Auto Boutique Buying Center is the Columbus division of Auto Boutique, a licensed dealer group. We were created for one purpose: to give central Ohio drivers an easy, fair, and straightforward way to sell a vehicle. We don't sell cars here. We buy them.

That distinction is the whole point. A dealership taking your car on trade has a new-car deal to protect, and your vehicle is one of four numbers being moved around to make a payment work. Here there's nothing on the other side of the transaction. You have a car, we buy cars, and the number is the number.

Most people who walk through our door have already been somewhere else. They got an instant offer that changed when they arrived. They got a trade figure that felt like a punishment for owning a car. Or they tried to sell privately and gave up after the third person who didn't turn up.

Selling a car shouldn't take a fortnight and three disappointments. We buy directly from owners at 6780 Caine Road, which removes the middleman and the margin that goes with him — and that difference goes to the seller rather than into a reconditioning budget.

We're working towards being the best place in Ohio to sell a car. Not the biggest. The one where the number you're quoted is the number you're paid, and where somebody explains how they got there.

Three steps, and none of them involve sitting in an office waiting for a manager.

And if you already have a written offer from CarMax, Carvana or a dealer trade-in dated within seven days, bring it. We beat it or hand you $250. Terms apply.

Everything we handle when you sell us your car — the appraisal, the inspection, the loan payoff, the paperwork and the pickup.

Two hard limits, and they're worth knowing before you drive over.

The title has to be clean. We don't buy salvage, rebuilt or reconstructed titles, and that doesn't change with condition or price. Send the VIN and we'll check before you go anywhere.

The vehicle has to run and drive. If it won't start it's often something small, and the fix is usually a fraction of what the car is worth running — ask before you spend anything.

Past those two we're not fussy. High mileage, cosmetic damage, an accident on the record, a warning light, a loan still on it, or negative equity are all completely normal here.

We're on Caine Road, just off Sawmill — about half a mile from the CarMax, which is deliberate. Getting a second number should cost you one extra stop, not an afternoon.

The building sits in a business park, so watch for the turn rather than the sign. If you can't find us, call and someone will talk you in.

We buy across Columbus, Dublin, Westerville, Worthington, Powell, Hilliard, Upper Arlington, Gahanna, Grove City and Delaware — and we'll come to you free anywhere in Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana, Michigan, Pennsylvania and West Virginia.

The people you'll actually deal with are on the team page.