from the original dealer listing, next to what it is asking now. - You suspect wholesale churn: the same VIN listed in three states in three years. ## Not when a report already answers it - You want the lowest price of record as a document with a timeline, for one VIN or a batch: the VIN Price Check. - You want the history read for red flags alongside the spec and the price: the Used Car Health Check. - You want a value, not a history: the Vehicle Valuation Report. ## Pay per call $0.02 per call, the Starter rate from the MarketCheck API rate card, debited from the prepaid balance only when the tool is called. No subscription; a failed call is never charged. ## Real results by desk Every excerpt is a real result, trimmed to the fields that matter, with its date. Every price in it is an advertised asking price. ### Dealer #### What a Tacoma Trailhunter stickered at new, next to its asking now Prompt: "Pull the history on 3TYLC5LN8ST026438. What did it list at new, and where?" What the assistant sends: ```json { "vin": "3TYLC5LN8ST026438" } ``` What came back (Sep 30, 2026), trimmed: ``` 17 records, newest first Sep 29 to Sep 30, 2026 $49,629 26,844 mi used Right Toyota, Scottsdale AZ (and wilsonautomotive.com) May 2 to May 3, 2025 $65,514 22 mi new Right Toyota specials site, Scottsdale AZ Apr 25 to May 1, 2025 $64,789 0 mi new Right Toyota, Scottsdale AZ Apr 18 to May 1, 2025 $62,894 0 mi new David Wilson, Orange CA Apr 14 to Apr 19, 2025 $64,489 0 mi new Right Toyota, Scottsdale AZ Mar 29 to Apr 1, 2025 $61,894 0 mi new Right Toyota, Scottsdale AZ ``` What to do with it: Listed new at $61,894 to $65,514 through spring 2025 and back on the same lot 17 months and 26,844 miles later at $49,629: the trade appraisal cites the new-car sticker the dealer itself advertised. ### Dealer Group #### Tracing a RAV4 XLE across four dealers and three states Prompt: "Trace VIN 2T3W1RFV0NW208767 across dealers. Where has it been retailed before?" What the assistant sends: ```json { "vin": "2T3W1RFV0NW208767" } ``` What came back (Sep 30, 2026), trimmed: ``` 30 records, newest first Sep 28 to Sep 30, 2026 $26,104 59,192 mi used Napleton Honda of Morton Grove, IL (also stevenapleton.com, Palatine IL) Aug 13 to Aug 21, 2026 $28,394 59,190 mi used Napleton Honda of Morton Grove, IL Sep 7 to Sep 11, 2025 $26,991 51,027 mi used Toyota of Greenville, Greenville SC (also Crown Nissan Greenville and asburyauto.com) Aug 28, 2025 $27,000 51,027 mi used Greenville Automotive, Greenville SC Jun 16 to Jul 2, 2022 $33,654 0 mi new Hudson Auto Group, Madison TN Jun 15 to Jun 25, 2022 $33,654 new Spartanburg Toyota, Spartanburg SC ``` What to do with it: Sold new in Tennessee in 2022, listed in Greenville a year ago at $26,991 and now in Chicago at $26,104 with 8,165 more miles: the current asking is the second retail attempt, and the Napleton walk-down from $28,394 says the first weeks did not take. ### Appraiser #### Reaching the rental years on page 2 Prompt: "Get page 2 of the history for 2T3H1RFVXMW152067. I want the earliest records." What the assistant sends: ```json { "vin": "2T3H1RFVXMW152067", "page": 2 } ``` What came back (Sep 30, 2026), trimmed: ``` 12 records on page 2, all Hertz Car Sales Jul 15 to Jul 18, 2023 $25,600 50,496 mi St. Louis MO Jul 13, 2023 $24,100 50,343 mi St. Louis MO Jul 8 to Jul 10, 2023 $24,100 49,141 mi Smithtown NY Jul 1 to Jul 5, 2023 $24,500 49,141 mi St. Louis MO Jun 17 to Jun 26, 2023 $25,600 47,662 mi St. Louis MO Jun 14, 2023 $25,900 47,470 mi Seattle WA ``` What to do with it: The first page stops at 50 records; the second one shows the car entering the retail market as a 47,000-mile rental in June 2023, which is the ownership fact an appraisal file should carry. ### Claims #### The lowest advertised price of record for a claim file Prompt: "What is the lowest