What you see before you press Generate Report

The most common way software wastes a buyer's money is by being helpful too early. Open a listing and something starts working in the background: fetching, analysing, spending. By the time you have decided the car is not for you, it has already cost you something.

The panel does not do that. It opens, tells you what it can see, and waits.

What it shows first

Before anything is analysed, the panel reads the page the way a person skims it and reports three things:

• The vehicle it identified. Year, make, model and trim, so you can tell immediately whether it read the right listing. On a page with several vehicles, this is the check that matters.
• How many photographs it can see. Not how many the listing claims, how many it can actually reach and read.
• What a full read would cost. One photo is 5 credits, so the count times 5 is the price. There is no conversion to do.

None of that costs anything, and none of it commits you.

Why the button exists

A run list is mostly rejection. Two hundred lots become a shortlist of twenty, and the shortlist becomes three or four cars you actually bid on. Most of what a buyer does is decide, quickly, that a car is not worth more time.

Software that analyses on open charges you for all two hundred of those decisions, including the hundred and eighty you made in four seconds from the title and the price. That is the wrong shape. The expensive work belongs where the attention is going, not everywhere the cursor lands.

So the panel puts one deliberate act between browsing and spending. Open thirty listings, dismiss twenty-eight on sight, and you have spent nothing on the twenty-eight.

Photographs that cannot be read

Some photographs cannot be assessed: they fail to load, or they are thumbnails too small to carry detail, or they are too dark to show a panel.

Those are not charged, and they are not silently skipped either. A photograph nobody could read is reported as unread, and it lowers the confidence of the report rather than disappearing into it. The difference matters: a car with four unreadable photographs and no findings is not the same as a car with twelve clear photographs and no findings, and a report that treated them alike would be telling you something false.

What this changes in practice

It makes the panel safe to leave open. You are not managing a meter, so you can work through a list at your own pace, look at anything, and spend only where you have decided the car deserves the attention.

That is the design intent: browsing is free, and the analysis is a thing you ask for once you have decided a car is worth asking about.