This!!!!! Is a trash process
Let me start off by saying this is from a sellers point of view and how frustrating this process was. I signed up to sell a vehicle in cars and bids beginning of this year. First off I will always choose FB marketplace over cars and bids solely for the time aspect. Even if you are extremely prompt with responses and providing info you are looking at like a month out for your cars auction to even go live. I had a vehicle which I submitted because I was ready to purchase another vehicle that had come up for sale. I went to cars and bids solely because everyone said you can get more money for collectors/numbered vehicles on cars and bids rather than private party elsewhere. I submitted the vehicle and they send me an acceptance and then request info. I then send the info, now they want videos and like 100 pictures. I buy their photoshoot package and now I am out $300 and like a week in already. I pick the first photoshoot slot and get that completed. Then another week of the photographer sending photos in and the dash photo wasn’t clear so they asked me to take one and send it in and so on. Now in week three it is all reviewed with some back and forth and finally end of week cars and bids says okay it will go live next Wednesday in week four! It goes live and closes and someone purchases the vehicle! Then this person never goes through with sale and ghosts me the seller and cars and bids. And this was over a week of trying to reach out to seller. Then following week cars and bids reaches out to seller and nothing. Cars and bids resolution was “we have banned the buyer and what we can do is give you partial amount from the security deposit that we held when they placed the winning bid” I said okay at least some compensation for now 6 weeks of trouble and vehicle is not sold and I am out the photoshoot amount. Few weeks later they tell me the buyer disputed the security deposit with their bank and cars and bids did not get the amount so I get nothing. So basically I spent $300 and 8 weeks to be back at square one! Totally felt scammed and this can’t be the first time this has happened to someone. Cars and bids needs to have a different process of collecting funds from bidders that are guaranteed to at least compensate the seller if this happens. And by the way vehicle sold for over the winning bid a week into placing it on FB marketplace and was picked up that weekend.