price VIN 1HGCV1F35LA046672 was ever advertised at, and where has it been listed?" What the assistant sends: ```json { "vin": "1HGCV1F35LA046672" } ``` What came back (Sep 30, 2026), trimmed: ``` 28 records, newest first Sep 24 to Sep 30, 2026 $24,998 41,270 mi used CarMax Merrillville, Merrillville IN Sep 23 to Sep 24, 2026 $26,798 41,270 mi used CarMax Merrillville Sep 17 to Sep 22, 2026 $28,148 41,270 mi used CarMax Merrillville Sep 11 to Sep 16, 2026 $25,998 41,270 mi used CarMax Merrillville Aug 31 to Sep 2, 2023 $24,848 23,144 mi used North City Honda, Chicago IL (six cuts from $27,503 over two months) Jul 3 to Jul 29, 2020 $27,785 new Mt. Kisco Honda, Bedford Hills NY Jun 5 to Jul 1, 2020 $27,785 1 mi new Honda of Valley Stream, Valley Stream NY ``` What to do with it: The lowest advertised price of record is $24,848 (Sep 2023, at 23,144 miles); today's $24,998 at 41,270 miles sits above that floor and both belong in the file. ### Shopper #### How many hands a 140,000-mile RAV4 has been through Prompt: "Show me the listing history for VIN 2T3H1RFVXMW152067. How many dealers, and how has the price moved?" What the assistant sends: ```json { "vin": "2T3H1RFVXMW152067" } ``` What came back (Sep 30, 2026), trimmed: ``` 62 records on 2 pages, newest first (first seen to last seen, asking price, miles, seller, place) Sep 29 to Sep 30, 2026 $17,599 140,439 mi Your Choice Autos, Elgin IL (also on 3 sister sites) Sep 18 to Sep 29, 2026 $18,176 140,439 mi Your Choice Autos, Elgin IL Sep 4 to Sep 17, 2026 $18,376 140,439 mi Your Choice Autos, Elgin IL Aug 21 to Sep 2, 2026 $18,599 140,439 mi Your Choice Autos, Elgin IL Aug 13 to Aug 20, 2026 $18,799 140,439 mi Your Choice Autos, Crestwood IL May 27 to Aug 12, 2026 $18,999 140,439 mi Your Choice Autos, Crestwood IL Jan 4 to Apr 30, 2025 $18,900 to $17,900 124,000 mi Jackson Auto Co, Jackson MI (3 records) Jun 14 to Oct 11, 2023 $25,900 to $24,000 47,470 to 62,022 mi Hertz Car Sales, listed from St. Louis, Seattle, Des Plaines and Smithtown (29 records, page 2 holds the oldest) ``` What to do with it: Ex-rental, three dealers of record and five cuts in four months: the seller has been chasing the market down from $18,999 to $17,599, so the next cut is the number to offer. ## Limits and traps - Records, not owners. A rental fleet re-lists a car every few days across cities; six seller names can be one group's sister websites. Count the distinct sellers, not the rows. - Fifty records a page. A VIN with 62 records needs page=2 to reach its first listing, and the oldest rows are the ones that carry the original sticker. - A missing price means the dealer page showed none when the record was taken, not a free car; a missing mileage is the same. - Every price is what the dealer advertised at the time, never what the car sold for. - US and Canadian dealer listings only; private-party listings are not in the history. A UK account looks a vehicle up by its registration in UK listings. ## For developers MCP tool `get_car_history`, scope `data:get-car-history`, called with POST https://ai.marketcheck.com/mcp from a connected assistant or with an agent's OAuth client-credentials token; the result is JSON in content[0].text. Tools reference: https://ai.marketcheck.com/ai/docs/mcp-tools/. Server-side access: https://ai.marketcheck.com/ai/docs/server-side-access/. ## Reports on the same data - https://ai.marketcheck.com/reports/vin-price-check.md - https://ai.marketcheck.com/reports/used-car-health-check.md - https://ai.marketcheck.com/reports/vehicle-valuation-report.md ## Try it in your assistant Connect at https://ai.marketcheck.com/install (Claude in one click; ChatGPT, Cursor, VS Code, Gemini and any MCP client with the connector URL). The Market Data Tools are selected by default when you approve access; then paste a prompt from this page.