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How Our Guaranteed Offer Works
Most car-buying sites give you an instant number generated by a formula and renegotiate it at your curb. We built the opposite: no number until your intake is complete, a person reviews it, and the offer we make is the offer you get for 7 days. Here is the whole mechanism, in the open.
The offer we make is the offer you get for 7 days.*
The price holds as long as the vehicle, title, mileage, and condition match what you submitted. If hidden or unreported damage is found at pickup, we’ll make the adjustment and give you a counter-offer on the spot — and the decision is yours.
Part of our California seller guides — written for Fresno, Clovis, and Madera sellers.
Tell us about your car
A buyer reviews every application — most hear back within minutes between 8 AM and 8 PM.
How the offer is made
STEP 1
Describe your car
Enter the VIN to auto-fill the year, make, and model — or skip it for now and type the details yourself. The VIN is optional at intake and mandatory before booking.
STEP 2
Answer the 14 condition questions
The condition page defaults to no issues — open the checklist only if something applies. These are the same 14 items our buyer verifies at pickup, so the offer is built from the same facts the pickup will check.
STEP 3
A person reviews it
You see no offer until the intake is fully submitted, and offer adjustments are reviewed by our team first. Each customer gets one offer from their car's reported condition — that review is what keeps the number honest for everyone.
What the 7-day guarantee covers
The offer we make is the offer you get for 7 days, when the car matches its description. Put precisely: when the vehicle, title, mileage, and submitted condition match at pickup, the price stays the same. The 7 days are yours to think it over, compare it against a dealer's trade-in figure, or talk it through at home — the number does not shrink while you decide, and there is no obligation attached to receiving it.
The guarantee is not a promise to ignore reality. It is a promise about who bears the risk of surprises: not you, silently, at the curb. If the car matches what you submitted, the conversation at pickup is paperwork and payment, not price.
Compare us properly, too: an offer you can hold for 7 days deserves to be compared against numbers that evaporate. When a dealer or an instant-offer site gives you a figure, ask how long it stands and what inspection can change it. Ours stands for 7 days and changes only on documented differences — that is the comparison we are happy to be judged by.
The surest way to protect your offer is to answer the condition questions exactly as the car sits. An honest "yes, that panel is dented" costs far less inside an offer than the same dent discovered at pickup.
Pickup day, and how adjustments work
On pickup day, our buyer checks the VIN, title, mileage, and the same condition items you submitted. If everything matches, you sign the transfer paperwork, receive payment, remove your belongings, and hand over the keys. We then arrange the tow at no charge within the service area — Fresno, Clovis, Madera, Sanger, Reedley, and Kingsburg.
If hidden or unreported damage is found at pickup, we’ll make the adjustment and give you a counter-offer on the spot — and the decision is yours. You see the photos, you see the reason, and the decision stays yours: accept the adjusted figure or decline the sale. Nothing about the adjustment happens behind a truck door, and the original answers you submitted are the baseline it is measured against — which is why what you report matters more than how the car photographs.
Ready when you are: the full process takes one intake form, and your guaranteed offer follows.
Guaranteed offer questions
How long is my offer good for?
7 days. The offer we make is the offer you get for 7 days, when the car matches its description — when the vehicle, title, mileage, and submitted condition match at pickup, the price stays the same. Take the week to decide; there is no obligation for receiving the offer.
What can change my offer at pickup?
Only a documented difference between the car and what was submitted — hidden or unreported damage, a different mileage, or a title situation other than the one described. We’ll make the adjustment and give you a counter-offer on the spot, and you can decline the sale instead. If the car matches its description, nothing changes.
When and how do I get paid?
At pickup, once the checks match: you sign the transfer paperwork, receive payment, remove your belongings, and hand over the keys. Sellers regularly complete the whole process quickly — our promise on timing is the one on our homepage: get paid as soon as tomorrow, with free local pickup included.
Do you charge for pickup or towing?
No. Pickup is free within the covered service area for vehicles we agree to buy — Fresno, Clovis, Madera, Sanger, Reedley, and Kingsburg. After payment we arrange the tow ourselves, so the car leaves when we do, not on a second trip.
Get the offer this page describes
Complete one vehicle intake, answer the 14 condition questions honestly, and your guaranteed offer follows — locked for 7 days, with free local pickup.
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