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Sell your car online, without a listing
Selling online usually means writing an ad, paying a fee, publishing your phone number and then managing whoever turns up. There is a version that skips all of it.
Listing versus submitting
A listing broadcasts your car to everyone and waits. A submission shows it to licensed dealers who buy that type of car and asks them to price it. The first reaches more people, the second reaches the people who will actually put a number on it today.
| Listing site | Competing offers | |
|---|---|---|
| Cost to you | Listing fee | Free |
| Your phone number | Published to everyone | Never given to dealers |
| Time to a real number | Days to weeks | Under 60 minutes |
| Test drives with strangers | Yes | No |
| Negotiation | With every enquiry | None, offers are written |
| If it does not sell | Relist and drop the price | Decline, no cost |
What you need to sell online
Less than you think. The rego and state, or make, model and year. Kilometres and transmission. Service history status. An honest note on condition. That is enough for a licensed dealer to price the car properly.
Photos are optional but they help, because a buyer pricing from a description alone builds in a margin for what they cannot see. Twelve daylight photos from all four corners, both interiors, the odometer and any damage will typically tighten the offer range.
Selling online safely
The risks of selling a car online are almost entirely concentrated in the private buyer relationship: overpayment scams, fake transfer receipts, escrow fraud and test drive theft. Every one of those relies on you dealing directly with an anonymous individual and publishing your details to do it.
Selling to a licensed dealer removes those openings structurally. The buyer is a registered business with a licence that can be verified, paying from a business account, inspecting a car they have already priced in writing. Our guide to car selling scams covers the patterns in detail if you do decide to sell privately.
Start here
About a minute, free, and no obligation to accept anything.
Common questions
Is it really free to sell my car?
Yes. Sellers pay nothing at any point. There is no listing fee, no success fee and no commission taken out of your sale price. The dealers pay us when they buy a car, which is why the service costs you nothing and why every offer you see is a net figure.
How many offers will I get, and how fast?
Five dealer offers, normally within 60 minutes during business hours. Submit outside business hours and the offers come back first thing the next morning. A small number of cars attract fewer, usually vehicles that are unregistered, written off or worth less than the cost of collecting them, and you will hear either way rather than being left waiting.
Do I have to accept an offer?
No. Offers are yours to take or ignore, with no obligation and no fee for declining. Sellers regularly use the offers as a market read before deciding whether to keep the car, trade it in or list it privately.
Will dealers call me constantly?
No. Dealers see your vehicle details, not your phone number, and only the dealer whose offer you accept is ever given it. Your details are never sold to a panel of buyers who all ring you, which is the single biggest difference between this and putting your number on a listing site.
We may contact you ourselves about your submission, including one you started and did not finish, by text or phone. Tell us to stop and we will.
How long does the whole process take?
The form takes about a minute. Offers come back within 60 minutes during business hours, and most sellers who accept an offer have the car inspected and paid out within two to three business days.
How is the offer decided?
Each dealer prices your car against what they can retail it for, minus reconditioning, holding cost and margin. Kilometres, service history, tyres, panel condition and how quickly that model is selling in their state all move the number. Because several dealers price it independently, the spread between them tells you a lot about what the car is genuinely worth.
See what dealers will actually pay
One form, five dealer offers in under 60 minutes during business hours. Free, and you are never obliged to accept.
Get my offers