Cars & BidsReviews of carsandbids.com

I have never placed a bid for a car in my life. I really had no idea how to do it. But on my first attempt ever, I got a beautiful Porsche Panamera Turbo at a cost below what I planned to pay a local dealership for a regular Panamera. Cars & Bids makes it very easy with step-by-step guidance should you need it. I will continue to check the site for those hidden "treasures" that may slip by.

The setup process for the auction was slow, and while it did get completed, the listing page didn’t really give me the control I wanted for how I would have liked my car presented. The bidding activity wasn’t great either leading to a pretty low sales price. I wondered if I made a mistake listing on this site versus BAT. While not CAB’s fault necessarily, I got ZERO value out of the vehicle inspection. The inspector got basic details about the car completely wrong, including calling 500 mile old 200TW tires as bald and calling factory convertible top reinforcements as “repair patches” and ultimately I suspect hurt my sale.

C&B is more on the seller side than buyers. Won an auction of a car that seller mentioned there were front end damage but repaired and have clean title in hand. However, after further checking the car was in serious accident with airbag deployed and repaired by non-certified shop out of CA, huge red flag that car still got clean title. The serious accident wasn’t listed on the ad, it was mentioned in the comments section which I did not pay attention to. Seller showed me the clean title however, in CA if airbag deployed it will not be clean title. Apparently, C&B told me it’s my responsibility to check car history and details, including comments section mentioned by others. Comments section should not be buyer’s responsibility, as it should be seller/platform’s job to make it transparent. I am aware of the front end damage as mentioned, but with airbag deployed, it should be mentioned, especially it’s out of state. Imaging I bought a car then later became salvaged and CB/seller will not be part of it. Ended up losing the buyers fee for this auction and been banned from the website. Big fan of Doug but disappointed to his team.

Cars & Bids is a great site with lots of esoteric, fun and often unusual auctions. The purchase I completed was easy and worked perfectly.

The process was simple, and clear cut in terms of buyer's responsibility. The seller in this case - Motorcars of the Main Line - was a joy to work with.

Super easy… fun and I love my new (to me) Mercedes!!

Love this car enthusiast site, EVERY CAR is one for me! If I win the auction of course! I've been on both sides of the coin with buying and selling on cars and bids, I will be using this place for years to come!

You have made something supposed to be so easy, very complicated even though I did everything asked of me. There were a lot more people interested in my listing that unfortunately missed out due to the time of the listing, etc. The reserve price was not met, and the highest bidder did not want to come up to meet the price. The Cars & Bids team has given no options for me to move forward even though there have been multiple parties that have shown interest when the auction closed. Then to boot when people would like to contact me about the vehicle there is no option to do so on your site. It is not a legit community where one person can interact with another. This is only allowed under conditions they are vague about. I would have liked to take a different course of action to get this issue resolved and time will tell if you actually take feedback to meet customers' expectations instead of disregarding feedback and not being clear in your policies and procedures.