A Better BidReviews of abetter.bid

Where do I start? The item listing is not accurate, the truck I bid on was listed as Runs&Drives on the betterbid site while Copart had it listed as not-running. The ECM and TCM were missing from the vehicle. Abetterbid will delay releasing the purchased item if you don't use their transporter so the organizer can pad the shipping quote and put the difference in their pocket. It took me 3 days to get the item I purchased released to me because I wanted to use a local tow company to collect from the yard. Copart themselves told me that they didn't like working with Abetterbid and recommended I use their site directly for salvage titles and Bidmaster for clean titles.

My experience with A Better Bid was extremely disappointing. I want to warn others to be very careful before bidding on vehicles through this platform. The vehicle I purchased was listed as having hail damage. Based on that description, I expected to receive a vehicle with hail damage—not one with major missing components. When the vehicle arrived, I discovered the engine was missing, something that was not disclosed in the listing. When I contacted customer service, I was told the sale was “as is” and that I could not get a refund. I understand what “as is” means, but it should not excuse inaccurate or incomplete damage descriptions. Buyers deserve to know what they are actually bidding on. This experience cost me a significant amount of time and money. My advice is to inspect every detail, verify the original auction listing yourself, and proceed with extreme caution. Based on my experience, I would not use A Better Bid again.

They do not give the title for the state you live in. If you are from Colorado and want to buy a car from Copart in Colorado they mark up the title as export only because they do not have a dealers license in CO.

Bought a car, was unable to register it in my home state and neighboring states. Abetterbid lacks the awareness to help and just insists I try another state. No state wants to touch my title or car. Stay away, they reassign a title with a FL dealer license only and their license isnt valid in other states. Unlike other companies that provide you with a title from their home state they are based out of. As you can see from their reply below, "we are unaware of any legal barriers that prevent the vehicle being registered in another state". Meaning they use their FL dealers license to improperly reassign titles and leave you with a mess that cant be registered

I bought a car from Copart Auto Auction through A Better Bid and found out after the purchase that the title was branded “bonded”. Copart sells Insurance company owned cars that have been totaled and for people like me who own a body shop I can repair them and get them inspected by the State and get a “rebuilt” title. They are generally worth 60-75%% of a clean title car. I’ve bought and repaired about 10 over the years. The auction listing from A Better Bid didn’t mention anything about the title being bonded. What I found out was the car could only be rebuilt and sold in Alabama, the state the car was last registered in. Once I realized the issue I contacted Eve at A Better Bid and asked how they were going to help me out since I essentially had a car that was only worth scrap value to me in Florida. I have $8,000 invested in the car. After weeks of promises to get me some resolution they just quit responding saying they were looking into it over and over and over. Their customer service to me was terrible! I would say look for other brokers other than A Better Bid if you plan on buying a salvage car from Copart or IAAI. DO NOT USE THIS COMPANY!

Reeealy confusing and chat didn't help. Thanks for the reviews. It's crazy how they prompt you to donate (for a good cause) but then they rape the little guy trying to save some money.

First of all, I had to put a $400 deposit. Say I was bidding $4000 and only wanted to put $3000. Then it wouldn’t let me bid at all. Didn’t know what they’d do about how to get my $400 back. Had to call to find out how. The way you guys handle your bidding site or whatever you wanna call it stupid. I never did get the bid on what I wanted to bid on.

They are scammers. Stole $1249 from me. Can’t get an American on the phone. Now I’ve filed in small claims court.