How it works

For buyers

1. A fresh board every day

Every day at 2:00 PM Eastern a new set of cars is drawn from our stock and goes up for about 24 hours. Some have a Buy now price until the first bid. Read the flaw list and photos, ask questions or call a specialist, and if you want an inspection, ask early: we’ll tell you exactly where the car is. See the schedule.

2. Get verified once

Before your first bid we ask for a phone number, your agreement to the bidder terms, and a photo of your driver’s license or state ID. It takes two minutes and is checked by our team, usually the same day. This is what keeps the bidder list made of real, reachable people rather than throwaway accounts.

3. Bid your maximum

Enter the most you are willing to pay. We bid on your behalf one increment at a time, and never go above your number. If someone else has a higher maximum, you are outbid immediately and you will see it right away.

4. The last minute never ends the auction

Any bid inside the final sixty seconds pushes the clock back to sixty seconds. Nobody wins a car by having a faster connection. The auction ends when bidding actually stops.

5. The fee

The buyer pays 5% on top of the winning bid, with a floor and a cap, and the exact total is shown next to the bid box before you commit. Sellers list for free and keep the whole hammer price.

Bids are binding. Winning means you have agreed to buy the car.

The disclosure score

Buyers who get burned on online auctions almost never say “the listing lied”. They say the photos that would have shown the problem were not there. So we count what a listing actually contains — undercarriage shots on a lift, engine bay, interior wear points, service records, a history report — and publish the number on the listing and on the card in search results.

A seller can refuse to put the car on a lift. They just cannot do it quietly.

A listing cannot go live at all without a written list of known flaws. Where a flaw can be shown, it is pinned to the exact spot in the photo.

If a car is not as described

We are a marketplace: the car is sold by its owner, and the money goes directly between buyer and seller. We do not take title and we are not an escrow agent, which keeps the fee low and the process fast.

What we do instead:

• 14 days or 500 miles to report, whichever comes first. After delivery, the buyer confirms whether the car matched the listing.
• The answer is public. Every seller carries an “as described” percentage on their profile and on every listing they run, built from those reports.
• Undisclosed material defects end the relationship. A seller who knew and did not say is removed, and the listing stays up with the dispute attached rather than being deleted.

This is not a warranty, and we will not pretend otherwise. If you want a pre-purchase inspection, call us as soon as the car goes up: auctions run about 24 hours.

Bid integrity

Shill bidding — a seller or their friends bidding up their own car — is fraud, not a grey area. Sellers cannot bid on their own listings; the engine refuses it outright. We record the network address behind every bid and review lots where several accounts bidding against each other share one.

Every bidder is phone- and ID-verified, and we review bidding patterns on every sale. Suspicious bids are canceled and the accounts behind them are closed.