Why Seized Cars are a Better Buy then Used Dealership Cars

Instead of going to a car dealership and buying vehicles the usual way, have you ever considered visiting a government or police auction? If you’re not aware, the police seize thousands of cars and other vehicles every month and often auction them off to the general public at extremely reduced prices.

Government auctions are a well kept secret that dealerships would rather you not know about. They purchase these vehicles themselves for very low prices and sell them to the rest of the public for good profit. The more consumers become educated about police auctions, the more competition they face at the auction plus car dealerships sales they could potential lose that business.

Yet over 90% of the population still goes to car dealerships to purchase their vehicles. People are simply not aware of the great deals that police auctions have to offer. The government isn’t about to spend any budget publicizing the auctions either. Below is a list of pros of advantages versus disadvantages in buying vehicles at these auctions:

Advantages:

- Business Methodology allows much lower prices.

- Police auctions are held everywhere in US and Canada.

- Detailed listings of vehicles at government and police auctions are now available on the Internet

- There is usually a wide selection of vehicles that can be found at government auctions - sports cars, SUV’s, pick up trucks, motorcycles, jeeps, etc.

- No middle tier channel (middleman) to go through or pay

- No commissioned salesperson to have to deal with

- Motivated seller who doesn’t have the resources or time to deal with inventory, therefore offering vehicles based on no reserve bidding

- Possible advantages to income taxes (establish a business name)

- May pay less sales and new car tax

- Start your own business (i.e. Sell cars on the Internet)

Disadvantages:

- Most of the sales are cash only (any credit would have be done externally)

- No warranty period beyond manufacturer warrenty, although most used dealerships only provide 30 days or so

If you don’t mind paying cash for a near new vehicle, then the advantages obviously outweigh the advantages. Don’t forget to have someone with you who understands vehicles to inspect the ones you’re interested in.