How it works

For buyers

1. Preview, then bidding

A listing goes public days before bidding opens. That window exists for one reason: buyers kept saying a seven-day auction is not long enough to book a pre-purchase inspection or fly out to see a car. Ask questions, send an inspector, then decide.

2. Register with a card

Bidding needs a verified phone and a card on file. We place a hold, not a charge. 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, a cold-start video, 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:

• Seven days to report. 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. Get a pre-purchase inspection — that is what the preview window is for.

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.

The full bid ledger is public on every listing, including which bids were placed by hand and which came from someone’s automatic maximum.