Copart Auto Auction

I bid on a car that previously was mine and totalled by my insurance company

merely for a pushed in.dent in a rear fender. I sideswiped a sapling backing up out of

my driveway.and the panel was just pushed in without a scratch in the paint.

The car only had 63,000 miles and was mechanically perfect.

I paid the basic membership fee and then a deposit of $300 to be able to bid over $2,000.

The car came up for auction that took two months to occur. I STUPIDLY PUT MY MAX BID AT $3000. Big mistake. This was my first experience with a car auction.

I watched the bidding on my phone live. After some others bid, I was the high bidder at $1550 for about an hour. As I watched, the bidding ended and I saw no bids after mine.

I get a message that I won. My bid suddenly was now $3,000!!

Then they hey added over $2200 in fees! My $1550 plus less than $300 in expected fees, my winning bid was now over $4200! WT giant F? When the auction ended I was high bidder.

I called and asked what happened. Here are the unbelievable lies I was told. She said another bidder got a bid in as the auction ended. That's a lie.

I said the auction closed. Here's the kicker. The ghost had to know what my max bid was. That info is not available to other bidders.

This supposed bidder jumped the bid from $1850 to $2925 so my bid would automatically go to to $3000, my maximum bid under the auto-bid. Who in their right mind would do that except their ghost who was informed surreptitiously of my high bid.

Here's how I handled it. My payments went through PayPal and my bank. I contacted them and had to lay out in detail of Copart's fraud.

They agreed and I got all my money back, the membership fee and the $300 for bidding over $3000 if it got to that. In the condition my car was, insurance gave me $6200. So to say I was PO-ed at Copart was the understatement of the decade. Then they had the gonads to try to charge me a $300 relisting fee!

I changed my debit card so they couldn't get it that way.

I'm 83 years old, and Copart is the slimiest, most corrupt excuse for a business I've come across in decades. The car is up for auction again this week. I thought of having my wife join and bid on it. My account is frozen.

But the car has been sitting there for over 3 months. I'd be surprised if it still has a battery, head and tail lights, and a windshield, so I'll pass on that idea.

Copart are thieves, cheats and immoral. Stay away.

Don't get tempted by a photo of a vehicle. Avoid Copart like they all have COVID, pneumonia, leprosy and crabs.

I want a member of the copart I bidded on a truck and won the bid. picked it up the same day and they had pretty much script it.

The truck didn't have any of the aftermarket parts on it. That was advertised in the pictures. The truck after market lights. The cold air induction even the Jack.

All type of parts, we're missing.

do not know what things would have been like if I had not picked it up the same day. That I won the bid.

They will take a part of the vehicles. After you have won the bid, it should be against the law for a business to be able to do that and stay in business. That why I want to tell anybody and everyone not to have anything.

To do with this business, it is a rip-off. I am still replacing parts so I can get the truck up to Par to use it.

The agreement says they are not responsible for anything that has happened to the vehicle before you pick them up. Cover themselves, worse experience ever.

After subscribing for Copart basic subscription, which is refundable (and you get the money wired back), i was told my documents could not be verified so i decided to cancel the plan the days after opening the account and get my money wired to me.

That was when i was informed, "We charge a $35 wire fee to wire funds back to international members.". When i mentioned this was never stated anywhere and my account was an American one, Then i was told, we do not refund into the card you used to pay and do not do wire transfer for card transactions but only send cheques to an American address. When i provided an American address, they went silent.

This is a ploy to frustrate customers and keep the money for refunds.

I have sent them several email asking for my money back but i just seem to be mailing myself at this point because they just want to keep the money