That auction house is 1,000% the ghost bidder. Once they saw the bidding stop, they retracted their bid. Slimy but not uncommon

Makes you wonder if the tow yard doesn't employ someone to jack up auctions

This is shady as hell. I would no longer do business with this company.

That guy was definitely ready for the questions you threw at him. Makes you wonder.

That guy so called “Manager” was 100% the ghost bidder. Just by the way he was acting and responding. His voice couldn’t hide the guiltiness.

This local? That's 100% a scam. If you cancel one, you cancel both? Two separate auctions whaaaat...

The guy behind the counter was in on the scam for sure !!!

100% scam, co-part also has phantom bidders, strange how the guy behind the counter knew how much the car was worth..

Put that company on blast, and file a complaint with whoever you can. To tell you your other order and account would be canceled is wild beyond belief.

That company is trash you need to report them, make all this public, maybe see if others have had same experience and start a lawsuit. It could even be the company ghost bidding..

I agree with you. Once you’re out bid, you are no longer on the hook. No different than if you were out bid and the guy showed up to buy the, if he then backed out, how is it on you to now buy it ? That’s exactly what happen, but they call the other bid a “fraudulent bidder”. Which in all fairness, they should go after that guy for the $$$$ difference, not the legit guy buying multiple cars. They should have gave you the option to buy it at the reserve price, or rerun the car. Another what if, is you may have spend that money on another auction since you were out bid and closed the page. Possibly not had the money to buy the Kia at that moment. Also, them tying both auctions together saying you had to buy both or neither…. I think I may have said I’m here to pick up the truck now and then come back for the car. The bank doesn’t have the Kia check ready yet. Maybe work a deal as you’re buying multiple cars and a repeat customer ? Keep in mind, even if you think you still came out on top, the deal was dirty. Take it as a learning experience. Hopefully it all works out.

This is the exact reason I canceled my membership with Copart and then they fought me for months over a few cars that I bought that had “gost bidders” It’s funny how the only 3 people I was in the Auction with on 2 different lots all Disappeared near the end…

Now you know to wait until there is less than 10 seconds left to place another bid.

Make a formal complaint with a governing body, or the BBB. I’m sure this auction company doesn’t want the bad stigma if they rely on these sales to stay in business. Put them on blast

As soon as that guy said that to me I would have washed my hands of both of them walked away!

That bloke knows what he did! Scum bagged you mate, bullied into buying that stinger, you were stung!

If you're going to do the buy and flip thing on a permanent basis then it'd be wise to acquire a dealer's license so you can bypass the shady ish. And stop buying before selling 😂

Seems that the auction place was bidding against you to raise the prices and last second when they realized that you were going to not bid anymore they removed all of there bids that was higher then your max bid and gave it to you at that. It makes more money for them and the yard.

Lmaoo what a wack ass auction company hahaha sorry you had to deal with bullshit

As an owner of a stinger in Canada, when the tow yard is referring to the rear diff. There is a known problem with the rear diff top mount breaking from a) being driven past what that mount is capable of or b) it is broken from launching the vehicle to many times as launch control is a standard feature on the car. If after inspection and the rear diff mount is broken, I would proceed to see how the 8 speed transmission is holding up, similar to early R35 GTR models the transmissions are known to break after excessive launches. At which point the transmission will need to be replaced.

100% a scam report them

1000% shady ass business...He wouldn't let you purchase one without the other even though they were separate lots? Yeah, they pulled one over on you..

Yeah take both or nothing!? Sounds like BS to me. Man I hate people these days

Shill bidding is a crime. They also have to give you the correct bid history. I would expose them on principal and force them to own the situation. 100% this was shill bidding and you got fucked. In auctions it goes first money best money. So what if there was a 10k reserve? The next run it would have gone for less money and less money until the seller would have to sell it.

If the subframe is good that car is a great deal. I don't like how the auction wouldn't let you take just the 1 car. That being said, it wasn't massively over the reserve.

Feels shady, but I get the position they're in with asshole fraudsters. What I don't get is the 'all or nothing, and if nothing fuck you, you won't get to play anymore' part.

I think you’ll be on the plus side man. Chalk it up as a learning experience

I've been waiting for a stinger rebuild on youtube. Thank you.🙏 I love my stinger!! You will love yours.

