Cars & BidsReviews of carsandbids.com

I have personally brought 3 vehicles on cars and bids . The first 2 were outstanding. This last one, I did the research, checked out the videos, and moment I start the car for the first time, the check engine and and tire pressure light comes on. Please keep in mind, 0 miles driven on this car. My advice to all of you please look deeply at the videos and question as much as you can on engine function. 2009 650i BMW - KeySAVVY vehicle

I sold my car to a person accross the county with no issues. Every step was communicated clearly. I appreciate the folks at C&B for making the selling process easy. However, Purchasing a vehicle turned out to be terrible. I had the winning bid on a listing, but the seller refused to process the sale due to the bid amount. The post is still up 2 weeks later. A heavy fee should be placed on the seller that refuse to commit to the seller agreement. I was not offered compensation in the form of a waived bidding fee in the future or anything of the sort. I will change my opinion/review if steps are taken to better the situation.

I won an auction on a Friday afternoon pst and spoke briefly to the seller located in a different state both Friday and Saturday and was busy Sunday. By Monday my account had been locked and I had no ability to communicate with the seller or read messages sent to me by cars and bids. I complained and demanded my buyer fee refunded as per their site it lists buyers have a week to compete the transaction.

As a first-time seller on Cars&Bids I became increasingly displeased with the level of control C&B demands and the lack of support from C&B once the auction went live. As the seller, I was not allowed to set the reserve I wanted or write the description for the vehicle. It was only after I let the C&B reserve offer expire 7 days later that C&B finally responded to my messages and allowed me to set a reserve closer to what I wanted. Once the auction went live and a bidder started making false public statements, I asked C&B to handle the situation, and they refused because I had a reserve. I made it clear that I would not continue with the auction if C&B was going to allow bidders to make false statements to suppress the bidding to try to win the auction for less money. The bidder in question had bid on more than 50 auctions but only purchased 3 vehicles. To me this was an obvious car flipper. Ultimately, a C&B representative commented publicly on my auction that he did not believe the C&B auction was going to meet the reserve anyway. I ended up selling the vehicle to Carvana for more than the reserve I set on C&B, so the take home message here is to sell to Carvana and save yourself the trouble of dealing with this unprofessional organization.

Trash experience. I sold my car on here in 2023 and they did the absolute least with the sale. Zero marketing, my agent was unresponsive and unhelpful even while the bidding was ongoing. I got my reserve price and I was dissatisfied with the whole process. Never again

If I could give this company zero stars, I would. I had never bid before and I didn’t even know what I was doing, so yes I should’ve done my due diligence. Financing ended up falling through due to some unforeseen circumstances and so I had to back out of the deal. The seller was very understanding about the whole thing and they went with the second highest bidder that was only $400 less than me. Cars and bids refused to refund me my buyers fee. I was emailing back-and-forth with Support and they were very quick to ban me from this site forever, but they will not do anything about the buyers fee. There are plenty of articles on Reddit in different sites of them actually ending up refunding people’s buyers fees, so there is a precedent that set with that and the fact that there’s proof that they can in fact, refund buyers fee fees, they just pick and choose when they want to do it and who they want to do it for.

I encourage everyone to exercise due diligence and ask detailed questions before placing a bid. Unfortunately, my experience with the seller RPF Motorcars in Auburn, CA was disappointing. The G500 I purchased was described in the listing as having an “indentation on the tailgate,” but upon delivery, it had significant damage to the tailgate that was far more extensive than represented. I have also been unable to obtain resolution through Cars & Bids regarding this matter. My advice to prospective buyers is to thoroughly vet the seller as carefully as the vehicle itself. Request comprehensive photos, videos, documentation, and clarification on any noted imperfections before committing. Proceed carefully and best of luck to all buyers. I would happily provide photos of the damage.

The online car auction deliberately blocked my comments and account to clarify about a couple of incorrect images about my car being auctioned back in early summer 2024. Therefore leading to many low ball offerings and negative comments about my legitimate car and this damage was spread to other reputable online car selling websites that created a very difficult time to sell it online. When I demanded them to remove all negative comments and the car sales ad from their website after the auction was over at that time, they ignored and still left my car sales ad until now even the car had been sold a few months ago. The owner of this shady online car auction also has his own Youtube channel about reviewing and selling cars. Their scamming and misleading tactics are to have their accomplices posting negative comments about cars and making low ball bids so that the cars could be sold at a very low price and they could buy them and sell back for a higher profits.