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Anybody use Copart?
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Bullet
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Double check the email address you are entering Alan, I think it is [email protected], you might be typing [email protected]......
force fan
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Double check the email address you are entering Alan, I think it is [email protected], you might be typing [email protected]......
OMG, LMAO!!!!!! But so true..................
mw6789
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The biggest issue you will have with Copart is their excessive buyer fees.
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They bought my car from me after my insurance company totalled it. For what it's worth, they were really easy to deal with. They picked it up fast and the check was in my mailbox before it was promised.
SundayNiagara
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It's like a dealer's fee, PURE PROFIT!
Todd
Nitro Member
I find there commercials very misleading. I went into there site only to learn that 99% of everything forsale is totaled or crashed. There aren't too many consumers that can repair them. And they are marketing directly to the consumer.
I strive to support the sponsors whenever I can. I just don't see how the normal consumer can support Copart.
I strive to support the sponsors whenever I can. I just don't see how the normal consumer can support Copart.
HEMI6point1
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Dubs
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I thought that's what Copart is, a mostly salvage vehicle auction site?
It is. However, on their commercials they want to chalk it up to be like an ebay for all kinds of cars...not just crashed cars etc.
Curt
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I thought that's what Copart is, a mostly salvage vehicle auction site?
Yep it is... They do have some ok stuff. But as said here befor... to much in fees. I tried to get the strait scoop on if i could bid on a truck and see it at the local yard myself. E mailed the GM and was told to call some other guy for the info. Buy what Ive heard that leads to go to one of there brokers, pay a $500 fee, ect... NO THANKS!
Pinocchio
Nitro Member
Bernstein must have done a fantastic selling job on the folks at Copart. I don't see the connection with the typical drag race fan and their business. What's the percentage of body shop owners in the pits or stands? I don't see Copart staying around NHRA very long.
Just my 2 cents.
Just my 2 cents.
Todd
Nitro Member
Not to mention there presence in NASCAR. I'm sure that type of person is even less over there. I welcome new sponsors and try to support them any way I can. I just can't seem to figure out how with this one. And there commercials are diffidently misleading.
sdwarf36
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They also have a presence in Nascar. I wondered from the begining about how this was going to do them any good. When I was dealing with them , it was all wrecked cars being sold with salvage titles to junkyards. Joe Average couldn't even get past the security guards at the gate.
mw6789
Nitro Member
Copart is dead set on opening up their sales to the general public instead of just licensed dealers and salvage dealers. In our state, you must have a salvage bid card to buy from a salvage auto auction (which Copart is) and must be a licensed dealer to obtain a salvage bid card. Copart has tried every year to defeat the salvage bid card, as that is all that is standing in the way of opening to the general public. IMHO, the general public has no business buying and selling wrecked cars with salvage titles. The whole reason for salvage title laws were to keep the public from being unsuspectingly sold water cars and rebuilt cars, and to help control auto theft. In our state, licensed dealers are bonded and insured, and if you try to pull a shenanigan on a salvage title car, the state police can and will show up at your door and cause you major problems. All a trooper has to do is enter my business and ask to see any and all of my records and I am required by law to comply. Individual screws you on a salvage title car and you have a civil case--go hire you a lawyer and go to court. As for Copart fees, on a $3000 car we paid a $30 gate fee (they will load the car with a lift, but you pay the gate even on a big item or motorcycle that they DON'T load for you), a $35 virtual bid fee (even though you can only bid online--and by the way, this fee has now increased to $75), a $325 sale fee, and a $5 mail fee (even though I PICKED UP THE TITLE WHEN I PICKED UP THE CAR). $395 to buy a $3000 car---and I has now gone higher. Before Copart either bought up or ran out of business all the small salvage pools, we normally paid about $50 to $75 to buy a car and maybe a $20 or $25 fee to have it loaded on our hauler with a forklift. And if you think you can pick up a bargain basement deal on a cool car--guess again. The whole world is watching and bidding and your chances of stealing a deal are slim and none. Copart has driven the price of salvage cars throught the roof.
