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Recover the equity hidden in your car.

A white-glove sales service for enthusiast and collector vehicles in South Florida. We handle the valuation, the venue, the preparation, the documentation and the negotiation.

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What it costs, before you ask.

A small fee covers the hard costs of preparation. The rest is owed only when the car sells. Both numbers are on this page because you should be able to decide before spending twenty minutes on a call finding them out.

$750 flat, any car, to begin

Covers detailing coordination, paint-meter inspection, the full photography and video shoot, records review and the written listing. Charged once, regardless of what the car is worth.

The prep fee is not refundable. If you decide to move forward with us, that decision is final — the work starts immediately and the fee covers it whether or not you later change your mind about selling.

By value on completion

A flat success fee set by the vehicle's value band, owed only when the car sells. No percentage, no share of the sale — the number is known before we start and does not move with the result.

Success fee by vehicle value
Vehicle valueSuccess fee
Under $40,000Quoted
$40,000 – $70,000$750
$70,000 – $120,000$1,250
$120,000 – $250,000$2,000
Above $250,000Quoted

The gap is the product.

What a dealer offers you and what the same car reaches in a well-run sale are not the same number. That difference already belongs to you. The only question is whether the sale is run well enough to reach it.

Trade offer against a well-run saleTwo voxel columns. The left shows the trade offer with the unreached value drawn as a faint outline above it; the right shows the same base with the recovered difference stacked on top in brass.

Illustration Worked example, not a past result. We have not sold this car.

Documented trade offer
$56,000
Well-run private sale
$64,500
Difference recovered
$8,500
Prep fee
−$750
Success fee ($40–70k band)
−$750
You keep
$7,000

Four stages, and one of them is what happens if it fails.

Selling is only part of it. The work is valuation, market selection, preparation, documentation, listing strategy and negotiation — which is why this is not a photography service with a longer invoice.

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Assess and value

A free thirty-minute conversation first, to establish whether the car is worth taking on at all. Then paint-meter readings, a records review, and comparable sale analysis to find what the car should reach — and what a dealer will offer instead.

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Prepare and document

Detailing, paint correction where it pays for itself, then the full record: photography, video, undercarriage, the maintenance timeline, the Carfax, the ownership history, and the flaws written down rather than cropped out.

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Choose the venue, run the sale

The marketplace is a decision, not a default. Once chosen, the listing is written, launched and worked — comments answered, bidders qualified, questions handled — through to the hammer and the wire.

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And if it does not sell

An unsold auction is not the end of the engagement. The car moves to a private-party listing using the same media and documentation, and after sixty days to the dealer network. You are not left holding a car and a receipt.

Not every car belongs at auction.

Choosing where a car sells is the part of this job that most changes the number, and the part most services skip. Here is how the call actually gets made.

Bring a Trailer

Documented, original, rare and collector cars, where provenance and a deep comment section create competition. The wrong home for a heavily modified daily driver.

Cars & Bids

Newer enthusiast metal, modern performance, and modified cars — an audience that reads a tasteful build as value rather than as a deduction.

Private sale

Higher-mileage cars, niche models with a small and findable buyer pool, and cars where a local handover beats a national auction.

Dealer consignment

Occasionally, genuinely, the better answer — and one most consignment services will never mention, because it is the one that pays them least.

Exotic specialist

Ferrari, McLaren, Lamborghini and Porsche GT cars, where the buyer is already inside a dealer network and the auction floor is not where they shop.

The standard every car gets.

A bidder's confidence is built from what they can verify. This is the record produced for every engagement, whether the car is a $45,000 Cayman or a $300,000 GT car.

  • 100+ photographs, shot to auction standard
  • Cold-start and driving video
  • Full undercarriage documentation
  • Walkaround video, narrated
  • A maintenance timeline built from the records
  • Carfax pulled and read, not just attached
  • Ownership history, documented
  • Known flaws photographed and described
  • A written listing that reads like a feature, not a classified

What we will never tell you.

A service that promises a number has given you something to resent when the market moves. These are the four things you will not hear from us, and the reasoning behind each.

We will not quote you a sale price.

Anyone who tells you what your car will bring before it is listed is guessing, and setting you up to blame them. What we commit to is maximum exposure and professional presentation, so the car reaches the strongest number the market has on the day.

We will not assume your car belongs at auction.

