Cars & BidsReviews of carsandbids.com

If you have a special car you want to sell, or are looking for one, this site is awesome!

Had a great experience and no problems at all with the car. I bought a 2014 BMW M6

It pains me a little to write this review because I sold a car on cars and bids last year and had a positive experience. But that’s primarily because I’m an honest person and went through the process in a transparent and upfront way, like I would expect other sellers to do. Unfortunately, I recently had a very poor experience with cars and bids on the buying end. I purchased a BMW M6 convertible in May 2024 and the condition of the car was (in my opinion) intentionally misrepresented on the auction. I paid market value for the car assuming it was in drivable condition, given the age, miles and description of the car on the auction. I shipped the car to Pennsylvania from Florida ($1,200) to a BMW dealership only to find out it needed $14,000 in deferred maintenance and repairs to even pass inspection. It didn’t even have a muffler on it, and the check engine light was on! That wasn’t disclosed in the auction. I reached out to cars and bids and they initially seemed like they were going to work to reach a reasonable resolution, but in the end they just sent me a boilerplate disclaimer and said there’s nothing they’re willing to do and it’s “buyer beware”.… I suggested at the very least they should offer to refund my $1,100 purchase fee. They said they would not do that, and offered a “goodwill” gesture of 50% of that fee. In my opinion, they don’t do enough to make sure the sellers are representing their product accurately, and when the buyer gets “hoodwinked”, they do nothing to try to remedy the situation. I don’t know how big the employee staff is at cars and bids, but after watching Doug Demuro on YouTube reviews for the last six or seven years, I would think he would be embarrassed and ashamed to know the clients on his website are having experiences like this with no effort on his company’s part to rectify situations like this.

C&B has the online auction experience down cold. The community is like-minded and that raises the level of trust over mass-market places like eBay. I have purchased multiple vehicles from C&B and eBay, and would choose C&B first.

They advertise their platform as the best place to get top dollar for enthusiast cars - but the offer i got from them a few months ago was about 70% of the car's DEALER trade-in value (yes, i took it in person to confirm & it was still thousands better than C&B). Not sure why anyone would waste even MORE of their time listing with them for LESS money... Whole process was shady & I was disappointed to see the poor reviews become more credible. They do a great job at managing their PR, filtering out the bad reviews, which is why they SEEM to be such a pleasant experience.

They clearly deserve a lot more five stars. Only the pissed off people selling crap boxes asking for reserves cry here because they think their clapped out head-gasket-blown WRX is worth something. I swear by Cars and Bids. I'm selling my FJ80 right now, and the communication with bidders and staff are the most professional people I've been in contact with. Again, do not listen to the whiners. They belong in Facebook Marketplace, not cars and bids!

Like any auction site, ultimately your experience is probably going to come down to the seller. I was lucky to have a really great experience with mine. C&B does let you see sellers history so you will know how experienced or not yours is on the site. Be smart, ask questions and you’ll be fine.

great service