A real cash offer
in 24 hours, and it doesn’t move

Every buying service in the country now promises an instant offer. Type a plate, get a figure, feel like you've achieved something. Then you arrive and the number is different, because the first one was a guess dressed up as a quote. We took the other route: 24 hours, a real inspection behind it, and a figure that survives contact with your car.

An instant offer is generated from year, make, model, mileage and a condition dropdown you filled in yourself. Five inputs. No one has looked at anything.

That figure exists to get you through a door, and the business model assumes it will be revised downward once someone does look. The revision is the plan, not an accident.

You can tell which kind you're holding by asking one question: is this number conditional on inspection? If it is, it isn't an offer. It's an invitation.

Ours takes a day because a person goes through the car in that day. What you get back is what we'll pay.

It's not a queue. Here's what happens between your submission and your number.

This is the part that matters, and it's the reason the process is built the way it is.

If your description of the car matches the car, the figure we sent you is the figure you're paid. Not approximately. The same number.

It can move in exactly two situations. One: the vehicle differs materially from what was described — undisclosed accident damage, a fault that wasn't mentioned, mileage significantly off. Two: it moves up, because the car is better than you described, which happens more than people expect. Owners are consistently harder on their own cars than we are.

What we won't do is find a reason. There's no second manager, no fresh look, no market has moved since Tuesday. That routine is why people arrive at a buying center braced for an argument, and it's not how this works.

The offer holds for seven days from the date we send it.

That isn't a pressure tactic and it isn't arbitrary. Used vehicle values move week to week, and auction results reset constantly. If we held a number for thirty days we'd have to quote it low enough to be safe across thirty days of movement — which means everyone gets a worse figure to cover a window most people don't use.

Seven days is long enough to think, talk to your spouse, and get a second opinion. It's short enough that we can price honestly rather than defensively.

If it lapses, ask again. Re-running it is free and takes the same 24 hours.

The quality of the number tracks the quality of what you send. None of this is required, but each one narrows the range.

Two limits, and they're worth knowing before you spend two minutes on the form.

The title has to be clean. We don't buy salvage, rebuilt or reconstructed titles, and that doesn't change with condition or price. If you're not certain what's on yours, send the VIN and we'll check before you go any further.

The vehicle has to run and drive. If it won't start, it's often something small — a battery, a starter, an alternator — and the fix is usually a fraction of what the car is worth running. Call before you spend anything and we'll tell you whether it's worth doing.

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 normal here.