Cars & BidsReviews of carsandbids.com

I was so lucky to know about Cars and Bids when I went to sell my Mustang. Got top dollar and didn’t have to field a bunch of inquiries like on other platforms. People can ask questions if they want, but it all goes through the website and the people bidding, for the most part, know what they want and what they are willing to pay. Highly recommend!

Overall, Cars & Bids did the best they could. The issue is not necessarily them. It’s the people they allow to comment. Honestly, better should be the only one allowed to comment. Everyone else is simply the peanut gallery. No real value. One of the downsides I discovered is that if your vehicle isn’t in perfect condition, you get a lot of we’ll say, comments about what they would do or could do if they owned the vehicle. There are vehicles for different purposes in life. Cars and bids also as nice as they were with writing the ad focused more on the negative rather than the positive. If the goal is to sell a vehicle, you probably want to work on that.

Great platform to sell your vehicles also very helpful and very quick response to any questions or concerns

Won two bids. 1st time the seller would only take cash and had me meet him at a Fred Myers in a shady part of town. Didn't have both keys or car pamphlets records etc as posted. Took months to get mailed with zero help for C&B. 2nd time I paid for shipping and they pick up from the seller four days late. Then the transport wanted me to meet him 40 minutes round trip to pick up the car. Now the car has major and expensive mechanical issues I'm stuck with. Whole process is scammy.

Let me start off by saying this is from a sellers point of view and how frustrating this process was. I signed up to sell a vehicle in cars and bids beginning of this year. First off I will always choose FB marketplace over cars and bids solely for the time aspect. Even if you are extremely prompt with responses and providing info you are looking at like a month out for your cars auction to even go live. I had a vehicle which I submitted because I was ready to purchase another vehicle that had come up for sale. I went to cars and bids solely because everyone said you can get more money for collectors/numbered vehicles on cars and bids rather than private party elsewhere. I submitted the vehicle and they send me an acceptance and then request info. I then send the info, now they want videos and like 100 pictures. I buy their photoshoot package and now I am out $300 and like a week in already. I pick the first photoshoot slot and get that completed. Then another week of the photographer sending photos in and the dash photo wasn’t clear so they asked me to take one and send it in and so on. Now in week three it is all reviewed with some back and forth and finally end of week cars and bids says okay it will go live next Wednesday in week four! It goes live and closes and someone purchases the vehicle! Then this person never goes through with sale and ghosts me the seller and cars and bids. And this was over a week of trying to reach out to seller. Then following week cars and bids reaches out to seller and nothing. Cars and bids resolution was “we have banned the buyer and what we can do is give you partial amount from the security deposit that we held when they placed the winning bid” I said okay at least some compensation for now 6 weeks of trouble and vehicle is not sold and I am out the photoshoot amount. Few weeks later they tell me the buyer disputed the security deposit with their bank and cars and bids did not get the amount so I get nothing. So basically I spent $300 and 8 weeks to be back at square one! Totally felt scammed and this can’t be the first time this has happened to someone. Cars and bids needs to have a different process of collecting funds from bidders that are guaranteed to at least compensate the seller if this happens. And by the way vehicle sold for over the winning bid a week into placing it on FB marketplace and was picked up that weekend.

Cars & bids maintains a high standard for listing to maintain a consistency in their listings. Easy to work with, pretty sure i worked with humans and not AI. Good experience.

The seller is always available to answer questions about the vehicle. They post extra photos of parts you need a closer look at. You can bid at any time, but the serious bidding takes place in the last 15 minutes. I appreciate that there is a hold placed on your credit card when you bid, which eliminates people who are not serious about purchasing. It also resets the bid timer, so you can’t try to be the last bid when the timer drops to 2 seconds left. The SafePay system is great. They do the title work for you, collect your payment and pay the seller for $198. It took about a week to get the car shipped. I also like that the cars listed have extensive service history and any gaps are noted.

Process was easy. 5% auction fee. For extra $ they verify all paperwork is complete and title is clear prior to receiving it. Seems like prices are more reasonable compared to "other" car auction sites. Everything was easy and quick. I would purchase from this site again.