Sell your car from your couch.
Selling your car starts with a few questions online about the car. You get a free cash offer with no obligation, and a week to accept it. Accept, and free pickup comes to your driveway at a time that suits you; the driver checks the car against your answers and hands you a check.
Free pickup · no fees · no obligation
Offers powered by our buying partner — ★ 4.7 Trustpilot (205,000+ reviews) · ★ 4.5 Google (8,900+)
Three steps, no lot visit
Tell them about the car
Year, make, model, mileage and condition, answered online. Be exact about damage and whether it runs: the offer is built on your answers, and the driver checks them at pickup.
See your instant offer
The offer is free and you're under no obligation to take it. You have a week to accept, which leaves time to compare it with other offers.
Free pickup, get paid
Pick a pickup time that suits you, at home, at work or at a repair shop. The driver checks the car against your description, you sign the title over, and the driver hands you a check.
The tow truck comes to you
Driveway, office parking lot, the repair shop that just gave you bad news — the driver meets you where the car sits. Running or not, the tow costs you nothing, and the driver hands you a check once the car has been inspected.
Get My Instant Offer →Pick the path that fits you
Instant online offer
For a seller who would rather not list the car. Our buying partner says the whole sale usually takes a few days, from the offer through pickup and payment.
- Free offer, no obligation
- Free towing — runs or not
- Driver completes the title transfer at pickup
- Partner rated ★4.7 on Trustpilot (205,000+ reviews) and ★4.5 on Google
Talk it through first
Odd situation — missing title, estate car, lien, not sure it's worth selling? Call or text and a real person will walk you through it, free.
- Straight answers, no pressure
- Title & paperwork questions welcome
- No cost, no obligation
or send the details online and we'll reach out
Yes, even that one
- 01Doesn't start or drive. Dead battery, blown engine, bad transmission — tow trucks exist for a reason, and the tow is free.
- 02Wrecked or damaged. Collision damage, hail, flood — there are buyers for all of it.
- 03High mileage. Two hundred thousand miles is not a dealbreaker, it's a Tuesday.
- 04Expired registration. A car that's been sitting is still worth real money, and the rules for an expired registration differ by state.
- 05Title questions. Lien on the title, inherited car, lost title in some states — solvable. See the paperwork guide or call us.
Selling a car isn’t one process. It’s fifty.
There is no national rulebook for a private car sale. What you sign, who has to witness it, what the buyer owes and what protects you afterward all change at the state line — and the gaps are wider than most people expect. We read all fifty and cite the agency behind every figure.
- 7states make you sign in front of a notary. The other 43 don’t
- $2–$192range for a replacement title: $2 by mail in Texas, up to $192 in Oregon for an electric car
- 7states where a private sale is untaxed outright
- 28different names states use for what the buyer pays
Run your own state through the title transfer fee calculator to see what the paperwork costs and who pays which part of it. Or read the full breakdowns: replacement title cost in all 50 states, and which states require a notary. Every state we cover has its own page with the rules spelled out and the official agency linked.
The paperwork, worked out in advance
Most of what goes wrong in a private sale goes wrong on paper — a box left blank, an odometer line that the title itself gets wrong, a signature in the wrong place that sends the whole thing back. So we took the forms apart.
City pages sit under their state on the full list of states and cities.
Start with your state
Title rules, fees and deadlines are set state by state, not nationally — so every state gets its own page with the paperwork spelled out and the official agency linked. Here are twelve of the busiest, each with one rule from its page; the rest are on the full coverage map.
Working through the paperwork instead? The duplicate title cost table covers all fifty states, and only seven require a notary on the seller's signature.
Things people ask first
How fast can this actually happen?
Our buying partner says the whole sale usually takes a few days, from the offer through scheduling pickup and getting paid. You have a week to accept the offer, and you pick a pickup time that suits you.
Is it really free? Where's the catch?
Towing and pickup are free and the offer costs nothing. The buyer makes money reselling or recycling the vehicle — not by charging you fees. If any “buyer” ever asks you for money up front, walk away.
Do I need the title in hand?
It's the smoothest path, but not always required — some states allow sales with a registration and ID for older vehicles. A lost title can be replaced, and how long that takes is set by your state. Our paperwork guide covers it state by state, or just ask when you get your offer.
What if the car doesn't run?
Say so in the condition questions and the offer accounts for it. The pickup driver brings a truck that doesn't care whether the engine turns over. Running or not, the tow is free.
How do I get paid?
By check, at pickup: the driver inspects the car, confirms it matches what you described, and hands you the check. Never accept a promise to “mail it later.”