Priced off live platinum, palladium and rhodium markets — at the counter or at the car, in seconds.
A catalytic converter can be worth $80 or $800 — and most of that value is three metals you can't see: platinum, palladium, and rhodium. Prices move every day. Unless you know the serial and today's metal prices, you're guessing. Guess too low, the seller walks. Guess too high, you lose money on every deal. The big buyers count on you guessing.
Type a converter's name or serial and get what it's worth today — priced off live platinum, palladium, and rhodium markets, not a stale sheet from last year. A database of converters behind it. Your own prices if you've uploaded them, the platform estimate if you haven't.
This is where it earns its keep. Out at a car, open Value & Buy on your phone and scan the VIN barcode on the door jamb. The system pulls the vehicle, the scrap weight value, and the catalytic converter value — then shows you the total the car is worth to you before you hand over a dollar. No calling around, no guessing at the curb. You see the number, you decide, you buy.
Scan the VIN → cat value + total car value on your phone → decide on the spot.
A shop walks in with a box of converters — price each in seconds instead of guessing or calling around.
Rhodium jumps overnight, your prices follow automatically — you're never paying yesterday's number.
The converter is often the most valuable part of a junk car, and it's where you make or lose your margin. Knowing the real number — tied to today's metal market, rolled into the total value at the moment you're deciding — is the difference between a profitable buy and an expensive mistake. It's also the thing the big processors would rather you didn't have.
Estimates to guide your buying decisions — not a firm price or an assay. Set your own pricing.