IAA Vehicle Purchasing

When you hear the word «auction» you think of «sold to the highest bidder».
Well, here, it doesn’t matter. They start you off at $ 25 for each vehicle. Sounds good huh? But there is a minimum bid that is sometimes in the thousands. And if the seller is not satisfied with the highest bid, they can reject it, and the vehicle goes up on the very next auction…
Why even bid?
Or they should start the bid at their minimum requirement, …
There is a $ 200 annual membership fee.
There are so many fees, a vehicle with a $ 1,000 winning bid, incurs about $ 500 in fees such as a $ 300 buying fee, ?!! And the fees get higher as the winning bid gets higher… I thought we paid the $ 200 and were members!
If you win a bid for a car, but decide you dont want it, they charge you $ 1,000, or you are barred from their business forever, no 200 $ member fee reinbursment…
Even if it was an accident that you may have pushed for the bid.
On my first visit there, i noticed the vehicles were being damaged by the drivers manuveuring them around the yard…
Sometimes the vehicle doesn’t look like the picture because it was damaged in the time it took to sell it…