Excited for back to back stinger content

That's pretty damn crazy. Having a ghost bidder running up the price then dropping out at the last minute. If that happens, they should redo the sale on the car.

props to you Trevor for going and speaking up. Morals this industry has

It was definitely a bot bidding against you to drive your bid up ,,, thats totally fucked ....

Ya they got you , they are the ghost bidder and when you didn’t bid higher they cancelled theirs because you were the last highest.

I appreciate you sharing this REAL ASS SHIT. fuck dem scammers.

Do up the stinger I like the look of them and like u said easy power upgrades I think you got a good deal

Yeah they sort of have u. Not worth losing your spot at the auction over it if it was 10k min anyway

They are guilty 100%. They bid thay car up.

Should look into the caddy atsv/cts vsport too! Vsports are going for a good price right now! Rwd twin turbo 420hp on vsport 464 on ats-v badass cars have a vsport myself

A certain salvage yard in Australia does this too. I've seen many cars being auctioned off to a "floor bidder" then the following day, the same car is back on the website. Looks like they have a reserve and then a desired price for some cars and they won't let it go at reserve.

thats the kind of market that kia stinger brings, same thign with all dodge charger, challenger hellcat all that bs that gets stolen all the time

Seems like a Bait and Switch kind of deal. Keep bidding it up and if you don't bid higher the "kick the other bidder out" and it falls back to your bid. Also just a little bit over the Reserve. If you have a problem with it they take the other vehicle you WON as highest POSTED bid. All seems kinda questionable type of business to me. Also could be in the fine print of the bidding agreement I would check on that as well,

did they canceled all the bids that were after banned person's first bid? Cause in other case how do you know that the banned person wasn't an auction itself?

Need to verify ALL BIDES AND BIDERS before hand! Auction yard needs to do better!

Stingers, i have to admit, look good. That rear end to me is incredible

Hey Trevor do you have a premium account at CoPart or just the free account?

Auction bid you up and got caught like they always do!!

You got bid up. That "manager" you talked to was probably the 12,250 bidder. He was trying to get 15 outta it and pushed your bids. Its been done for centuries with plants at live auctions and its easier with internet auctions.

Enjoying this flip content, please film repairs and if you sell it.

OH YEAH BRO THEY SCAMMED YOU BAD BRO ! WTF YOU BUYING CARS FROM UNCREDITED TOW YARDS ?

When he said you don't get the truck i wouldve just been like okay fine no problem

Stingers are kinda cool though. Hopefuully this one doesn't take too much to get back up to spec.

So in the tow companies eyes somebody came on there to make one fraudulent final bid ?????? NAH !!

How do auctions in the U.S allow pulling out? In Norway it's all legally binding, so if you bid you have to pay that amount

That is sketch af

Even copart does this in Canada we get random bids from UAE, Africa, Ukraine they just bid up the cars

I think that some auction places are doing what people use to do a lot on Ebay years ago, and create a different account just to bid up the auction. I could see auction house doing this more, because they want to make more money. which will just keep the used car market priced high.

I bet you come out ahead here. what a potential monster. GL!

I work at a salvage auction IAA to be specific and if the bud isn’t high enough for the insurance company they will pull out on the auction orrrr they will add fees on top to make the difference on what the insurance company wanted on it to break even

I work at a Kia dealer if you need any info from Kdealer lmk. The way you found this car is how about 80% of them are, certain people get them and completely trash them, never even changing the oil.

Make a video of fixing it

Man F that auction place, for real. The Stinger is sick though 🙃

It happens all the time that’s why I only do live auctions at least there I can figure out who they have bidding stuff up.

Do a series of the car the perfect daily driver + street drag car ❤ you will give us more content plus you will earn more money back to compensate and probably do a merchandise kit too. Great idea right i will support you.

Good condition Stinger will be collectors car in the future specially Tribute edition! Also possibility EV Stinger coming out.

What yard is this? Wyatts?

The fix is in. Yiu have a valid point and they are basically saying take it or leave it. I would take the vehicles bit maybe consider to business with this company again.

Show the whole build!!! U need to push out more content asap!!!!!

