Cars & BidsReviews of carsandbids.com

Horrible company to deal with, trying to resolve an issue and they start mentioning the “integrity of a man”. They block me and send me a bill. How about that for customer service!!! You are really a cry baby company!! Once I Reached out and clearly called you out on what you were trying to insinuate about me! You blocked my account without resolving the issue on hand!! Clearly your rating says it all, enough said!!

Man, CarsandBids is such a bad service for selling your car. They demand hundreds of photos, are always complaining, and the reserve price often changes, usually for the worse. For example, CarMax offered $4k above the reserve price offered by CarsandBids. I would not recommend them

Like many others posted before, if you do not accept their very low reserve offer, they will reject your application. They are essentially functioning as a dealer and will move your vehicle far below even a trade-in value. What ever gets them the 4.5% commission. They rejected my 2021 Tesla Model 3 after offering a reserver $10,000 below KBB. The issue is not with their analysis team. Their business model is just like many other action sites. It does not benefit the seller at all. It is meant to push hard for lowest possible reserver to ensure most sales. It would be too much work to re-click and re-post the same unsold car with a lower reserve. It can border line be compared with the unethical standards as home brokers. Marketing your service as special or unique is false advertising.

Terrible experience, Market analyst presented vehicles that were in markets half way across the world to entice me to lower the reserve price, sorry excuse for a “market analysis” team.

Why I gave them 1 star: I do not usually write reviews and I set up this Trust Pilot account to specifically submit this review: I refer you to the auction of a Mazdaspeed 6 Sport set to end on 1/22/24. Open my flagged unbiased comments that were well-received by the community before my ability to comment was "temporarily suspended" and only those comments of mine that could be perceived as unfavorable to the seller were flagged as inappropriate (this after the Seller to his exclusive benefit, misconstrued and misrepresented what I stated in one of my unflagged comments) and another commenter correctly pointed out rust-through on the subframe of the car and rust bubbles on the floorboard of the car that were covered by rustproofing. It is apparent that based on this experience, C&B's censorship of commenters favors their Sellers/Dealers so C&B can optimize their commissions. It is a free market and they are entitled to make their own decisions. You may also make your own decisions and consider this information regarding this site. By suspending my ability to comment (without providing any communication as to why it was suspended or how or when it would be reinstated), they have virtually also suspended my capacity to make requests of Sellers and so bid on their auctions. I have already bought one car on the C&B auction site and made serious bids on a few others incuding as the high bidder on another that did not meet reserve. Perhaps they wish to reconsider their decision. Absent that, I will cease to participate in any manner. I have always, in my comments been fair and unbiased and tried to help seller's provide useful information to potenetial bidders with suggestions such as the ones I made in that Mazdaspeed auction. Please, keep in mind that I reasonably expressed my displeasure when the Seller in that auction misrepresented what I had stated in one of the my comments and that my comments were selectively flagged (after receiving favorable reviews from the community), presumably by the Seller or C&B, apparently around the same time that my ability to comment was suspended. The comment that I was attemting to post when I found my ability to post "temporarlily suspended" was in response to the Seller stating that he could not get the car on a lift because he does not have one (so could not do the video that I recommended) and my post was to read as follows: Others appear to agree with rmac88 that upon zoom-in there appear to be rust related holes in the unibody subframe and rust bubbling of the floor pan beneath the undercoating in photos 52 and 53. If you are able to get the cold start video tomorrow, your auction also would benefit from (1) gettting additional video while poking at those underbody areas if what you believe is accurate (that the photos simply depict excessive undercoating spray in those areas), (2) a video of a compression test - not difficult to perform on each of the 4 cylinders -- I believe you could obtain a compression test kit inexpensively at Harbor Freight and/or obtain one on loan from Autozone or Advance Auto, and (3) check with a Mazda dealer on the other items that I listed in my earlier comment and report what you learn. You can accomplish these all tomorrow at limited or no cost. Compression test is easy. See link below (you may want to additionally temporarily pull the fuse for fuel pump and will want to assure that the plug wires are well away from anything that can throw a spark): (link to pertient YouTube video by Scotty Kilmer of how to do compression test here - links are not allowed in Trustpilot posts) The readers of this review can certainly decide whether my comments were biased and/or worthy of suspending my ability to comment...I have had absolutely no communication from Cars and Bids regarding this situation. They have my email address and phone number.

They made the mistake of suspending my commenting "privileges" without cause or notice, so here I am on every social media outlet, review site and forum. I purchased one car through C&B but never, EVER again. I'll be taking my money back to the other enthusiast auction website where I'll have a much better experience. Sad!

FALSE NARATIVE!

My auction lasted a week and ended on Friday, December 8, 2023. According to the rules of the auction, I contacted the winning bidder and provided him with proof that I am the owner in the form of documents that contain very sensitive and private information. I was not very happy with the result of the auction, because the car was bided much below the market price, and I reported my concerns several times to Cars & Bids support chat, where they just issued me an invoice for payment of $300 and told me if I still will finally decide to refuse to sell at a reduced price, I have to pay this invoice. I did not pay this invoice because I needed time to make a final decision, but without waiting for my final decision they informed the buyer that I refuse to sell, although we were in touch with the buyer all day and I have all text messages and audio-recordings of our phone calls with him. As a result, the buyer refused to buy because Cars & Bids gave him fictitious and false information without waiting for a final decision from me whether I would sell or not. As a result, they published on various public websites that my car was sold and this will prevent me from selling this car in the future and therefore I am forced to go to court to demand them to remove false and fictitious information from the internet, and to compensate for the direct financial damages that they inflicted. I highly do not recommend this auction because they facilitated the theft of my identity and stole very sensitive information from me, causing direct financial harm due to the publication of false and fictitious information online about a sale that did not take place.