Not every enthusiast car should go to Bring a Trailer, and a service that only lists there is not selecting a venue, it is selecting the one it knows. Sometimes the honest answer is a private sale, or a dealer, or that you should keep the car.

We will not hide a flaw.

Undisclosed paintwork found by a bidder costs more than the flaw ever would have. Documented flaws raise bidder confidence and, counter-intuitively, the price. Everything we find goes in the listing.

We do not control the market.

Values move. A well-prepared car in a soft month still sells for less than a poorly prepared one in a hot month. We control preparation, documentation, venue and exposure — and we will tell you plainly when the market, not the listing, is the problem.

Also handled.

Arranged as part of an engagement or on their own, through the specialist shops we work with.

Pre-purchase inspection coordinationPaint correctionCeramic coatingStorage during saleEnclosed transportMaintenance record digitisationVehicle sourcingBuying consultationAuction representation
PorscheBMW MMercedes-AMGAudi RSCorvetteShelbySupraLotusFerrariLamborghiniMcLarenAir-cooledJapanese classicsSpecial editions

Three conditions, and they are not negotiable.

These protect you as much as they protect us. A buyer paying six figures wants to know the seller was verified, and a service that skips this is a service that has been used to move a stolen car.

Photo ID and registration, before anything starts

We do not begin work on a vehicle until we have seen government photo ID and the current registration, and the two match. Without them the engagement does not start and the prep fee is not refunded.

Selling a car that is not in your name

The registered owner comes to the appointment with you, or joins a video call and shows their ID. There is no third option. This is how vehicle fraud works, and we are not going to be the part of it that made it easy.

No checks

Payment is confirmed and cleared before we meet in person — bank transfer or an equivalent we can verify. Not a check, not a payment app screenshot, not a promise at the kerb.

Questions worth asking.

You are new. Why would I hand you my car?

That is the right question, and the honest answer is that you should judge the standard rather than the résumé. Everything above is specific and checkable: the documentation list, the venue logic, the pricing structure, and the things we refuse to promise. Ask on the call for the reasoning behind any of it. A track record is something we are building; a method is something you can inspect today.

What if the car does not sell?

The engagement continues. The car moves to a private-party listing using the media and documentation already produced, and after sixty days to the dealer network. The prep fee covers the work regardless; the success fee is only owed when the car actually sells.

Do I need a written trade offer first?

Not for the fee — that is set by your car's value band and does not move. But getting a written dealer quote is still the first thing we will ask you to do, because it is the only honest way to know afterwards whether this was worth doing. It is worth getting whether or not you engage us.

Where does the car live during the sale?

Preparation and photography are arranged around your schedule and location.

Answer Decide whether the car stays with the owner, moves to a partner facility, or both — and confirm what insurance covers it while in your care. This is the question a $150,000 car owner asks first.

Do you work outside South Florida?

The service is built around Miami-Dade · Broward · Palm Beach, because venue judgement and the shop relationships behind preparation are local knowledge. Ask on the call if you are outside it — sometimes the answer is yes, and sometimes the honest answer is that you would be better served by someone in your own market.

What does the free consultation actually cover?

Thirty minutes on the car: what it is, what the records look like, what the market is doing with that model, which venue suits it, and a candid view of whether the spread is large enough to be worth anyone's time. If it is not, we will say so, and you will have lost half an hour.

Start with the car.

The more of this we have up front, the more accurately we can tell you what your car is worth and which venue suits it — before you spend a cent. The first six take two minutes. The last four are optional, and they are the ones that make you more money.

17 characters, on the dash at the base of the windscreen or inside the driver’s door jamb.

Including none. If there has been work done, say what and roughly when — a disclosed repair costs far less than one a bidder finds.

Optional, and worth the ten minutes

Every one of these raises what the car sells for. Buyers pay for certainty, and this is what certainty is made of. Send what you have; leave the rest blank.

The original sticker is ideal. Failing that, list what you know: package, wheels, seats, paint, anything ticked at order.

The number to beat. Written quotes are best, but tell us even if it was verbal.

Where it was serviced, what has been done recently, and whether you have the records and receipts.

What was changed, by whom, and whether you still have the original parts. Keeping the stock parts is often worth thousands.

This costs nothing and commits you to nothing. We reply with a read on the car, the venue we would choose, and whether the spread is worth anyone’s time — including when it is not. Nothing starts, and no fee is owed, until you say so.