DEBIS Remarketing is planning a New Year relaunch of its electronic vehicle disposal system, after temporarily suspending operations. The Daimler-Benz InterServices company has developed a completely new remarketing system in-house to replace its former, externally sourced system.

The new technology combines a stock locator with an internet auction, and will be sold as an IT product rather than a cradle-to-grave remarketing operation. 'We are offering a process, not trying to find buyers or vehicles for them,' said Hubertus von Zastro, managing director of debis Car Fleet Management. 'The process is for someone with buyers and vehicles in place, and all they need is a very efficient means of getting vehicles to the buyers.'

He claimed the efficiencies of operating over the internet would save vendors the equivalent of up to 1.5% of the CAP clean value of a car. The cost will be less than £40 per vehicle and there will be no cost to the buyer except connection to the internet. The relaunched debis Remarketing will focus on selling vehicles under one year old, largely on behalf of manufacturers and daily rental companies - a sector where the number of potential vendors is small, but the number of vehicles they need to remarket runs into hundreds of thousands.