Yeah. They are definitely using bid bots. The fact that his immediate excuse was a "fraudulent" bidder and that they won't let you take just one vehicle tells me that they are fully aware of what's happening.

“It’s 11750 plus 1600 which is 13400, which is basically 14000” Just keep rounding, be at 20k in no time.

Peak auto auction I use them and I think they have secret bidders as well because there motorcycles go up in price

I would reccomend the series from vehcor abouit the doctored up cars

Cash only, call the BBB....

Auction houses have a lot more incentive to pump auctions. They need cars to sell for over reserve. They need fresh inventory. If they can’t sell cars then insurance companies and other sellers will tow cars to other auction yards simple as that. A lot more important than the extra $150 in fees is getting all the business by proving to your clients that you can sell cars over reserve.

All too common with all auction houses lately, I seen it happen often at my local auctions. As well I had that happen almost to me, bunch of items got bid up to ridiculous prices and then later auction house offered items to me because bidders were scammers. Got them for half the price but some people outbid the scammers and paid the inflated prices. But a heads up you’ll likely have your account banned still after this video, one auction house banned me because they heard I was unhappy about their pick up arrangements 😂, and they made a new rule “intolerable behavior at pick up will result in account ban” after that situation.

Banks/insurance companies are in trouble with all the vacant commercial buildings. Possibly bidding you up is my guess. Check who owned the tittle when you get it then look at the financials.

If he would have told me take both or take nothing i would have told him to fucking kick rocks lmaooooooo. Don't put up with people who play with your money like that.

Yo I'm just here thinking dam time Fly I was in grade 6 when you picked up the supra I remember come home from school checking for new episodes on the supra build

Hmmm the auction guy does make some sense. I agree with you there could be sketchy business going on. Unfortunately, just no way to know without being behind the scenes. Something to watch for though. From their side of things it's like okay well if we let everyone cancel a purchase because they suspect fraud, how many auctions are we going to have to run numerous times? From your side, what if they are running a racket to pump up prices? Hard call, but obviously I just hope you make good money in the end! I think you'll come out okay, but it won't be big bucks. That 650 is the real winner purchase. Vlog was fun.

I think this would be a good series to watch and it would be a good giveaway i would be willing to enter in

That core support on the end is broken all the way through

yooooo dawg same thing happened to me same site different yard

That company TOATALLY AND COMPLETELY scammed you my guy if i were you i would get a Lawyer A.S.A.P.

That just happen to me too only difference was I wasn't buying a car. Bid more than a wanted to, got outbid so I stopped bidding on the item then timer on item goes to zero listing disappears like normal then with in a second it popped back up bid rewinds to my bid turns green to show im winning item and timer/clock on item is back to 2 minutes i ended up winning the item. It didn't feel right seemed like I was being shill bid by the auction house

Like and subscribe boys, lets help ol' Trevy

Another way to fight this potential issue makes me thing of a common phrase “the wheel gets the grease” Maybe send them a couple Hi-vis hoodies with with minor Motion Auto graphics on it so they’re more likely to wear them. Or even call and tell them you’re sending them lunch on Friday.

They are correct that you were willing to pay that. But I completely understand your concerns.

Would love me a Kia stinger

Guess its a suspicious but hope it works out

So why you buy the cars?

Why did you buy any of the cars in the first place screw that 2300$ truck dude it aint worth that much and theres always other places to buy cars Trevor !

What im not understanding is how they conveniently found out the bidder was fraudulent 10 seconds before the end? And how did they find it out, like did they do a background check in the last 10 seconds or something. Sounds super fishy and idk if theres a way to have it investigated but smells wrong.

Go to auctions that are live, so you can see with whom you are bidding. Almost all of the online auctions are scam.

I agree with you. You should be OFFERED the car if you had the next highest price on a cancelled bid. Ebay rules make more sense. Congrats on the Stinger though, it's an awesome car.

What auction house is this?

That's shady as hell definitely feel like someone who stood to make money was bidding

i probably wouldn't want to work with that auction again dealt with a couple with friends buying and flipping cars and none acted like that.

You absolutely should have been given the option definitely very suspicious scammy. That really sucks

What was the place called? File a report

Name of the tow yard?

Sad